Thupparivaalan

Thupparivaalan () is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by Mysskin, and produced by Vishal, who also enacts the lead role with Prasanna. The film features Vinay Rai, Anu Emmanuel (in her Tamil debut), Andrea Jeremiah and K. Bhagyaraj in supporting roles. Loosely inspired by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, the film follows a private detective and his associate who investigate the death of a child's pet dog, which leads to them uncovering a bigger conspiracy. The film began production in 2016, and was released on 14 September 2017.

== Plot == The film starts with IT company owner Dhivakar celebrating his birthday with his family, when a sudden lightning strike fatally electrocutes him and his son before burning their bodies in front of his horrified wife and daughter. At a cinema, a man gropes a woman and a small commotion ensues, which is stopped by ACP Paul Dhanarajan, who dies in the middle of a police conference three days later. The plot shifts to the brash yet brilliant private detective Kaniyan Poongundran aka Kani, who lives with his associate Manohar aka Mano. They both come across Mallika, who leads a pickpocketing scheme with her younger siblings. After Kani deals with her alcoholic, abusive uncle, she comes to work as his housekeeper.