Irumbu Thirai

<p>Kathiravan is working on issues under Rathi Devi to return to his job. Soon they both fall in love and she counsels him to leave for his village to spend time with his father Rangaswamy and sister. Though having hated his father due to his habit of borrowing money, Kathiravan reluctantly agrees. Kathiravan finds that his sister’s fiancé Kesavan’s family demands them to bear the marriage expenses. He realizes his mistake of abandoning his family and promises to fulfill his sister’s wish. Kathiravan returns to to apply for a loan, only to get rejected everywhere. With the advice of his uncle, he takes his father to Chennai along with him and tries to get a loan in Rangaswamy’s name but is also rejected everywhere due to financial security. They are approached by a person, who claims to be a and tells them to forge documents to get a loan for a commission. Kathiravan initially refuses, but reluctantly agrees to the man’s offer and submits all the original documents to him. The person helps them to obtain a loan of (US$7,100). Kathiravan is overjoyed and starts the marriage preparation. Later on, when Rangaswamy is unable to withdraw money due to , he informs Kathiravan, who in turn is surprised by the missing funds. Kathiravan enquires the bank but to no avail. He becomes frustrated and scolds Rangaswamy. Unable to bear the words, Rangaswamy attempts suicide. In the hospital, Kathiravan learns that Rangaswamy took debts to extend Kathiravan’s sick mother’s life. He feels remorseful after hearing this and reconciles with Rangaswamy. On Rathi’s advice and with the help of his friends in the , he decides to track down the person responsible for the theft. Kathiravan manages to apprehend and chase a loan agent similar to his loan agent to extradite information. Later, he gets a phone call from a who tells Kathiravan to release him as he knows all the details about him and even threatens to release the private files in his sister’s phone on the . This shocks Kathiravan, who leaves the agent, but the agent is fatally hit by a van. The mysterious person is later revealed to be Sathyamoorthy, a.k.a. , who is the kingpin of the by the use of the . He runs an educational trust as a front for his network. Kathiravan tracks and confronts Sathyamoorthy where the latter reveals his knowledge of the former following him and tells him that he attacked his sister. Sathyamoorthy also tells Kathiravan that he put (US$12,000) to his account from a for which he is . However, Kathiravan tracks Sathyamoorthy’s henchmen with Rathi’s help to his henchmen’s base, where he retrieves a laptop that they used to hack people’s accounts. He frames Satyamoorthy by stealing the money of all police officers of . He confronts Sathyamoorthy at the , where the two engage in . Sathyamoorthy defeats Kathiravan and burns the money due to his . However, Kathiravan reveals that the burnt money belongs to the Telecom minister, whom he blackmailed into passing information about the Aadhaar card information of all the citizens of India. All the people, along with the policemen, who were conned by Sathyamoorthy learn about him from Kathiravan, and they reach the docks. Kathiravan fights back and defeats Sathyamoorthy, after which Kathiravan reveals that he had hacked Satyamoorthy’s account and stole all of the money, and tells him to face the consequences. He opens the door, as an angry mob enters and assaults Satyamoorthy. Later, Kathiravan transfers their money back to their respective accounts. Sathyamoorthy is arrested by the police but creates a new username named . decided to fund and act in a venture directed by newcomer P. S. Mithran in August 2016, and subsequently signed on actress to play the leading female role in the film. The team signed to play the antagonist in October 2016, with the actor accepting terms without hearing the film’s entire script. Subsequently, music composer , cinematographer and editor were added to the project. Designers NJ Sathya and Neeraja Kona also were revealed to be in charge of the costumes of the lead actors for the film. The film began production following a launch event in October 2016, with Vishal and Samantha shooting scenes alongside actors and for the first schedule. Arya later opted out of the film citing that he was not ready to play an antagonist in Tamil cinema, and subsequently the team brought in . Before getting Arjun on board, Mithran was in talks to get and the role, but Surya chose and Fahadh chose . The soundtrack and background score features music by . The songs were performed by relatively new singers. The album received positive reviews. IndiaGlitz, in its review, noted, “The album is a definite marker of Yuvan’s expertise with Athiradi, Yaar Ivan and Azhage. Playlist worthy” Behindwoods in its review said “Irumbu Thirai album is mix of melodies and theme based songs that will work better with visuals” The film was dubbed and released into as and was dubbed in Telugu under the name of Abhimanyudu. The satellite rights of the film’s Tamil and Malayalam version were sold to and while the digital rights were sold to and the dubbed versions were sold to and respectively. The movie ran successfully in , and excluding . theatrical rights of the film were sold for 24.5 crore. The film grossed (US$7.2 million) at the worldwide box office and became a commercial success.</p>