Miruthan

<p>The opening scene shows a container of poisonous liquid being spilt from a transport vehicle at a chemical laboratory in . A stray dog consumes it and turns violent, which then bites a security guard. The security guard turns into a zombie within hours and starts a chain of human infections via bites. Back to the present, Karthik is a traffic police sub-inspector in who avoids all kinds of dangers as he takes care of his younger sister Vidya, who is in her early teens. Both are orphans but live with Karthik’s friend Chinnamalai, a traffic police constable. Karthik is in love with a doctor named Renuka aka Renu, but never proposes in all their meetings. Renu is engaged and is about to marry an named Naveen, who is also a cardiologist. One day Karthik messes up with Minister Gurumoorthy by allowing an auto carrying pregnant women in the Minister’s way. Next day morning, Karthik finds that his sister Vidya goes missing while looking for her he was suddenly attacked by Zombies. At the same time, the police of Ooty are informed of the outbreak and get orders to shoot anyone who has turned into a zombie. Karthik is looking for Vidya by sticking posters of his missing sister on walls and killing some zombies in his way. He receives a call in which he is told to arrive at a place to find his sister. There, he finds Renu and a group of doctors, including the Chief doctor Dharan, all working on finding a vaccine to cure all the zombies. At Renu’s house, Karthik and Chinnamalai find Minister Gurumoorthy, who is the father of Renu and learns that the Minister has kidnapped Vidya for vengeance, He finds Vidhya at a swimming pool surrounded by Minister Gurumoorthy’s zombified henchman and finds that Zombies are allergic to water. Renu tells Karthik to save the doctors who are trapped inside the house, which is invaded by zombies. Escorted by Karthik, the team comprising Dharan, Renu, another doctor Kamal, Renu’s father Minister Gurumoorthy, Chinnamalai, and Vidya, the group heads to , where they are to use medical equipment to find a cure to the tragedy. But Dharan was already scratched by a zombie, so he was not getting infected immediately. He doesn’t reveal this to anyone, fearing for his safety. When they near Mettuplayam, they were shocked to see that the infection had already spread in Coimbatore. The zombies crowd around the police van, so Karthik is forced to rash-drive the van to kill the zombies one by one. Later, Gurumoorthy unknowingly disturbs some zombies, and Karthik ended up having to shoot them, which attracts many other zombies around. Then they all are forced to take shelter in a mall, opposite the hospital. Meanwhile, Naveen is inside the hospital trying to find the vaccine. They get ahold of Shri, a frightened security guard of the mall. After a few hours, Dharan turns into a zombie and bites Vidya. Karthik kills Dharan with his gun, but Vidya does not turn into a zombie despite the fact that she was attacked almost an hour ago. Kamal says that she will be able to help them in finding the vaccine as she has the required antibodies and immunity. Karthik had to escort them to the hospital, which faces the mall. For this, he uses pressurized water from the mall’s fire truck, knowing that they are allergic to water. Despite the reduced time, Karthik manages to bring everyone safely to the hospital except Renu. He goes back to the mall to bring Renu, but he does that without any water source. So he leads Renu to the hospital but was bitten by the zombies while escorting her. He himself slowly turns into a zombie, but he safely escorts her to the hospital before his human feelings are lost and also advises Renu to shoot him. But she is too adamant about knowing the reason why he had saved her, despite the uncaring Naveen’s attempts and her selfish father, and realizes his love for her, but Karthik turns into a zombie. Thus, Renu shoots him. The doctors find the required antidote and start dealing with the virus. Later, Karthik, now completely a zombie, is seen on top of a bus which is going to , implying that Renu did not shoot Karthik properly and hence he has survived the attack. The story will be continued in a sequel to this film. The film was announced on 14 January 2015, after the shooting of Ravi’s another project of the year, was completed. Filming began in March 2015, after accepted an offer from Shakti Soundar Rajan to feature in a film produced by Michael Rayappan. subsequently joined the team to portray the film’s heroine. The team shot for thirty days in in May 2015, before returning to to complete portions. In July 2015, a schedule was held at Binny Mills, where the art direction team had erected a set costing 1.5 crore rupees. As of January 2016, the filming was completely ended. composed the soundtrack for both the Tamil and the Telugu versions, with durations overlapping. The film was later dubbed into Hindi and Malayalam. In Hindi, it was released with the name as on Zee Cinema and in Malayalam, it was released with the same name of the original title ‘Miruthan’. Sudhir Srinivasan of said that Miruthan was an inconsistent ‘zombie’ film with excessive melodrama. Latha Srinivasan of dna gave 2 stars and said, “The zombies of Hollywood won’t do a far better job of entertaining you than Miruthan. gave 2.5/5 and wrote, “Like, you want to praise the makers for trying something different — the first zombie film in Tamil cinema, in this case — but immediately, you are worst with another thought: ‘Did the first zombie film in Tamil have to be this clumsy and unexciting?’ gave the film 2.75/5 and stated, “For audiences who have seen Hollywood zombie films, Miruthan would be an old experience. And kudos definitely to Shakthi Sounder Rajan for attempting something different from the usual themes that Tamil cinema is known to churn out film after film.” IndiaGlitz.com rated the film 1.3/5 and stated, ” Miruthan- Sores a lot and little else The film collected (US$1.3 million) in in first weekend and (US$2.4 million) worldwide. In March 2016, Shakti Soundar Rajan announced his plans to make a sequel of the film in the future. He later began a different film featuring Jayam Ravi in the lead role titled . Shakti Soundar Rajan announced and planned to do Miruthan 2 in 2025 and it’s in pre production, planning to start shooting in 2025. If miruthan 2 a success he will make Miruthan 3</p>