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<p>A debate occurs within an state assembly about the long pending murder case of Ramakrishna. The of Andhra Pradesh proposes recruiting Singam from to Vizag as the new , by order under the . As Singam arrives in Vizag station, he fends off an attack from goon Ravi, who works for Vizag’s most influential and powerful don Madhusudhana Reddy. Singam starts to pretend to be a corrupt cop and secretly investigates the murder of commissioner. Singam is followed by Vidya, a journalist in guise of a student hoping to write a story on Singam. Singam had previously kept his marital status a secret to protect his wife, but after curiosity from constable Veeram, he lies and closes it as a divorce, revealing the truth only to Inspector Subba Rao. After briefly confronting Bheemli Selvam, Reddy’s man who ordered the attack at the train station, Singam finds that a constable at the station has gotten sick from consuming an expired medicine tablet. With help from a paroled hacker named Murali, Singam tracks Mallaiya who drove Ramakrishna to Vizag harbour on the night of the murder. A local informs Singam that a toxic smoke attack from the nearby dump killed his 32 students, including his grandchildren. Singam realizes that Ramakrishna intended to expose illegal dumping of mediwaste and , which included recycled tablets being sold to the public and the smoke attack on the school. The garbage is being imported by Vizag Scraps owner Rajeev Krishna in exchange for free metal scrap delivery to steel companies in . Mallaiya confirms that Reddy, who authorizes this business in India killed Ramakrishna to prevent him from thwarting his operation. Reddy and Rajeev’s activities are supervised by wealthy, powerful and corrupt current of and businessman Vittal Prasad, who receives full support from his father, Ram Prasad. Meanwhile, Vidya writes an article on Singam claiming that he exported Reddy for personal gain and that he is corrupt, putting Singam’s reputation at edge. As a result, Singam has Vidya arrested and fined for discrediting him. Singam begins to eliminate and arrest criminals all over the city, including Selvam whom he guns down. Later, Singam heads to Vizag harbour to obtain evidence from Reddy’s containers, but is attacked by his men while Ravi murders the school teacher. Vittal calls Singam anonymously and threatens to use his influence to kill Singam’s family if he doesn’t stand down. The next day, Singam chases down Ravi and arrests Reddy. He pays a personal visit to Vittal in Australia from looking into Reddy’s contacts, and confirms that he is the one behind the illegal dumping. Singam narrowly escapes Vittal and returns to India, where he finds that Reddy has been bailed by three criminals, who framed the commissioner for supposed assault on one of their wives, and justify the murder as vengeance. Singam is also fired from the CBI for speaking out of turn, but has the Home minister transfers him as an officer in Vizag to continue pursuing Reddy’s men. Singam exposes the garbage containers to the public, forcing Vittal to arrive at Vizag. When Vittal warns him again to stay out of his way, Singam responds by having Subbu Rao kill Reddy, whom previously killed his 9-year-old son in a city riot to defend Ram Prasad’s position. Singam brings Vittal to his station and gives him another chance to repent. Singam and Kavya later visit Thoothukudi to attend Kavya’s grandmother’s funeral. They are followed by Rajeev, who is arrested. When Vidya attempts to interview Vittal, she is captured and drugged. With help from Murali, Singam rescues Vidya, but is targeted by Vittal’s men who bombs the police station. Singam decides to finish this once and for all and gets an arrest warrant for Vittal using computer evidence of agreements signed with medical companies, hacked by Murali. The next day, Singam pursues Vittal all the way to in and has him arrested. Vittal escapes the police custody and runs into a nearby forest, where Singam catches him and fights with him. After a long fight, Vittal dies there encounterd by Singam. Singam regains his post and respect while Ram Prasad is removed from cabinet position for assisting his son. Kavya is revealed to be 6 months pregnant and Vidya severs contact with Singam after getting engaged to a good prospect. Singam receives a call from Ramanathan, who calls him for another mission. Following the commercial success of , was keen to collaborate with for another action film with a fresh script away from the franchise, and agreed terms in principle with the actor in October 2014. Hari revealed that as a result of pressure from those around him, he later developed the one-line story from the film into a script for a third part of . While the first film was primarily shot within and the second featured a few scenes in , Hari stated that the third part would be more “international” and would be set in three countries as the protagonist tackles a global issue. While most of the cast was retained from the earlier films, Initially was considered for the second female lead but she opted out the film then was added to the team in July 2015 to portray another leading female role, while was signed as the music composer replacing . Anirudh later opted out of the project citing scheduling issues and was brought in to compose the film’s music. , who portrayed the police officer Erimalai in the first two films, declined to reprise his role in this film as he felt he “did not have a meaty role in it”. New actors to the series including , , , and were added to the cast, while was signed on to portray the lead . In preparation for his role, Suriya bulked up his physique by spending more hours in the gym and by adopting a strict oil-free diet. The start of the film’s shoot, initially scheduled for December 2015, was delayed as a result of the . Production began in during January 2016 with scenes featuring as a journalist being shot. Following a series of action sequences shot in the city, the team moved to film song sequences in with joining the team. After a production break, the team restarted the shoot in , before moving to the Forest region and then on the in during mid-2016. The team moved to Malaysia to finish filming the climax in October 2016, before a further song was shot in with Suriya and Shruti Haasan. In January 2017, the film was re-titled from to (spelt சி3 in Tamil) to exploit the ‘s rule of entertainment tax exemption for films titled in Tamil. The film’s soundtrack is scored by , who replaced as the composer of the film series. The film marks the eighth collaboration between Suriya after , , , , , and (2012). Taking a break after various schedules of shooting, director Hari and Harris Jayaraj completed the song composing in , . The audio rights of the film was acquired by and the complete album was released on 27 November 2016. Reviewing the album, Srivatsan of stated ” might not be Harris’ best work, but definitely not bad either. Having said that, it’s a ( really) commercial album from the composer. Be it the songs or the theme music, the album has enough scope to pander to the B and C centers”. went through several changes of release date, before being released on 9 February 2017 coinciding with . The film was completed in mid-2016 and the team completed post-production work aiming to have a theatrical release in October to coincide either with the or season, but the release was postponed to avoid a box office clash with Suriya’s brother, ‘s film, . The film was then scheduled to release on 16 December. However, due to a request from the makers of , the film release date was pushed even later on 23 December to make most of the holiday season, but was delayed after the team chose to allow the public of more time to recuperate from the aftermath of and the . Prior to the film’s revised release date of 26 January, had remarked that Suriya was trying to garner publicity for by speaking out against the organisation at the . Suriya subsequently filed a legal notice against PETA for the defamatory allegations. The film was pushed back even further following riots in at the end of the protests, with the producers finalising a worldwide theatrical release date of 9 February. The satellite and digital rights of the film were sold to and . Thinkal Menon of gave 3/5 stars and wrote “Suriya, who carries the entire film on his shoulders, is in full form. This time, too, his mission ends leaving a hint that the franchise is here to stay.” Manoj Kumar. R of gave 3/5 and wrote “Hari maintains a sense of urgency in his films from the beginning to end, but, as a commercial film director, his storytelling methods also suffer from following a set of rules, which include frequent yawn-inducing songs, but he makes up for that formulaic approach with fast-paced narration in the scenes that follows”. of gave 2/5 and wrote “Loud, fast and without a single memorable moment. The series is the last place to be complaining about the villain.” wrote ” is a cocktail of harebrained predictable plot, exhausting action scenes, slapstick comedy and a bunch of characters that are entirely forgettable, while concluding it as “loud and exhausting.” collected (US$2.4 million) in domestic box office on its opening day and (US$5.9 million) in 5 days of release. The film collected (US$7.3 million) at the worldwide box office in its opening four-day weekend. The film collected (US$12 million) worldwide in 6 days.</p>