Tamilselvanum Thaniyar Anjalum

<p>Tamilselvan is a college drop-out, who does all small jobs, but becomes disinterested. Soon, Tamil moves to and stays at his uncle AC Shakthivel’s house to land in a satisfying profession. His friend Nasar, a courier boy, asks him to deliver a packet at a shop, where he meets Kavya and falls in love with her, where he becomes a courier boy in order to visit Kavya everyday. Meanwhile, Arun is a high-profile doctor, who forms a team to smuggle from pregnant women and makes them to take a medicine, which induces abortion. However, a ward boy named Manikandan finds about the smuggling operation when he overhears a conversation between Arun and his colleague. Manikandan couriers all the details to a social activist Sathyamoorthy in Chennai. When Arun learns that the package is to be transported, he kills Manikandan and manages to make it look like an accident, where he also attacks Sathyamoorthy, who survives and orders his henchmen to snatch the courier from the courier boy, who is actually Tamil. A chase ensues between Tamil and Arun’s henchmen where Tamil manages to subdue Arun and kill him in a road accident, after learning about his plan. Tamil provides the courier to Sathyamoorthy where the stem cell scam gets exposed and Arun’s partners are arrested. After this, Tamil receives (equivalent to 1.5 billion or US$18 million in 2023) reward for his bravery, where he gives the money to Manikandan’s family and moves with Kavya on a date. In January 2012, it was reported that would be producing a film starring and , and would mark the directorial debut of , an erstwhile assistant to . It was simultaneously shot in Tamil as , and Telugu as with instead of Jai. Menon revealed that if the film became a success, potential sequels under the titles of and were planned. While the film was initially planned to be in Tamil only, once it was decided to shoot in Telugu as well, Abhinaya was removed from both versions of the project. Instead, was signed on as her replacement after the makers were impressed with her performance in the film . The film, despite beginning production in 2012, languished in due to financial issues. Schedules were also delayed as a result of shooting the film twice in Tamil and then Telugu, with the timetabling of dates of artistes and technicians becoming a problem. The soundtrack was composed by . The audio was released on 8 September 2015. was released on 5 August 2016. S. Saraswathi of wrote, ” may not be a gripping thriller, but has an interesting plot, moves along briskly with some fun moments, has a great background score and high octane stunts in the climax”. Gautaman Bhaskaran of rated the film 2 out of 5, saying, “Despite knocking at the burning issues of the day and plotted with disarming novelty, Tamil cinema often allows itself be distracted by bland romances, puerile humour and sappy songs” and this was an example of that. M. Suganth of wrote, “With a premise […] that could make many directors feel envious for not having thought of it first, Premsai gets the first thing right in , his directorial debut. But, unfortunately, that is only of the few things he does well in this film, which displays a split personality — it is engrossing one moment and infuriating the next”. Anupama Subramanian of wrote, “On paper, the idea might have looked thought provoking, but while transferring it to onscreen he misses out in his narrative”.</p>