Theri (film)

Theri
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Directed by	Atlee
Produced by	Kalaipuli S. Thanu
Written by	Atlee & Ramana Girivasan (Dialogue)
Screenplay by	Atlee
Story by	Atlee
Starring	Vijay Prabhu Ganesan Samantha Ruth Prabhu Amy Jackson
Music by	G. V. Prakash Kumar
Cinematography	George C. Williams
Edited by	Ruben
Production company	V. Creations
Distributed by	SPI Cinemas (Chennai) Friday Film House (Kerala) Carnival Motion Pictures (Kerala)
Release date	14 April 2016 (2016-04-14)
Running time	158 Minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Box office	est. ₹156 crore (1.56 billion)

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Theri (English: Spark) is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language action film written and directed by Atlee and produced by Kalaipuli S. Thanu. The film features Vijay, Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Amy Jackson in the lead roles, while Mahendran, Prabhu and Raadhika Sarathkumar amongst others form an ensemble cast. Featuring music composed by G. V. Prakash Kumar and cinematography handled by George C. Williams.

The film had a worldwide release on 14 April 2016. It has been dubbed into Telugu and was released as Policeodu (English: Police Man) on 15 April 2016, however, the title was later on altered to Police.

Vijay Kumar (Vijay) is the honest and sincere DCP of Chennai. He takes up a case involving the rape and subsequent death of an IT employee Raji. He finds out that the rapist is Ashwin, the son of a minister Vanamaamalai (J. Mahendran). Vijay kills Ashwin and reveals himself as the murderer to Vanamaamalai, who swears to take revenge on him for killing his son. Meanwhile, Vijay falls in love with a medical student Mithra (Samantha Ruth Prabhu) and both eventually get married and lead a happy life. Vijay's happiness is short-lived though as Vanamaamalai, his younger brother Ratnam (Azhagam Perumal) and their henchmen barge into his house one night and kill Mithra and Vijay's mother (Raadhika Sarathkumar). They even brutally assault Vijay and attempt to drown Vijay's baby daughter Niveditha aka Nivi in the bathtub. The dying Mithra manages to rescue Nivi and asks Vijay to take care of her, but not before making him promise that he will quit the police and be a peaceful and loving father to Nivi, following which she dies in Vijay's arms. Vijay fakes his death, changes his name to Joseph Kuruvilla and moves to Kerala with Nivi and his constable friend Rajendran (Rajendran) to protect Nivi from Vanamaamalai and his gang.