Puli (2015 film)

Puli
Poster
Tamil	புலி
Directed by	Chimbu Deven
Produced by	Shibu Thameens P. T. Selvakumar
Written by	Chimbu Deven
Starring	Vijay Sridevi Prabhu Sudeep Shruti Haasan Hansika Motwani Nandita Swetha
Narrated by	Nizhalgal Ravi
Music by	Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography	Natarajan Subramaniam
Edited by	A. Sreekar Prasad
Production company	SKT Studios
Distributed by	Sri Thenandal films (Tamil Nadu) Ayngaran International (UK) Thameens (Kerala) S. Narayan (Karnataka) Pahlaj Nihalani (North)
Release date	1 October 2015 (2015-10-01)
Running time	154 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	₹118 crore
Box office	est. ₹101.9 crore

Puli (English: Tiger) is a 2015 Indian Tamil fantasy-adventure film written and directed by Chimbu Deven. The film features Vijay in a dual role alongside Shruthi Haasan, Hansika Motwani and Sridevi. Sudeep features as the main antagonist of the film including Prabhu and Nandita Swetha in supporting roles. The film is dubbed into Telugu and Hindi languages simultaneously. Both the Telugu and Hindi versions were released a day later on 2 October 2015. Produced by Vijay's public relations officer Selvakumar, the film has music composed by Devi Sri Prasad, Natarajan Subramaniam as the cinematographer and has T. Muthuraj as the production designer. After beginning pre-production works in early 2013, the film began its shoot in November 2014. The film was released on 1 October 2015 to negative reviews.

Marudheeran (Vijay) is the adopted son of a tribal village chief Vembunathan (Prabhu). From a young age, he notices the atrocities regularly committed on the villagers by a group of people from the neighbouring kingdom of Vedhalapuram called the Vedhalams, who have supernatural powers. When he becomes an adult, he starts to protect the villagers from the Vedhalams, because of which he is well respected by the villagers.

Marudheeran falls in love with his childhood sweetheart Pavazhamalli (Shruti Haasan) and both soon decide to marry. One day, Pavazhamalli is kidnapped by a group of Vedhalams, who then ransack the village and also kill Vembunathan. Marudheeran, along with his close friends Kodangi (Thambi Ramaiah) and Sama (Sathyan), begin a journey to Vedhalapuram to rescue Pavazhamalli. During the journey, Marudheeran rescues Manthagini (Hansika Motwani), the princess of Vedhalapuram, from a panther. This is noticed by Jalatharangan (Sudeep), the Commander-in-Chief of Vedhalapuram. On the pretext of being medicine makers, Marudheeran, Kodangi and Sama enter the Vedhalapuram palace, where they meet Yavanarani (Sridevi), the cruel Queen of Vedhalapuram who is also a sorceress. She allows them to stay at the palace and soon Marudheeran wins the support of the Queen and the love of Manthagini with his fighting prowess and resilience. Yavanarani announces the engagement of Marudheeran with Manthagini.