Thiruttu Payale

Thiruttu Payale
Directed by	Susi Ganesan
Produced by	Kalpathi S.Aghoram Kalpathi S.Ganesh Kalpathi S.Suresh
Written by	Susi Ganesan
Starring	Jeevan Abbas Sonia Agarwal Malavika Vivek Manoj K Jayan Charlie
Music by	Bharathwaj
Cinematography	Ravi Shankar
Production company	AGS Entertainment
Release date	14 April 2006
Running time	150 mins
Language	Tamil
Box office	₹ 400 million

Thiruttu Payale (Tamil: திருட்டு பயலே; English: Yo, the Thief) is a 2006 Tamil erotic thriller film written and directed by Susi Ganesan. As like other Susi Ganesan films it is a real life experience based entertainer/thriller. The movie stars Kaakha Kaakha fame Jeevan, Sonia Agarwal, Abbas, Malavika, Vivek, Manoj K Jayan and Charlie. The film's music is composed by music director, Vishal Bhardwaj. The film was remade in Hindi by director himself as Shortcut Romeo. The film was also remade in Telugu and Kannada as Mr. Rascal and Aadu Aata Aadu respectively.

Manickam (Jeevan), belongs to a poor family in a village. He does not respect any of his family members, except for his uncle (Vinod Raj) who lives in Chennai. The story gets rolling once he decides to come and stay with his uncle at Chennai.

Once while he is watching people playing golf, he notices Roopini (Malavika) and Ramesh (Abbas) having an illicit relationship. He manages to capture the same in his video camera. Roopini is the wife of a rich businessman (Manoj K Jayan,who is also Ramesh's best friend.

Manickam blackmails Roopini and extracts money from her whenever he needs. Once he makes a trip abroad to Australia with Roopini’s expenditure. There he happens to meet Rosy (Sonia Agarwal). He falls in love with her. Rosy tells him that she is a very rich girl from a respected family. While he decide to propose to her, he finds that she has left the city. He is upset and just at that time, Roopini makes a phone calls and tells him that Rosy was sent by her only to woo Manickam and demand that if he needs Rosy, he needs to hand over the cassette to her.