Kaappaan (2019) on Netflix
Kathiravan farms in Thanjavur and secretly serves military intelligence. He is sent to guard Prime Minister Chandrakanth Varma after a captured militant points to a plot against the leader.
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Plot summary
An attempt on the life of Prime Minister Chandrakanth Varma is stopped by security forces, though the communications minister is killed. His daughter Anjali works as the prime minister's press secretary. Kathiravan, an organic farmer in Thanjavur, also works quietly for military intelligence. After an arrested militant discloses a plan against Varma, the Special Protection Group brings Kathiravan in to help guard the leader on a trip to London. He spots the suspect and shoots. Anjali takes him for the attacker and trails him; he gets her drunk and slips away. In India, Varma learns that soldiers were killed in Baramulla, and the businessman Rajan Mahadev comes to him to talk about retaliation.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Kaappaan (2019)
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- An aspiring screenwriter petitioned the Madras High Court claiming the teaser of Kaappaan copied his 2016-registered script Saravedi, which he had discussed with director K. V. Anand in January 2017, and sought a stay on the release; on 12 September the court dismissed the petition for lack of evidence.
- Amitabh Bachchan was approached to play the Prime Minister of India in a cameo, but the role went to Mohanlal instead.
- Allu Sirish initially agreed to act in the film but pulled out because of scheduling conflicts with ABCD (2019), and Arya was cast in his place.
