Pudhupettai (2006) on Netflix
NR20062h 59mActionCrimeDramaThriller
Kokki Kumar, a schoolboy in the slums of Pudhupettai, flees home after his father kills his mother and plans to kill him too. He is taken in by a gangster's crew.
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Kokki Kumar lives with his family in the slums of Pudhupettai, in Chennai, and attends secondary school. Coming home from a film one day, he finds his mother dead, killed by his father in an argument, and overhears his father and a friend planning to kill him too because he saw what happened. Kumar runs away. Homeless and without food, he begs, is arrested on false charges and released on bail. He befriends Mani and other men who work for a thug named Anbu, and Anbu answers to Thamizhselvan, a criminal who leads the opposition party. Rival gangsters follow Murthy, the ruling party's politician, and the crew hands Kumar petty jobs at first.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pudhupettai (2006)
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- Pudhupettai marked the first major screen appearance of actor Vijay Sethupathi, whose role in Thenmerku Paruvakaatru came afterwards.
- Pudhupettai was the first Tamil film shot in Super 35 mm instead of the Cinemascope format, and also the first Tamil film released in digital format.
- A March 2006 trailer for Pudhupettai played before screenings of Pattiyal, and audiences spotted many similarities between the two films. Selvaraghavan reworked Pudhupettai to avoid the comparison, delaying its release.
- Selvaraghavan first asked Harris Jayaraj to compose the music, but Jayaraj refused because he felt the gangster genre was not his type. Selvaraghavan then finalised Yuvan Shankar Raja as the composer.
- The song "Enga Yeriya" incorporates elements of "Kunguma Pottin Mangalam" from the 1968 film Kudiyiruntha Kovil, composed by M. S. Viswanathan, and "Tharaimel Pirakka" from the 1964 film Padagotti, composed by Viswanathan-Ramamoorthy.
- R. K. Suresh was cast in a minor role as a criminal in Pudhupettai, but his father made him back out of the film.
