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Pulivaal (2014)

Pulivaal poster
Original title
புலிவால்
Directed by
G. Marimuthu
Genre
comedy thriller
Country
India
Runtime
2h 17m
Rated
U
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man's secret video footage gets into the wrong hands, leading to blackmail and a chain of dangerous events. The film follows several people in a city whose lives become tangled after a phone goes missing.

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What happens

Pulivaal (transl. Tail of the Tiger) is a 2014 Indian Tamil-language comedy thriller film directed by G. Marimuthu, and produced by Sarath Kumar and Listin Stephen. It stars Vimal, Prasanna, Oviya, Ananya, and Ineya. The film is a remake of the 2011 Malayalam film Chaappa Kurishu which itself was an adaptation of the 2009 South Korean film Handphone. It started production in March 2013 and released on 7 February 2014. Pulivaal is Marimuthu's final directorial before his death in 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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