8 Thottakkal (2017)

Original title

8 தோட்டாக்கள்

Directed by

Sri Ganesh

Genre

action thriller

Country

India

Runtime

2h 25m

Rated

U

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A police officer loses his service revolver. He scrambles to find it before the missing bullets are used in a crime.

tensegrittysuspensefulgroundedfast-pacedbleakrealisticnoir-ish

What happens

8 Thottakkal (transl. 8 Bullets) is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language crime thriller film written and directed by Sri Ganesh in his directoral debut. Produced by Vellapandian, the film stars his son Vetri, alongside an ensemble cast including Aparna Balamurali, Nassar, M. S. Bhaskar and Meera Mithun. Principal photography commenced in August 2016 at Chennai and was completed in November 2016. The film released on 7 April 2017. The film, which was loosely inspired by the 1949 Japanese movie Stray Dog, was remade in Kannada as 8MM Bullet (2018), Telugu as Senapathi (2021), and Malayalam as Corona Papers (2023). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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