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Directed by Venkat Prabhu
Produced by Dhayanidhi Alagiri, Vivek Rathnavel
Written by Venkat Prabhu
Story by Venkat Prabhu
Starring Ajith Kumar, Arjun, Trisha Krishnan, Vaibhav Reddy, Premji Amaren, Mahat Raghavendra, Ashwin Kakumanu, Lakshmi Rai, Andrea Jeremiah, Anjali
Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cinematography Sakthi Saravanan
Editing by Praveen K. L., N. B. Srikanth
Studio Cloud Nine Movies
Distributed by Sun Pictures, Radaan Mediaworks, Ayngaran International (United Kingdom), FiveStar (Malaysia)
Release date 31 August 2011
Running time 153 minutes
Country India
Language Tamil
Box office INR62 crore (US$11.22 million)

Mankatha is a 2011 Indian Tamil action-thriller film written and directed by Venkat Prabhu. It attributes Ajith Kumar in the lead function, starring in his 50th film, in conjunction with an ensemble cast like Arjun, Trisha Krishnan, Vaibhav Reddy, Lakshmi Rai, Andrea Jeremiah, Premji Amaren and Anjali. It was created by Dhayanidhi Alagiri’s Cloud Nine Movies although Yuvan Shankar Raja composed the musical score and soundtrack, with Sakthi Saravanan working because the cinematographer as well as the duo Praveen K. L. and N. B. Srikanth as editors. The story, set in Mumbai, revolves around a heist of cricket betting revenue, executed by a gang of four thieves, that are joined by a fifth unknown man, and its aftermaths.

The film was formally launched in August 2010, with its principal photography beginning on October 25, 2010. Filming was held for more than eight months and took location primarily across Chennai, the Dharavi slum in Mumbai and Bangkok, Thailand. Following speculations concerning the film’s release, Sun Photos acquired the theatrical rights and distributed the film via Raadhika Sarathkumar’s Radaan Mediaworks. Mankatha released on August 31, 2011 globally to commonly positive evaluations and grossed the second greatest opening of all time after endhiran. The film was also dubbed into Telugu as Gambler and released in Andhra Pradesh ten days later; it was a box-office good results in Kerala at the same time.

Plot

Vinayak Mahadevan (Ajith Kumar), an assistant commissioner of Maharashtra Police, gets suspended for obtaining saved a smuggler named Faizal (Aravind Akash) from encounter killing and helped him escape. He begins leading life in his own way. Meanwhile, a police officer commits suicide on account of the leakage of his IPL gambling plans who is revealed to be Kamal Ekambaram (Subbu Panchu). A difficult cop Prithvi (Arjun) takes charge to end betting scandal in IPL cricket in Mumbai. It is then revealed by Prithvi that Kamal faked his death to catch the culprits within a secret mission and returns under the name Praveen Kumar. Arumuga Chettiar (Jayaprakash), an influential regional illegal business enterprise dealer as well as the head of Faizal, owns “Golden Theatres” in Mumbai, which has been converted into a gambling den and forms the front for all his illegal firms. Vinayak is introduced to Arumuga Chettiyar by way of his girl buddy Sanjana (Trisha). Sanjana is in love with Vinayak, but Vinyak just pretends to love her. Arumuga Chettiyar utilizes his links with dons in Mumbai and tries to route via his old theater, a money of over 500 crore (US$90.5 million) to be applied in betting.

Sumanth (Vaibhav Reddy), a goon working for Arumuga Chettiyar, hatches a conspiracy to rob the revenue in the company of his pals – Ganesh (Ashwin Kakumanu), a regional Sub-Inspector, Mahat (Mahat Raghavendra), who owns a bar in Mumbai and Mahat’s buddy Prem (Premji Amaren), an IIT graduate. Vinayak befriends the boys at Sumanth’s marriage with Suchithra (Anjali). 1 late evening, Vinayak meets Prem, who becomes inebriated by him and reveals their heist strategy. Vinayak begins spying on them and confronts them on the day of your planned heist, stepping in. Vinayak, on the other hand, has other plans. He desires to kill his four accomplices and take the complete amount. He promises to assist them and divide it between them. After looting the dollars they leave the income in an old cafe. Both Arumuga Chettiar along with the police search for them. Sumanth is caught by Faizal, but is saved by Ganesh and Vinayak. Sanjana engulfs in grief when she comes to know about Vinayak’s correct intentions. Meanwhile, Mahat and Prem escape together with the cash and are accompanied by Sona (Lakshmi Rai). Vinayak, Sumanth and Ganesh get to understand about this. Sumanth, on the other hand, turns approver, considering that his wife Suchithra has been kidnapped by Arumuga Chettiyar, but is killed when Prithvi’s wife Sabitha Prithviraj (Andrea Jeremiah) is kidnapped and threatened by Vinayak.

Sequence of events cause the murder of the gang a single by one-Mahat gets killed by Sona who betrays him, Prem is killed by Prithvi who suspects him of the robbery, and Sona gets killed by Vinayak-with Ganesh and Vinayak remaining alive. A final battle ensues between Vinayak and Prithvi. The two essentially prove to become equal. At the final moment from the fight, Kamal throws a gun to Prithvi who shoots Vinayak, as a result killing him. After several days, the police gets information about Ganesh to be living in Thailand. Kamal (beneath the name of Praveen Kumar) arrives there, but as an alternative comes across Vinayak. Praveen confronts him and calls up Prithvi to inform him of Vinayak’s presence, but then it’s then revealed that Prithviraj and Vinayak are actually best friends given that their college days and took trainings together. They had come to know about that betting money and operated the program with each other (such as Vinayak’s fake death). Ganesh had also been killed by Vinayak as a a part of the plan. It truly is implied that Praveen will also be killed by Vinayak.

Cast

Ajith Kumar as Vinayak Mahadevan
Arjun as Prithviraj
Trisha Krishnan as Sanjana Arumugam
Vaibhav as Sumanth
Mahat Raghavendra as Mahat
Premji Amaren as Prem
Ashwin Kakumanu as Ganesh
Jayaprakash as Arumuga Chettiyar
Lakshmi Rai as Sona
Aravind Akash as Faizal
Subbu Panchu as Kamal Ekambaram/Praveen Kumar
Anjali as Suchitra Sumanth
Andrea Jeremiah as Sabitha Prithviraj
Vijay Vasanth in a cameo appearance
Kainaat Arora in a special appearance
Debi Dutta in a special appearance

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