Thrissur Pooram (film)

Pullu Giri is a retired gangster who lives a peaceful life by running his own bottled water company and is married to Veni and bear a daughter. Giri occasionally has brushins with the cops as city commissioner Moorthy keeps a close eye on Giri. Thrissur city is currently donned by gangsters brothers Syam Rangan and Sudheep Rangan, who are gold smugglers and real estate mafias. Giri gets dragged back into crime when his friend Balettan gets in trouble after renting a car to gold smugglers working for Sudheep Rangan.

Sudheep kills Balettan who has gone to request about his innocence. Enraged, Giri plans and kills Sudheep by faking a road accident. Syam Rangan vows revenge on Giri, who along with his friend Teja, orchestrates the kidnap of Veni and strip her naked in the busy market. He also burn down Giri's water bottling plant. Veni requests Giri to avenge the humiliation. Giri captures Teja and extracts information on the next gold consignment worth ₹100 crore. Giri captures the gold and smuggles it back to Kerala in a KSRTC bus and kills Teja.

Giri surrenders the gold to Moorthy, where Syam orders a hit on Giri, who is attacked by a large group of hitmen. Though Giri manages to disarm his attackers, he is betrayed by his trusted lieutenant who stabs and leave him to die. Giri's friends Ali and Murugan find and kill the betrayer while Syam learns that Giri is alive. With his business empire crumbling due to the lost gold, Syam seeks a compromise with Giri on his lawyer's advice. Syam and his lawyer meets up with a limping Giri in a local tea stall. While they meet, the tea stall owner stabs Syam as he killed his son in a hit-and-run case. In the aftermath, Giri resumes his peaceful life.

Actor Jayasurya and producer Vijay Babu of Friday Film House were planning to associate together for a number of films after collaborating for Aadu and Aadu 2 and this was announced as a major project in their line up. The film was touted as a mass entertainer, it was announced to tell its story into several chapters, each named after the various stages of the pooram, such as Kodiyettam and Vedikettu. It was touted as an attempt to deliver a different kind of mass film and do justice to this genre. It was also announced to have all the ingredients necessary for an entertainer.[2] The film was shot in Thrissur, Hyderabad, and Coimbatore. Shoot officially commenced on 15 July 2019.[3]

Ratheesh Vegha composed the background score and the songs in the film.

The film released on 20 December 2019.[4][5]

• Thrissur Pooram at IMDb