Sardar

Sardar is a 2022 Indian Tamil-language spy action-thriller film written and directed by P. S. Mithran and produced by S. Lakshman Kumar under his production banner Prince Pictures. The film stars Karthi in a dual role alongside Raashii Khanna, Rajisha Vijayan, Chunky Pandey, Laila, Rithvik, Munishkanth, Avinash, Yugi Sethu and Balaji Sakthivel in pivotal roles. The music was composed by G. V. Prakash Kumar, with cinematography handled by George C. Williams and editing done by Ruben. The film marks Hindi film actor Chunky Panday's debut and Laila's comeback to Tamil cinema. Principal photography commenced in April 2021 and took place in locations across Chennai, Mumbai, Mysore, Azarbaijan and Georgia. Sardar was released by theatrically on 21 October 2022, prior to the Diwali week, with received highly positive reviews from critics and audience, and critically and commercially successful, Sardar has a worldwide gross of over worldwide, making it one of the top-grossing Tamil films of 2022. A sequel is in development. Plot Inspector Vijay Prakash is obsessed with building his reputation that was tarnished because of his absconding father Chandra Bose, a former spy of RAW who was branded as a national traitor 32 years ago resulting in his entire extended family except for Vijay committing suicide out of shame and disgrace. Raised by a generous Police officer Paavadaisaami, Vijay tries hard to woo his childhood friend Adv. Shalini. Shalini represents a social activist Sameera Thomas in court, petitioning against One India One Pipeline, a project operated by a private water packaging company of former NSA officer Maharaj Rathore. The project is expected to unify and control the supply of potable water across India. The court refuses to accept their petition while Sameera chances upon a wheelchair-bound Victor, who happens to share her objectives. Sameera organises a protest at Rajaji Bhavan while Vijay discovers that a highly classified file containing information about the RAW agents of 1980s is stolen from Rajaji Bhavan. Deducing that Sameera has stolen the file, Vijay heads to her residence only to find her son Timothy aka Timmy alone receiving an order from a bakery. Vijay takes Timmy to find Sameera, whose location is traced to the bakery but realises that he was misled as Sameera has thrown her smartwatch in the bin of the bakery. Vijay meets Dr.