Unnaipol Oruvan (2009 film)
2009 Tamil film directed by Chakri Toleti
Unnaipol Oruvan (also released internationally under the translated title Someone Like You) is a 2009 Indian Tamil-language thriller film directed by Chakri Toleti in his directorial debut. It stars Mohanlal and Kamal Haasan in the lead roles. The film was simultaneously made in Telugu as Eenadu (transl. Today) with Venkatesh playing Mohanlal's role. Both are remakes of the 2008 Hindi film A Wednesday!. Set in Chennai and Hyderabad in the Tamil and Telugu versions respectively, the story depicts the confrontation between an anonymous caller who has planted bombs in the city and wants four terrorists to be released, and a police commissioner who tries to hunt him down.
Released on 18 September 2009, both Unnaipol Oruvan and Eenadu received positive reviews from critics and were commercially successful. The film marked Mohanlal's return to Tamil cinema in a lead role after Pop Carn (2003). Unnaipol Oruvan has attained a cult following throughout the decade and is considered as one of the best investigation thriller films in Tamil cinema.
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I.G Govindan Raghavan Maarar (Eashwar Prasad in Telugu version), the recently dismissed Commissioner of Police of Chennai (Hyderabad in Telugu version), describes in a voice-over about his sudden termination from the police, due to a common man who walked into his life. An unnamed man is shown strategically placing a travel bag on a train at the city's Central railway station and in a shopping mall.
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