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The Greatest of All Time

2024 Indian film by Venkat Prabhu

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Greatest of All Time is a 2024 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Venkat Prabhu and produced by AGS Entertainment. The film stars Vijay in dual roles, alongside Prashanth, Prabhu Deva, Mohan, Jayaram, Ajmal Ameer, Vaibhav, Yogi Babu, Premgi Amaren, Sneha, Laila, Meenakshi Chaudhary and Abyukta Manikandan. It is the twenty-fifth production of the studio and the penultimate film of Vijay before his political entry as well as his last film to be released before he assumed office as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. The film follows Gandhi, the former leader of an anti-terrorism squad, who reunites with his squad members to address the problems that stemmed from their previous actions. He is forced to confront a dark conspiracy and dangerous threats stemming from his covert past.

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“The Greatest of All Time” enters the record as 2024 Indian film by Venkat Prabhu. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Greatest, Time and Indian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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