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| writer = Sam Anton | | writer = Sam Anton | ||
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| starring = [[Atharvaa]]<br />[[Hansika Motwani]]<br />[[Radha Ravi]] | | starring = [[Atharvaa]]<br />[[Hansika Motwani]]<br />[[Radha Ravi]] | ||
| music = [[Sam C. S.]] | | music = [[Sam C. S.]] | ||
| cinematography = Krishnan Vasant | | cinematography = Krishnan Vasant | ||
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'''''100''''' is a 2019 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[action thriller film]] written and directed by [[Sam Anton]] | '''''100''''' is a 2019 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[action thriller film]] written and directed by [[Sam Anton]] and produced by Kaviya Mahesh. The film features [[Atharvaa]] and [[Hansika Motwani]] in the lead roles, while [[Radha Ravi]] and [[Yogi Babu]] play supporting roles. The music was composed by [[Sam C. S.]], with editing done by [[Ruben (film editor)|Ruben]] and cinematography by Krishnan Vasant. The film began production during December 2017 and completed its shoot by August 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sify.com/movies/atharvaa-hansika-romantic-comedy-starts-rolling-imagegallery-kollywood-rmpo6Hhfabgbe.html|title=Atharvaa-Hansika romantic comedy starts rolling!|website=Sify.com|accessdate=26 January 2019}}</ref> It was released on 9 May 2019 to mixed to positive reviews from the audience as well as critics and become an above average success.<ref>https://www.sify.com/movies/100-review-a-watchable-cop-action-entertainer-review-tamil-tfkjpCebjehdb.html</ref> | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
{{Long plot|section|date=August 2020}}<!-- Word count: 851 as of 2 August 2020 - should be 400-700 per [[WP:FILMPLOT]] --> | {{Long plot|section|date=August 2020}}<!-- Word count: 851 as of 2 August 2020 - should be 400-700 per [[WP:FILMPLOT]] --> | ||
Sathya ([[Atharvaa]]) wants to be an upright cop hoping that his life will become adventurous by chasing criminals and solving mysteries like his childhood best friend Anwar. However, | Sathya ([[Atharvaa]]) wants to be an upright cop, hoping that his life will become adventurous by chasing criminals and solving mysteries like his childhood best friend Anwar (Mahesh). However, he gets posted in a control room as an emergency call operator, where he is mentored by 'Pistol' Perumal ([[Radha Ravi]]). His requests to have his department changed to fall on deaf ears. Sathya's girlfriend Nisha ([[Hansika Motwani]]) has a brother Vicky (Raaj Aiyyappa), who is shown to be in a relationship with Ayesha (Harija), Anwar's sister. | ||
Initially, Sathya thinks that his job is just as mundane as Nisha's, who works | Initially, Sathya thinks that his job is just as mundane as Nisha's, who works at a call center. One day, disturbed due to a misunderstanding with Anwar involving Ayesha and Vicky, Sathya misses a call, which turns out to be from the mother of a boy who was kidnapped. Sathya deduces that the boy is being kept hostage in a train, and with Perumal's help, he manages to nab the kidnappers and get the boy home safely. | ||
Perumal believes that the 100th phone call changes the operator's lives, which Sathya refuses to believe until his 100th phone call turns out to be from Sandhya, a girl who was earlier presumed dead. Using his wits, Sathya manages to save Sandhya from the clutches of the kidnappers and hands both the girl and the kidnappers to Anwar to preserve his anonymity. However, the next day, he does not find any news pertaining to the girl's return to her home. Disturbed, he reaches out to Anwar, who refuses to acknowledge that Sathya handed over Sandhya to him. Deducing that Anwar is involved in something wrong, Sathya convinces Perumal, who has only two days of service remaining before he retires, to help him crack the case. Sathya brings the rogue who had confessed earlier that he killed Sandhya into questioning. The rogue was released within a year of Sandhya's supposed murder since he was a minor. Sathya gets him beaten by Sandhya's boyfriend Harish, and the rogue confesses that he is under the payroll of Daas ([[Mime Gopi]]), who runs a huge drug cartel business in the city. One of Daas's men asks the rogue to take the blame for the murder promising him 1.5 million rupees. | |||
Sathya sneaks into Daas's hideout, where he finds out that the actual mastermind is Daas's associate David ([[Cheenu Mohan]]). David runs a business of supplying girls to rich perverts. To avoid investigation, they make it look like the girls have been murdered, whereas, in reality, they would be sold for a huge sum of money. Sathya arrests David, who is later shot dead by a helmeted assailant. Sathya asks Perumal to nab the assailant with the help of the traffic cameras, and the assailant is revealed to be Anwar. Upon questioning, Anwar confesses that he had no knowledge of the girl trafficking business and had shot David, since the real mastermind behind the crime had kidnapped Ayesha, who had run away from home with Vicky, fearing that Anwar would not accept their relationship. Anwar was also instructed to kill Sathya, but he could not bring himself to shoot his best friend. Feeling guilty, Anwar requests Sathya to save Ayesha and commits suicide. | |||
Distraught at his best friend's death, Sathya is informed that Vicky has returned and is in the hospital, having been badly beaten up. When he goes to the hospital to meet Vicky, he gets a call from the kidnappers asking him to come to a secluded location to save Ayesha. Upon reaching there, he finds out that the kidnappers have left Sandhya there instead of Ayesha. Perumal traces the kidnappers' phone to the hospital where Vicky is admitted and launches a police team to surround the hospital immediately. | |||
In a twist, Sandhya reveals that it is Vicky himself who is the mastermind of the girl trafficking business. He had got together with David and kidnapped 12 girls in total. Vicky escapes from the hospital after creating a ruckus and tells Sathya that if he wanted Ayesha alive, he would have to deliver Sandhya to a particular location. Vicky forces Sathya to stay on the call to prevent him from contacting the police, but Sathya writes the word "help" on his car's windshield, through which Perumal managed to dispatch help to him. Realizing that Sandhya is bugged, Sathya asks the team to proceed with Sandhya to the location, while Perumal relayed Vicky's location to Sathya through another police officer's phone. Sathya manages to catch up to Vicky, trashes him and his rogues, and rescues Ayesha. Sathya asks Perumal to shoot down Vicky to instill fear in the hearts of criminals who commit such crimes with girls. Perumal, who had never used a pistol before and had only five minutes of service remaining, does so, thrilled. | |||
Due to his success, Sathya is transferred to the crime branch, but having realized that he could make a bigger difference by being a call operator, he decides to stick to his current job. The film ends with Sathya receiving a call and then walking away to solve the crime. | |||
Due to his success, Sathya is transferred to the crime branch but having realized that he | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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*[[Atharvaa]] as Sub-Inspector Sathya , working in control room | *[[Atharvaa]] as Sub-Inspector Sathya, working in the control room | ||
*[[Hansika Motwani]] as Nisha | *[[Hansika Motwani]] as Nisha | ||
*[[Radha Ravi]] as Pistol Perumal | *[[Radha Ravi]] as Pistol Perumal | ||
*Raaj Aiyyappa as Vicky | *Raaj Aiyyappa as Vignesh (Vicky), Nisha's brother | ||
*[[Yogi Babu]] as | *[[Yogi Babu]] as Sub-Inspector Jackson, working in the control room | ||
*[[Saravanan (actor)|Saravanan]] as Ganesh, Sathya's father | *[[Saravanan (actor)|Saravanan]] as Ganesh, Sathya's father | ||
*[[Nirosha]] as Sathya's mother | *[[Nirosha]] as Sathya's mother | ||
*[[Cheenu Mohan]] as David | *[[Cheenu Mohan]] as David | ||
*[[Mime Gopi]] as Daas | |||
*[[Aadukalam Naren]] as Police Commissioner | *[[Aadukalam Naren]] as Police Commissioner | ||
*[[Mahanadi Shankar]] as Inspector Murugesan | *[[Mahanadi Shankar]] as Inspector Murugesan | ||
*Mahesh as Anwar | |||
*Harija as Ayesha | |||
*Pasanga Sivakumar as Anwar's father | *Pasanga Sivakumar as Anwar's father | ||
*[[Swaminathan]] as Gajapathy Swamy alias Gary | *[[Swaminathan]] as Gajapathy Swamy alias Gary | ||
* | *[[Sampath Ram]] as Inspector Jegadeesh | ||
*Vijay as Sathya's friend | *Vijay as Sathya's friend | ||
*Kadhal Kannan as Victim's father | *Kadhal Kannan as Victim's father | ||
*Vijay Varadharaj as Caller | *Vijay Varadharaj as Caller | ||
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==Critical reception== | ==Critical reception== | ||
[[The Times of India]] rated 2 out of 5 stars stating "100 is an ambitious cop film with a not-so-bad story and almost convincing protagonist, but is marred by a far-stretched screenplay".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movie-reviews/100/movie-review/69240005.cms|title=100|website=The Tiimes of India|date=2019-05-08|access-date=2020-06-15}}</ref>[[Sify]] rated 2.75 out of 5 stars stating "Director Sam Anton’s 100 is a passable cop action entertainer which works mainly because of the engaging second half".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sify.com/movies/100-review-a-watchable-cop-action-entertainer-review-tamil-tfkjpCebjehdb.html|title=100 review: A watchable cop action entertainer|website=Sify|date=2019-06-12|access-date=2020-06-15}}</ref>[[The Hindu]] stated "Tamil filmmakers are in their ‘woke’ phase right now and what better than sexual harassment cases, which have been making headlines every other day? Filmmakers tend to normalise sexual assault by reducing it to a narrative device, and end up harassing the audience. The latest entrant being 100".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/100-movie-review-a-passable-thriller-with-a-laughable-twist/article27101838.ece|title='100' movie review: A passable thriller with a laughable twist|website=The Hindu|date=2019-05-11|access-date=2020-06-15}}</ref>''IndiaGlitz'' rated 2.8 out of 5 stars stating "Go for this new take on cop work with good performances by the cast and some interesting twists and turns".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiaglitz.com/100-review-tamil-movie-22737|title=100 Review|website=IndiaGlitz|date=2019-05-16|access-date=2020-06-15}}</ref>[[Cinema Express]] rated 2.5 out of 5 stars stating "Despite pacing issues and innumerable subplots, 100 is effectively wrapped up with minimal loose ends, and there's an overall sense of satisfaction at the end of 141 minutes".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinemaexpress.com/reviews/tamil/2019/may/11/100-movie-review-atharvaas-cop-debut-packs-quite-the-punch-11498.html|title=100 Movie Review: Atharvaa's cop debut packs a punch|website=Cinema Express|date=2019-05-11|access-date=2020-06-15}}</ref>[[Firstpost]] rated 2.2 out of 5 stars stating "The first half of the film is just a built up for a long-drawn-out climax. If Anton had made the film from an engaging script and treated it as a realistic investigative thriller without any over the top heroism, it would have worked".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/100-movie-review-a-formulaic-cop-thriller-with-over-the-top-action-sequences-unnecessary-heroism-6613831.html|title=100 movie review: A formulaic cop thriller with over the top action sequences, unnecessary heroism|website=Firstpost|date=2019-05-11|access-date=2020-06-15}}</ref>[[The Indian Express]] rated 2 out of 5 stars stating "Sam Anton takes too many cinematic liberties with 100, giving us an unrealistic twist that one can’t easily buy".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/movie-review/100-movie-review-rating-atharvaa-5723195/|title=100 movie review: Atharvaa fails to hit a 100 in this tried-and-tested formula film|website=The Indian Express|date=2019-05-12|access-date=2020-06-15}}</ref> | [[The Times of India]] rated 2 out of 5 stars stating "100 is an ambitious cop film with a not-so-bad story and almost convincing protagonist, but is marred by a far-stretched screenplay".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movie-reviews/100/movie-review/69240005.cms|title=100|website=The Tiimes of India|date=2019-05-08|access-date=2020-06-15}}</ref>[[Sify]] rated 2.75 out of 5 stars stating "Director Sam Anton’s 100 is a passable cop action entertainer which works mainly because of the engaging second half".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sify.com/movies/100-review-a-watchable-cop-action-entertainer-review-tamil-tfkjpCebjehdb.html|title=100 review: A watchable cop action entertainer|website=Sify|date=2019-06-12|access-date=2020-06-15}}</ref>[[The Hindu]] stated "Tamil filmmakers are in their ‘woke’ phase right now and what better than sexual harassment cases, which have been making headlines every other day? Filmmakers tend to normalise sexual assault by reducing it to a narrative device, and end up harassing the audience. The latest entrant being 100".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/100-movie-review-a-passable-thriller-with-a-laughable-twist/article27101838.ece|title='100' movie review: A passable thriller with a laughable twist|website=The Hindu|date=2019-05-11|access-date=2020-06-15}}</ref>''IndiaGlitz'' rated 2.8 out of 5 stars stating "Go for this new take on cop work with good performances by the cast and some interesting twists and turns".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiaglitz.com/100-review-tamil-movie-22737|title=100 Review|website=IndiaGlitz|date=2019-05-16|access-date=2020-06-15}}</ref>[[Cinema Express]] rated 2.5 out of 5 stars stating "Despite pacing issues and innumerable subplots, 100 is effectively wrapped up with minimal loose ends, and there's an overall sense of satisfaction at the end of 141 minutes".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinemaexpress.com/reviews/tamil/2019/may/11/100-movie-review-atharvaas-cop-debut-packs-quite-the-punch-11498.html|title=100 Movie Review: Atharvaa's cop debut packs a punch|website=Cinema Express|date=2019-05-11|access-date=2020-06-15}}</ref>[[Firstpost]] rated 2.2 out of 5 stars stating "The first half of the film is just a built up for a long-drawn-out climax. If Anton had made the film from an engaging script and treated it as a realistic, investigative thriller without any over the top heroism, it would have worked".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/100-movie-review-a-formulaic-cop-thriller-with-over-the-top-action-sequences-unnecessary-heroism-6613831.html|title=100 movie review: A formulaic cop thriller with over the top action sequences, unnecessary heroism|website=Firstpost|date=2019-05-11|access-date=2020-06-15}}</ref>[[The Indian Express]] rated 2 out of 5 stars stating "Sam Anton takes too many cinematic liberties with 100, giving us an unrealistic twist that one can’t easily buy".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/movie-review/100-movie-review-rating-atharvaa-5723195/|title=100 movie review: Atharvaa fails to hit a 100 in this tried-and-tested formula film|website=The Indian Express|date=2019-05-12|access-date=2020-06-15}}</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||