Por Thozhil (2023) [Hindi-Tamil]

Loganathan, a senior cop Por Thozhil is asked to mentor Prakash, an academically bright but faint-hearted and needs to overcome his fears in order to succeed. The unlikely duo, team up to investigate a series of murder cases, and realize all of them are interlinked and that a psychopath serial killer is on the run. Can they get hold of him before it’s too late?

Por Thozhil (transl. The Art of War) is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language crime thriller film directed by Vignesh Raja and written by Alfred Prakash and Vignesh Raja.[2] The film stars R. Sarathkumar, Ashok Selvan and Nikhila Vimal.[3] The title of the film is inspired by Subramania Bharati’s poem, Puthiya Aathi Chuvadi.[4] It received positive reviews and became a commercial success. Newly appointed DSP trainee, Prakash, is assigned to work with SP Loganathan, by ADGP Mahendran. Loganathan reluctantly agrees to mentor him, along with the new technical assistant, Veena. From Chennai, the trio set off to Trichy to investigate the gruesome murder of a young girl in deep woods. The doctor concludes that the victim was strangulated from the front with an Por Thozhil iron wire, when she was in a kneeling position with her hair pulled back, and that the deep knife-like cut by the wire must have been caused by the strength of an oversized man. It is further revealed there was no sign of struggles or penetration, so the possibility of rape is ruled out. A hematoma on her neck reveals that the victim was knocked at specific pressure points on her sternocleidomastoid muscle, to make her unconscious, following which she was kidnapped. The peculiarity of the case makes Loganathan anticipate a series of murders. The doctor concludes that the victim was strangulated from the front with an iron wire, when she was in a kneeling position with her hair pulled back, and that the deep knife-like cut by the wire must have been caused by the strength of an oversized man. It is further revealed there was no sign of struggles or penetration, so the possibility of rape is ruled out.