Trigger (2022) [Hindi-Tamil]

Trigger is an 2022 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by Sam Anton and produced by Pramod Films and Miracle Movies.[1] The film stars Atharvaa, Tanya Ravichandran and Arun Pandian in lead roles.[2] The film’s music and score is composed by Ghibran, with cinematography handled by Krishnan Vasant and editing done by Ruben.

An undercover cop has to stop the mastermind behind a child kidnapping racket, which will also lead to the redemption of his Azheimer’s-affected father, a former policeman. This is second collaboration of Atharvaa and Sam Anton after the 2019 film 100.[3] The film predominantly shot in Chennai and Hyderabad. The film was released in theatres on 23 September 2022 and received positive reviews from critics. Prabhakaran, a suspended cop, who has been posted in the Internal Affairs of Tamil Nadu Police Department (T.N.P.D) by the police commissioner, learns that Nisha, who is his brother Karthi’s adopted daughter is kidnapped. While investigating, Prabhakaran learns about the modus operandi of the kidnappers and manages to track down the kidnapper’s Audi car to a warehouse, where he attacks the kidnapper named Aadi and saves Nisha. Prabhakaran Trigger admits Aadi to the hospital and uses him as a bait to capture the mysterious leader, Upon deducing this, the leader manages to kill Aadi despite surveillance by Prabhakaran and his team. As Prabhakaran starts digging the case, he learns that the kidnappings are connected to an attack at the police commissioner’s office in 1993 by a gangster named Michael (who is Aadi’s father and also the mysterious person), where he finds that his father Sathya Moorthy, a former SI and Alzheimer patient, had dealt with the case earlier. It is revealed that in 1993, Michael actually was running a human trafficking racket by asking his henchmen to pretend as parents and adopt the child in the orphanage, where they hand over the children to Michael after 3 years in exchange for money. However, a couple filed a complaint about Michael’s illegal activities to Sathya Moorthy, who gathered evidence against him. When Sathya Moorthy reached the commissioner’s office to provide the evidence, Michael attacked the commissioner’s office where Sathya Moorthy was knocked in the process and lost his memory about the incident. Michael was arrested on petty charges, while Sathya Moorthy was suspended.