Rocky (2021 film)

Rocky gets released from prison where he learns that his sister Amutha has left the city. He stays at his friend Mahalingam's house. Rocky enquires a gangster named Samy about Amutha, but to no avail. Mahalingam finds through Nadarajan that Amudha is in Sellur, which he informs to Rocky. Meanwhile, A flashback reveals that Rocky lived with his mother, Malli, and Amutha in Madras. He worked with a drug smuggler named Manimaran. Malli objected to Rocky's decision for working with Mathimaran, as her husband (Rocky's father) had worked and lost his life working with Manimaran. Rocky heads to Sellur where he meets a pregnant Amutha, who berates him for his mistakes but reconciles with him. Suddenly, Manimaran's henchman, along with an Inspector arrive, where they knock Rocky and kill Amutha.

Rocky awakens alongside Nadarajan, who learns about the incident. They reach the Inspector's hideout and brutally kill the Inspector and the henchmen. Rocky heads to Samy's lodge where he tortures Samy's assistant, who reveals Manimaran's location in a abandoned construction site in Meenjur, He also kills him afterwards. They reach the site only to fight with the goons resulting in Nadarajan being killed. Rocky kills most of the goons including Samy, where he confronts Manimaran, only to learn that they killed Amutha's husband. Amutha's daughter is the only lone survivor where she is held by Manimaran's right-hand Thanraj at knifepoint. Rocky escapes along with Amutha's daughter after knocking Manimaran and Thanraj where they leave for Malli's village.

It is revealed again in a flashback that Rocky killed Manimaran's son when Manimaran's son was jealous of Rocky who took over the consignment and was berated by Manimaran, due to which Manimaran's son killed Malli. During the Journey, Rocky learns about his niece name: Malli, who was name after Malli and bonds with the child. Thanraj kills Mahalingam and traces Rocky and Malli in Dhanushkodi, where he tries to kill him, but Rocky kills him by stabbing his eyes with a sharp object and kills the remaining henchmen. While reaching Dhanushkodi, Rocky faces Manimaran and the entire criminal fraternity of Madras where he kills all of them using a M134 Minigun, which was actually a part of the consignment secretly kept by Rocky. Manimaran commits suicide, With no one else to trouble him, Rocky along with Malli, leaves on a boat en route to Malli's village, where Malli ask Rocky that if she could tell a story about an eagle.

• Vasanth Ravi as Rocky
• Bharathiraja as Manimaran
• Raveena Ravi as Amudha
• Rohini as Malli
• Ravi Venkataraman as Samy[7]
• Ashraf Mallisery as Thanraj[7]
• Rishikanth as Manimaran's son[7]
• Jayakumar as Nadarajan[7]
• Anisha as Malli [7]
• Nayanthara as herself (cameo appearance in the song "Kaalam Oru Dhrogi")

The soundtrack and score was composed by Darbuka Siva and the album featured three songs. The audio rights were acquired by Lahari Music.

Ashameera Aiyappan of Firstpost rated the film with 4/5 stating that, "With Rocky, Director Arun Matheswaran and DOP Shreyas Krishnaa manipulate the space on-screen with great finesse to communicate the emotional psyche of the characters."[4] Suganth of The Times of India gave a rating of 4 out on 5 and wrote, "Rocky is gloriously violent and deeply sentimental".[7] Manoj Kumar of Indian Express gave a rating of 3.5 out on 5 and wrote, "None before Arun Matheswaran had dared to graphically depict violence in such a way. The film's setup innately compromises the separation between good versus evil. It is a demon versus demon and we have to root for the lesser evil."[5] Janani of India Today rated the film with 3/5 stating that, "Rocky is a leaf out of the John Wick universe, but Indian style."[6]

• Rocky at IMDb