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List of accolades received by Thuppakki

Vijay and AR Murugadoss received several awards and nominations for their performance, script and direction, respectively.
Accolades Award Won Nominated Ananda Vikatan Cinema Awards 1 1 Chennai Times Film Awards 1 5 CineMAA Awards 1 1 Edison Awards 3 12 Filmfare Awards South 0 7 South Indian International Movie Awards 4 10 Vijay Awards 6 16
Total number of awards and nominations
Totals	19	57

Thuppakki (transl. Gun) is a 2012 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by AR Murugadoss. Produced by Kalaipuli S. Thanu under his studio V Creations and distributed by Gemini Film Circuit, the film stars Vijay and Kajal Aggarwal, with Sathyan, Vidyut Jammwal and Jayaram in supporting roles. The film's music was composed by Harris Jayaraj with cinematography handled by Santosh Sivan and editing done by A. Sreekar Prasad. It revolves around Jagadish Dhanapal (Vijay) an Indian Army officer on a mission to track down, destroy and deactivate a sleeper cell, after witnessing and barely escaping a bomb blast executed by the cell.

Produced on a budget of ₹700 million (equivalent to ₹1.3 billion or US$16 million in 2023), Thuppakki released on 13 November 2012 to positive reviews from critics and was commercially successful, grossing over ₹1.8 billion (equivalent to ₹3.4 billion or US$41 million in 2023). S. Saraswathi of Rediff stated that it was the first Tamil film to cross ₹1 billion (US$12 million) mark. Furthermore, the film won 19 awards from 57 nominations, mostly for the performances, soundtrack, score, cinematography, scripting, direction and other major technical aspects.

At the 60th Filmfare Awards South, Thuppakki received seven nominations in the Tamil branch, including Best Film, Best Director (Murugadoss) and Best Actor (Vijay), but did not win in any category. It received ten nominations at the 2nd South Indian International Movie Awards and won four: Best Actress – Critics (Aggarwal), Best Actor in a Negative Role (Jammwal), Best Music Director (Harris Jayaraj) and Best Fight Choreographer Kaecha Kampakdee. The film received 16 nominations at the 7th Vijay Awards and won 6 awards; the highest in the award ceremony – with five from the favourite awards branch and an Entertainer of the Year award for Vijay. Among other wins, the film received a Chennai Times Film Award for Best Film, an Ananda Vikatan Cinema Award for Best Actor (Vijay), CineMAA Award for Aggarwal and three Edison Awards.

Accolades

See also

• List of Tamil films of 2012

Notes

1. Awards in certain categories do not have prior nominations and only winners are announced by the jury. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.
2. Awards, festivals and organisations are in alphabetical order.
3. Date is linked to the article about the awards held that year, wherever possible.
4. ^ also for Nanban

References

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External links

• Accolades for Thuppakki at the Internet Movie Database

• Lists of accolades by Indian film