Chief) is a 2022 Indian Tamil-language spy action-thriller film written and directed by P. S. Mithran and produced by S. Lakshman Kumar under his production banner Prince Pictures.
Shalini represents a social activist Sameera Thomas in court, petitioning against One India One Pipeline, a project operated by a private water packaging company of former NSA officer Maharaj Rathore.
Deducing that Sameera has stolen the file, Vijay heads to her residence only to find her son Timothy aka Timmy alone receiving an order from a bakery.
The police discovers Sameera's corpse and her death is ruled as suicide and she is declared as a national traitor for stealing the file and is suspected to have sold it.
Vijay and Shalini discover that Sameera is supposed to meet Agent Karapanpoochi, who divulged to her about the secret location at Rajaji Bhavan and had given her a key to access it, at a railway platform the next day.
RAW Chief Chandra Mohan heads to Bangladesh and requests the prison's guards to keep the letter hidden from Sardar.
Vijay arrives at a ruined petrol bunk, about whom he perceives through Karapanpoochi's belongings and finds a secret tunnel, which leads him to a file.
Past: in 1985, Chandra Bose is a RAW agent codenamed as Sardar, who lives with his joint family performing stage plays.
Rathore, consumed by greed, agrees to eliminate Abraham and conspires to permanently brand Sardar as the traitor and join China in its mission for money.
Rathore destroys all the evidence proving China's intentions and doesn't inform Sardar's family as requested by him, resigning from his post.
The family gets embarrassed of Sardar being a traitor and hangs themselves to death leaving Vijay, while Rathore joins hands with China in their project.
Present: Sardar visits a secret place and gets infuriated after he perceives Rathore's treachery, his family's mass suicide and the implementation of One India One Pipeline.
Paavadaisaami obliges to his duty by helping the RAW apprehend Vijay for luring Sardar while Shalini heads to Victor who has been housing Timmy.
Sardar takes a truck filled with sodium and escapes with Timmy intending to blast the pipelines at the water plant.
[3] In April 2021, Raashii Khanna was announced as a lead actress to star opposite Karthi, with Simran being signed to play a major role in the film.
[23][24] Chunky Panday's major portions were filmed in Parliament building, Azerbaijan and Georgia[25] so far the makers spend more 4 crore for the sets.
[29] Sardar was released on 21 October 2022 on the eve of Diwali along with Sivakarthikeyan's Prince, with official announcement made on Karthi's birthday.
[36] Kirubhakar Purushothaman of The Indian Express gave 3.5/5 stars and wrote "However, with the speed at which things proceed in the film, you forget and forgive those shortcomings".
[37] Tanmayi Sharma of Pinkvilla gave the film's rating 3.5/5 and wrote "On the whole, Sardar is definitely a hit this festive season and something every audience would love to watch on the big screen.
"[44] Sowmya Rajendran of The News Minute rated 1.5/5 stars and wrote that "The film moves across time periods, shifts from one country to another, and never tires of its ambition to drill information into our brains".