The film stars Vijay, alongside Trisha, Mallika, J. Livingston, Pasupathy, Benjamin, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Vaiyapuri and Manoj K. Jayan.

Giri also learns about Pan Parag Ravi, a local gangster dominating North Chennai and also responsible for troubling Karpagam's husband's canteen business.

After Kannapan's funeral, Giri leaves his hometown and says that he received a job at a cloth manufacturing company in Erode.

He brings a group of people, who rally due to losing their money to a fraudulent financier hiding in the politician's place.

Thinking that one of his fellow officers is dead, Raj and the cops kill all the thugs, but they discover Giri's plan and run upstairs to find him.

[7] A set resembling Aiyanar temple with a 90-foot statue, surrounded by 200 mud horse costing about ₹3 million, was designed by M. Prabhakar in a village near Karaikudi.

The climax was shot in Vasan House, Chennai, where a huge crowd of junior artistes taking part each day of the two weeks to complete the scene.

[11][12] Malini Mannath of Chennai Online wrote "Perarasu tries to make slight variations within the parameters of this scenario, weaving in the right dose of humour, action and sentiment and succeeds in presenting a film that is fast-paced and engaging from the opening to the final scene.

So if you have seen earlier films of the superstar you may strive hard to find anything new in Thirupaachi, which is old wine served in a new bottle, with a different label.

But his understanding of violence seems to be limited to the Aruwal wielding Rowdies who wears half- a kilo gold ornaments on their persons, is the first flaw of the movie.

The one and only plus point in the screenplay, is that, it manages to create an expectation among the audience that, whenever the villains are indulging in atrocities, Vijay will definitely raise up in anger to smash them all.

[22] After the release of Thirupaachi, Super Good Films were sued by Godrej Sara Lee Ltd. for "defamatory, prejudicial, offensive and slanderous" use of the mosquito spray HIT which they are the trademark owners of.

Godrej eventually won the case and obtained an "order of permanent injunction and damages" worth ₹500,000 from Super Good Films.