Taapsee Pannu

Biography of Taapsee Pannu
Taapsee Pannu (born August 1, 1988) is an Indian model-turned-film actress. An ethnic Punjabi, she was a software engineer before pursuing modelling which eventually led her to acting.[1] Appearing in several commercials, Taapsee also won Pantaloons Femina Miss Fresh Face and Safi Femina Miss Beautiful Skin, during her modelling days.[2] She made her acting debut in 2010 with K. Raghavendra Rao's romantic-musical Jhummandi Naadam and has signed half-a-dozen films in Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam-languages.

The story is based on cockfights which are a craze in the suburbs of Madurai. Pettaikaran (Jayabalan) and Rathnasamy (Nareyn), a cop, are rivals in these fights. Pettaikaran has always defeated Rathnasamy in all matches between them. Karuppu (Dhanush) and Durai (Kishore) are also in Pettaikaran's team. Rathnasamy keeps insisting on having one last fight to win and satisfy his old mother’s wish but Pettaikaran declines to have any more fights with him because he feels Rathnasamy has lost faith in his cocks and will be using nefarious methods to win. Rathnasamy keeps insisting and tries to make him accept the challenge through cajoling, threatening, bribing and other vile acts.

Karuppu falls in love with an Anglo-Indian girl Irene (Taapsee) who dislikes him. He does not recognize this initially and keeps following her. One day the residents of Irene’s colony confront him and ask Irene to tell who she is in love with – Karuppu or Dinesh, another guy in the locality. She points her finger at Karuppu and he goes into excitement. She explains later that she had to lie in order to avoid Dinesh who has been bothering her for a long time. Later Irene too falls in love with Karuppu.