Por Thozhil (transl. The Art of War) is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language crime thriller film directed by Vignesh Raja and written by Alfred Prakash and Vignesh Raja. The film stars R. Sarathkumar, Ashok Selvan and Nikhila Vimal. The title of the film is inspired by Subramania Bharati’s poem, Puthiya Aathi Chuvadi. It received positive reviews and became a commercial success.

Newly appointed DSP trainee, Prakash, is assigned to work with SP Loganathan, by ADGP Mahendran. Loganathan reluctantly agrees to mentor him, along with the new technical assistant, Veena. From Chennai, the trio set off to Trichy to investigate the gruesome murder of a young girl in deep woods. The doctor concludes that the victim was strangulated from the front with an iron wire, when she was in a kneeling position with her hair pulled back, and that the deep knife-like cut by the wire must have been caused by the strength of an oversized man. It is further revealed there was no sign of struggles or penetration, so the possibility of rape is ruled out. A hematoma on her neck reveals that the victim was knocked at specific pressure points on her sternocleidomastoid muscle, to make her unconscious, following which she was kidnapped. The peculiarity of the case makes Loganathan anticipate a series of murders.

 Directed by Vignesh Raja

Produced by Sameer Nair, Deepak Segal, Mukesh R.Mehta, C.V.Sarathi, Poonam Mehra and Sandeep Mehra

Starring – Sarath Kumar, Ashok Selvan, Nikhila Vimal

Music Composed by Jakes Bejoy

Written by Alfred Prakash & Vignesh Raja

Distributed by Sakthi Film Factory

Co-Producers – Sunil Chainani, Ranjib Mazumder, Prasoon Garg

Cinematography By Kalaiselvan Sivaji

Editor – Sreejith Sarang

Production Designer – Indulal Kaveed

Costume Designer – Dinesh Manoharan

Stunts – Phoenix Prabhu

Sound Design – Sachin Sudhakaran, Hariharan M (Sync Cinema)

Sound Mixing – Mr Rajakrishnan (Four Frames)

Vfx – Lavan & Kushan (Digital Turbo Media)

Lyrics – Karthik Netha

Makeup – A.R. Abdul Razak

Costumer – Mohammed Subier

Colorist – Liju Prabhakar

Di – Rang Rays Mediaworks

Stills – Vs Sheik Fareedh

Publicity Designs – Old Monks

Public Relations (Mumbai) – Communique

Film Pr Pro – Yuvraaj

Visual Promotions – Don Max

Subtitles – Vivek Ranjith

Titles & Credits – Ident Labs

Digital Agency – Ting

Production Controller – R Karthikeyan (Karthik Chennai)

Line Producers – Dileep Edapatta, Premlal Kk

Supervising Producer – Aswathi Naduthodi

Executive Producer – Vinodh Raghavan

Marketing (Applause) – Devnidhi Bajoria

Creative Producer – Richa Kapoor

Music Credits:

Background Score Composed and Arranged by JAKES BEJOY

Music Production Team – Jakes Bejoy, Balasarangan, Daniel

Joseph Antony, Andrew Gerlicher

Session Arranged and Managed By – Maneeth Manoj & Daniel Joseph Antony@Mindscore Music, Cochin

Assisted by Najid Nizarudheen

Mixed by Midhun Anand @Mindscore Music

Chief Associate – Akhil J Chand

Artist Co-Ordination – KD Vincent