Murugan decides to kill Daddy and a battle with the assassins ensues. Daddy and his gang take Balaraman and send Sasi back with severe injuries. He assembles a group of henchmen and assassins, and ambushes Balaraman and villager Poongayi Sasi. Murugan returns home the hooded stranger is revealed to be Daddy, who is seeking revenge for his son's death. Murugan rescues Manikuttan in the ensuing fight, Shiva is accidentally killed by Murugan. Shiva catches Manikuttan extracting evidence of their activities and tortures him. Manikuttan co-operates with police to capture Daddy.

In an encounter with Zachariya, Murugan learns that Daddy is illegally producing hash oil and exporting it under cover of the pharmacy where Manikuttan is working. Meanwhile, more people are killed by tigers at Puliyoor.

Murugan impresses Daddy and earns his trust by helping in his business activities. He delivers the ganja and Manikuttan gets the job he was offered. Murugan with his family escape to Mangalore in the transport and manage to escape the police. A team led by Zachariya arrives at Murugan's home. Shiva offer Murugan sanctuary in Kasaragod under Daddy's protection and deceives him that the police are in pursuit to arrest him for the tiger killing. Shiva and Benny hear that a confidant of Ramaiya is in police custody seeing a possibility of leaking the information, they are forced to transport it overnight. The ganja is loaded into Murugan's lorry for transporting to Mangalore. Meanwhile, ACP Iyep Zachariah arrives at Puliyoor, apparently for Murugan. Taking advantage on the present scenario, R.K. had once tried to molest Myna, only to be threatened by Murugan. has a four-year-old grudge against Murugan. The forest officials have found the dead tiger's carcass at Thookupara its killing is a violation of the Indian Wildlife Protection Act, a non-bailable offence. Meanwhile, Manikuttan returns home after his final examinations. They make a contract with Ramaiya, an illegal ganja dealer in the forest on their return to the village they encounter a tiger but are saved by Murugan, who kills it. If the medical research succeeds, Manikuttan will be offered a job in the company, so Balaraman helps them. Shiva's father Daddy Girija owns a pharmaceutical company that is developing a drug to treat cancer and they need ganja ( marijuana) from the forest. According to Kadutha, Manikuttan's friends Benny and Shiva have arriving at Puliyoor, sent by Manikuttan to see Balaraman. Murugan has been away from Puliyoor for days and many people have been killed by tigers. One day, Kadutha, the village chief, meets a hooded stranger who asks the whereabouts of Murugan for a hunting assignment. Murugan is grateful to the villagers who cared for him after his parents' deaths, and is obsessively protective of Manikuttan, who is about to finish his MBA graduation in Mangalore. Acknowledging his skills in hunting Varayan Puli, the villagers call him Pulimurugan (Leopard-Murugan). He hunts and kills rogue tigers whenever they invade the village. Years later, Murugan is a lorry driver, has married Myna ( Kamalini Mukherjee), and has a daughter, Chakki. Soon after, his father was killed by a tiger in vengeance, Murugan traps and kills the tiger with the help of his uncle Balaraman. When he was young, Murugan's mother died after his brother Manikuttan was born. Murugan ( Mohanlal) lives in Puliyoor, a small forest village that is vulnerable to man-eating tigers- called Varayan Puli (striped tiger) by the villagers-and frequent humanвЂ“wildlife conflicts. The film score was also selected among the 141 eligible scores contending for the Academy Award for Best Original Score nomination. Two songs from the film-'Kaadanayum Kaalchilambe' and 'Maanathe Maarikurumbe' were selected among the 70 eligible songs contending for the Academy Award for Best Original Song nomination in the 90th Academy Awards. Made on a budget of в‚№25 crore, it became the first film in the Malayalam film industry to earn more than в‚№100 crore and в‚№150 crore, and was the highest-grossing Malayalam film ever until 2019 and the third highest-grossing South Indian film of 2016. The film was released in India on 7 October 2016. Principal photography commenced on 16 July 2015 in Hanoi, Vietnam, and was completed in early February 2016. The film score and soundtrack were composed by Gopi Sundar, while cinematography was handled by Shaji Kumar and edited by Johnkutty. The film also stars Kamalinee Mukherjee, Jagapati Babu, Lal, Namitha, Vinu Mohan, and Bala in supporting roles. Thomas-in his first independent screenplay. It was produced by Tomichan Mulakuppadam through Mulakuppadam Films and was written by Udayakrishna-half of the duo Udayakrishna and Sibi K. Pulimurugan is a 2016 Indian Malayalam-language action film directed by Vysakh and starring Mohanlal in the title role.

Murugan song