Iyer IPS

{{Infobox film

| image = Iyer IPS.jpg

| caption = DVD cover

| director = Harirajan

| writer = Harirajan

| starring = Sathyaraj
Megha
Sanghavi

| producer = Harirajan

| music = Dhina

| studio = Priyanka Art Productions

| editing = M. Sunil Kumar,
Kishore Te

| cinematography = B. Kannan

| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2005|01|21}}

| runtime = 142 minutes

| country = India

| language = Tamil

| budget =

}}

Iyer IPS is a 2005 Indian Tamil-language action film written, produced and directed by P. Harirajan. It stars Sathyaraj in dual roles as a police officer (hero) and a gangster (villain), along with Megha and Sanghavi. The music was composed by Dhina. The film was released on 21 January 2005.

Plot

DCP Gopal Iyer is an encounter specialist. He comes across a Muslim woman named Nasreen, whose father is killed by gangsters. Out of pity, he marries her much against his parents' opposition. Suddenly, Nasreen passes away in a childbirth. Meanwhile, Jenniffer, a scribe, learns of a fake encounter organized by Iyer to bump off a known rowdy. She follows him from then, blackmailing him, but Iyer, who thinks that evil forces do not deserve a chance in the court, does not change his style of operations. Elsewhere, a mute gangster named Venkatachalapathy, whose men killed Nasreen's father, vows to kill Iyer after he got imprisoned after apprehended by Iyer. Now aware that his son kills people in the name of encounters, Iyer's father Vishwanatha Iyer decides to take cudgels against him. He falls in to the vicious trap of Venkatachalapathy, and the rest is about how Iyer embarks on a mission to rescue his family and put an end to Venkatachalapathy's shenanigans.

Cast

{{cast listing|

Sathyaraj in a dual role as:
DCP Gopal Iyer IPS (Protagonist)
Venkatachalapathy (Antagonist)
Megha as Jennifer
Sanghavi as Nasreen
Anandaraj as Pasupathy
OAK Sundar as Gajapathy
Narayana Rao as Vishwanatha Iyer
Pandu as Sub-Inspector Maduray
Anu Mohan as Krishnamoorthy
Mahanadhi Shankar as Rowdy Maasi
Ragasudha as Parameshwari
Sathyapriya as Iyer's and Parameshwari's mother
LIC Narasimhan as Magistrate

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Soundtrack

Soundtrack was composed by Dhina.{{cite web |title=Iyer I.P.S. |url=https://www.jiosaavn.com/album/iyer-i.p.s/UQsgVTbd6r0_ |access-date=14 July 2024 |website=JioSaavn|date=10 January 2005 }}

class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;" ! Song !! Singers !! Lyrics
"Mylapore Mami"	Pushpavanam Kuppusamy, Srividya	S. R. Paralan
"Manmadhane Manmadhane"	Malathy	P. Harirajan
"Hi-Tech Kangala"	Ganga, Srilekha Parthasarathy, Srividya	Piraisoodan

Reception

Malini Mannath of Chennai Online wrote, "The weak script, inane charecterisation and the director being totally like a fish out of water in the milieu he's chosen, have all taken their toll on Satyaraj's performance too."{{cite web |last=Mannath |first=Malini |title=Iyer I.P.S. |url=http://www.chennaionline.com/film/Moviereviews/2005/01IyerIPS.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20070204025839/http://www.chennaionline.com/film/Moviereviews/2005/01IyerIPS.asp |archive-date=4 February 2007 |website=Chennai Online}} Cinesouth wrote, "The film is taken with the sole intention making money by using the present 'salability' of Sathyaraj. In this film, Ari had written the story, screenplay and had produced this movie, without 'bothering to direct' it. He should be appreciated for this rare courage. Sathyaraj should be 'appreciated' for having acted in this half- baked movie".{{cite web |title=Iyer I.P.S. |url=http://cinesouth.com/scopes/reviews/new/iyyer.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050207214749/http://cinesouth.com/scopes/reviews/new/iyyer.shtml |archive-date=7 February 2005 |access-date=14 July 2024 |website=Cinesouth}} Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu wrote, "HARIRAJAN, [..] should have worked more on the script, his own, to make it neat and tight. As such it sags at several places tempting the viewer to take a nap not only in between, but also in the climax. Except Satyaraj, the actors fail to raise to the expectations".{{Cite web |last=Kumar |first=S. R. Ashok |date=2005-01-28 |title=Iyer IPS |url=https://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/fr/2005/01/28/stories/2005012800260201.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20061120090050/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/fr/2005/01/28/stories/2005012800260201.htm |archive-date=2006-11-20 |work=The Hindu}}