DNA India regarded that the film's weaponry, armour, costumes and fighting skills were inspired from Game of Thrones, whereas Vijay and Sudeep's characterisations had resemblances to Jon Snow and Stannis Baratheon. Puli film also earned some profits through its franchise. The story revolves around the clash between humans and demons (Vedhalams) ruled by a demon kingdom in a fantasy world, where a human is fighting for justice for the killing of humans by demons, but his ancestry turns out to be a mystery.
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Since the Puli director Chimbu Deven is a cartoonist, The film's half-demon theme was loosely based on Japanese hit anime manga series Inuyasha similar to which, Vijay is a "Tiger-demon" with tiger's teeth and blue eyes. The film received negative reviews from critics with praise for the visual effects, cinematography and the performances of the cast but criticized the screenplay and execution. The Tamil satellite rights sold for ₹22 crore to Sun TV, and the film recovered the ₹100 crore investment, makes the Tamil language only profit margin for the makers of Puli around ₹3-4 crore, a low-profitable venture. The film regained its budget through its film run, but actually earned profit by selling the Tamil, Telugu and Hindi satellite rights, out of which, 20% of only the Hindi and Telugu rights ₹70 lakh was paid as a remuneration to the late actress Sridevi. The film was released in China and Japan. The film performed well overseas, but performed mediocre domestically. The film was dubbed into both Telugu and Hindi, which were released a day later on 2 October 2015. The film's original Tamil version was released worldwide on 1 October 2015. Sridevi features as the possessed evil Queen. Sudeep features as the main antagonist of the film along with Prabhu and Nandita Swetha in cameo roles.
The film stars Vijay in a dual role as demon prince and his son a half-demon alongside Hansika Motwani and Shruti Haasan in the female leads. ' Tiger' col: Demon) is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language fantasy adventure action film written and directed by Chimbu Deven.