ATM

By day, Venkatesh Iyer, known to everyone as Venky, teaches physics at a coaching centre. By night, he is the thief behind a string of audacious raids on the cash machines of one particular bank. As the robberies mount, the police under ACP Harris Mohammed step up their hunt, while the bank's chairman, Nandakumar Menon, brings in private detective Alexander Felix, who joins forces with Roopa, the bank's systems manager. Felix soon picks up Venky's trail, but the closer he gets, the clearer it becomes that the thefts are about something more personal than money. Directed by Joshiy and written by the duo Sachi-Sethu, this action thriller was made in Malayalam as Robin Hood in 2009 and released in Telugu as ATM. Prithviraj Sukumaran leads, with Narain as Felix, Bhavana as Roopa, Jayasurya as the police officer, Biju Menon as the bank chairman and Samvrutha Sunil in support, and M. Jayachandran composed the songs. It gives the honourable-outlaw story a modern setting, built around banking technology and the safety of the cards people use every day.