The strike becomes a failure in Tirunelveli, which earns Perumal's rage. Saamy takes steps to maintain law and order. The retail vendors plead with Saamy to provide protection as Pongal eve is a very important sales time. The ruling party calls for a one-day strike all over the state, and Perumal is to handle with the responsibility of Tirunelveli on the eve of the Pongal festival.
Bhuvana reconciles with Saamy, and after much coercion, her father agrees to their engagement. Saamy also tells Bhuvana that the money he takes as bribes are fully donated off by him. He adapts a new policy of adjusting with the local goons so he can serve the people in an effective way, while also taking bribes from the influential persons who cheat the public. It takes him about 6 months to prove his innocence, and he is finally posted back into Tirunelveli. His arranged marriage is also cancelled due to that. In Trichy, he is accused of bribery and gets suspended. Being an honest cop, Saamy is honored with transfers all over Tamil Nadu due to political pressure. His father mortgages his properties and makes him get police job. Saamy passes the UPSC Group 1 exams, but was asked for bribes. So, he takes care of agriculture as his living, but he wanted to make his son a cop. The next day, Saamy tries to convince Bhuvana at the temple and tells her his story Saamy's father ( Vijayakumar) wanted to become a cop in the 70s, but he was unable to due to corruption. Bhuvana gets upset when Perumal mentions the bribe Saamy had taken from him, leaving to her home. This infuriates Perumal, who storms into Saamy's quarters with Bhuvana being present, and they argue. The same day, Saamy 'seals' Perumal's gas station because the workers assaulted a woman and others when they challenged them a very less distribution of petrol than being promised. One day Bhuvana decides to cook for Saamy as a surprise in his home. Soon their frequent rendezvous turn to love. Bhuvana misinterprets Saamy and Paramasivam as thieves and locks them in a room, only to be revealed of their identities by the police. Saamy and Bhuvana meet each other when Saamy goes with his assistant, Inspector "Punctuality" Paramasivam ( Ramesh Khanna), in search of a home for rent. Bhuvana's father, Srinivasan ( Delhi Ganesh), is a straightforward government officer who dislikes bribery and leads a noble life. Saamy falls in love with a college-going Brahmin girl Bhuvana ( Trisha). Perumal accepts this, merely out of an assumption that Saamy belongs to his caste.
At the outset, Saamy pretends to be a corrupt cop by accepting bribes from the very influential and Corrupt Politician Perumal Pichai ( Kota Srinivasa Rao) under the condition that his illegal activities will not be monitored, while advising him to move his liquor stores elsewhere in order to avoid disturbance to the public. Due to Saamy's administration, the crime rate in Tirunelveli drops. He also tells them to arrest any thug or rowdy in the town without second thoughts. Saamy later assembles the police force and rules out their procedures that they can do whatever they wish, provided the public and the innocent are not harmed in the process. The ruckus caused by the fight prompts the police to arrive at the scene, and when they question Saamy, he reveals himself to be the new DCP of Tirunelveli city, while ordering the police to arrest the swindler posing as a cop. One day when strolling with his friend ( Crane Manohar), he witnesses a corrupt cop ( Ponnambalam) trying to extort money from someone, he beats him black and blue. Saamy ( Vikram) arrives in Tirunelveli as an inebriated person, starting his morning with a bottle of beer and idlis and befriending some of the local people. A sequel, Saamy Square, was released in 2018. Saamy along with Kaakha Kaakha started a trend of police films in Tamil such as Bheeshmar, Gambeeram, Anjaneya and many others. Like other films directed by Hari, this film also specialises a particular city and this time it is Tirunelveli. It was remade in Telugu as Lakshmi Narasimha (2004) starring Nandamuri Balakrishna, in Bengali as Barood starring Mithun Chakraborty, loosely in Kannada as Ayya (2005) starring Darshan and later in Hindi as Policegiri (2013) starring Sanjay Dutt reprising the role of Vikram. Upon release, the film was highly successful at the box office. The film stars Vikram and Trisha in lead roles and Kota Srinivasa Rao (debut in Tamil cinema) in a negative role. Balachander and produced by Pushpa Kandasamy under banner Kavithalayaa Productions.
Saamy (English: God) is a 2003 Indian Tamil-language action film written and directed by Hari.