Just as shoot at sight orders were issued on Thangam, in the film, the Prime Minister asks for Rocky to be put to death. However, the history of the mines is more complicated than that. Rocky's birth in the film happens parallely with the discovery of gold in the mines. While the first half of the film takes us through his childhood and his desire to control the Mumbai underworld, the second half takes us to the Kolar Gold Fields where he goes in disguise to carry out an assassination. He's shown to be a lone operator, and he joins a criminal gang in Mumbai to further his ambitions.

There's also no mention of Rocky's siblings in the film. However, while Rocky's mother dies in the film, Pouli is still alive. Driven by her words, Rocky becomes a ruthless criminal who only thinks about how he can fulfil her wishes. In the film, Rocky's mother, who is fed up of poverty, makes her son promise that he would die a rich and powerful man. In fact, some reports suggest that Thangam's gang was called 'Pouli gang' and they would go around robbing gold shops in and around the Kolar Gold Fields. For instance, Rocky is clearly inspired by his mother, just as Pouli was a strong figure in Thangam's life. KGF directed by Prashanth Neel has some similarities to Thangam's story but otherwise seems to be a largely fictional account. Their mother, Pouli, filed a petition seeking a CBI inquiry on the encounters and in 2012, decorated police officer Ramesh Kumar was charged by the CBI for staging the encounter of Sagayam along with six others. While Gopi and Jayakumar were shot dead in July 2003, Sagayam was killed in October that year. The police later killed three of Thangam's brothers in encounters - Sagayam, Gopi and Jayakumar. He was killed by the KGF police on December 27, 1997, in Kuppam of Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh. At the time of his death, Thangam was only 25 years old.

Shoot at sight orders were issued on Thangam after his last daring robbery which proved to be an embarrassment for the police force.

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