Bogan

Story:

Bogan is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by Lakshman and produced by Prabhu Deva (Prabhu Deva Studios) and Ganesh. The film stars Arvind Swamy and Jayam Ravi in titular roles, with Hansika Motwani, Akshara Gowda, Nassar, Ponvannan and Naren in supporting roles. The film story is about the body swapping of a honest police officer, Vikram (Jayam Ravi) and a thief with astral projection power, Aditya (Aravind Swami). Featuring music composed by D. Imman, the film began production during March 2016 and released on 2 February 2017 and received generally positive reviews and become a commercial success.

PLOT

ACP Vikram IPS is an honest cop who lives in Chennai with his parents, elder sister, and brother-in-law. His family sets up an arranged marriage for him with Mahalakshmi. He works with a team of police officers, Inspectors Sathya, Akshara, and Prasad, who is also Vikram’s best friend. One day, Vikram is tasked with tracking Aadhithya Maravarman, a monarch’s son and crooked thief, who mysteriously became rich by robbing jewels and money. He is also involved in drug trading and pumping business. Aadhithya gets his hands on an ancient manuscript, which enables him to access astral projection by looking straight at people’s eyes.

Vikram and his team successfully catch him and later, while interrogating him, Prasad is suddenly killed by Sathya, whose body is now occupied by Aadhithya. When Vikram goes to shoot Aadhithya out of anger, Aadhithya enters Vikram’s body and begins impersonating him, while Vikram is unconscious. Aadithya, now in Vikram’s body, masks the killing of Prasad by saying that Sathya and he had a personal vengeance. After coming to Vikram’s home, Aadhithya comes across Maha. He lusts for her and even pinches her belly in the car, but forgets about her eventually to focus on his revenge on Vikram. Meanwhile, Vikram, who now is trapped in Aadithya’s body, is surprised to find himself imprisoned, and gets a visit from Aadithya, who tells him about his plan to make Vikram lose his job and take over his life.

Afterwards, Vikram manages to convince Sathya that he is not Aadithya and escapes from the prison. After escaping, Vikram calls his superior officer, Commissioner Rajkumar, and tells the mishaps of events that occurred. Aadhithya overhears their conversation and kills Rajkumar. Aadhitya later kills Akshara too when she is informed by Sathya about Aadhitya.

Aadhithya also reveals that he has a confession video which shows that Vikram blamed Aadhithya for his father’s mistake. At the same time, Aadhithya goes over Vikram’s biodata and takes the video evidence of his father, who Aadithya had initially impersonated, to rob a bank. He threatens to reveal it to the public, but Vikram contacts Professor Chezhiyan, Aadhithya’s head in archaeology, where he shows him the manuscript, which also gives Vikram the power as Aadithya’s. Chezhiyan thinks that he is being cheated and goes to Aadhithya, but Aadhithya reveals himself to be in Vikram’s body, and makes Chezhiyan his bait to catch Vikram while in the complex where Vikram was supposed to meet Chezhiyan.

When Aadhithya tracks Chezhiyan, Vikram hides and talks to Chezhiyan, who says that Aadhithya’s power is only in his body, in which Vikram is, while in other bodies, his power does not work. Hence, Vikram uses Chezhiyan to recover the manuscript from the commissioner’s office. Aadhithya later kills Chezhiyan. Vikram puts a bomb on himself so that Aadhithya may get scared that if his body goes away, he will not be able to use his powers further. Vikram and Aadhithya switch over to their original bodies after Vikram threatens to harm Aadithya’s body, and Aadhithya pleads with Vikram to diffuse his bomb. Vikram, who has double-crossed Aadhithya, knocks him out, and while taking him to get him arrested, Aadhithya switches his soul to Vikram’s father, Arumugam, and thrashes Vikram.

He then switches to Mahalakshmi’s body, stabs him, and threatens to kill her if he does not defuse his bomb. Vikram heeds to Aadithya and defuses the bomb. As Vikram had double-crossed and betrayed him, Aadhithya drives off with the unconscious Mahalakshmi. Vikram chases them and ends up in the coast.

A weakened Vikram fights Aadhithya, who quickly recovers and brutally beats up Vikram. Vikram snaps back and fights Aadhithya. Vikram fractures Aadhithya’s left hand, snaps his neck and returns home with Mahalakshmi. In the end, to everyone’s horror, Aadhithya is shown to have survived and glares into the screen, paving way to the sequel.