Vedalam

Story:

Vedalam is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language action film directed and co-written by Siva. It stars Ajith Kumar and Lakshmi Menon while Shruti Hassan, Ashwin Kakumanu, Rahul Dev, Thambi Ramaiah, Kabir Duhan Singh, and Soori play supporting roles. The film features music composed by Anirudh Ravichander, while the cinematography and editing were done by Vetri and Ruben.

PLOT

Ganesh arrives at Kolkata with his sister Thamizh to enroll her in an arts college, where he becomes friends with “Kolkata” Kaali, who escorts Ganesh and Tamizh to their new house. After enrolling Thamizh, Ganesh works at a taxi company under his boss Laxmidas, where he gets his first customer named Swetha, who makes Ganesh pose as a fake mute eyewitness in a case, and is fired when Ganesh talks in front of everyone. Swetha tries to kill Ganesh, but Laxmidas saves him, though he ends up being embarrassed by Ganesh. Shwetha and Laxmidas teams up to take revenge on Ganesh, but Shwetha later falls for him after she realises her mistake. Ganesh arranges Tamizh’s marriage with Swetha’s brother Arjun.

Meanwhile, Ganesh and the other drivers are called by DCP Yashpal and asked to report any activities by the crime syndicate members who have been causing trouble in the city. Ganesh reports a case of arms trafficking, which leads to Aniket and his men capturing and presenting him before Aniket at his private boatyard. Aniket orders his men to kill Ganesh, but Ganesh single-handedly defeats all his men and kills Aniket. Learning the death of his brother, Abhinay reaches India and investigates the murder the next day, where he and his technical crew track Ganesh’s mobile signal to their own building. Ganesh enters the building and ambushes the entire squad and kills Abhinay. Swetha follows Ganesh and is horrified by his actions, where she proceeds to stop the marriage between Arjun and Thamizh, but Ganesh reveals that Thamizh is not his sister and reveals his past.

Past: Ganesh is a ruthless thug-for-hire called Vedalam who meets Thamizh at the hospital after he was stabbed by his enemies. Thamizh and her blind parents are threatened by a builder to sell their house for a company site, where she and her friend Esther hires Vedalam, who betrays them having been paid earlier and a higher amount, and the family leaves their home and starts living in Vedalam’s home. Vedalam mistakes their innocent activities for their antics and becomes annoyed. However, Thamizh and her parents leave as a sign of gratitude after Vedalam had unknowingly saved Thamizh and the other girls from being trafficked by the syndicate. The syndicate finds them vulnerable on the streets and kills Thamizh’s parents and injure her. Vedalam, who has a change of heart, rescues Thamizh (who loses her memory) and states that he is her brother and takes care of her,

Present: Ganesh requests Swetha not to reveal this to Thamizh, where Shwetha accepts Thamizh’s marriage. After learning his brother’s death, Rahul uses an injured victim of Ganesh’s assault to find his brother’s killer. Rahul coincidentally hires Thamizh to draw a forensic sketch. Ganesh comes prepared and takes one of Rahul’s henchman’s son hostage to ensure Thamizh’s freedom. Rahul abducts Thamizh and Ganesh chases after him through the streets of Kolkata. Ganesh finally tracks Rahul down and they both fight and when an anguished Thamizh urges to shoot Rahul, Ganesh picks up the gun and shoots in the wrong direction for distracting Thamizh and finally kills Rahul. Ganesh and Thamizh return to their home and Tamizh later gets happily married to Arjun.