Vijay is an ex-cop who was framed up after he cleaned the city of the scum of the earth including nine encounter killings of dreaded gangsters. Now out of work, he is persuaded by his former boss to be the bodyguard of 8-year-old Priya whose parents are millionaires. He is hired to protect the little girl from kidnappers who are on the prowl. The kidnappers are led by a loony militant called 'Ahmed Khan' who manages to kidnap Priya and humiliate Vijay. The rest of the film is how Vijay assisted by two glam girls mete out vigilante justice in a cat-and-mouse game with the kidnappers.
Stunts
Arjun Sarja's gravity-defying vigilante dispatching moves.
Acting
Vadivelu's comic relief attempting to survive the tonal whiplash.
Director
Selva
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is an unofficial remake of the 2002 Kevin Costner thriller 'The Guardian' — though Selva pivoted hard from Coast Guard rescue drama to Tamil vigilante spectacle.
The 'encounter killing' premise reflects real 2000s Tamil cinema fascination with extrajudicial police violence as heroic narrative, a trope now increasingly interrogated.
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