

Some might find this structure of Vikram Vedha tiresome, and it is, in fact, one of the reasons why the film seems laidback. Vikram’s wife Priya (Shraddha Srinath), who is also Vedha’s lawyer Vikram’s team, which includes SP Surendar (Achyutha Kumar), who has become disabled in the line of duty, and Simon (Prem), Vikram’s friend Vedha’s brother Pulli (Kathir) and his girlfriend Chandra (Varalaxmi), who are pawns in a more dangerous game Chetta (Haresh Peradi), a rival gangster whom Vedha is warring against and also Vedha’s men, one of whom has been colluding with the cops. There are about a dozen supporting players involved in this game between Vikram and Vedha. And even as the team plots another encounter to finish off Vedha, the criminal surrenders - and, narrates a story from his life to Vikram before managing his ‘escape’! This happens two more times, but his stories are actually riddles that Vedha wants Vikram to solve, and lead him on to something that the two of them want. The film begins with an encounter operation that ends in some of Vedha’s men getting killed.

The plot unfolds as a cat-and-mouse game between hard-nosed cop Vikram (Madhavan, stylish and serious) and notorious gangster Vedha (Vijay Sethupathi, who is all swag and gets a kickass introduction scene). Directors Pushkar and Gayatri have borrowed the conceit of King Vikramadityan and the Vedhalam, and constructed an elaborate puzzle, setting their story in the cops and gangsters genre. Vikram Vedha Review : Generally, the term well-crafted film is used to describe a film that has been made well, but with Vikram Vedha, it applies to not just the filmmaking, but the script, too. An encounter operation turns the professional into personal. Vikram Vedha Synopsis : Encounter specialist Vikram and notorious gangster Vedha are playing a cat-and-mouse game.
