Year: 2017
Runtime: 140 mins
Language: Tamil
Director: Ranjit Jeyakodi
Kathir, a talented music director, finds his life complicated by Meera, a music teacher he becomes involved with. He is then shocked to receive compromising videos appearing to depict her, and becomes determined to uncover the person behind the disturbing recordings. As he investigates, he races against time to resolve the situation and protect both of their reputations, but will he be able to do so before it’s too late?
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Raghu escapes from jail and hides in a bungalow to hide from the police. Luckily, the bungalow belongs to his college mate Geetha. He confesses to Geetha that he is a convict on death row. Suddenly the police show up and Raghu tries to hide in a wardrobe. A dead body fall out and Geetha says that is her husband Chakravarthi, and she had killed him. Raghu still hides in the same closet. Police informs Geetha that the flight that Chakravarthi took to Calcutta earlier that day crashed and there are no survivors. After the police leave, Geetha requests Raghu to help her dispose the dead body for which Raghu agrees. Raghu and Geetha take the dead body and dispose it in outskirts of the city.
Geetha reveals her past to Raghu. Chakravarthi was a rich business man, however he was apparently a sadist. Babu is a disco dancer and a very good friend of Geetha. Chakravarthi suspects Babu and Geetha are having an affair and tortures her verbally and physically. One day, Chakravarthi decides to go on a business trip to Calcutta and Geetha invites Babu over to her house to discuss how to treat Chakravarthi’s mental illness. However, Chakravarthi cancels his trip and returns home and is enraged seeing Babu in his house. Babu leaves the house, planning to come back with the police. Chakravathi then tries to hurt her, and Geetha says she had to kill him in self defence.
Raghu sympathizes with Geetha and accepts her invitation to stay in her house and be supportive. He also needs a place to stay after escaping from jail with says he has a mission. One day, Geetha gets a phone call from a stranger mentioning about her and Raghu’s involvement in murder of Chakravarthi. The blackmailer wants Geetha to pay him a few lakhs of rupees else, he would inform this to the police. Geetha and Raghu suspect that Babu could be the blackmailer as he is only one who is aware that Chakravarthi did not take the flight to Kolkata. Geetha now reveals that she actually did not kill Chakravarthi. She was in fact hiding in her bedroom after Babu left. When she came down after a few minutes, she saw Chakravarthi dead and assumed Babu had killed him. She then decided to take the blame because Babu did this to save her.
Regardless, Geetha follows the blackmailer’s instructions and takes the money to a hotel, but the blackmailer backs out. We also see a random person stabbed to death. The blackmailer proposes and alternate location for drop off. Raghu also accompanies Geetha. However, police arrive at the situation and arrests the blackmailer – who happens to be the policeman who came to Geetha’s house to inform her about the plane crash. It is revealed that crime branch inspector Sarath was investigating this case as he had developed some doubts over Geetha when he saw Raghu with her. Sarath tapped Geetha’s telephone and understood about the stranger threatening her for money. Upon investigation, the policeman reveals that he spotted Raghu and Geetha in the city outskirts when they were disposing Chakravarthi’s dead body and decided to extract money by threatening Geetha using this opportunity. Sarath arrests Babu, Geetha and Raghu. Police interrogate Babu using third degree measures and that breaks Raghu.
Raghu reveals that he was in love with Sindhu who was employed in Chakravarthi’s firm a few years back. Chakravarthi along with his two other friends had tried to rape Sindhu. Raghu had tried to save Sindhu and a fight ensues between Raghu and Chakravarthi. During the fight, Sindhu is killed by Chakravarthi and the blame is put upon Raghu which leads to his arrest. Raghu escapes from prison, comes to Chakravarthi’s house and kills him. Only after that he comes to know that his friend Geetha was married to Chakravarthi. He is surprised that Geetha was taking the blame for the killing, but kept quiet. He had also killed one of Chakravarthi’s friend in the hotel during the aborted money drop off.
Raghu then says that he is still in search of the third person behind Sindhu’s death, and escapes from the police. The movie ends with Raghu still on the hunt for the third person.
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