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Summary
In a world where justice falters, guardian deity Vettai Karuppu takes the guise of a lawyer to battle a corrupt legal system preying on the powerless.
Good for
- Friends night
- Thought-provoking
- Adults
Skip it if
- Graphic violence bothers you
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 62GoodWatch 62
Audience score70%
IMDb6.1
Letterboxd · 47 K ratings2.8/5
Running time
2 h 32 min
Longer than 9 in 10 action movies, +44 min on the typical 108
typical 108152Half of all action movies run 96–127 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries, rent or buy in 92 more
Released
2026
May 14, 2026
This year
Genres
ActionFantasyLanguage
Tamil
Original language
Made in
India
Rated
No age rating yet.
What's in it
- ViolenceStrong
- Gore, disturbing imagesMild
- Frightening scenesMild
- Sex, nudityLittle or none
- Dark themesModerate
- Strong languageNamed in the advisories
In white: what the content advisories name. Levels from the title analysis.
Viewing guide
AdultsFriends NightPartner WatchSolo WatchThought-ProvokingNot listed for kids or family movie night.
and 28 more36 people
- SuriyaKaruppuswamy / Saravanan
- Trisha KrishnanPreethi
- RJ BalajiBaby Kannan 'BK' / Usilampatti Karuppaiah Gandhi 'UKG'
- IndransMattancherry Sukumaran
- Anagha Maya RaviBinu Sukumaran
- SwasikaVasanthi
- SshivadaKanmani
- Natarajan SubramaniamRajanayagam
SupreetGowri- PPPoobalam PragatheeswaranShanmugam aka Peiyi
Mansoor Ali KhanStone
George MariyanCourt Clerk
Aadukalam NarenChief Metropolitan Magistrate Soundarapandiyan
Namo NarayanaThaniga
Vela RamamoorthyV.M Pandian
Deepa ShankarSelvi
Lollu Sabha MaaranS. Kumaran
Unnimaya PrasadInspector Thangameena
Jaffer SadiqAustin
Aju VargheseDoctor (Special Appearance)
SandyCafe Customer (Special Appearance)
Janany KunaseelanShruthi (Special Appearance)
Ramachandran DurairajPriest
Vadivel MuruganGanesh
Directing · 1
- RJ Balaji Director, Writer
Writing · 10
- Karan Aravind Kumar Writer
- T. S. Gopi Krishnan Writer
- Rahul Raj Writer
- Ashwin Ravichandran Writer
- Pa. Vijay Lyricist
- Vishnu Edavan Lyricist
Production · 6
- Allaudin Hussain Executive Producer
- Sathappa S. Executive Producer
- Aravendraj Baskaran Executive Producer
- S. R. Prabu Producer
- S. R. Prakashbabu Producer
- Kabilan Chellaiah Publicist
Camera · 3
- G. K. Vishnu Director of Photography
- Dhananjay Singh Camera Operator
- D. Narendran Still Photographer
Editing · 3
- R. Kalaivanan Editor
- Devanshi Desai Colorist
- Ken Metzker Colorist
Sound · 11
- Sai Abhyankkar Playback Singer, Original Music Composer
- Arun S Mani Sound Designer
- Silambarasan Playback Singer
- Yogi Sekar Playback Singer
- Gana Muthu Playback Singer
- Theo Playback Singer
Art · 1
- Arun Venjaramoodu Production Design
Costume & Make-Up · 6
- Divya Nagarajan Costume Designer
- Eka Lakhani Costume Designer
- Perumal Selvam Costumer
- Praveen Raja Costume Designer
- Preetisheel Singh Makeup Designer
- Vinoth Sugumaran Makeup Designer
Visual Effects · 1
- C. Logaraj VFX Supervisor
Lighting · 2
- Palraj Ambedkar Gaffer
- Sundaresan Jegadeesan Gaffer
Other crew · 7
- Vikram Mor Stunt Coordinator
- Vijay Thanks
- Sandy Choreographer
- Shobi Paulraj Choreographer
- PRO Sathish Public Relations
- P. S. Rajendran Production Controller
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