Vikram Vedha is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by Pushkar–Gayathri and produced by YNOT Studios. The film, which is inspired by the Indian folktale Baital Pachisi, stars R. Madhavan and Vijay Sethupathi as the title characters, alongside Shraddha Srinath, Kathir, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Prem, Achyuth Kumar, Hareesh Peradi and Vivek Prasanna. In the film, Inspector Vikram sets out to track down and kill Vedha, a gangster. After voluntarily surrendering himself, Vedha tells Vikram three stories which change his perceptions of good and evil.

Plot

Vikram is an honest police inspector who has a black-and-white sense of good and evil while Vedha is a dreaded gangster who understands the gray in between. Vikram's best friend Simon leads an encounter unit formed to eliminate Vedha. In one encounter, the squad kills some of Vedha's henchmen and frames an unarmed individual as a criminal killed by Vikram to avoid further inquiry. As the unit plans another encounter, Vedha enters the police station and voluntarily surrenders. When Vikram interrogates him, he offers to narrate a story to him. The first act relates about Vedha becoming a drug smuggler. He warns his younger brother Vignesh, nicknamed "Pulli" (skilled) due to his exceptional mathematical skills, to stay away from crime, but Pulli is forced to carry drugs by a rival gangster, Ravi. When Pulli and his friend Chandra are caught by the police, Pulli confesses and Ravi is arrested immediately.