Sandhanam

**Sandanam** was the leader of the Vetti Vagaiyara gang, a local gangster and drug smuggler, who worked under the guise of a doctor. His gang is actually a part of Rolex's Drug Syndicate.

## Biography

### Early Life

Sandhanam created Vetti Vagaiyara, making him the only literate member of the gang. He owes his education to his uncle. He has three wives and a meth lab constructed under his house. He works under Rolex, as the part of Drug Syndicate. He also holds a gun license, as does every member of the Vetti Vagaiyara. He also has a habit of taking his own custom crystalline drug, according to his mood swings even during romance. He doesn't care for anyone like Rolex as he kills people on streets as well as in houses without closing doors or windows & does romance with his wives in public places.

### Missing Stash

During March 2019, Sandhanam's stash was found missing. It was found out that ACP Prabanjan is responsible for that. After bounding him, Sandhanam was joined by his close allies - PWD Veerapandian, Contractor Rudra Prathap and Inspector Jose. They interrogated a beaten Prabanjan until Sandhanam loses his cool and accidentally killing him. Jose decided to cover it up as being murdered by the vigilantes wearing black masks.

### Escape from Officer

Sandhanam was apprehended on the streets by a police officer without backup and therefore had to take an autorickshaw to escort the dangerous convict. Sandhanam reaches into his pocket while tied up and pulls out his drug, chewing on it. In a sudden rush of adrenaline he takes the officer's rifle and shoots him in the head, causing the auto driver to swerve and crash. Sandhanam gets out of the wreck alive and covered in blood before escaping.

### Masked Gang Murders

Sandhanam becomes a target for police investigation by black ops officer Amar, who has been looking into murders linked to Vetti Vagaiyara. The murders were recorded the same way Jose recorded the fake murder of Prabanjan, which is marked as Murder #1 by Jose. He is tasked by Jose and the police to find a group of masked armed rebels who are issuing conflict with the cartel and police, the men in question kill Stephen Raj, a traitor from the narcotics division along with assistant commissioner Prabhajan and his adoptive father Karnan. Amar investigates Karnan since he had little to do with foiling the drug smuggling and his death is therefore a mystery. He and his team learn that Sandhanam is a cruel and fearsome leader of the organization and that he's on a race to find two missing shipping containers containing arms and drugs they smuggled. His team also deduce that he intends to start a private party and government and that he'll be able to make that a reality by finding all of their drug shipments.

The black ops team unsuccessfuly track associates of the organization, as Sandhanam kills a goon by setting him on fire in front of his family as had told Black Squad about smuggling operations by the influence of "Truth Serum". Veerapandian and Rudra Pratap who are both working for Rolex to recover the shipments. The former is killed and shortly after, Amar and his team arrest inspector Bejoy, one of the masked men who previously collected Rolex's shipment from his henchman Adaikalam. Bejoy and the masked men are on a revenge quest to kill Vetti Vagaiyara members since they had targeted and killed their families for foiling their business. They're told by Bejoy that Pratap is going to his daughter's wedding with Sandhanam and Amar's team infiltrate the wedding to beat the masked men to it.

The wedding is crashed by the masked men and two of them fight Sandhanam, beating him up. Sandhanam however takes the drug in his pocket and becomes superhuman, brutally beating the men to near death and breaking their bones. Amar chases down and confronts the men's leader as he takes Pratap hostage and kills him after beating up several police. Amar tells the leader he knows his identity and the masked man is revealed to be Karnan, who escapes. Amar tells police inspector Jose that Karnan is a fake identity and that he's actually a retired black ops officer named Vikram and that Sandhanam was actually the killer of his son Prabhajan and that they framed it as an extra party by wearing masks. Vikram replicates the idea for revenge and gathers his old squad to go on a killing spree for the members by killing Stephen Raj, and pretending to kill Vikram to keep his identity covered. After presenting the findings Amar departs but Jose stops him begging for help to catch Vikram. Amar confesses he knows what Jose did, and Jose nervously dismisses him.

After finding out Jose works for Sandhanam and was the one who helped kill Prabhajan, Amar turns on Jose by stealing RDX and planting at Sandhanam's house, endangering his harem and family. Sandhanam however evacuates them but his brother, Elango is killed. Jose also reveals the identities of the former black ops squad publicly causing Vikram to have to save his men and run. Sandhanam also vengefully beheads Gayathri, Amar's wife, causing him to turn rogue and break into Jose's house and kill him. While Vikram converses with his team he reveals Prabhajan to be his son and that his true intention is to clean crime, not revenge. That Sandhanam will hurt thousands if they don't stop him. As a result both black ops teams converge on the container locations along with Sandhanam's army. Sandhanam's men attempt to abduct Prabhajan's baby son but Vikram saves him with help from his comrade Agent Tina who dies in battle. Vikram mercilessly slaughters the men and retreats to the location of the containers where the rest of his squad and Amar take his grandson. He finds confiscated Vetti Vagaiyara artillery and guns, using them to destroy Sandhanam's army. Vikram manages to confront Sandhanam in the warehouse and fights him in rage, nearly killing him. Sandhanam, weakened, takes his drug and becomes rejuvenated and nearly killing Vikram, but the latter, motivated to see his grandson rages and fights Sandhanam before chaining him. Vikram had his men rig the warehouse with several bombs and manages to evacuate leaving Sandhanam to be blown up and finally killed.

In the aftermath, Sandhanam's apparent death becomes the trigger for Rolex to show himself before hundreds of his men in another warehouse and threaten his men to restart their trade, and that he vows that he'll make rich whoever brings him the heads of Dilli, Amar, and Vikram.

## Personality

Sandhanam acts and behaves like a typical violent antagonist, gaining satisfaction from inflicting pain on his victims. He primarily wishes to live in luxury from his drug profits and does love his extended family despite his violent nature. It's also possible that he's a narcissist from the attention he gets from his wives and the fear he puts in his henchmen. Sandhanam also seeks sport and thrill from killing enemies of Vetti Vagaiyara.

## Appearance

Sandhanam appears to be an middle aged man of average build. He typically wears a striped shirt, denim pants and red lens glasses, as well as sporting short hair, beard, and tattoos on his back. He also has a golden tooth.

In the flashback scene where he accidently kills Prabanjan, his appearance looks the same except for the beard. He had only the mustache as the facial hair.

## Powers and Abilities

Sandhanam is skilled in covering illegal activities and politics, wishing to make his own government and knowing how to refine cocaine for the max monetary value. Despite not appearing to be trained in combat he knows how to defend himself and torture targets, as well as using blades and firearms. Sandhanam carries a supply of unknown blue crystal drugs, possible a type of adrenaline, in his pocket. He's addicted to this drug and when he's in a rough fight, he takes a pill and chews it, drastically increasing his physical strength, durability, acuteness, perception, and fighting skill. When he takes this drug Sandhanam becomes unstoppable and can inflict severe physical injuries as well as easily being able to kill with his bare hands.

## Relationships

### Family

* Elango † - Brother
* Unnamed 19 brothers
* Unnamed uncle
* Sumitra - First wife
* Kousalya - Second wife
* Keykayi - Third wife

### Allies

* Drug Syndicate
	+ Rolex - Superior
	+ Vetti Vagaiyara - Subordinates
		- Cutting Plier
* Jose †
* Veera Pandian †
* Rudra Prathap †

### Enemies

* Prabhanjan † - Victim
* Masked Gang
	+ Vikram - Presumed Killer
	+ Bejoy
	+ Amar
* Gayathri Amar † - Victim
* S Pandidurai † - Captive turned Victim
* Swaminathan † - Victim

## Trivia

* Sandhanam is Lokesh's second major antagonist played by Vijay Sethupathi.
* Sandhanam was been loosely inspired by and compared to the real life drug smuggler Pablo Escobar.
* There is a deleted scene in which after killing Amar's wife Gayathri, Sandhanam was supposed to slowly walk away holding her decapitated head and the machete he used, both covered in blood. However, Lokesh was forced to remove this due to its gruesome nature.
* Sandhanam has sixty four members in his extended family consisting of his three wives and over twenty brothers. He however is the only educated one of his brothers.
* Raghava Lawrence was the original choice for playing Sandhanam, which he declined as he felt the character's violent nature would alienate family audiences; the role went to Vijay Sethupathi.