Vikram (film)

*This is about the film. For the main character, see Vikram. For the grandson of the character, see Vikram Jr.*

> *Once upon a time, there lived a Ghost. He's not a myth anymore*
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> Amar about Vikram

## Vikram

### Also called

*KH232/Kamal Haasan 232* (tentatively)
*Evanendru Ninaithaai* (tentatively)
விக்ரம் (Original Title)
*Vikram Hitlist* (dubbed versions)

### Written

Lokesh Kanagaraj
Rathna Kumar

### Producer(s)

Kamal Haasan
R Mahendran

## Lokesh Cinematic Universe

Vikram is a 2022 action thriller film. The film is a spiritual sequel of the 1986 film of same name and a follow-up to *Kaithi*. It is the second film in the *Lokesh Cinematic Universe*.

The film is written and directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj and stars Kamal Haasan as Vikram (reprising his role from 1986 film)

A sequel is revealed to be in development owing to the success of the film.

## Plot

Three months after busting the consignment of Adaikalam and Anbudoss by Inspector Bejoy, Amar, the head of a black-ops team, is summoned by Police Chief Jose to bring justice to a group of masked vigilantes, who have killed Stephen Raj (following his arrest and subsequent release after being busted for helping Adaikalam and Anbu), ACP Prabhanjan and his foster father, Karnan. Amar leads the investigation by digging into Karnan's life, as his murder seems out of place, since Karnan was a common man and the other two were higher officials in the Narcotics division.

Amar learns about Karnan's recent addictions to alcohol, drugs and prostitutes, while at the same time being very protective of his infant foster grandson. While investigating, Amar acknowledged about two missing containers of drugs being hunted by Sandhanam, who runs a much bigger drug syndicate than Adaikalam, named Vetti Vagaiyara. The two containers had to be delivered to his cold-blooded smuggler boss 'Rolex', whose identity is unknown. If the drugs are delivered, Rolex will help Sandhanam form his own government; if not, Sandhanam and his family will be killed. He slowly figures that all of Karnan's addictions were a ruse to cover up a highly covert operation being run by him.

Meanwhile, Veerapandian, a PWD officer, assigns a meeting with other gangsters at a theatre, where he reveals that he, along with a contractor named Rudra Prathap, know the location of the drug containers as they want to bring the containers to Rolex, bypassing Sandhanam in the process. However, the masked vigilantes arrive and kill Veerapandian by slitting is throat. Amar and his team arrive at the scene through a tracking chip left behind by Karnan and successfully capture one of them, revealed to be Bejoy. Amar interrogates Bejoy, who reveals that his family was killed for his role in leading the earlier drug bust, leading him to don the mask and join the vigilantes. Realising that Rudra Prathap is also a target of the members, Amar and his team sneak into Rudra Pratap's daughter's wedding ceremony, where Rudra Prathap has also invited Sandhanam for protection, fearing for his life and family.

The masked men, along with their leader, arrive at Rudra Prathap's daughter's wedding, where the leader threatens Rudra Prathap by holding his daughter at knifepoint. The leader drags Rudra Prathap, and escapes from the wedding on a bike, leaving the other members to deal with Sandhanam. However, Sandhanam manages to defeat all of them. Amar chases the leader and finally confronts him. The leader makes a video call to Sandhanam and reveals himself to be Karnan, who is actually alive and had faked his death. Karnan kills Rudra Prathap by slitting his throat and escapes from the police. Amar reveals that Karnan is actually Vikram, who was the former commander of the black-ops squad's pilot batch. Vikram's team, consisting of 12 members, was disbanded after a botched mission in 1991 and its members were declared as terrorists.

Subsequently, the members and their families were hunted down and brutally murdered but Vikram and three other members of the team managed to survive. Amar meets up with Jose and figures out that Jose himself is Sandhanam's mole in the department and also involved in Prabhanjan's death. It is revealed that Prabhanjan was captured by Sandhanam with Jose's help. Sandhanam had interrogated Prabhanjan about the containers and upon Prabhanjan's refusal to divulge any information, the enraged Sandhanam murders him. This forces Jose, Veerapandian and Rudra Prathap to cover up the murder by making it look like a terrorist attack. Amar orchestrates a bomb blast at Sandhanam's house, which destroys his bungalow and his drug lab in the basement. Jose informs Sandhanam in the nick of time and everyone but Sandhanam's brother Elango manage to escape the blast. Jose reveals Vikram's and Amar's identity to Sandhanam.

Later, Vikram arrives at the prison and frees Bejoy and his team. Sandhanam brutally kills Amar's wife Gayathri by decapitating her and sends his men to attack and kill Vikram's daughter-in-law and grandson at Prabhanjan's house. Having deduced this, Vikram rushes to save them, where a team member of Vikram's Pilot Black squad and associate, Agent Tina, who was undercover as the domestic help of the house under the name Valliamma, is killed whilst protecting Vikram's daughter-in-law and grandson. Vikram finally manages to save them. Distraught at Gayathri's death, Amar joins Vikram's gang to take down Sandhanam and his syndicate. He leaves for Jose's house and kills him after learning about his involvement in Gayathri's murder.

It is revealed that the reason for Vikram's actions is not revenge for Prabhanjan’s death, but a drive to bust the drug syndicate in the city, which manifested in him through Prabhanjan's death. He also admits that Prabhanjan was his own biological son. Vikram and his grandson reach Chennai Port where the containers are hidden. Sandhanam learns about the location of the containers and attacks Vikram. Vikram mows down Sandhanam's men with a cannon and M2 Browning but the remaining members of his Pilot Black squad, Agents Uppiliappan and Lawrence are also killed in the action whilst trying to protect Vikram's grandson. Vikram blows up Sandhanam's containers and Sandhanam is killed in the ensuing blast. Amar mourns Gayathri's death and with the syndicate destroyed, he dons the grease paint to continue Vikram's mission, by joining his team, along with Bejoy.

One week later in Sassoon Docks, Mumbai, Anbu and Adaikalam, arrive with their men. They meet up with the gangsters affiliated with Sandhanam and hold a meeting with their boss, Rolex. Adaikalam and Anbu reveal Dilli's involvement in the Trichy drug ambush, and Sandhanam's men reveal Vikram and Amar's involvement in destroying their drug syndicate and killing their leader. Rolex announces a huge sum as a reward for the execution of Amar, Dilli, and Vikram's team. They also reveal the current location of Dilli, in Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Vikram's family in San Francisco. However, unknown to Rolex and everybody else at the meeting, Vikram is hiding amongst the gangsters and learns about the bounty placed on his team, Amar and Dilli.

## Cast

* Kamal Haasan as Agent Arun Kumar Vikram/"Karnan"
* Vijay Sethupathi as Sandhanam
* Fahadh Faasil as Agent Amar
* Narain as Bejoy
* Kalidas Jayaram as ACP Prabhanjan IPS
* Gayathrie Shankar as Gayathri Amar
* Chemban Vinod Jose as Inspector Jose
* Santhana Bharathi as Agent Uppiliappan
* Elango Kumaravel as Agent Lawrence
* Hareesh Peradi as Stephen Raj
* Swathishta Krishnan as Prabhanjan's wife
* Dharshan as Vikram Jr.
* Gowtham Sundararajan as Veerapandian
* Ramesh Thilak as Elango
* G. Marimuthu as Nagaraj
* Aruldoss as Rudra Prathap
* Myna Nandhini as Sumitra
* Maheshwari Chanakyan as Kousalya
* Shivani Narayanan as Keykayi
* Vasanthi as Agent Tina/"Valliammal"
* Shreekumar as Black Ops Squad Member
* Gajaraj
* Sathish
* Sandheep as Current Black Squad Member #1
* Raghu as Current Black Squad Member #1
* Arun Udhayan as Current Black Squad Member #1
* Phathmen as Masked Gang Member #1
* Anish Padmanabhan as Masked Gang Member #2
* Pradeep as Masked Gang Member #3
* Vinoth Munna as Sandhanam's uncle
* Jaffer Sadiq as Cutting Plier
* Gokulnath as Sandhanam's Gang Member
* Nambi as Arun
* Maya S. Krishnan as an escort
* Priyadharshini Rajkumar as Red Doll Manager
* Pondy Ravi as S. Pandidurai
* Jai Krishna as a Police Constable
* Pranav as Water Can Boy
* Village Cooking Channel team members as themselves
* Girija as Rudra Prathap's daughter
* Krish as Rudra Prathap's future son-in-law
* Shoban Babu as Police Inspector
* Syed as Railway Employee
* Dr. Aarthi Ramesh as Medical Trainer
* Suriya as Rolex
* Arjun Das as Anbudoss
* Harish Uthaman as Adaikalam
* Dheena as Kamatchi
* Baby Monica as Amudha
* Karthi as Dilli (voice)

## Appearances

### Organizations

* Masked Gang
* Black Squad
	+ First Batch
	+ Current Batch
* Indian Police
* Drug Syndicate
	+ Vetti Vagaiyara
	+ Adaikalam & Gang
* Life Pharm (logo)
* RAW (mentioned by Black Squad Member)
* Village Cooking Channel

### Weapons

* Amar's pocket knife
* RDX
* Amar's knife
* Jose's gun
* M2 Browning
* Rolex's Butcher Knife

### Items

* Cocaine
* 3M 1426 Multi Position Earmuff
* Talisker
* Erythroxylum Novogranatense Extract
* Methamphetamine
* Sandhanam's Special Adrenaline
* RF Transmitter Bug
* Marshall Stanmore III

### Locations

* India
	+ Trichy, Tamil Nadu
	+ Chennai, Tamil Nadu
		- Prabanjan's Residence
		- Narcotics Control Bureau Zonal Office
		- V2 Logistics Office
		- Districts and Sessions Court
		- Mindwork's Training Academy
		- Red Doll
		- Casino Theatre
		- Old Commissioner Office
		- Vetri Theatre
	+ Mumbai, Maharashtra
	+ Angamaly, Kerala
	+ Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh
	+ Chhattisgarh (mentioned by Gayathri)
	+ Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh (mentioned by Gayathri)
* ISreal (mentioned by Tilak)
* United States of America
	+ San Francisco

### Mentioned

* Dr. Dharmalingam (mentioned by Sandhanam)
* Pablo Escobar (mentioned by Black Squad member)
* Gayathri's hostelmates (mentioned by Gayathri)
* Rajiv Gandhi (mentioned by Amar)
* James Bond (mentioned by Jose)

## Music

* *Vikram (Original Background Score)*
* *Vikram (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)*

* Played by Vikram during prison breakout

## Videos

VIKRAM - Official Title Teaser - -KamalHaasan232 - Kamal Haasan - Lokesh Kanagaraj - AnirudhVIKRAM - The First Glance - -KamalHaasan232 - Kamal Haasan - Lokesh Kanagaraj - Anirudh RavichanderVIKRAM - Official Trailer - Kamal Haasan - VijaySethupathi, FahadhFaasil - LokeshKanagaraj - Anirudh

## Trivia

* *Vikram* was tentatively titled *KH 232/Kamal Haasan 232* since it was Kamal Haasan's 232nd film.
* *Vikram* was initially titled *Evanendru Ninaithaai,* which was taken from a title card of Kamal Haasan's another movie *Viswaroopam.*
* *Vikram*'s Hindi dubbed release (as "*Vikram Hitlist*") marks nearly 32 years since Kamal Haasan's production banner, Raaj Kamal Films International had released a Hindi dubbed version. *Apoorva Sagodharargal* was dubbed in Hindi as "*Appu Raja*" & released on June 4th 1990. The majority of the production's earlier films (*Chachi 420, Hey Ram, Mumbai Express, Vishwaroopam & Vishwaroopam 2*) were filmed in the Hindi language separately.
* *Vikram* had plenty of references to Kamal Haasan's previous movies
	+ ***Vikram*** ***(1986):*** *Vikram* acts as a spiritual successor to this movie. It is unknown if this movie is canon to Lokesh Cinematic Universe or not.
	+ ***Vikram*** ***(1986):*** After Bejoy detonates the bombs that destroys Sandhanam's stash, Vikram grins at defeated Sandhanam and says "*Naan vetri petravan. Imaiyam thottu vittavan. Pagaiyai muttivittavan. Theeyai suttu vittavan. En veerame vaagaiyae soodum*" (Rough: I am the conqueror who has touched the heart. He, who has defeated the enmity. He, who has shot the fire. My valor will burn). This is the actual first stanza of the old *Vikram* title song.
	+ ***Nayaga******n and Viswaroopam:*** When Prabanjan's wife is unintentionally locked inside Vikram's safe vault, she asks Vikram "*Neenga Nallavara Kettavara?*" (English: Are you a good guy or a bad guy?").
* *Vikram* marks as Kollywood debut of Chemban Vinod Jose.

### External Links

* *Vikram on Disney+ Hotstar*
* *Vikram on Zee5*