Veppam
Veppam is a 2011 Indian Tamil-language crime action film written and directed by newcomer Anjana Ali Khan, starring Nani, Nithya Menen, Karthik Kumar, and Bindu Madhavi. The film marks Nani's Tamil debut. The story narrates events from the slum areas of Chennai, showcasing characters and their struggles. The film, jointly produced by Gautham Vasudev Menon's Photon Kathaas and R. S. Infotainment, had been in production for over one year. The film released on 29 July 2011, while a dubbed Telugu version, titled Sega, released simultaneously in Andhra Pradesh. Veppam received mixed reviews.
Plot
The film starts with Revathy forwarding towards the beach and walking into the ocean. The film is then set 18 years back in a slum in Chennai. Balaji's mother dies, and his father Jyothi, a drunkard, leaves him on the streets. Balaji works hard and ensures a decent living for his younger brother Karthik with the help of Revathy's father. Karthik, who studies in an engineering college, spends all his time with his friend Vishnu, who is also brought up in the locality. Revathy, who lives in the neighborhood, loves Karthik. Revathy, Karthik, and Vishnu are close friends. Vishnu also owns a mechanic shop but is not generating enough income. Vishnu's guardian pesters Vishnu to sell it and look for a decent job which generates enough income to ensure financial security for the foreseeable future, but Vishnu refuses as the shop is the only surviving memory of his late father.Jyothi takes to illegal ways and makes money working for drug peddler Ammaji. Balaji does not want Karthik to join with their father as he left them on the streets when the brothers were younger. Jyothi supplies call girls to men in that locality. Knowing that Vishnu is in love with Viji, a call girl in the locality, and also needs money as his shop is not earning enough, Jyothi decides to exploit him for his selfish gain of transaction of a drug. He gives him an assignment — to transport drugs to Pondicherry, promising to give him Viji if he completes the work. Vishnu takes Karthik's help and leaves for Pondicherry. Viji hears that Jyothi is planning to sell the drug to Ammaji's official enemy and tries to save Vishnu through Jyothi's assistant. Meanwhile, Revathy's father survives a heart attack and is desperate to contact Karthik and Vishnu while in the hospital. Balaji finds Karthik in Jyothi's car and searches for him for a week. Meanwhile, Jyothi's assistant warns Vishnu about Jyothi's plan. Balaji finds Karthik in a bakery after a week and hits him. Karthik, in anger, leaves for Vishnu's house, giving a phone to Revathy and leaving the drug in his cupboard. Vishnu searches for the drug in his bag in his house and fights with Karthik. Karthik gets hurt in his head from a chair and faints. Vishnu's guardian kills Vishnu as he wanted to sell the mechanic shop which Vishnu owned. Viji dies in the depression of Vishnu's death. The police arrest Karthik, thinking that he would have killed Vishnu.
Karthik comes out through Jyothi's help. Balaji, Karthik, and Jyothi go to Ammaji, where they find that her official enemies have joined. They try to kill Jyothi, but Balaji and Karthik save him and kill everybody there, while Jyothi kills Ammaji. They go to Jyothi's house and start drinking, and upon being asked by Jyothi about the drug, Karthik replies that Revathy had found the drug in Karthik's cupboard. She took the drug to Jyothi's house, where a man tried to rape her. She escaped and dissolved the drug in the beach. Later, Balaji gives Jyothi a glass of poisoned beer for leaving them alone in their younger days, and Karthik joins his brother and kills him for Vishnu's death. It is revealed Karthik mother died after she was poisoned. People nearby them agree not to let anyone know that they murdered Jyothi. The film ends as both brothers walk out of the room together.