Veera Dheera Sooran (2025)

The film begins with a woman and her daughter outside of a don's (or something like that, called Periyavar) house seeking her lost husband.

From that moment right up to interval the movie never lets up, gritty, intense, and building up the drama with one long scene after another until the inevitable action moments.

Director S. Arun Kumar, who also wrote the script, worked on each scenes squeezing the last drops on intensity that keeps us at the edge of the seat (not literally, but you know...).

Everyone was good, may it be Vikram, the scene stealer S.J. Surya, Thushara Vijayan and all the others, right down to the minor characters.

Which is why the film worked for me. What started out as a plot hatched by S.J Surya's cop character to "encounter" (assassination with righteous motive) goes haywire with involvement of Vikram, a former red neck hit man who has since settled down with a family running a provision shop.

There's the inevitable flashback sequence, thankfully short and is only one. Then, we are back in the fray.

Yes, there's violence towards the end, lots of bloodshed but this story demands it. Everyone has done a great job, including composer G V Prakash aiding with the tense situations. I like this flick.