Vedalam

A squad of soldiers infiltrate the private jet of Rahul, the leader of international French Indo-Cartel criminal syndicate. He is assisted by his two younger brothers Abhinay and Aniket whom have taken the families of all the other soldiers hostage earlier, leading to them betraying their leader and taking him hostage. Before he's killed, the leader declares that a good man will rise and take Rahul down, to which he responds that only someone as bad as him will stand a chance.

Elsewhere Ganesh has recently moved into the city of Kolkata with his sister Thamizh to enroll her in an art college. Ganesh is kind and soft-hearted, and his kindness proved effective to immediately reform rowdy Kolkata Kaali, who escorts Ganesh and Tamizh to their new house where they acquaint with neighbors.

After enrolling Thamizh, Ganesh seeks work at a taxi company under his boss Laxmidas. Shortly after, he accidentally gets his first customer: the phony lawyer Swetha, whom Ganesh unintentionally fires from her job. Swetha teams up with Laxmidas after he too is embarrassed by Ganesh in order to get back at him, but Swetha later befriends Ganesh. Ganesh also gets to know Swetha's brother Arjun, who becomes attracted to Thamizh.

Ganesh and all the other taxi and auto-rickshaw drivers are called in by the police commissioner Yashpol and asked to report any activities by the syndicate members who have been causing trouble in the city. Ganesh reports a case of arms smuggling which leads to Aniket capturing him. But Ganesh surprisingly escapes and brutally kills Aniket and all of his men.

Abhinay investigates the murder the next day and works on tracking the culprit down. Abhinay and his technical team track Ganesh's mobile signal to their own tower. Ganesh ambushes and brutally slaughters Abhinay and his entire attack and hit squad. Swetha follows him and is horrified by his actions and wishes to stop the marriage between Arjun and Thamizh, but Ganesh reveals that Thamizh is not actually his sister.

A year ago, Vedhalam (Ganesh) was a terrifying rowdy and mercenary who was arrested but freed from custody in return for saving the police from a rival gang in exchange for money. Ganesh is stabbed by opponents but is saved by Thamizh, who admits him into the hospital, lying that she's his sister to get him through.

Thamizh and her blind parents are threatened to sell their house for a company site, so she and her friend Ester hire Ganesh. Ganesh betrays them for being paid earlier, and the family leaves since Ganesh saves Thamizh and 99 other girls from being trafficked by the syndicate. In return for Ganesh's deed, Thamizh's parents accept eviction. The syndicate's brothers find them vulnerable on the streets and kill Thamizh's parents and injure her. Ganesh rescues her, in which he demonstrates empathy for the first time. Thamizh gets amnesia, so Ganesh states that he's her brother and takes care of her.

Swetha chooses to accept Thamizh's marriage. Shortly after, Rahul uses an injured victim of Ganesh's assault to find his brother's kiler. He coincidentally hires Thamizh to draw a forensic sketch. Ganesh comes prepared and takes one of Rahul's henchman's son hostage to ensure Thamizh's freedom. Rahul later abducts Thamizh and Ganesh goes after him. Without revealing his violent side, Ganesh guns Rahul down and rescues Thamizh.

The music was composed by Anirudh Ravichander, collaborating for the first time with Ajith Kumar and Siva.

The film's title and first look poster were reported to be revealed in September 2015, on Ganesh Chaturthi, which did not happen. On 23 September, Ajith's manager Suresh Chandraa officially confirmed via Twitter that the title and the first look would release that night. At 12:00 am, the film's first look and title were released, which confirmed the title Vedalam.

Behindwoods commented on the first look, "Ajith wears a super cool red kurta with short trimmed hair, a trim stubble, to go with a metal bracelet in one of the hands and a big stud in his left ear. A look that takes us back to his 'Red' days".[25]|url = http://www.filmibeat.com/tamil/news/2015/vedalam-teaser-creates-new-record-by-smashing-the-one-set-by-taylor-swift-s-bad-blood-200964.html%7Cwebsite = filmibeat.com|accessdate = 8 October 2015}}</ref>

The film was released on 10 November, 2015 and completed more than 175 days of theatrical run. It became a big commercial success.[1] The film yielded a distributor share of ₹40 crore in Tamil Nadu.[26]

The satellite rights of the film were sold to Jaya TV.[27] Vedalam's Tamil Nadu rights were sold to Jazz Cinemas for 33 crore.[28] It was remade in Bengali in 2018 as Sultan: The Saviour by Raja Chanda starring Jeet.[29]

• Vedhalam on IMDb