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Kannan, a charismatic but enigmatic man, arrives in Malaysia to escape a shadowy criminal past, adopting the alias "Bolt" Kannan. He befriends Arivu, a ragpicker who poses as a wealthy businessman to impress his girlfriend, Kalpana, providing comic relief. Kannan meets Rukmini, called Rukku for short. She is a determined young woman working odd jobs to reclaim her late parents’ house from her abusive stepfather, Rajadurai, a corrupt police officer. Meanwhile, Rajadurai coerces Preethi, a young woman into having sex with him in return for not posting her intimate video online without her consent. Kannan and Rukku get romantically involved. As Rukku in a financial predicament due to Rajadurai, and is also under threat of losing her job, Kannan decides to get a loan of RM1,000,000 to help her. Together with Arivu, he goes to a dockyard owned by Dharma, a ruthless loan shark. Kannan joins a table of poker and expertly starts to rack up his wins. As the stakes rise, Dharma himself joins the table to challenge Kannan and wins by rigging the game. Now stuck with his own debt on top of Rukku's financial crisis, Kannan decides to rob an armored truck delivering cash to the bank. Kannan fights and evades the police, stealing RM20,000,000 (₹403,927,600 (US$4.2 million)). The police arrest Dharma after finding his partial fingerprint on the magazine from the gun that Kannan used in the heist. A flashback reveals that Kannan stole Dharma's gun from his club.

Director

Arumuga Kumar

Release

23 May 2025

Run time

154 min

Language

Tamil