It takes serious guts to lock horns with a movie like BIGIL and release your movie on the same day. The guts can only come from tremendous confidence in the output and Lokesh Kanagaraj emerges successful once again with his Karthi-starrer , Kaithi. Similar to the screenplay style of Maanagaram, Kaithi also has multiple plots running in parallel, where all gets connected towards one common cause.

The movie opens with a big drug bust operation led by Bejoy (Narain) where the lower level mafia group is detained. Irked by this operation, the mafia leader's brother fixes a huge ransom in return to decapitating the 5 police officers involved. Unaware of the insiders from the drug mafia, the entire police force is in a party where drinks are mixed with harmful sedatives. Bejoy now has the task of transporting the entire unconscious police force to a safe medical facility without alerting media, other officials or the mafia. His only option is Dilli (Karthi) who is brought into custody for an anonymous investigation, since he alone can drive the lorry to carry the officials. Whether Bejoy-Dilli were successful in carrying out the operation or did the mafia get hold of the drugs is the remaining plot.

The movie holds the audience under its clutch right from the first frame. What is surprising to see is Karthi, an otherwise experienced actor in dialogue deliveries, has been given very little dialogues and yet he manages to steal the show by his mere body language and rustic attitude. Each time Dilli manages to escape the ploy of the mafia, it is literally a case of our blood pressure shooting up. Sam CS has terrified the audience with his BGM score. Another notable highlight is George Maryan along with the college students guarding the IG office forte from the mafia. While his comedy roles in movies such as Kalakalappu made him famous, this for sure will show him in a different light.

Well, the ending definitely suggests there could be a sequel/prequel to this. We can't be more excited!