Nadunisi Naaygal 2011

In a bustling Mumbai setting, a young boy named Samar endures a troubling start to life after being raised by a father who pursues a hedonistic lifestyle. When Samar is abused, his life takes a pivotal turn when a compassionate neighbor steps in. Meenakshi Amma rescues him, gives him a new name, Veera, and shelters him from the danger of his past, offering a sense of safety he had not known before.

As the years pass, the memories of those painful experiences push Veera toward darkness. The relationship between Veera and his caretaker grows distorted, culminating in a brutal rape that shatters the fragile trust that had formed between them. The situation evolves quickly as Meenakshi Amma, initially reluctant, tries to maintain some boundaries, but the emotional turmoil drives a decisive break. After a heated confrontation, she rejects his sincere apology and moves on with her life, choosing to marry a colleague instead.

On a night meant to mark a new beginning, the couple’s union takes a catastrophic turn. Veera commits a violent act, stabbing the man and setting the room ablaze. Meenakshi Amma sustains injuries in the fire, and Veera disappears into the chaos, returning with a scar-faced Meenakshi Amma to his home, where the past seems ready to rise again. Not long after, Veera encounters a new target, a young woman named Priya, whom he meets online. The pair grow closer, but their budding romance is brutally interrupted when Priya is attacked, and Veera’s disturbing influence is again revealed through Meenakshi Amma’s actions.

From that point forward, Veera’s crimes intensify. He abducts women, subjects them to rape, and murders them in cold blood, a pattern that casts a long shadow over the city. During this haunting spree, Veera crosses paths with Sukanya, a girl he once loved during his school days. Sukanya, accompanied by her boyfriend Arjun, becomes drawn into Veera’s web of danger. Veera fakes a friendly ride home, but his true intentions surface as he violently overpowers Sukanya and leaves Arjun dead in a pool of blood in the car’s backseat. A stunned Sukanya escapes but is soon pursued, and bystanders alert the authorities, including Assistant Commissioner Vijay.

The pursuit tightens as Veera drags Sukanya to a hidden bungalow, where more captives—other women with half-shaved heads—are kept. Veera’s deception deepens as he tries to claim a sincere love for Sukanya and insists that Samar is responsible for all the violence, even claiming Meenakshi Amma is dead, though Samar clings to the belief that she lives. The tense confrontation escalates when Sukanya, seeking an escape, fights back and seizes a weapon, firing at Veera and leaving him shocked, thinking Meenakshi Amma had shot him. The entire sequence is captured on tape as Veera narrates the events to Vijay, revealing the terrible truth and the cycles of manipulation and violence that have endured.

In the end, the story moves to a closing, chilling consequence: Veera is taken to a mental asylum, where the wounds of abuse and the violence he inflicted are laid bare. The film closes with a stark image of another patient, implied to be victimized by past sexual abuse, underscoring the film’s bleak meditation on cycles of trauma and vengeance. The narrative leaves viewers with a somber reflection on how early abuse reverberates through a life, shaping actions and fates in ways that are painful and inescapable.