Sarabham 2014

Vikram, Naveen Chandra is a young project manager at an architecture firm in Chennai who believes that a step into illegality for money is acceptable if he can avoid getting caught, a pragmatic creed that begins to collide with reality as the story unfolds.

During a high-stakes visit to his firm’s biggest client, Chandrasekhar, Aadukalam Naren, Vikram hopes to pitch a bold theme park concept he has spent months refining. The moment he steps into Chandrasekhar’s orbit, a storm brews: Chandrasekhar’s rebellious daughter storms into the office to demand money, shattering the professional calm and embarrassing her father in front of everyone. The clash leaves Chandrasekhar visibly rattled and Vikram curious about the personal costs behind corporate polish.

After a confrontation that ends with a cold rejection of Vikram’s plan, the night takes a darker turn. Vikram, feeling wronged and humiliated, drinks himself into a fog and then vandalizes Chandrasekhar’s beach house. There, he spots the mysterious woman again, and this time he follows her to a nearby hotel to press her on her father’s behavior. The woman introduces herself as Shruti, Salony Luthra, who reveals a shared distrust of her father’s materialistic, corporate world.

Shruti follows Vikram home and proposes a dangerous, calculated scheme: they should pretend to abduct her in order to extort a ransom from Chandrasekhar. Vikram is initially hesitant, but the next day at work he learns that Chandrasekhar has a sudden change of heart and has chosen to approve the theme park project only if a more experienced project manager leads it. Vikram’s anger intensifies when his rival at the firm earns that lead, and he ultimately agrees to Shruti’s plan. Together, they siphon off the black money Chandrasekhar has hidden from the tax authorities, and Chandrasekhar is forced to return Shruti’s share while she begins arranging a passport to Australia.

Then the plot twists in a devastating way. The next day the news reports a body on the beach—one that resembles Chandrasekhar’s daughter. In a quiet confrontation at Vikram’s apartment, Chandrasekhar and Shruti reveal the truth: the rebellious daughter Vikram saw was Shruti’s twin, Sanjana. Shruti had accidentally killed Sanjana while trying to stop her from taking drugs, and she had fled home, ending up with Vikram. Her father then manipulates events to set up Vikram, to save his own reputation. Chandrasekhar seizes back the ransom money in exchange for sparing Vikram from arrest.

Enraged by the manipulation, Vikram decides to kidnap Shruti for real. He spots her leaving her father’s beach house and drags her to a warehouse, where Chandrasekhar appears with a gang to protect the ransom exchange. In a brutal revelation, it becomes clear that Shruti is actually Sanjana all along, and she was killed in their struggle years earlier. Realizing her father never loved her and had welcomed her supposed death, she murders Chandrasekhar in cold blood and splits the loot with Vikram. Sanjana then explains to the police that it was Chandrasekhar who had kidnapped and killed his own drug-addicted daughter to preserve the family’s reputation, and the gang goes into hiding to dodge responsibility for a crime they didn’t commit. In the aftermath, Sanjana takes over Chandrasekhar’s company and hires Vikram as the project leader, sealing a carefully turned game of deception into a new, dangerous balance of power.