Sketch 2018

Jeeva aka Sketch lives with his uncle Dorai, who used to tow and recover vehicles for which the monthly EMI hadn’t been paid. After a brutal fight leaves Dorai with a severed hand, Sketch steps up to handle the day-to-day business with a steady, capable touch. Dorai’s right-hand man, Ravi, hopes to seize control of the operation, but Bhaskar—the boss—and Settu back Sketch and push him toward leadership, setting up a fragile balance of power in the garage.

At a college function, Sketch tows a scooter that belongs to Priya, Ammu’s friend. The next day, he encounters her again on a bus. When a man tries to harass her, Sketch defends her, and a quick bus stop leads to him bumping into Ammu. She initially reads his actions as a crude advance, but soon realizes he was protecting her, and her initial anger softens into attraction.

One day, Sketch loses a bike while bringing it back to the garage. The owner demands ₹2 lakh from Settu, sparking a confrontation that makes Sketch suspect this is part of a scheme by Ravi to embarrass him. The crisis is resolved when Sketch manages to reclaim the bike and restore trust in the garage, reinforcing his growing position.

The conflict escalates when Sketch steals Royapuram Kumar’s car, triggering a high-speed chase with the police and forging a brutal rivalry between them. Kumar retaliates by bringing a gang from another state to finish Sketch and his team, and gradually, Sketch’s friends fall one by one in the violence that follows.

In the final act, the boys who had been working with Settu in the garage reveal their jealousy-driven plot: they planned and carried out the killings of Sketch’s friends to seize his position, and they seemingly stab Sketch to death. Yet he survives, forgives them, and helps them escape from the police, choosing mercy over vengeance. The story closes with a clear moral: avoid child labour, a reminder threaded through the battles and loyalties that drive the film.