Yeidhavan 2017

Krishna opens the film with a stark confession to the audience: he wants to kill two people, and one target sits right before him as he tails a man on his bike. The pursuit forces a tense confrontation in a dark maze of streets. Sarathi tries to shoot the two men he believes he’s cornered, but Krishna lunges into the scene, stepping in to protect Sagaa and Dharman. In a brutal turn, [Dharman] kills Sarathi, and an uneasy alliance forms between Krishna and his newly connected ally.

What follows is a layered flashback that fills in Krishna’s complex history. He comes from a family with big dreams, especially his sister, who aspires to become a doctor. Despite excellent marks in her +2 exams, she cannot secure a seat at the Government Medical College. To help her realize her dream, Krishna arranges a place at a private college, using middlemen and paying a staggering fee of around 60 lakhs. The revelation hits hard: the college lacks NCA approval, and the students who are admitted there are left stranded. When Krishna digs deeper, he discovers that the middleman who facilitated the admission is Sarathi, and the confrontation escalates quickly. Krishna then files a police complaint with the help of his fiancée, Janani, who works as a sub-inspector, highlighting a web of corruption and broken promises.

Parallel to Krishna’s crisis, a younger classmate named Gourav—heir to Gupta, a powerful industrialist and the owner of the questionable medical college—becomes a focal point of financial and moral conflict. A night raid by thieves ends with Gourav losing his money and BMW, an incident that fuels his thirst for vengeance. The mix of anger, class disparity, and a system that rewards money over merit begins to simmer in the background, fueling the impending clashes.

As protests erupt and the college controversy heats up, tragedy strikes Krishna’s family: his sister’s death appears to be an accident. The loss drives Krishna to seek justice for the students and his family, but beneath his outward resolve runs a personal vow for revenge. He determines to strike back, yet he tethers his anger to a plan that could also help the other students pursue their shared dream of becoming doctors.

The plot thickens when Gourav’s BMW is found and the truth about the thief is uncovered—Dharman is implicated, captured, and brought before Gourav, who wants him dead. In a cruel twist, Dharman attacks a driver and crashes into Krishna’s sister, causing her untimely death. Dharman escapes, while Krishna learns of Dharman’s own motive to avenge his sister’s death, which complicates their alliance. Krishna—believing Gourav to be the mastermind behind the capitation racket and the subsequent tragedies—tells Dharman that his second target is Gourav, and the two set out to trap him. Yet the plan is fragile, and Krishna quietly harbors a second, darker intention: he may also want revenge against Dharman for his sister’s death.

To outsmart Gourav, Krishna uses the leverage he has over Gourav’s trusted aide, Karna, by pressing him for critical details about the capitation payments. This information becomes a bait to draw Gourav into a trap. What unfolds is a high-stakes game where loyalties blur, and the line between vengeance and justice becomes dangerously thin. Dharman, meanwhile, betrays Krishna in a moment of calculated move, shifting the balance of power and leaving Sagaa in peril.

The confrontation explodes into a brutal showdown: Sagaa is killed by a gun, and Dharman is wounded. Krishna fights back with relentless intensity, intent on holding onto his plan even as the students plead for mercy and refuse to witness more bloodshed. Krishna calls Gourav out for his greed, accusing him of a moral bankruptcy far worse than any single act of violence. The crowd’s plea and Krishna’s conviction push Gourav toward a breaking point.

In a final, haunting note, as Krishna and the students walk away from the scene, a single gunshot rings out. The ending implies Gourav’s suicide, a stark and tragic curtain drop that leaves questions about who deserves justice and who must bear the consequences of a system that rewards money over merit. The film closes on a somber reflection about ambition, power, and the cost of pursuing one’s dreams in a world where everything—including lives—can be bought.