Vettiayan should have followed Vikram Vedha’s solid screenplay path rather than Jailer’s mass moments.

For me personally, the trailer was misleading and the marketing team failed at positioning the movie for exactly what it wants to be. An earlier movie called “Vikram Vedha” was a super hit at the BO and it dealt with one man’s personal loss due to fake encounters and his crusade against the corrupted Police Department.

“Vettaiyan” could have been the spiritual successor of that movie and could have dealt with the same issue at a macroscopic point of view where, on one hand criminals from the slum are sitting ducks to police encounters and at the same time the law operates with a much more gentle hand when dealing with criminals from the elite corporate world. Had the movie’s intention matched the trailer and the marketing, the audience would have been prepared for what they were about to see and the movie’s fate could have been different.

Also had the director not succumbed to the temptation of forcefully injecting “mass moments” in order to match Jailer’s hero elevation moments, then may be the movie would have been tighter and the flow of the movie wouldn’t have been insincere.