Vedalam

Vedalam
Release poster
Directed by	Siva
Produced by	A. M. Rathnam (Presenter) S. Aishwarya
Written by	Siva Aadhi Narayana
Starring	Ajith Kumar Shruti Haasan Lakshmi Menon Ashwin
Music by	Anirudh Ravichander
Cinematography	Vetri (Additional cinematography) E. Krishnasamy Sivaramakrishna Koduri
Edited by	Ruben
Production company	Shri Sai Raam Creations
Release date	10 November 2015 (2015-11-10) (India)
Running time	148 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	₹61 crore (US$9.1 million)
Box office	est. ₹125.7 crore (US$19 million)

Vedalam (English: Phantom) is a 2015 Indian Tamil action-masala film written and directed by Siva, and produced by S. Aishwarya. Ajith Kumar and Shruti Haasan play the lead roles, with Lakshmi Menon, Ashwin Kakumanu, and Kabir Duhan Singh among others, appearing in supporting roles. Anirudh Ravichander composed the film's music and background score, while Vetri and Ruben were the film's cinematographer and editor respectively. The film began production in April 2015 and was released on 10 November 2015, coinciding with Diwali.

Ganesh(Ajith Kumar) and his sister Thamizh(Lakshmi Menon) come to settle down in Kolkata where she has enrolled for a course to hone her artistic skills. Ganesh is an extremely peace loving soft hearted person who makes even rowdies like Kolkata Kaali(Rajendran) like him in one instant. Kolkata is also the operating base of a high profile international criminal syndicate run by three brothers Rahul (Rahul Dev), Abhinay(Kabir Duhan Singh) and Aniket(Aniket Chauhan). Ganesh advised by his new house owner(Mayilswamy) starts working under Laxmidas(Soori) who owns a Taxi company.

Cops in Kolkata ask Taxi and Auto drivers for help in nabbing criminal members of Rahul's gang and prepare a suspect list. Ganesh identifies one of the suspects and informs the police about the where abouts of the criminals which leads to a large haul of illegal weapons, drugs, money and also arrest of many of lower level gang members belonging to Rahul. Frustrated Aniket finds Ganesh and brings him to his Yacht to be killed, but is instead killed by Ganesh who becomes extremely violent during the altercation. Simultaneously Ganesh gets acquainted with Swetha(Shruti Hassan) and Swetha's brother Arjun(Ashwin) gets acquainted with Thamizh in two separate incidents and they are attracted to each other and Arjun gets his parents to meet and officially ask for Thamizhs hand in marriage.