Baththa (2026)

In a rain-lashed Tamil Nadu town, a routine missing-person case pulls a weary inspector (Vijay Sethupathi) into the fractured lives of a schoolteacher (Lijomol Jose), her estranged sister (Santhy Balachandran), and a local politician's aide (Vishnu Govindan). As the investigation deepens, professional duty collides with buried secrets, exposing how far ordinary people will go to protect their versions of the truth.

With each interview and discarded alibi, the line between investigator and implicated blurs, turning a procedural into a quiet excavation of guilt, loyalty, and the stories families tell to survive.