Vetrimaran has developed into the voice of the underprivileged, whom woke culture and progress both need to reach. He serves as a mirror that reflects their situation and the harsh lives they are leading exactly as it is. The director creates his tales in such a way that they are specialised in content yet universal in perspective. Although Viduthalai is perhaps his least brutal film from an intellectual standpoint, it is brutal yet visually and with good reason.

The movie Viduthalai was created by Vetrimaaran and is an adaptation of Jayamohan's novel Thunaivan. It serves only to set up the main conflict. 

The movie begins with a train explosion, and the images are undoubtedly the scariest ones one has seen in recent Indian movies. Those responsible for the attack, which left 28 people dead and numerous others seriously injured, are the People's Army. Operation "Ghost Hunt" is started by the police to apprehend Vaathiyar, whether he is alive or dead. When two men try to run after being shot in cold blood by police for carrying weapons, we observe a bus being frisked at a checkpoint in the following shot. Although some lives have been lost in both instances, the police killings are justified since they make newspaper headlines the next day. In the most unsettling, unrelenting manner, Viduthalai challenges the morality of police abuse.

Soori performs the role of Kumeresan, a police officer assigned to a delicate hilly area where the fighting is most violent. Inadvertently saving the life of an indigenous woman as he gets to know the area earns him the fury of his superiors and exposes him to the violence of the local police unit. The department starts "Ghost Hunt," an effort to apprehend Vaathiyaar (Vijay Sethupathi), the activist group's head, and obstruct their advancement. While Vaathiyaar's whereabouts are unknown, Kumeresan asserts to have some leads.

As Kumeresan develops feelings for one of the tribal women (Bhavani Sre), the police force starts using force against the populace in an effort to apprehend Vaathiyaar. Kumeresan is forced to fight after being caught in the crossfire.

Vetrimaaran is testing Viduthalai on his own. The filmmaker wanted to broaden the cosmos while reshaping his own syntax. He approaches Part 1 as only a prelude to what is to come, and that works well up to a point. However, a crowd that will be bristling for Sethupathi could not be too happy about his absence in the first half.
While there is enough savagery on video to show a man's nails being broken while being questioned. Women are attacked violently after being stripped naked. The idea never becomes that brutal, though; everything is just visual. It does irritate me a little bit because the intercutting of the scenes lessens their power.