Jailer

Jailer centres on Muthuvel Pandian, a former prison official who has settled into a quiet retirement with his wife, son and daughter-in-law. The calm ends when his son Arjun, a police officer, becomes entangled with a gang dealing in stolen antiquities. What begins as a criminal investigation spirals into a threat to the family, pushing Muthuvel back toward the violent, shadowy circles he had deliberately turned away from years earlier. He sets out to confront Varman, the man behind the racket, and to protect his household from the fallout.

The film is directed and written by Nelson Dilipkumar and produced by Kalanithi Maran under Sun Pictures. It is the second of the three films Nelson has directed, following Beast in 2022 and preceding Jailer 2 in 2026, and it marked a return to leading roles for Rajinikanth. He plays Muthuvel, with Vinayakan as Varman, Vasanth Ravi as Arjun, Yogi Babu as Vimal, Ramya Krishnan as Muthuvel's wife Vijayalakshmi and Mirnaa as Shwetha. It runs 165 minutes across action, adventure, comedy, crime and thriller strands, and counts 34 credited cast members.

Jailer drew a sizable audience relative to its reception: on IMDb it holds 7.2 out of 10 from around 46,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.5 out of 10 from 127 votes. Worldwide box office stood at about 5 million USD.