Ippadai Vellum () is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by Gaurav Narayanan, starring Udhayanidhi Stalin and Manjima Mohan, with Daniel Balaji, Soori, R. K. Suresh, and Raadhika in supporting roles. The music was composed by D. Imman with editing by Praveen K. L. and Cinematography by Richard M. Nathan. The film was released on 9 November 2017 with mixed to positive reviews. It was dubbed into Hindi as Revolver Raja 2.
Plot
Chotta is a terrorist, known for bombing various places in the past. He is currently jailed in a prison in Uttar Pradesh, India. He escapes the jail by planting a bomb there and moves to various cities across India, while planting bombs everywhere, killing many people. His next target is Chennai, and he heads towards the city to complete his mission. He often takes lifts from various vehicles across the highway. He communicates with his associates using a Gmail account by composing his messages, saving them as drafts, and providing the login details to his associates, who log in later and delete the drafts meant for them after reading. Thus, their IP addresses remain untraced. The police issue a red alert across the country and issue an order to arrest Chotta, all over India. His photo is faxed to all the police stations, who begin their search.
Madhusoodhanan is a jobless software engineer, who recently lost his job due to recession. He is in love with Bhargavi, a rich girl who is under the care of her elder brother Dheena Sebastian (R. K. Suresh), who is the ACP. Dheena opposes their love primarily due to religion, while also not liking Madhu from the first instance. Bhargavi urges Madhu that they should get register married before Dheena could stop them. Madhu, being jobless, often borrows money from a notorious moneylender named Kanthuvatti Murugan and fails to repay it on time. Hence, Murugan is in search of Madhu. Just before the day of his marriage, he borrows his friend's car and promises to return it soon.
Kulandai Velu is a dubbing artist who dubs for Chhota Bheem in Chennai. His wife lives in his native place and is expecting a child very soon. Kulandai promises to return to her soon after completing the day's work. He starts heading to his native place late that night on his motorbike. Chotta meets Kulandai on the highway and asks for a lift. He obliges and also borrows Rs. 200 to fill petrol at a petrol bunk for the bike. As they travel, they arrive near a police check post, which looks for traffic violators. Chotta sees this and escapes upon thinking that they are looking for him. Kulandai is perplexed. After some time, while Chotta asks for a lift from Madhu, but he mistakenly hits Chotta and injures him. Madhu admits Chotta in a hospital and escapes from there as he did not have enough money to pay the bill. Chotta also manages to escape the hospital and reach his hideout place, a flat in an apartment building, owned by one of his associates, a lady who works as a manager, thus causing no doubts to anyone.
Meanwhile, the doctor who treated Chotta in the hospital learns from the news that Chotta is a wanted terrorist and informs the police. The police collect the CCTV footage from the hospital and the highway, which contained Madhu and Kulandai providing lifts to Chotta. Hence, they corner and arrest both of them. While being taken to custody, they are hit by a jeep and are injured, causing Kulandai to forget his past. Madhu thinks that Kulandai must be a real associate of Chotta, and if he can make Kulandai tell the police that Madhu is not involved in this case, then he can escape. However, he is shocked to see Kulandai having forgotten his past. The case is handled by Dheena, who now gets a good chance to reject Madhu, as he doubts that he is a terrorist. Dheena plans to kill both of them in an encounter, but Madhu and Kulandai manage to escape. With help from Bhargavi, they all hide in her friend's flat, which happens to be just below the flat in which Chotta is hiding, in the same apartment. Chotta plans his attack in two days and sends the bombs to his associates. He tells them that he will mention the locations one hour prior, using the draft communication.