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The strength of the writing lies in the characterization. While the camera doesn’t shy away from exposing the brutality of the police force, we also see the pressure that they are under to solve cases. They have little time for family (as one senior cop exclaims, he visits a town to hand out invitations for his daughter’s wedding and gets entangled in a brutal murder scene instead), and must solve cases with few resources and plenty of red tapes. The narrative doesn’t take on a justifying slant but presents it as a grim reality.
Overall though, Vilangu makes for a gripping watch because it downplays its surprises intelligently, and doesn’t fall back on flashy, unrealistic reveals that revolve around a hero cop (the background score, too, is committed to the plot and not Paruthi). It’s a cat and mouse game where we aren’t sure until the end who is the cat and the mouse. Well played.
