Watchman (film)

Watchman is a 2019 Tamil crime thriller film written and directed by A. L. Vijay. The film stars G. V. Prakash Kumar in lead role as well as the music composer for this film, reuniting with Vijay since their last film, Idhu Enna Maayam (2015). The film stars Samyuktha Hegde as the female lead and also stars Yogi Babu and Raj Arjun in supporting roles.

Plot
The story starts right from the word "Go!". Bala (G. V. Prakash Kumar) comes out of a police station and seems very nervous about something. As he is striding on his bike thinking about gathering money to pay back his loan, he stumbles upon a big villa. Once he hears that everyone from that house is not in town that night, so he decides to rob the house. When he climbs the villa's compound wall and jumps on the other side, his fall is deep. The task and the wall seemed possible at first, but then just as Bala, we fall into something deeper. Bala’s multiple attempts to somehow break into the villa without causing a scene gets him face to face with Bruno, the dog. Finally, after failed attempts to escape Bruno, he gains courage and gets into the villa which leads him into even more darker pathm He realises the villa is not empty. It is filled with mysteries. Terrorists who escaped from prison got into this villa to get revenge on the owner of it who is an Ex-DIG. Bala too gets into this spiderweb revenge, with a lot of struggle of himself and the dog with which he came face to face with, Bala and the owner of the villa gets rid of the terrorists. In recognition of Bala's help in getting rid of terrorists and saving his life, the Ex-DIG grants Bala his loan amount and a job as a guard, which Bala corrects it as WATCHMAN.

Cast

 * G. V. Prakash Kumar as Bala
 * Raj Arjun
 * Yogi Babu as Maari
 * Samyuktha Hegde as Anitha
 * Ravi Prakash
 * Swaminathan
 * Ramdoss
 * Suman as Rasheed Khan
 * Sabha Swaminathan
 * Sayyeshaa Saigal (special appearance)

Production
Watchman first look poster showing G.V. Prakash and a dog with him while the fence is locked with padlock.

Home media
TBA.

Release
Watchman was released on 12 April 2019.

Soundtrack
The film had no songs. The song "ToTo" was released as a promotional song.

Marketing
The official teaser of this film was released by Amy Jackson on 5 November 2018.

Reception
Sify wrote "Despite the crisp runtime, top technicalities and sincere effort from the actors, Watchman fails to engage us and ends up as yet another wishy-washy film." Times of India wrote "The plot offers great scope for a gripping action thriller. But the screenplay seems rushed and ends up as a half-baked attempt." The Hindu wrote "Thankfully, the Vijay-directed Watchman works to an extent, and has potential at the box-office, despite being stripped of regular commercial ingredients."