Mersal

Mersal (மெர்சல், 2017) is an Indian action thriller with a crime twist you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Atlee and headlined by Vijay, it opens with doctors being murdered and abducted while police pin the case on a physician they've already locked up.

Is the man in custody really behind it? The story slips away from hospital corridors toward old grudges, a long con and someone who spent years treating the poor for free. Vijay appears in more than one guise here, each carrying its own thread of revenge and reckoning. Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Nithya Menen and Kajal Aggarwal round out the cast, with a score by A. R. Rahman.

The film welds a social nerve — profit-driven medicine versus basic decency — onto huge song numbers and brawls, the full three-hour Tamil scale. It lands for anyone who loves Indian cinema for emotion turned all the way up and a hero who owns the screen. Stream Mersal (2017) online on iFILM.