Vellai Pookal

Vellai Pookal

Vellai Pookal

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Vellai Pookal

2019

2h 10m

6.5(20 votes)

Drama

Thriller

Crime

Overview

A retired cop goes to the US to live with his son and becomes involved with a kidnapping case. Even as he is trying to track down the kidnapper, the case becomes too personal.

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Amazon Prime Video

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Rent

Amazon Video

Links & Resources

Social & External

Production Companies

Trident Arts

The people behind it

Cast & crew

9 featured cast members

Starring

Vivek

Vivek

DIG Rudhran Ganesan

Charle

Charle

Bharatidasan "Bharati"

Dev Ramnath

Dev Ramnath

Ajay Rudhran

Pooja Devariya

Pooja Devariya

Ramya

Paige Henderson

Paige Henderson

Alice

Gajaraj

Gajaraj

Commissioner K. Manimaran

Sudha Rajasekaran

Meena Bharatidasan

Tyler Roy Roberts

Tyler Roy Roberts

Jeff

Peyton Justine

Peyton Justine

Mary

Creative team

Directed by: Vivek Elangovan
Written by: Shanmuga Bharathi
Vivek Elangovan
Produced by: Ajay Sampath
Dhigha Sekaran

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