Lock Up

<p>Ilavarasi, a police inspector, sets out to investigate the murder of a colleague. However, the evidence appears to be fabricated and suggests involvement of someone from her own department. The film production began in 2019 and was supposed to be the feature film debut of television actress ; however, (2019) ended up releasing first. The film is produced by actor and is about two corrupt policemen played by and . Nithin Sathya had previously worked with Vaibhav and Venkat Prabhu in . The title was chosen because the film is about a police lock-up and is based on several true incidents. This venture was promoted as the first film in which Vaibhav plays a police officer although he played a police officer in (2020). Venkat Prabhu portrays the antagonist for the first time in his career. The soundtrack consists of one song composed by . was released on 14 August 2020 on the streaming service . It was initially scheduled for a theatrical release in November 2019 after post-production work had been completed. However, the delay of the film and subsequent meant that the theatrical release was dropped in favour of a release. gave the film a rating of three out of five stars and noted that “A positive factor is the lack of unnecessary deviation from the main plot and the way unsolved sub-plots are connected in the latter half”. wrote that ” is a praiseworthy attempt in the investigative thriller space. It’s also one of the better Tamil films among the recent direct releases. Even though the writing is amateurish at places, you don’t nitpick because the film never gets outright boring and manages to keep us engaged”.</p>