The murder that tightened the plot was personal and grotesque: a businessman found mutilated, ritual scars across his chest. Oddities piled up—no forced entry, a single cigarette butt of an uncommon brand, a blurred license plate in a narrow CCTV clip. Vikram’s team followed standard police procedure: secure the scene, canvas witnesses, collect fibers, run plates. These procedural beats gave the film a practical backbone: stepwise detective work, the kind that lets the audience map cause to effect.