Gargi (film)
Gargi is a 2022 Indian Tamil-language legal drama film directed and co-written by Gautham Ramachandran and produced by Blacky, Genie & My Left Foot Productions. Co-written by Hariharan Raju. The film features Sai Pallavi and Kaali Venkat in the lead roles, while R. S. Shivaji, Saravanan, Livingston, Jayaprakash, and Kavithalaya Krishnan play supporting roles. The film's music is composed by Govind Vasantha with cinematography handled by Sraiyanti and Premkrishna Akkatu and editing done by Shafique Mohamed Ali. Gargi was released on 15 July 2022 and received critical acclaim from critics who praised the cast performances, the script, the direction, and the social message. Plot 
Gargi is a school teacher from a struggling family consisting of her father Brahmanandam, who works as a security guard in an apartment building; her mother, who sells homemade rice batter; and her younger sister Akshara, who is in middle school. Their life becomes chaos when Brahmanandam is accused along with four other men of having assaulted a child. Gargi is steadfast in her resolve to prove her father's innocence, as he is her hero, having protected her as a child from a perverted teacher, encouraging her to stand up to such evil. At the receiving end of public hatred, they are abandoned even by their family friend Banuprakash, who is a successful lawyer. But his assistant, a no-note lawyer Indrans Kaliaperumal, agrees to represent them as he has no reputation to lose. At the hearing, while questioning the investigating officer, Indrans uncovers that the victim was wrongly medicated with a high dose of barbiturates, thus rendering her testimony (identifying Brahmanandam as the culprit) inadmissible. Further, he meets the victim's dad, who reveals that it was he who made her identify Brahmanandam (certain of his guilt), as she was catatonic with trauma, unable to function at all. All this puts into question the evidence, thus enabling him to obtain conditional bail for Brahmanandam. When her father's colleague, who had earlier claimed to have been at home all day on that fateful day, inadvertently reveals that he, in a drunken stupor, had actually been the first to discover the child lying there, and had alerted Brahmanandam, Gargi starts doubting her father's claims that he had been drinking at that time. She confirms her suspicions by visiting the child again and showing her a picture of the fifth culprit. It is revealed, when the child identifies him, that Brahmanandam was indeed the culprit, leading to his arrest and conviction. Gargi takes a moment outside to quietly come to terms with this horror. As the credits roll, we discover that she and her family have moved on, having reconciled with the victim and her father. 