The real killer? A young cop named Eshwar, who once watched his own brother die from a drug overdose. Eshwar wants to become the new tiger man — and he wants Kaali's gang out of the way.

Eshwar is arrested two days later. Kaali walks into the police station himself — not to confess, but to testify.

The tiger man. That's what the locals call a vigilante who roams the urban forest, killing drug peddlers who prey on children.

The climax unfolds in the rain-soaked forest patch. Kaali, armed only with a rusted khukri, faces Eshwar, who wears a painted tiger mask and carries a police issue Glock.

Eshwar had killed her father — a small-time thief, not a drug lord — by mistake.

But Meena steps between them. She points at Eshwar and whispers: "You buried the bad man. But you also buried my father."

The forest doesn't forgive. It only records.

The last shot: Meena's drawing of a tiger, now framed on the wall of a children's shelter. Next to it, a photo of Kaali, smiling for the first time. If you meant the actual 2010 film Aaranya Kaandam and want its real story summary, let me know — I’ll provide that instead. But if you wanted a fictional "2021 version" story, the above is for you.

Kaali sends his loyal but dim-witted henchman, Singam, to find the girl. Singam traces her to a slum near the forest patch. Meena's mother, Kalyani, works as a cleaner at the temple. She says her daughter hasn't spoken in months — not since the night she saw "the tiger man."

Kaali realizes: Raja was the tiger man. And someone else killed Raja, then sent Kaali the evidence to frame him.

One night, Kaali's men bring him a locked suitcase. Inside: a severed finger with a sapphire ring, a memory card, and a child’s drawing of a tiger.

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