The film starts specifically with the arranging of Operation Cocoon. As a general rule, this was a mission headed by the Commander of the Tamil Nadu Special Task Force, K. Vijay Kumar, who engineered the last ambush on Veerappan.
Shivarajkumar plays the Superintendent of Police in Vijay Kumar’s group. Recognizably, his character is demonstrated on SP Senthamarai Kannan, who is accepted to have really arranged the whole mission. In RGV’s rendition, Kannan is a non-copy-cat, one who might readily mock tenets the length of Veerappan is caught.
The plot tracks the group’s endeavors to corner the highwayman. Shreya(Parul Yadav) is enlisted to become a close acquaintence with Muthulakshmi(Yagna Shetty) so that the STF can get nearer to her better half.
The objective is clear: Veerappan must be tricked out of the backwoods. How the group deals with this structures whatever is left of the plot.
There is little uncertainty that Killing Veerappan looks smooth and is loaded with drawing in camera work. The giving of Sandeep Bharadwaj a role as Veerappan too is pretty spot on.
Where the film bungles, nonetheless, is in the outline of its characters. The story, the heroes and the result is now known. What the group of onlookers is truly intrigued by is the "how" of everything, regardless of the possibility that it is a hypothesis. Yet, RGV depends on us to know who Veerappan was and why Operation Cocoon was vital. The portrayal hops forward and backward to incorporate a couple brief flashback arrangements. What RGV does is available a streamlined decent versus terrible person plot. However, that we definitely know!
Obviously, he lets us know that the great person is not by any stretch of the imagination highminded, simply that he happens to bat for the ethically right side.We expected to know Veerappan, his posse, his godlike objects and his association with Tamil radicals better keeping in mind the end goal to comprehend why he cleared out the woods that night.
Shreya and Muthulakshmi are the characters that are minimum created. We have no clue who Shreya is and why she consents to be a source. Furthermore, Muthulakshmi’s fairly perplexing association with the criminal is scarcely touched upon. Also, this is a disaster, for Yagna is a decent entertainer.
The film, obviously, will be a treat for the aficionados of Shivarajkumar in light of the fact that Killing Veerappan is as much about the star that he is. The individual story of his dad, Rajkumar’s seize, converges with that of Kannan’s energy for killing the highwayman and now and again it senses that it is Shivarajkumar and not Kannan settling scores, but visually. Executing Veerappan is hair-raising, exciting even, however not persuading enough for it is more about Shivarajkumar than about Veerappan.