The movies we watch makes sure it is gripping enough to keep the audience hooked until the very end. In order to do so, it comprises an interesting storyline with a definitive ending to satisfy the audience. But sometimes, it takes another approach by setting up an unexpected surprise. These are twists that change the dynamic of the story and one that no one sees coming until it actually does leave them gobsmacked in their seats. That is the precise moment one knows that they have just sat through a masterpiece of a film. Let us look at a couple of films that have such attributes which worked wonders as a key plot twist to the story (in no particular order of importance):

1) SUPER DELUXE:

Plot- An unfaithful wife, an angry boy, a preacher, and a transgender woman must all face their demons on one fateful day in a city of contradictions.

Twist- The girl that the boys meet turns out to be an alien and later the old TV that they throw out lands on the policeman who is about to rape Vaembu which in turn saves her from the traumatic situation.

WHERE TO WATCH- NETFLIX

2) MAANAGARAM:

Plot- Different perspectives of people wherein one, a youngster comes to the city with big dreams to take up an IT job, another follows a youngster who will go to any extreme for the safety of his lover and finally a man, who is threatened by a gang who he ends up fighting away but things take a turn when they set out to seek revenge on him.

Twist- Though there is no single massive twist as such, Maanagaram is filled with loads of unexpected turns in regular intervals and these twists change the dynamic of the story. One twist leads to another twist and it goes on.

WHERE TO WATCH- SONY LIV

3) VADA CHENNAI:

Plot- A proficient carrom player, Anbu, sets foot in the world of crime and joins forces with local gangsters to settle their feuds.

Twist: Anbu was never on Senthil's side. He stabs Senthil on his spine with a wooden shard broken from the carrom board, leaving him heavily injured and paralysed for life. Anbu then explains his loyalty towards Guna.

WHERE TO WATCH- SONY LIV

4) JIGARTHANDA:

Plot- An aspiring director tries to research a merciless mobster for making a gangster film. But his secret attempts to scout and conduct research on the mobster fails when he gets caught for snooping.

Twist- Karthik uses all the documentation footage he collects and uses it to release a comedy film instead of a gangster film due to Sethu's inability to act. Also the major genre shift from being an action-gangster film to a comedy zone post the mid-point.

WHERE TO WATCH- DISNEY+HOTSTAR

5) DHURUVANGAL PATHINAARU:

Plot- Deepak retires after an accident cuts off his right leg. Five years down the line, he is forced to revisit all the events leading to the accident.

Twist- When Deepak meets the other man at the lawn table, the man is actually Gowtham, the policeman who lost his entire career and life because of the burns he experienced during the accident. Gowtham sees the murderer in Deepak's house who is revealed to be Deepak's son. Due to this reason, Deepak never intended on solving the case to save his son. Gowtham figures this out and visits Deepak to take his revenge.

WHERE TO WATCH- DISNEY+HOTSTAR

6) PIZZA:

Plot: Michael, a pizza delivery boy, goes to a bungalow one day to deliver food where mysterious events begin to take place.

Twist: the whole ‘ghost event’ is a story made up by Michael with help of his partner Anu, an aspiring horror fiction writer, so that they could get away with the diamonds that he stole without attracting any suspicion towards him.

WHERE TO WATCH- DISNEY+HOTSTAR

7) KAAVALAN:

Plot- A bodyguard is assigned to protect the daughter of a powerful landlord. He soon falls in love with an anonymous admirer of his, unaware that she is the landlord's daughter.

Twist- Madhu elopes with Bhoominathan telling him she was the admirer all along instead of admitting that it was actually Meera who was the admirer.

8) MOUNAM PESIYADHE:

Plot- Gautham falls in love with his friend Kannan's cousin, Sandhya. Problems arise when Gautham learns that Kannan's parents want Kannan to marry Sandhya.

Twist- The girl who was making those calls and giving gifts to Gautham was not Sandhya but actually turned out to be Laila, the stalker who promised to follow Gautham forever as she was in love with him.

WHERE TO WATCH- YOUTUBE

9) MANKATHA:

Plot- Inspector Vinayak is suspended after he lets a smuggler escape. He then meets a group of men who plan to whisk away 500 crores belonging to a gangster. He promises to help them for a share in the loot. Police officer Prithvi closes in on the gang when they turn against each other after the robbery goes awry.

Twist- Vinayak and Prithvi are revealed to be close friends from the police academy and they had planned the whole heist together plotting the masquerade right from the very beginning.

WHERE TO WATCH- DISNEY+HOTSTAR

10) MAANAADU:

Plot- On the day of a public conference by the state's Chief Minister, a man has to stop a political rally from taking place in order to save the chief minister and prevent religious violence all the while being stuck in a time loop.

Twist- It is revealed that not only Abdul Khaliq experiences the time loop but DCP V. Dhanushkodi experiences it as well.

WHERE TO WATCH- SONY LIV

11) YUDDHAM SEI:

Plot- A CBCID officer investigates an eccentric series of crimes happening in the city. His investigation leads him to some unexpected crime perpetrators.

Twist- The crimes are actually perpetrated by the family members that everyone assumed to have committed suicide. After their daughter commits suicide following her gang rape by some policemen, her parents start murdering to avenge their daughter's rape which led to her death.

WHERE TO WATCH- DISNEY+HOTSTAR

12) ADHEY KANGAL:

Plot- Susi's family is stalked by a killer. During an attempt to save Susi from this madman, her boyfriend, Baskar, gets a good look at the attacker's eyes. Using this as a clue Baskar attempts to find the person haunting Susi's family.

Twist: The old Siddha doctor is actually the man in disguise who is avenging the murder of his mother.

WHERE TO WATCH- AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

13) KANNUM KANNUM KOLLAIYADITHAAL:

Plot- Two fraudsters involved in online shopping scams fall in love and eventually decide to give up their shady business, oblivious to the real intentions of the women they love.

Twist- The two girls, Madhu and Varsha, that they fall in love with are revealed to be bigger con-artists who end up stealing all their money and leaving them. They target rich men, act like falling in love with them and then loot all their money. It is also revealed that the DCP who has been behind these girls was not in regards to his job but only because he was cheated and looted by Madhu in the past on whom he wants to exact revenge.

WHERE TO WATCH- NETFLIX

14) IYARKAI:

Plot- Marudhu, a sailor, falls in love with Nancy, a fruit vendor. However, she waits for the captain who had promised that he would return and marry her. Twist- Nancy plans on moving on with her life with Marudhu but ultimately leaves him for Captain Mukundan on his arrival.

15) ENAKKUL ORUVAN:

Plot- Vicky is an insomniac who agrees to try a pill called Lucia that will help him dream the life he aspires. Soon events in his dreams are replicated in reality. But when the lines begin to blur, there is chaos.

Twist- It is revealed Vicky is actually a colour-blind person. The black and white version is his real story and the colour version is his dream. It is his dream to see colour and live like the torch shiner. The pill brings puts him in a state of confusion between reality and dream which leads him to his coma.

WHERE TO WATCH- ZEE5