Veyil () is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language drama film written and directed by Sarath Menon. It is produced by Joby George under the banner of Goodwill Entertainments. The film stars Shane Nigam and Shine Tom Chacko. Veyil marks Sarath's directorial debut. The music is composed by Pradeep Kumar, while Shaz Mohammed completed the cinematography and Praveen Prabhakar has done the editing. The film was released on 25 February 2022, having been postponed from the initial release on 28 January 2022. Plot Sidharth / Sidhu is a wayward youth living with his studious elder brother Karthi and their mother. Sidhu is poor in his academics and only interested in roaming around with his friend. He comes across Sruthy who is the classmate of his friend’s girlfriend and eventually both fall for each other. Sidhu gets into all sorts of troubles including beating up a guy who was trying to woo Sruthy and spreading rumors about her and lands up in police station eventually from where his mother must get him out. Sruthy' s two uncles Baby and Jomy run a money lending business in the city and Baby the elder one is trying to be a candidate for the municipal elections in the area but gets rejected in favor of the late councilor’s son since there are many allegations of forced interest extortions from their finance firm. At some point, Sidhu realizes that his brother Karthi also silently loves Sruthy and is heartbroken at the affair of him with her. He starts avoiding Sruthy and eventually the two break up with Sruthy deciding to move back to Dubai to her parents. At the same time Jomy warns Sidhu to back off from the relationship to which he agrees since he had already decided about it. Karthi gets admission in a medical college after the entrance exams while Sidhu flunks his 12th papers. Their mother books a flat in the city with her life savings but gets swindled by the real estate company when they change her booking to a flat with a lesser value and refuses to refund her. Knowing this Sidhu goes to the company office and creates a ruckus for which police eventually arrest him. Jomy bails him out with the hidden objective of utilizing his as their local muscle. He entrusts Sudhi and another goon Jins to beat up the Councilor candidate. They break his legs when he