Kaali is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language action drama film directed by Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi, starring Vijay Antony in a quadruple role alongside Anjali, Sunaina, Shilpa Manjunath, and Amritha Aiyer.

Every time he sleeps, he gets a recurring dream about a bull chasing a baby and a woman's voice; this leaves him confused.

Bharath assumes his given name Kaali, but when he asks about his father, nobody seems to know who he is, so he sets up a free clinic in the village and tries to do a DNA match test of all the patients who come there.

The villagers line up to receive free treatment from him, and there is a sharp decrease in the number of patients coming to a local Siddha doctor named Valli.

They get him drunk and ask about his past, where a young Periyasamy is in love with his college mate, but they face opposition from their parents due to caste differences.

In the meantime, the DNA test results come, and Kaali finds a match with an older woman named Vellathayee, who may be his grandmother.

She tells that she had a daughter who worked in the church and died in a fire, and Kaali realizes that his mother is not Parvathy but Poomayilu.

While this conversation happens, Das sets fire to all the lower caste community's huts in the wake of Gounder's murder committed by Maari.

In reality, Poomayilu escaped the village without anyone's knowledge, had given birth to Kaali, and lived under a different identity as Parvathy until she died.

In January 2017, it was reported that Vijay Antony would work on a project to be directed by Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi, who had earlier made Vanakkam Chennai (2013).

[4] In March, Vijay Antony confirmed that he would star and also produce the film, which was titled Kaali, with Kiruthiga revealing it would be a "family drama".

"[17] Ashameera Aiyappan of The Indian Express wrote, "Kaali would have been more effective had it been an anthology of three stories of estranged love set in late 1980s, where society plays the devil.