While filmmakers around the world, especially in Hollywood, raise concerns about the growing use of AI in cinema, here comes a new Tamil film that not only leverages it but plants easter eggs for referencing Hollywood stars and movies. Directed by Adhik Ravichandran, “Good Bad Ugly” (2025) stars Ajith Kumar, commonly known as Ak, who plays a reformed gangster. Ak also goes by another name in the film, Red Dragon.

Ak turns himself in to the prison after his wife refuses to even touch their newborn son, disillusioned by his criminal life. He promises to abandon crime and serves over 17 years in prison. His son grows up believing his father is always away on business trips, never knowing the truth. On the boy’s 18th birthday, Ak is finally released—and just as he prepares to reunite with his son, the boy is arrested in Spain on charges of drug use and possession.