For a movie touted to be Vijay’s final offering now that he has a state to run, Jana Nayagan (The People’s Hero) is astonishingly lazy. Vetri adopts Viji after Srikanth’s death and vows to help her fulfil her dream of joining the Indian Army. Bobby Deol in Jana Nayagan (2026). Jana Nayagan proceeds for 183 minutes like a greatest hits list of scenes from Vijay’s older politically tinted films, among them Mersal (2017) and Sarkar (2018). A line of dialogue declares that Tamil Nadu is struggling without a leader to give it hope.