Laththi (transl. Baton), also known as Laththi Charge (Lathi/Baton Charge), is a 2022 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by A. Vinoth Kumar and produced by Ramana and Nandha Durairaj under Rana Productions. The film, which marks Vinoth's directorial debut, stars Vishal, alongside Ramana, Master Lirish Raghav, Sunaina and Prabhu. The music was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, while the cinematography and editing were handled by Balasubramaniem & Balakrishna Thota and N. B. Srikanth.

This is the second collaboration between Vishal and Sunaina after Samar. It was shot extensively across Tamil Nadu, including Thiruvanmiyur and Chennai and the final schedule in Hyderabad.

Laththi was released on 22 December 2022 to mixed reviews from critics.

Muruganantham is a police constable living with his wife, Kavitha, and ten-year-old son, Rasu, an asthmatic. His asthma flares up when he becomes scared. One day, Muruganantham gets suspended for having tortured an innocent civilian suspected of assaulting a girl named Pavithra, who later dies due to her injuries. Six months later, Muruganantham rescinded his suspension with help from DSP Ranganathan and joined back on duty.

Weeks later, DIG Kamal called Muruganantham to a secluded spot to torture a suspect for harassing his daughter. Kamal took voluntary retirement effective that day and had met the suspect by accident. He had managed to catch him and bring him bound. Muruganantham reluctantly tortures the suspect and later drops him off in a waste yard. It turns out that the suspect is Vellai, the son of an influential mafia kingpin named Sura. Sura had planned to get Vellai married to an ex-minister in the opposition party and make his son an MLA and a minister in the coming elections. Enraged about Vellai's torture, Sura learns about Muruganantham and sends his henchmen to bring him. Muruganantham and Rasu escape from Sura's henchmen, where they get trapped in an under-construction building.

Muruganantham finds a place for Rasu to hide, but it turns out that Rasu is not feeling well and needs his inhaler in his bag near the ground floor of the building. Muruganantham attempts to reach the ground floor, but Vellai and his men capture and beat Muruganantham with a laththi. Muruganantham informs that he knew about Vellai earlier and his involvement in Pavithra's death. Muruganantham also reveals that he purposely brought Sura, Vellai and their henchmen to the building to finish them and secretly brought weapons from the station's weaponry to attack the henchmen.

After the revelation, Muruganantham escapes and sets off machine guns, killing most of the henchmen. Rasu attempts to escape the building, but Vellai captures him. Rasu is buried alive, and Muruganantham desperately comes down and tries to find Rasu. Vellai stabs and injures Muruganantham. After a brief emotional breakdown, worrying over his son's fate, Muruganantham finds Rasu and administers the inhaler. Muruganantham attacks the henchmen with his laththi and kills Sura. He then kills Vellai, thus avenging Pavithra's death. Muruganantham reunites with Rasu and tells him to forget the incident, and they return home.

The film was tentatively titled as Vishal32. On 17 October 2021, the film's official title was unveiled as Laththi Charge, which was chosen as it would work across multiple languages. At the same time, it was reported that the film will have a pan-Indian release (in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi) and will be released in the month of September although the release date got postponed.