Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu

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Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu
Directed by Gautham Menon
Produced by Manickam Narayanan
Written by Gautham Menon
Starring Kamal Haasan
Jyothika
Kamalinee Mukherjee
Prakash Raj
Music by Harris Jayaraj
Distributed by Photon Factory
Release date(s) August, 25 2006
Running time 2 hrs 55 mins
Language Tamil
Budget Rs. 24 crores ($ 5.2 million)
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Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (2006) is a Tamil film starring Kamal Haasan, Jyothika, Kamalinee Mukherjee, Prakash Raj and music composed by Harris Jayaraj. The film is directed by Gautham Menon and produced by Manickam Narayan.Despite a considerable delay in it's release,the movie took the biggest ever opening in tamil cinema.

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[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Raghavan(Kamal Haasan) is an honest cop in Tamil Nadu.His wife dies in violet incident. Arokiyaraj (Prakash Raj) is his colleague. Raghavan is deputed to investigate into Arokiyaraj's daughter murder at some remote village in Tamilnadu. Arokiyaraj shifts his base to Newyork after his daughter's murder.

After few months, Raghavan recives message about gruesome murder of Arokiyaraj and his wife. He proceeds to Newyork to conduct Preliminary investigations. There,he saves Jyothika from committing suicide due to problems with her estranged husband. Raghavan unearthes series of young girls murdered at Newyork. He finds pattern in those murders and finds resemblance with Arokiyaraj's daughter murder at India. Based on clues,he tracks down two Tamil homosexual medical students studying at Newyork. They escape to India by causing severe injuries to Raghavan.

Raghavan returns back to India and Jyothika follows with him. Jyothika accepts Raghavan's offer for marriage. In India, culprits chase Raghavan and commits another half a dozen murders. They kidnap Jyothika to blackmail Raghavan. The rest of the story is a graphic depiction of the culprit's acts and about how Raghavan traces and brings an end to the chase.

The film is one of the most beautifully shot film with camera by Ravi Verman and ably supported by editor Anthony.The villains are the pillars of the film and the encounter scenes between them and the hero are laudable.On the down side there has been too much of violence against women.The murders are gruesome.However,the film has been declared a super hit of recent times.The highlights of the movie are the racy climax,incredible camerawork and kamal haasan's perfomance which included a scintillating introduction.

[edit] Cast

  • Kamal Haasan...........DCP Raghavan
  • Jyothika...............Aradhana
  • Kamalinee Mukherjee....Kayalvizhi
  • Lev Gorn...............Anderson
  • Prakash Raj............Arockia Raj
  • Daniel Balaji..........Amudhan Sukumaran
  • Saleem Baig ...........Ilamaran Ganesan
  • Rajshri Nair ..........Chitra Arockia Raj

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[edit] Trivia

  • The crew shot a lot of chopper shots around downtown Manhattan and Holland Tunnel.
  • This movie released after a long delay(supposed to have been released in January 2006) and is currently set to become the biggest hit of Kollywood for 2006.
  • This is the continous 4th film that Harris Jeyaraj has scored music for movie directed by Gautham Menon.
  • Kamal Haasan does the role of a cop after 11 years since Kurudhipunal(1995).
  • Director Gautham Menon does a hat trick in Tamil with this movie after his blockbuster hits Minnale(2001) and Kaaka Kaaka(2003).
  • According to the director this is just another episode in a police officer's life.
  • This is Kamal Haasan's first film that acknowledges him as Dr. Kamal Haasan.
  • Ravi Verman has done some scintillating camera work, in what has been a technically brilliant film.

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Movies by Gautham Menon
Minnale | Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein | Kaaka Kaaka | Gharshana | Vettaiyadu Villaiyadu | Pachaikili Muthucharam | Vaaranam Aayiram | Chennaiyil Oru Mazhai Kaalam
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