Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga

Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga
Film poster
Directed by	M. Rajesh
Produced by	Arya
Written by	M. Rajesh
Starring	Arya Tamannaah Santhanam Bhanu Vidyullekha Raman Karunakaran
Music by	D. Imman
Cinematography	Nirav Shah
Edited by	Vivek Harshan
Production company	The Show People
Release dates	14 August 2015 (2015-08-14)
Running time	158 minutes and 12 seconds
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga (English Translation: Vasu and Saravanan Studied Together) is an Indian Tamil romantic comedy film written and directed by M. Rajesh. It features Arya and Tamannaah in lead roles while Santhanam plays a prominent role. Actor Vishal made a cameo appearance in this film. Arya himself is producing the film under his production company 'The Show People' associating with Prasad V Potluri's PVP cinema.

The soundtrack was composed by D. Imman. Nirav Shah and Vivek Harshan handled cinematography and editing, respectively. The film began production in November 2014 and was released on 14 August 2015.

Plot

Vasu and Saravanan are best friends. Vasu's wife wants Vasu to break his friendship with Saravanan. Vasu does not want to break his friendship with Saravanan directly as to not hurt Saravanans feelings. Vasu helps Saravanan to get a girlfriend in the hopes that the girlfriend will be a reason to end the friendship.

Cast

• Arya as Saravanan
• Santhanam as Vasu
• Vishal as Assistant Commissioner Vetri Vel (Cameo)
• Tamannaah as Aishwarya Balaki
• Bhanu as Seema
• Karunakaran as Gautham
• Vidyullekha Raman as Kausalya
• Sayaji Shinde as Ashok
• Pattimandram Raja as Balakrishnan
• Siddharth Vipin as Ashwin
• Renuka as Kamatchi
• Brindha Das as Sudha
• Venniradai Moorthy as Moorthy
• Swaminathan as Point to Point Padmanabhan
• Surekha as Ambujam
• Heera as Pooja
• Jyothi Lakshmi as Lakshmi
• Shakeela as Akila Cheichi
• 'Mahanadhi' Shankar as Police Officer (Cameo)
• Supergood Subramani as Museum Security
• Ratheesh Nambiar as Rahul Varma

Production

In November 2013, Arya agreed to finance and star in the lead role of director M. Rajesh's next venture, with Santhanam also brought in to the project to play a supporting role. Nayantara was also reported to be a part of the film and an official press statement was released during the same month, stating that filming would begin in late 2014 after Arya had finished his ongoing commitments.^[1] In March 2014, Rajesh revealed that it would be a sequel to their successful comedy film Boss Engira Bhaskaran (2010) and that Tamannaah would also play a new character in the franchise.^[2] Nayantara later opted out of the film, and Rajesh began re-working the script.^[3] In October 2014, Rajesh then announced that the film would not be a sequel to his previous film and that it would be a new script.^[4]

A launch event was held on 21 November 2014 and the team began production on the same day, with scenes involving Arya and Tamannaah shot.^[5] The cast and crew list was also revealed with Bhanu, Karunakaran and Vidyullekha Raman also included in the film.^[6] The movie title has been revealed as Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga (VSOP) on 24 November.^[7] It was known that Prasad V Potluri is also producing the film under his banner PVP cinema along with Arya's 'The Show People'.^[8]

Soundtrack

D. Imman, composed the musical score and soundtrack of this movie. Behindwoods rated 2.5 out of 5 and stated "VSOP is sorta catchy but lacks the Fizz".^[9]

Release

The satellite rights of the film were sold to STAR Vijay.^[10] The official teaser released on 22 July 2015.^[11]

Reception

The film received mixed reviews but was praised for the comedy. Rediff gave the film 2 stars out of 5 and wrote that "the offending script make Rajesh’s Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga a silly and tasteless film that does not deserve your time."^[12] Indiaglitz gave the film 2.5 stars out of 5 and wrote, "This film has many rib tickling, entertaining and engaging moments. But when can we expect an entertainer from Kollywood that does not pass demeaning judgments on women and tease someone for their looks to make others laugh?."^[13] The Times of India gave the film 2.5 stars out of 5 and wrote, "What Rajesh has done is [..] taking bits and pieces from his previous successful films and giving us a new film that feels familiar. The only difference is that he manages to succeed... to an extent".^[14] India Today rated 1 star and criticised that "Rajesh's two-and-half-hour script has nothing, but female bashing, making fun of plus-sized women, double-meaning-ed, innuendo-ed dialogues and absurd one-liners, which are sweet-coated as humour".^[15]

References

External links

• Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga at the Internet Movie Database