Vallarasu

Vallarasu is a 2000 Tamil action film starring Vijayakanth, Devayani, Raghuvaran, Karan, Vadivelu and Livingston. The music is by Deva. It was dubbed in Telugu as Commissioner Narasimha Naidu.^[1] The movie was remade in Hindi as Indian.^[2] The New Straights Times calls the film a blockbuster.^[2]

Plot

Vallarasu (Vijayakanth) is the Deputy Commissioner of Police and a very honest police officer who has arrested Wasim Khan (Mukesh Rishi), a terrorist from Pakistan. He is married and has a wife Anjali (Devayani) and 2 children. Vallarasu kills his senior police officer (Raghuvaran), who is his father-in-law, on knowing he is hand-in-glove with terrorists and anti-national elements. Anjali leaves Vallarasu after she comes to know he had killed her father. Vallarasu takes the help of some youths who are disillusioned by their inability to join the police force to fight the terrorist and other criminal elements. Vallarasu fights R. Kandasamy (P. Vasu), a rich man who is behind the attempts to destabilise the country. With the help of Seshadri (Karan), a software engineer, Vallarasu succeeds in killing the son of Kandasamy. In retaliation, Kandaswamy attacks Sriman and Seshadri who both die. In the climax, Anjali unites with Vallarasu after knowing the truth, and he kills Kandasamy and Wasim Khan.

Cast

• Vijayakanth as Vallarasu
• Devayani as Anjali
• P. Vasu as R. Kandasamy
• Mukesh Rishi as Wasim Khan
• Mansoor Ali Khan
• Livingston as Chidambaram Pillai
• Raghuvaran as Police Officer
• Vadivelu in a guest appearance
• Karan as Seshadri
• Darshan as one of the youths
• Sriman as one of the youths
• R. Sundarrajan
• Ponnambalam
• Thalaivasal Vijay
• Peelisivam
• Ambika
• "New Zealand" Richard as Kandasamy's son

Production

A scene shot was of Vijayakant and Devayani at a jewellery shop in T.Nagar in Chennai. The song was picturised near Pollachi and with the lead pair there were about 100 dancers. And choreographing the dance was dance master Haridas. A lavish set was erected at the A.V.M. Studios where a stunt scene was picturised between Vijayakant and Richard. Some stunt scenes were picturised between Vijayakant and Richard. Some stunt artistes who played as Richard's henchmen, also participated in the shot. Apart from Chennai, shooting locations were at New Delhi and Kulu Manali.^[3] Bollywood villain Mukesh Rishi made his debut in Tamil cinema with this film. Director P. Vasu made his debut as actor with this film.

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