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 its release, the movie took the biggest ever opening in Tamil cinema history.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Crew
4 Trivia
5 External links

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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

After few months, Raghavan receives message about gruesome murder of Arokiya Raj and his wife. He proceeds to New York 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 New York. He finds pattern in those murders and finds resemblance with Arokiyaraj's daughter murder at India. Based on clues,he tracks down two Indian medical students studying at New York. 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. Kamal Haasan's Raghavan is underplayed and is a class act.This is easily Kamal's best performance in recent years.The encounter scenes between the villains 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 Gautham Menon's incredible hold over the medium and his trademark awesome narrating skills, racy climax, incredible camerawork and Kamal Haasan's performance which included a scintillating introduction.

[edit] Cast

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

[edit] Crew

Director : Gautham Menon
Cinematography :Ravi Varman
Art Direction :Rajeevan
Editing : Anthony
Producer : Manickam Narayanan
Music : Harris Jayaraj

[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)
This is the continuous 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.
Director, Gautham Menon has plans to remake this movie in Hindi staring Ajay Devgan after he completes shooting his next film with Surya Sivakumar.
The movie is loosely based on the Robert DeNiro and Edward Burns starrer 15 Minutes
The film emerged as the number 1 biggest grosser of 2006