Vettaikaaran (2009 film)

Vettaikaran
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Directed by	B. Babusivan
Produced by	M. Balasubramanian B. Gurunath Meiyappan
Starring	Vijay Anushka Shetty Srihari Salim Ghouse Sayaji Shinde Sanchitha Padukone
Edited by	V. T. Vijayan
Music by	Vijay Antony
Distributed by	Sun Pictures
Release date	December 18, 2009 (2009-12-18)
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	15 Crores

Vettaikaran (2009) (Template:Lang-ta; Template:Lang-en) is a blockbuster Tamil feature film directed by B. Babusivan who with Vettaikkaaran makes his debut as a film director. The film is produced by AVM Productions and distributed by Sun Pictures. The film stars Vijay and Anushka Shetty in the lead roles. Gopinath handled cinematography while V. T. Vijayan was the film's editor. The film was launched in February 2009 and the shooting for the film commenced the following month.

The film's plot revolves around a youngster who aims to be a cop just like a local police commissioner whom he idolizes but during the process he is stopped by the evil done to his friends by a local mobster. How he takes revenge on the mob forms the crux of the story. The film's background score and soundtrack, composed by Vijay Antony, was released on September 23, 2009. Vettaikaran was released on December 18, 2009.

Cast

• Vijay as Ravi.Ravi alias Police Ravi is a young energetic Boy who wants to became a Police Officer just like Devaraj.He moves to Chennai and drives Auto at the same time to fullfill his dreams.During this Time he get probelm with Vedanayagam.

• Anushka Shetty as Susheela. Susheela a beautiful woman who live with her grandmother and her little brother.She fells him love him Ravi.

• Srihari as Devaraj.Devaraj a well known Police commissioner and specialized for his encouter.He got blind after the attack of Vedanayagam and his henchmen.

• Sayaji Shinde as Kattabomman.Kattabomman is really lazy Police Officer who spend time talking to his Girlfriend on the phone.He puts an false encounter on Ravi and tries to Murder him in which he fails.

• Salim Ghouse as Vedanayagam.Vedanayagam a powerful mobster who uses people fair as his strenght.He started his live in working on Tea shop and got arrested with the age of 10.later he wanted to join the politcs to get Ravi out of his way.

• Sanchita Padukone as Uma.Uma a really talkertive but also emotional girl.She is a friend of Ravi and brought him an Auto.

• Ravishankar as Chella Vedanayagam.Chella is the son of Vedanayagam.He call random Girls to his House.He get embreassed after Ravi has beaten him and tries to murder him.

• Srinath as Valayapathi
• Jason Sanjay in a Special Appearance
• Cochin Haneefa as

Production

Development

During the filming of Kuruvi, directed by S. Dharani, B. Babusivan served as one of his prominent assistant directors in the film and wrote the dialogues. Sivan was later prompted to begin his maiden directorial venture with Vijay in the lead role. He was eventually chosen as the director for the next feature film to be produced AVM Productions. The project was announced in August 2008 with the title Vettaikkaaran taken from the 1964 Tamil film starring M. G. Ramachandran.

Until after the Vijay-starrer Villu released in January 2009, Vettaikaran was formally launched the next month at the Vinayagar Temple, a privatized Hindu temple located in one of the studios of AVM Productions. The film's director Babusivan, producers M. Balasubramaniam and B. Gurunath Meyyappan, Vijay and his wife, Vijay Antony, S. A. Chandrasekhar and director Dharani were present at the film's inauguration.

Casting

Perarasu and Hari were mentioned, but later, AVM Productions chose B. Babusivan to be the director of the film.

Several actresses were considered to essay the lead female role with Shriya Saran, Tamanna Bhatia, Ileana D'Cruz, Bhavana Balachandran, Asin Thottumkal, Nayantara, and Anushka Shetty being considered for the role. Afterwards, Anushka Shetty was finalized to portray the role. Vijay Antony was favoured for the music composer position, who recently scored for the film Kadhalil Vizhunthen and received many accolades for "Nakka Mukka" Cinematographer Gopinath was chosen to be the lead cameraman in the film after Ravi Varman was dropped out from the film. V. T. Vijayan was also signed as the film's editor while Milan has been signed to serve as the film's art director.

Filming

Filming for Vettaikaran began on March 9, 2009 The filming took place in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh where the film's title song was choreographed and filmed with Vijay, his son and 100 junior artists. A stunt sequence was filmed in Alwarpet and adjacent areas. An action scene involving Vijay was choreographed along with stunt artists. The song "Puli Urumudhu" was filmed in the south side of Chennai and Madurai.

Soundtrack

Untitled

The film's soundtrack was released September 23, 2009 at Lady Andal School.It was released by S. Shankar and K. S. Ravikumar, while the function was attended by K. Bhagyaraj, Sibiraj, Srikanth, Nakul, Karunas, S. Dharani, Karthi, Vishal and Perarasu. Many other actors and actresses as well as directors, producers and music directors were present at the function.

Track	Song	Singers	Length (Min:Sec)	Lyrics	Notes
1	Puli Urumudhu	Ananthu, Mahesh Vinayakram	4:18	Kabilan
2	Oru Chinna Thamarai	Krish, Suchithra	4:36	Vivega	Extras: Dinesh Kanagarathnam, Bone Killer, Ramya
3	Nan Aadicha	Shankar Mahadevan, Ashwath Ajith	4:37	Kabilan	Intro song featuring Vijay and son Sanjay
4	Karigalan Kala	Surchith, Sangeetha Rajeshvaran	4:17	Kabilan
5	Oru Chinna Thamarai Remix	Krish, Suchithra	4:36	Vivega
6	En Uchimandai	Krishna Iyer, Shoba Chandrasekar, Charulatha Mani, Sakthi Sree	4:12	Annamalai