Aadhavan

Aadhavan
Directed by	K. S. Ravikumar
Written by	Ramesh Khanna
Produced by	Udhayanidhi Stalin
Starring	Surya Vadivelu, Nayantara, Anand Babu, Bharath Murali, Saroja Devi Rahul Dev
Cinematography	R. Ganesh
Edited by	Don Max
Music by	Harris Jayaraj
Distributed by	Red Giant Movies
Release date	October 17, 2009
Running time	134 mins
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	25 crore

Aadhavan is a hit movie in 2009 basically a Tamil action thriller, directed by K. S. Ravikumar and written by Ramesh Khanna. The film features Surya in the title role along with Vadivelu in lead roles and Murali, Nayantara, Anand Babu, Ramesh Khanna, B. Saroja Devi, Rahul Dev, Sayaji Shinde in its supporting cast. The music is composed by Harris Jayaraj. The film, simultaneously dubbed into Telugu as Ghatikudu, was released on October 17, 2009 during Diwali. This movie was Malayalam actor Murali's last film before his death in August 2009.Comedy scenes are the Highlight of this movie

Plot

Aadhavan (Surya) is a professional assassin who works for his adoptive father, Ibrahim Rowther (Sayaji Shinde) and his brother, Tharani (Anand Babu). He is contracted by Abdul Kulkarny (Rahul Dev) to assassinate prominent Judge Subramaniam (Murali), who is presently working on child kidnapping and murder cases in the Eastern Indian belt for sale of their organs to foreign countries. Aadhavan fails to shoot the judge at the first attempt but angry with himself for having missed his shot, he promises to finish his mission. He then proceeds to use the judge's innocent servant Bannerjee (Vadivelu) to get into the family home as Murugan, Bannerjee's brother-in-law. He locks up Bannerjee's real brother-in-law, Murugan (Sathyan), in a ship and threatens Bannerjee with his name all the time. Slowly Aadhavan, as Murugan, begins to win over the members of the judge's household beginning with the judge's mother (B. Saroja Devi), and eventually and finally with his niece, thara(Nayantara). He attempts to assassinate the judge in the middle of the night and also by planting a bomb in the van while the judge is traveling to Darjeeling but both attempts fail. In Darjeeling, Aadhavan is handed over a guitar belonging to the aspiring wannabe musician, fiance of thara, Ilaiman (Ramesh Khanna) by Dara to hide away. He plants a mobile bomb in the guitar and places it in one of the cars which soon explodes.

Thara is now suspicious but Murugan informs her in secret that he is in fact the judge's runaway son Madhavan who ran away from home when he was only ten years old. thara soon informs all the members of the household except the judge that Murugan is Madhavan, although in private Muruguan tells Bannerjee that he was only joking and that he is not Madhavan.

However on Thara's birthday, Aadhavan shows that he is indeed Madhavan, when in a flashback it is shown that a young Madhavan carried a gift for Dara where a bomb had been planted by Madhavan's friend's mother as an act of revenge. Madhavan's father had put her husband in jail. Though Dara survives, her mother (Anu Hassan) opens the box and gets killed along with her husband in the bomb explosion. Madhavan runs away from home after stealing a gun from the police, accidentally shooting his father and killing his friend's mother who planted the bomb in the toy.

Meanwhile, Abdul Kulkarny is fed up with the attempts of Aadhavan and Ibrahim Rowther and decides to play his cards in another way. He persuades Ibrahim and his gang to surrender to the police and make a confession regarding Aadhavan. When Police ACP (Riaz Khan) confronts Aadhavan and is about to have him hauled off, Aadhavan takes the judge and Thara hostage. He then asks Dara to bring the laptop and the memory stick where the entire information about the culprits involved in the child kidnappings and murder case are stored. Meanwhile, the police commissioner arrives to reveal a further plot twist: Aadhavan is actually indeed Madhavan, the judge's runaway son. The police had caught him when he was making his escape after his attempt to kill the judge had failed. It was then that he made his confession of being the judge's son. The police asked him to go back to the house to protect his father over a twenty four hour period everyday.

This information is relayed to the judge who is tearfully grateful to his son. Meanwhile, Abdul Kulkarny attacks the vehicle in which the Judge, his son and Thara are traveling and a fight ensues where Kulkarny is ultimately killed.. all ends well and bannerjee says he has brought two new servants for the house, who ultimately turn out to be k.s.ravikumar and udhayanidhi stalin.maadhavan is asked to inspect them.He rates them as awesome jesters, and the judge hires them,ending the film successfully.

Cast

• Surya as Aadhavan/Madhavan
• Nayantara as Thara
• Anand Babu as Tharani
• Vadivelu as Banerjee
• Ramesh Khanna as Ilayaman
• Murali as Justice Subramaniam
• B. Saroja Devi as Justice Subramaniam's mother
• Sayaji Shinde as Ibrahim Rowther
• Rahul Dev as Abdul Kulkarni
• Sathyan as Murugan
• Anu Haasan as Thara's mother
• Riyaz Khan as Police ACP
• Manobala
• K. S. Ravikumar in a special appearance
• Udhayanidhi Stalin in a special appearance
• Kiri Jeyam in a special appearance as a teaboy

Box Office

The movie is a hit movie. Though it received mixed reviews, due to Surya's charm and the excellent comedy between Surya and Vadivelu the movie had a fantastic opening. Vadivel's comedy is best in this movie and worth watching. It has grossed Rs. 4.79 Crores in Chennai alone. Movie collected $1,180,928.00 in malaysia and ranked first in the second week collection.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack features 6 tracks, composed by Harris Jayaraj. The soundtrack was released on August 19, by S. Shankar. Most of the songs especially Hasilie Fisiliye were chartbursters.

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Track	Song	Singers	Length (min:sec)	Lyrics	Notes
1	Hasili Fisili	Karthik, Harini, Dr. Burn, Maya	05:25	Pa. Vijay	Features Surya and Nayanthara in a peppy dance number in South Africa.
2	Yeno Yeno Panithuli	Shail Hada, Sudha Raghunathan, Andrea	05:15	Thamarai	Features Surya and Nayanthara in a peppy dance number in Iceland.
3	Dammaku Dammaku	Benny Dayal	05:00	Na. Muthukumar	Intro song of Surya, shot in a college, and various other places.
4	Vaarayo Vaarayo	Unnikrishnan, Chinmayi, Mega	05:24	Kabilan	Romantic interlude featuring Nayanthara and Surya in sets.
5	Dekho Dekho	Suvi Suresh, Sandhya , Sri Charan	05:29	Vaalee	A song featuring Nayanthara, Saroja Devi and Vadivelu , at the Chettinadu Palace.
6	Maasi Maasi	Mano, Mega	05:34	Vaalee	A song featuring Surya, Nayanthara and Saroja Devi shot in Kodaikanal.