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'''''Vettai''''' ({{lang-ta|வேட்டை}}; {{lang-en|Hunt}}) is a 2012 [[Tamil cinema|Tmail]] [[coming-of-age film|coming-of-age]] [[action film]] written and directed by [[N. Linguswamy]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Pillai, Sreedhar|title=Arya-Tamannaah in Lingusamy's next|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/regional/news-interviews/Arya-Tamannaah-in-Lingusamys-next/articleshow/6579987.cms|publisher=[[Times of India]]|accessdate=2010-09-18}}</ref> The film stars [[Arya (actor)|Arya]], [[R. Madhavan]], [[Sameera Reddy]] and [[Amala Paul]] in the lead roles while [[Ashutosh Rana]], [[Thambi Ramaiah]] and [[Nasser]] played supporting roles.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web|url=http://sify.com/movies/madhavan-to-join-vettai-team-news-tamil-kknjFEjhchb.html |title=Madhavan to join Vettai team! |publisher=Sify.com |date=2010-10-13 |accessdate=2011-09-24}}</ref> The film score is composed by [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]], while cinematography is by [[Nirav Shah]] and editing handled by [[Anthony (film editor)|Anthony Gonsalves]].<ref>{{cite web|author=|title=It's Arya... not Vijay...|url=http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news-1/sep-10-03/arya-vijay-lingusamy-18-09-10.html|publisher=Behindwoods|accessdate=2010-09-18}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> The film became announced shortly after the release of Lingusamy's ''[[Paiyaa]]'', with [[Dhayanidhi Alagiri|Dhayanidhi Alagiri's]] [[Cloud Nine Movies]] agreeing to produce the film, following a successful collaboration during the director's previous film.<ref name=autogenerated5>{{cite web|url=http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news-1/apr-10-03/paiyaa-dayanidhi-alagiri-19-04-10.html |title=Paiyaa - Tamil Movie News - After Paiyaa's success… - Paiyaa &#124; Dayanidhi Alagiri &#124; Cloud Nine Movies &#124; Lingusamy &#124; Silambarasan |publisher=Behindwoods.com |date=2010-04-19 |accessdate=2011-09-24}}</ref> During a lengthy pre-production phase, the film, however, underwent major changes in its main cast and Cloud Nine Movies stepped out of the project, with Linguswamy's own banner, [[Thirupathi Brothers]], taking up the film.<ref name=autogenerated6>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/64621.html |title=Lingusamy and Bros: The Going is great - Tamil Movie News |publisher=IndiaGlitz |date= |accessdate=2011-09-24}}</ref> Filming was initially planned to begin by mid-2010,<ref name="Simbu - Lingusamy ready">{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/55730.html |title=Simbu - Lingusamy ready - Tamil Movie News |publisher=IndiaGlitz |date= |accessdate=2011-09-24}}</ref> but was delayed until March 2011.<ref name=autogenerated3>{{cite web|url=http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news-1/mar-11-03/vettai-lingusamy-16-03-11.html |title=Vettai Begins! - Vettai - Lingusamy - Arya - Maddy - Tamil Movie News |publisher=Behindwoods.com |date=2011-03-16 |accessdate=2011-09-24}}</ref>
'''''Vettai''''' ({{lang-ta|வேட்டை}}; {{lang-en|Hunt}}) is a 2012 [[Tamil cinema|Tamil]] [[coming-of-age film|coming-of-age]] [[action film]] written and directed by [[N. Linguswamy]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Pillai, Sreedhar|title=Arya-Tamannaah in Lingusamy's next|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/regional/news-interviews/Arya-Tamannaah-in-Lingusamys-next/articleshow/6579987.cms|publisher=[[Times of India]]|accessdate=2010-09-18}}</ref> The film stars [[Arya (actor)|Arya]], [[R. Madhavan]], [[Sameera Reddy]] and [[Amala Paul]] in the lead roles while [[Ashutosh Rana]], [[Thambi Ramaiah]] and [[Nasser]] played supporting roles.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web|url=http://sify.com/movies/madhavan-to-join-vettai-team-news-tamil-kknjFEjhchb.html |title=Madhavan to join Vettai team! |publisher=Sify.com |date=2010-10-13 |accessdate=2011-09-24}}</ref> The film score is composed by [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]], while cinematography is by [[Nirav Shah]] and editing handled by [[Anthony (film editor)|Anthony Gonsalves]].<ref>{{cite web|author=|title=It's Arya... not Vijay...|url=http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news-1/sep-10-03/arya-vijay-lingusamy-18-09-10.html|publisher=Behindwoods|accessdate=2010-09-18}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> The film became announced shortly after the release of Lingusamy's ''[[Paiyaa]]'', with [[Dhayanidhi Alagiri|Dhayanidhi Alagiri's]] [[Cloud Nine Movies]] agreeing to produce the film, following a successful collaboration during the director's previous film.<ref name=autogenerated5>{{cite web|url=http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news-1/apr-10-03/paiyaa-dayanidhi-alagiri-19-04-10.html |title=Paiyaa - Tamil Movie News - After Paiyaa's success… - Paiyaa &#124; Dayanidhi Alagiri &#124; Cloud Nine Movies &#124; Lingusamy &#124; Silambarasan |publisher=Behindwoods.com |date=2010-04-19 |accessdate=2011-09-24}}</ref> During a lengthy pre-production phase, the film, however, underwent major changes in its main cast and Cloud Nine Movies stepped out of the project, with Linguswamy's own banner, [[Thirupathi Brothers]], taking up the film.<ref name=autogenerated6>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/64621.html |title=Lingusamy and Bros: The Going is great - Tamil Movie News |publisher=IndiaGlitz |date= |accessdate=2011-09-24}}</ref> Filming was initially planned to begin by mid-2010,<ref name="Simbu - Lingusamy ready">{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/55730.html |title=Simbu - Lingusamy ready - Tamil Movie News |publisher=IndiaGlitz |date= |accessdate=2011-09-24}}</ref> but was delayed until March 2011.<ref name=autogenerated3>{{cite web|url=http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news-1/mar-11-03/vettai-lingusamy-16-03-11.html |title=Vettai Begins! - Vettai - Lingusamy - Arya - Maddy - Tamil Movie News |publisher=Behindwoods.com |date=2011-03-16 |accessdate=2011-09-24}}</ref>


The film revolves around two brothers, the elder being sensitive to violence and the younger being a jobless rogue, settled in [[Thoothukudi]]. After the death of their father, a police officer, the elder brother takes on the same job by request of the younger. The older brother rises to fame in his job by having his younger brother secretly punish suspects and save victims for him. This angers two of the village's biggest mob bosses, who begin to seek revenge on the elder brother. After getting severely beaten by them, the elder brother loses his fear and becomes physically stronger through training from his younger brother. How the brothers get back at two gangs and protect their families form the rest of the story. The film was released worldwide on 13 January 2012.<ref name=release/>
The film revolves around two brothers, the elder being sensitive to violence and the younger being a jobless rogue, settled in [[Thoothukudi]]. After the death of their father, a police officer, the elder brother takes on the same job by request of the younger. The older brother rises to fame in his job by having his younger brother secretly punish suspects and save victims for him. This angers two of the village's biggest mob bosses, who begin to seek revenge on the elder brother. After getting severely beaten by them, the elder brother loses his fear and becomes physically stronger through training from his younger brother. How the brothers get back at two gangs and protect their families form the rest of the story. The film was released worldwide on 13 January 2012.<ref name=release/>

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Vettai
File:Vettai-poster06.jpg
Promotional poster
Directed byN. Linguswamy
Written byBrinda Sarathy (dialogues)
Screenplay byN. Linguswamy
Story byN. Linguswamy
Produced byN. Subash Chandra Bose
Ronnie Screwvala
StarringArya
R. Madhavan
Sameera Reddy
Amala Paul
CinematographyNirav Shah
Edited byAnthony Gonsalves
Music byYuvan Shankar Raja
Production
company
Distributed byUTV Motion Pictures[2]
Release date
  • January 13, 2012 (2012-01-13)
[1]
Running time
168 minutes
CountryTemplate:Film India
LanguageTamil

Vettai (Tamil: வேட்டை; English: Hunt) is a 2012 Tamil coming-of-age action film written and directed by N. Linguswamy.[3] The film stars Arya, R. Madhavan, Sameera Reddy and Amala Paul in the lead roles while Ashutosh Rana, Thambi Ramaiah and Nasser played supporting roles.[4] The film score is composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, while cinematography is by Nirav Shah and editing handled by Anthony Gonsalves.[5] The film became announced shortly after the release of Lingusamy's Paiyaa, with Dhayanidhi Alagiri's Cloud Nine Movies agreeing to produce the film, following a successful collaboration during the director's previous film.[6] During a lengthy pre-production phase, the film, however, underwent major changes in its main cast and Cloud Nine Movies stepped out of the project, with Linguswamy's own banner, Thirupathi Brothers, taking up the film.[7] Filming was initially planned to begin by mid-2010,[8] but was delayed until March 2011.[9]

The film revolves around two brothers, the elder being sensitive to violence and the younger being a jobless rogue, settled in Thoothukudi. After the death of their father, a police officer, the elder brother takes on the same job by request of the younger. The older brother rises to fame in his job by having his younger brother secretly punish suspects and save victims for him. This angers two of the village's biggest mob bosses, who begin to seek revenge on the elder brother. After getting severely beaten by them, the elder brother loses his fear and becomes physically stronger through training from his younger brother. How the brothers get back at two gangs and protect their families form the rest of the story. The film was released worldwide on 13 January 2012.[1]

Cast

Production

Development

In April 2010, following the success of Paiyaa, Cloud Nine Movies, who had distributed the film, announced a successive collaboration with the film's director N. Linguswamy,[6][10] who would make a romantic action film with Silambarasan in the lead role.[8] For pre-production works, the crew of the team subsequently headed to Macau to work out the script,[11] following which Lingusamy moved to the Orange County resort in Coorg, Karnataka to finalize the script.[12] Later that month a photo shoot was completed, with Silambarsan sporting the get up of an NCC cadet,[13] However, in July 2010, reports suggested that Silambarasan was dropped from the project, since he suddenly, without informing Lingusamy and Dhayanidhi, signed himself up and began working in Vaanam (2011).[14] Silambarasan, in return, revealed that he had not officially signed Cloud Nine Pictures' film, and only decided to work on Vaanam, since Lingusamy was not able to narrate the complete script, despite making him wait for over 100 days.[15] Controversially, Silambarasan later signed another film in September 2010, which was similarly titled as Vettai Mannan.[16][17]

Eventually in September 2010, the film was official announced at a press meet with the title Vettai, with Arya replacing Silambarasan. At the press meet, he revealed that he worked for over three months on the script, keeping his editor Anthony Gonsalvez and cinematographer Nirav Shah updated about the developments.[18] The film's principal photography was initially supposed to commence in June 2010,[19] but due to pre-production works, it got delayed further and was postponed to December.[20] The film was announced as a bilingual project, to be shot separately in Tamil and Telugu. The Telugu version was supposed to be produced by Tirupati Prasad of Mega Supergood Films and feature Mahesh Babu in the lead role,[12] with Madhavan reprising his role.[4] In March 2011, Cloud Nine Movies stepped out of the project, which prompted Linguswamy to produce Vettai, too, under his home banner Thirupathi Brothers along with his brother Subash Chandrabose.[7][21]

Casting

After Silambarasan's exit, Vijay was expected to enact the lead role, who had earlier agreed to star in a Lingusamy film in future,[22] and was subsequently approached by the team.[14] He, however, declined the offer, not willing to play a role that was "originally written keeping in mind the image of another actor".[22] Only in September 2010, during the official announcement, it became apparent that Arya was signed on to reprise the lead role. Furthermore, Linguswamy was trying to rope in Madhavan for another leading role, while, several days later, sources reported that Madhavan definitely had rejected the offer.[23] The next month, however, it was confirmed that Madhavan was roped in to enact the role as a police officer and brother of Arya's character.[4]

The lead female role was reported to be essayed by Tamannaah Bhatia, who had been part of Linguswamy's Paiyaa as well. In an interview later, she disclosed that she was nott approached earlier and though she liked the script, she could not take the offer due to her prior commitments.[24] Anushka Shetty then accepted the offer,[25] while Sameera Reddy was signed to play Madhavan's pair in the film, as a village girl.[26] In late November 2010, Anushka pulled out and Amala Paul, following her critically acclaimed performance in Mynaa, was roped in to essay a leading character, as the love interest of Arya's character.[27]

Filming

Originally planned to commence in June 2010, the filming was postponed several times either due to pending pre-production works and unavailibility of the artists.[28] After Arya had finished shooting and dubbing for Avan Ivan, the first schedule was planned to begin on 2 March, which however, was also cancelled as Dhayanidhi wanted the filming to be pushed by another two months, which supposedly was the reason for Linguswamy's decision to produce the film himself. Shooting eventually started on 16 March 2011 in Karaikudi, with Madhavan, Arya, Sameera Reddy and Amala Paul participating.[9] A song "Dumma Dumma Dummaa", choreographed by Brindha, was shot first, with nearly 2000 people being part of the shoot along with the four lead actors.[29][30] A fight sequence, involving Arya and Madhavan, was shot in the Pondicherry University sports complex on 24 April.[31] In June 2011, other key action sequences were filmed at Madurai, Thoothukudi, Thanjavur and Aruppukottai.[32] The introduction song of the film was also shot in Thanjavur.[33] Some action sequences were shot in Madanapalle, a town located in the Chittor district of Andhra Pradesh,[34] while the climax was shot at Binny Mills in Chennai under the supervision of stunt director Silva.[35]

Soundtrack

Untitled

Following successful collaborations with director Linguswamy in Sandakozhi (2005) and Paiyaa (2010), Yuvan Shankar Raja was signed up to produce the film score and soundtrack for Vettai as well. In November 2010, the duo along with lyricist Na. Muthukumar left for Malaysia to compose the first tunes. The soundtrack album was launched on 16 December 2011 at the Anna Centenary Auditorium in Kotturpuram, Chennai,[36] with several lead actors and directors from the Tamil film industry attending the event.[37][38] Four days prior to the soundtrack release, the song "Pappappa" was launched as a single track at the studios of Radio Mirchi, with a making-of video of the recording being simultanously uploaded on YouTube.[39][40] The song, which was sung by Yuvan Shankar Raja himself along with Renu Kannan, a finalist of the second season of the reality-based singing competition Airtel Super Singer, quickly gained attention and became very popular.[41][42]

All lyrics are written by Na. Muthukumar

Track listing
No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Dham Dham"Karthik, Krish4:35
2."Damma Damma"Haricharan, Shweta Mohan4:51
3."Kattipidi Enna"Vijay Prakash, Shweta Pandit5:09
4."Pappappa"Yuvan Shankar Raja, Renu4:07
5."Thaiya Thakka"Harini, Saindhavi5:22
Total length:24:13

Release

Vettai released on the Pongal weekend on 13 January 2012. The film was released in a total of 450 cinemas across India, with 340 of them alone in Tamil Nadu. In the process, the film became the biggest ever release, in terms of prints, for Madhavan and Arya.[43].upon release it collected 1.30 crores alone in chennai and in kerala it grossed 2 crores.the film was turned into positive reviews.

Critical Reception

Behindwoods rated Vettai 2.5/5 and called it a light hearted film for the holiday season.[44] Sify called Vettai "Paisa Vasool"[45] Pavithra Srinivasan of Rediff rated it 2.5/5 stating that "Vettai is no classic, but it is good fun."[46] Rohit Ramachandran of Nowrunning.com raited it 3/5 stating that "Vettai is regular Kollywood stuff superiorly packaged with insurmountable energy."[47]

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