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'''''Vettaikaaran''''' ({{literal translation|Hunter}}) is a 2009 [[Tamil language]] [[action film]] directed by debutant [[B. Babusivan]] that stars [[Vijay (actor)|Vijay]] and [[Anushka Shetty]]. Gopinath handled [[cinematography]] while [[V. T. Vijayan]] was the film's editor. The film was later dubbed into Hindi as ''Dangerous Khiladi 3'' by Goldmines Telefilms in 2014. It is [[List of Tamil films of 2009|one of the highest-grossing film of 2009]]. The film was a commercial success.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221074110/http://www.sify.com/movies/boxoffice.php?id=pluprFijeeaec|title=Vettaikaran declared as a hit in box office|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> |
'''''Vettaikaaran''''' ({{literal translation|Hunter}}) is a 2009 [[Tamil language]] [[action film]] directed by debutant [[B. Babusivan]] that stars [[Vijay (actor)|Vijay]] and [[Anushka Shetty]]. Gopinath handled [[cinematography]] while [[V. T. Vijayan]] was the film's editor. The film was later dubbed into Hindi as '''Dangerous Khiladi 3''' by Goldmines Telefilms in 2014. It is [[List of Tamil films of 2009|one of the highest-grossing film of 2009]]. The film was a commercial success.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221074110/http://www.sify.com/movies/boxoffice.php?id=pluprFijeeaec|title=Vettaikaran declared as a hit in box office|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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| Vettaikaaran | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | B. Babusivan |
| Written by | B. Babusivan |
| Produced by | M. Balasubramanian Gurunath Meiyappan |
| Starring | Vijay Anushka Shetty Srihari Sayaji Shinde Salim Ghouse Sathyan Sivakumar |
| Cinematography | S. Gopinath |
| Edited by | V. T. Vijayan |
| Music by | Vijay Antony |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Sun Pictures (India) Ayngaran International(UK) Thameens(Kerala) FiveStar(Malaysia) Sri Sai Ganesh Productions(Telugu) |
Release date |
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Running time | 166 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Vettaikaaran (lit. 'Hunter') is a 2009 Tamil language action film directed by debutant B. Babusivan that stars Vijay and Anushka Shetty. Gopinath handled cinematography while V. T. Vijayan was the film's editor. The film was later dubbed into Hindi as Dangerous Khiladi 3 by Goldmines Telefilms in 2014. It is one of the highest-grossing film of 2009. The film was a commercial success.[1]
Plot
Ravi (Vijay), a youth from Thoothukudi, aspires to become a policeman like his role model, Chennai-based Encounter Specialist DCP Devaraj IPS (Srihari). After completing the twelfth standard on his seventh attempt, he joins a college in Chennai and partly earns a living by driving an auto rickshaw. During the course, he meets an information technology (IT) professional Susheela (Anushka Shetty) and falls in love with her instantly. Although Susheela rejects Ravi's advances at first, Ravi gets help from her grandmother (Sukumari), and succeeds in winning Susheela's heart.
Meanwhile, the entire district is ruled and Devaraj has been relieved from Police duty, without anyone's notice. Don Chella (Ravi Shankar), a local rowdy and a deep womaniser, meets Ravi's friend Uma (Sanchita Padukone) in a public place, where she is taking donations for some cause, and immediately develops an infatuation to her body. When Uma asks Chella to contribute money, he willingly donates, but violates her modesty by placing the money between her breasts. Chella abducts all of Uma's father's vehicles, and blackmails them to send Uma to him for one day in exchange for all vehicles.
Uma's father declines and is about to send her out of town to their village. Ravi learns out what had happened to Uma, and he comes to her defense and heavily beats up Chella, hospitalizing him. His troubles start from there as Chella's father, the most powerful, rich and prime don named Vedanayagam (Salim Ghouse), with the help of his right-hand man, a corrupt police officer ACP (Assistant Commissioner of Police) Kattabomman (Sayaji Shinde), begin to create havoc in Ravi's life. Ravi is soon imprisoned on a false case of drug smuggling and is expelled from his college. Only Susheela and Ravi's friend Valayapathi (Srinath) are willing to help him. Susheela goes to Devaraj and pleads with him to help Ravi, but Devaraj initially refuses to help as his entire family was murdered by Vedanayagam, and he himself was blinded by Vedanayagam because he had taken action against him and his gang. However, with the help of his henchmen, he saves Ravi from being killed in a fake encounter led by Kattabomman.
Ravi then visits Devaraj and knows the truth about him. Without a way into the society, Ravi visits Vedanayagam himself. Vedanayagam gives Ravi a tour of his whole empire and life history. He tells Ravi that his only key was the Fear about him in people's minds. He orders a driver of his illegal spirit factory about to smuggle his illicit liquor to drop Ravi on the way. But Ravi abducts the vehicle en route. Ravi then visits Kattabomman. He blackmails Kattabomman into registering a case against Vedhanayagam for smuggling liquor, as he has kidnapped Kattabomman's second wife. Ravi also takes help from a local rich businessmen and clears some cases against him. Ravi also kills the terrorist whose encounter he was to be killed, by using Kattabomman's gun.
It is at this stage, hat Ravi takes up a new persona called "Police" Ravi to clean up the illegal activities of Vedanayagam and instill hope in the public, something that Devaraj was unable to do. He removes all instincts of fear and ruins all further plans of Vedanayagam. Chella suddenly awakens from his coma, and pressurizes Kattabomman to kill Ravi. When Kattabomman fails to do so, Chella sleeps with Kattabomman's second wife and kicks Kattabomman out, reforming him.Due to the increasing power of Ravi, Vedanayagam kills Ravi's close friend Sugu (Sathyan), when he was alone to pick up his pregnant wife. This prompts Ravi to destroy all of Vedanayagam's properties and he also kills Chella in revenge. Vedanayagam decides soon after to become the Home Minister to prevent Ravi from targeting him and his activities.
Vedanayagam bribes and blackmails the Chief Minister and gets himself to be soon appointed as the Home Minister. Now he bombs his own meeting and blames it all on Ravi. All those who supported Ravi are attacked, and Ravi decides to face the devil alone. Ravi arrives at the Vedanayagam Tea Stall, where Vedanayagam is about to leave for the ceremony and fights his henchmen. As Ravi finally plans to kill the about-to-be minister Vedanayagam, the police arrive to arrest him. However, Ravi sees Devaraj in the crowd and announces Vedanayagam's location to him just as he is being arrested, allowing Devaraj to assassinate Vedanayagam, effectively taking his revenge. In the end, Devaraj is reinstated into the police force as a trainer and offers to make Ravi a police officer, as he can nominate him as his heir. However, Ravi refuses, stating that he has found the police officer within himself and that is all he needs to succeed in life.
Cast
- Vijay as "Police" Ravi
- Anushka Shetty as Susheela
- Srihari as Devaraj IPS, Ravi's role model
- Salim Ghouse as Vedanayagam, the main antagonist
- Sayaji Shinde as Kattabomman, a corrupt police officer working for Vedanayagam
- Sanchita Padukone as Uma, Ravi's friend
- Sathyan Sivakumar as Sugu, Ravi's close friend
- Ravi Shankar as Chella Vedanayagam, Vedanayagam's son
- Srinath as Valayapathi, Ravi's friend
- Sukumari as Susheela's grandmother
- Manikka Vinayagam as Uma's father
- Cochin Haneefa as the owner of a complex
- Raviprakash as Commissioner of Police
- Delhi Ganesh as Ravi's father
- Lakshmi Ramakrishnan as Ravi's mother
- Bala Singh as Rajasekhar
- Jayashree as Chella's Wife
- Kalairani
- Manobala
- Jeeva
- Imman Annachi
- Raviprakash
- Jason Sanjay (special appearance in the song "Naan Adicha")
- Madalasa Sharma (special appearance)
- Ashok Raja (special appearance in the song "Puli Urumudhu")
Production
Development
During the filming of Kuruvi, directed by S. Dharani, B. Babusivan served as one of his 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 originally titled as Police Ravi but in August 2008 it was re-titled as Vettaikkaaran, taken from the Vettaikaaran (1964 film) starring M. G. Ramachandran.[2]
Vettaikaran was formally launched the next month. 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
Commercial directors Perarasu and Hari were mentioned, but AVM Productions chose B. Babusivan to be the director of the film.[3][4]
Several actresses were considered for the lead female role with Shriya Saran, Tamannaah, Ileana D'Cruz, Bhavana, Asin,[5] Nayantara and Anushka Shetty[6] being considered for the role. Afterwards, Anushka was finalized to portray the role. Cinematographer Gopinath was chosen to be the lead cameraman in the film after Ravi Varman was dropped from the film.[7] V. T. Vijayan was signed as the film's editor.
Soundtrack
| Vettaikaaran | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by | ||||
| Released | 23 September 2009 | |||
| Recorded | Audiophiles | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Length | 26:33 | |||
| Label | Think Music | |||
| Vijay Antony chronology | ||||
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Tamil
| No. | Song | Singers | Length (m:ss) | Lyrics | Picturization |
| 1 | "Naan Adicha" | Shankar Mahadevan | 4:37 | Kabilan | Rajahmundry |
| 2 | "Karigalan Kala" | Suchith Suresan, Sangeetha Rajeshwaran | 4:17 | Kabilan | Pollachchi |
| 3 | "Puli Urumudhu" | Ananthu, Mahesh Vinayakram | 4:17 | Kabilan | AVM Studio and Madurai |
| 4 | "Oru Chinna Thamarai" | Krish, Dinesh Kanagaratnam, Bonekilla, Suchitra | 4:35 | Viveka | Punai |
| 5 | "En Uchimandai" | Krishna Iyer, Shoba Chandrasekhar, Charulatha Mani, Shakthisree Gopalan | 4:12 | Annamalai | AVM |
Telugu
| No. | Song | Singers | Length (m:ss) | Lyrics | Picturization |
| 1 | "Adugesthey" | Tippu | 4:37 | Vennelakanthi | Rajahmundry |
| 2 | "Karimabbu" | Saketh Naidu, Kavitha | 4:17 | Vennelakanthi | Pollachchi |
| 3 | "Pul Vetidi" | Ramu | 4:17 | Vennelakanthi | AVM Studio and Madurai |
| 4 | "Yeda Alapai" | Rakhi, Veena | 4:35 | Bhuvanachandra | Punai |
| 5 | "Thikkedo" | R.S. John Vianni, Aishwarya | 4:12 | Bhuvanachandra | AVM Studio |
Release
The satellite rights of the film were sold to Sun TV.[8]
Critical reception
Sify gave the film a 4/5 star rating, and wrote the "major plus for the movie are the five peppy songs tuned by Vijay Antony which are choreographed well ... The action scenes by Kanal Kannan are superbly choreographed. Gopinath’s camera is slick and editing is fast-paced".[9] Behindwoods rated 2/5 and stated "The charismatic screen presence of Vijay, enjoyable musical tracks, sparkling stunts, fiery punch lines, the signature lighter moments and foot tapping numbers, makes the movie entertain the family audience, and stated that director B. Babusivan had made a wholesome family entertainer movie.[10] The Times of India gave 2.5 stars out of 5 and stated "As far as commercial films are concerned, Vettaikaran is definitely assured filmmaking by director B. Babusivan"[11]
Awards
| Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vijay Awards | Favourite Hero | Vijay | Won |
| Favourite Heroine | Anushka | Won | |
| Favourite Film | Vettaikaran | Nominated | |
| Favourite Song | Chinna Thamarai | Won | |
| Best Music Director | Vijay Antony | Nominated | |
| Best Villain | Salim Ghouse | Nominated | |
| Best Male Playback Singer | Krish | Nominated | |
| Best Lyricist | Kabilan | Nominated | |
| Best Stunt Director | Kanal Kannan | Nominated | |
| Filmfare Awards South | |||
| Best Lyricist | Kabilan (Karikaalan) |
Nominated | |
| Best Lyricist | Vivega (Oru Chinna Thamarai) |
Nominated | |
| Best Male Playback Singer | Krish (Oru Chinna Thamarai) |
Nominated | |
| Best Female Playback Singer | Suchitra (Oru Chinna Thamarai) |
Nominated | |
| Edison Awards | Best Male Playback Singer | Krish | Won |
| South Scope Cine Awards | Best Tamil Male Play Back Singer | Krish (Oru Chinna Thamarai) |
Nominated |
| Best Tamil Female Playback Singer | Suchitra (Oru Chinna Thamarai) |
Nominated |
References
- ^ "Vettaikaran declared as a hit in box office".
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Vijay to turn 'Vetaikkaaran' after loading 'Villu'". IndiaGlitz. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
- ^ Karthick (25 February 2009). "Wishes to Babu Sivan, all the best in his first film". Naive Expressions.
- ^ "Wishes to Babu Sivan, all the best in his first film".
- ^ "Asin to act in Vijay's Vettaikkaran Movie". TamilWire. 2008. Retrieved 21 October 2009.
- ^ "Anushka Vijay's Lady Love". TamilWire. 2008. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
- ^ "Ravivarman dropped from Vettaikaran". Poochandi. 2009. Retrieved 16 February 2008.
- ^ "Vettaikaran special on Sun TV this weekend". The Times of India. 22 May 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
- ^ Sify Movies – Review listing. Sify.com (2 December 2012). Retrieved on 18 April 2015. Archived 21 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Vettaikaran – Tamil Movie Reviews – Vettaikaran Vijay Anushka Vijay Antony Babu Sivan. Behindwoods.com. Retrieved on 2015-04-18.
- ^ Vettaikaran Movie Review, Trailer, & Show timings at Times of India. Timesofindia.indiatimes.com (20 December 2009). Retrieved on 18 April 2015.
External links
- Vettaikaaran at IMDb
