Vaamanan

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Vaamanan
Vaamanan.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by I. Ahmed
Written byI. Ahmed
Produced byR. Ravindran
Starring
Cinematography Arvind Krishna
Edited byS. Surajkavee
Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja
Production
company
Dream Valley Corporation
Release date
  • 10 July 2009 (2009-07-10)
Running time
139 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Vaamanan is a 2009 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by debutant I. Ahmed, and produced by P. Kabilan of Dream Valley Corporation. The film stars Jai, Rahman, Priya Anand, Lakshmi Rai, and Santhanam, in the lead roles, while Urvashi, Sampath Raj, and Thalaivaasal Vijay play supporting roles. The film marks Priya Anand's acting debut. The film score and soundtrack by Yuvan Shankar Raja, while cinematography was handled by Arvind Krishna and editing by S. Surajkavee. The film was released on 10 July 2009.

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Plot

Anand is a young, carefree man from Salem who comes to Chennai to stay with his TV journalist friend Chandru to pursue his dream to become an actor with the help from his newly-found girlfriend Divya and Chandru. Meanwhile, Minister Viduthalai, who was touted to become the next chief minister, is killed by Minister Anbu Chezhiyan, which accidentally gets recorded on the tape of an ad film director named Vinoth. Soon, Anand befriends a famous model Pooja, who is also a friend of Vinoth. Vinoth and Pooja see the video of the murder and inform the joint commissioner Kailasam, who they come to know is also a hand-in-glove in the murder. Kailasam sends some goons to get the tape, and Vinoth evades. After a long chase, Vinoth gets killed in the train where Anand and Divya were travelling. Anand, having witnessed the murder, places the tape into Divya's bag, which she misses in the train. Anand then develops a friendship with her after this.

Anand, in an urge to become an actor, observes the character of people with a strange attitude. One such person is John Vijay. Anand joins John, who, in turn, promises to make him an actor. John takes Anand to a stranger's home and does things as if they were thieves. One such house was that of Pooja, where they go and get information regarding her. On that eve, Anand befriends Pooja when he saves her when she was lying in a pool of blood after being attacked by goons. She helps him become an actor and asks for some photos of his to get him a chance. When Anand goes to Pooja's home, he finds her dead and is put to blame as he was the one present.

At last, it is known that John has used Anand and had also committed this cold-blooded murder. However, Kailasam is after Anand and the tape, and finally, Anand, on seeing Vinoth's photo in Pooja's house reminds himself that the tape was accidentally put in Divya's handbag in the train at the scene of Vinoth's murder. Anand immediately goes to Divya's house and is initially mistaken by Divya and her mother. He calms them down & explains to them that Vinoth and Pooja were killed because of minister Viduthalai's murder getting recorded on their tape, which accidentally ended up in Divya's handbag at the scene of Vinoth's murder. Both Divya and her mother now realize that Anand is really innocent when Divya gives Anand the tape, which eventually falls into the right hands, that of Gopi, Vinoth and Pooja's media friend, who obtains and publicises it.

In the end, John, Anbu Chezhiyan, and Kailasam are all killed, and Anand has become a real-life hero instead of an acting hero.

Cast

Production

Vaamanan is the directorial debut of I. Ahmed, The film was launched on 10 September 2008 at Krishnaveni House, Chennai. Jai, the lead actor, would reportedly receive ₹60 lakh (equivalent to ₹1.5 croreorUS$180,000 in 2023), an increase from the ₹20 lakh (equivalent to ₹50 lakhorUS$59,000 in 2023) he received for his last film before his breakthrough Subramaniapuram . [1] Priya Anand made her acting debut with this film. [2] Filming locations included Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangkok, Malaysia and Singapore. [3] [4] A radio-controlled helicopter was used for filming. The film carries a special thanks in the title card to the actor, Ajith Kumar, who assisted in helping fix a problem encountered with the helicopter. [5] [6]

Soundtrack

Vaamanan
Soundtrack album by
Yuvan Shankar Raja
Released9 April 2009 (India)
Recorded
  • NYSA & PDMS Studio (Mumbai)
  • Kalasa Studio (Chennai)
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length22:23
Label Sony Music
Producer Yuvan Shankar Raja
Yuvan Shankar Raja chronology
Sarvam
(2009)		Vaamanan
(2009)		 Muthirai
(2009)

The soundtrack album of Vaamanan, composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, was released on 9 April 2009 at Sathyam Cinemas in Chennai. [7] The album features 5 songs with lyrics written by the lyricist Na. Muthukumar. The song "Aedho Saigirai" became amongst the year's most popular Tamil film songs. [8]

Track listing
No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Aedho Saigirai" Javed Ali, Sowmya Raoh 4:50
2."Lucky Star" Blaaze, SuVi, Mohammed Aslam 4:14
3."Money Money"DJ Earl, Preethi4:28
4."Oru Devathai" Roopkumar Rathod 4:56
5."Enge Povadhu" Vijay Yesudas 3:55
Total length:24:47

Controversy

In March 2009, Jai elicited trouble for making controversial comments about the potential box office fare of his future films. The actor, who was filming for Vaamanan, Aval Peyar Thamizharasi , Adhe Neram Adhe Idam and Arjunan Kadhali at the time, revealed that only Vaamanan would do well and the rest would become financial failures. The producer of this film also revealed he wanted to take action against Jai for "making such irresponsible and damaging statements about his own films". [9] Initially, the council asked him to complete his pending assignments before he could start work on Venkat Prabhu's Goa , but, the producer of the film, Soundarya Rajinikanth, intervened and bailed Jai out of the ban. [10]

Reception

Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu wrote: "Despite its share of improbabilities, if Vaamanan (U/A) manages to impact the viewer to a certain extent it is mainly because of the raciness in the last lap". [11] Pavithra Srinivasan of Rediff wrote: "the script lets off at the intermission, and made it tauter, racier, and with at least a sprinkling of logic". [12] Sify wrote, "What could have been an edge-of-the-seat crime thriller falls flat in the second half due to lack of a proper script and far too many compromises made by the director". [5]

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