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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Vettaikaran
Vettaikaran is a forthcoming Tamil feature film directed by B. Babusivan who with Vettaikkaaran makes his debut as a film director. The film is produced by M. Balasubramanian and B. Gurunath Meiyappan.The film is released by Sun Pictures. The film will star Vijay and Anushka Shetty in the lead roles. Gopinath will be the film's main cinematographer and V. T. Vijayan as the film's editor. The film was launched in February 2009 and the shooting for the film commenced the following month.
The film's background score and soundtrack, composed by Vijay Antony, was released on September 23, 2009. Vettaikaran is scheduled for release on December 18, 2009.
Cast
* Vijay as Ravi
* Anushka Shetty as Susheela
* Srinath
* Srihari
* Sayaji Shinde
* Sanchita Padukone
* Sathyan
* Sukumari
* Ravi Shankar
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 inaugration.
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", which was regarded as one of the best songs composed in 2008. 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
Vettaikaaran
( Soundtrack) by Vijay Antony
Released
23 September, 2009
Recorded
2009
Genre
Action
Label
Think Music
Producer
AVM Productions
Vijay Antony chronology
Ninaithale Inikkum
(2009)
Vettaikaaran
(2009)
Aval Peyar Thamizharasi
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.The album has become one of the biggest chartbusters of the year.
Track
Song
Singers
Length (Min:Sec)
Lyrics
Notes
1
Puli Urumudhu
Ananthu, Mahesh Vinayakram
4:18
Kabilan
A gritty song synced in with a dramatic and violent scene/Walking around with gang
2
Oru Chinna Thamarai
Krish, Suchithra
4:36
Vivega
3
Nan Aadicha
Shankar Mahadevan,Sanjay Vijay
4:37
Kabilan
Intro song with BGM vocals from Ramya. This song has also been claimed to have Sanjay, Vijay's son dancing along with him.
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, Charulathamani, Sakthi Sree
4:12
Annamalai
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