''Vathiyar'' () is a 2006 Indian
Tamil
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-language
action comedy film
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Film
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directed by
A. Venkatesh starring
Arjun and
Mallika Kapoor
Mallika Kapoor is an Indian actress, working in the South Indian film industries mainly in Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada. She has also appeared in a few Telugu and Hindi films.
Biography
Kapoor was raised in a middle-class Punjabi family. Her fa ...
. The music was composed by
D. Imman
Immanuel Vasanth Dinakaran (born 24 January 1983), better known as D. Imman, is an Indian film composer and singer, predominantly working in Tamil cinema. Also worked in Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, and Hindi film industry. His first film as mu ...
. It was released on 10 November 2006 and recorded an average at the box office.
Plot
Annadurai (
Arjun) is a do-gooder don, but a police force led by ACP Easwara Pandian (
Prakash Raj
Prakash Raj (born Prakash Rai; 26 March 1965) is an Indian actor, film director, producer, television presenter, and politician. Known for his works in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, and Malayalam-language films, he is the recipient of several ...
) and his sidekick (
Sathyan) are after him. However, the poor need him as he is a Good Samaritan running an orphanage. He has help from his friends Subramani (
Manivannan
S. Manivannan Rajagopal (31 July 1953 – 15 June 2013), better known by his mononym Manivannan, was an Indian film director, actor and activist who worked mainly in Tamil cinema and also worked in a few Telugu & Malayalam films. In a care ...
) and Ayyanar (
Vadivelu
Kumaravadivel Natarajan (born 12 September 1960), known professionally as Vadivelu, is an Indian actor, comedian and playback singer, having acted in supporting and lead roles in Tamil cinema. He gained widespread acclaim in Kollywood in the 2 ...
). Dorai has a problem: his mother (
Sujatha) does not approve of his ways and feels that he is just a loutish goon. There is also a TV journalist named Anjali (
Mallika Kapoor
Mallika Kapoor is an Indian actress, working in the South Indian film industries mainly in Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada. She has also appeared in a few Telugu and Hindi films.
Biography
Kapoor was raised in a middle-class Punjabi family. Her fa ...
), who is in love with Dorai because of his daredevil ways. Dorai has a past: he was just an honest-to-goodness schoolteacher who ends up as the deathly Dorai after a fire ravages a school and kills several children. The incident forces him to take on the system of venal officials and politics. Now, Dorai's biggest task is to nip a dark and dire politician who wants to bomb the city.
Cast
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Arjun Sarja
Srinivasa "Arjun" Sarja is an Indian actor, producer, and director who works predominantly in the Tamil film industry, in addition to Kannada and Telugu languages as well. Referred to by the media and his fans as " Action King" for his roles in ...
as Annadurai alias Dorai, the protagonist
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Mallika Kapoor
Mallika Kapoor is an Indian actress, working in the South Indian film industries mainly in Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada. She has also appeared in a few Telugu and Hindi films.
Biography
Kapoor was raised in a middle-class Punjabi family. Her fa ...
as Anjali, Dorai's love interest
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Vadivelu
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as Ayyanar
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Prakash Raj
Prakash Raj (born Prakash Rai; 26 March 1965) is an Indian actor, film director, producer, television presenter, and politician. Known for his works in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, and Malayalam-language films, he is the recipient of several ...
as Eashwara Pandian
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Pradeep Rawat as MP Nachiyar, the main antagonist
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Manivannan
S. Manivannan Rajagopal (31 July 1953 – 15 June 2013), better known by his mononym Manivannan, was an Indian film director, actor and activist who worked mainly in Tamil cinema and also worked in a few Telugu & Malayalam films. In a care ...
as Subramaniam, Dorai's friend
*
Sathyan as Easwara Pandian's sidekick
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Amit Tiwari
Amit Tiwari is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Telugu cinema. He is known for his negative roles in Telugu films in addition to a few Tamil and Kannada films. Some of his notable roles are in films such as ''Vikramarkudu'' (2006), '' ...
as Dorai Sister's lover
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Sujatha as Dorai's mother
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Devan as Factory Owner
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Thalaivasal Vijay
Thalaivasal Vijay is an Indian actor and dubbing artist. He was born on 4 August 1962 in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India. He has acted predominantly in numerous Tamil and Malayalam films.
Career
Vijay's debut film was '' Thalaivaasal'' (1992), ...
as School Teacher
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Manobala
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He started his career in Tamil cinema in the early 1970s and with Kamal Haasan's referen ...
as Ayyanar's father
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Singamuthu
Singamuthu (born 8 December 1958) is an Indian actor who has appeared in Tamil language films as a comedian.
Career
Singamuthu has primarily appeared in comedy roles in films as a supporting actor debuting in ''Neram Nalla Irukku'' (1987). He ...
as Ayyanar's father's friend
*
Vennira Aadai Moorthy
Vennira Aadai Moorthy (born 25 July 1936) is an Indian actor and comedian in Tamil cinema. He has starred in many Tamil films and television serials as a comedian and also played supporting roles. He is a lawyer by education, and holds a B.L. ...
as Anjali's father
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Mahanadhi Shankar
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as Hooligan
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Sabitha Anand
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*
Thambi Ramaiah
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as Flower seller
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S. N. Lakshmi
Sennalkudi Narayana Lakshmi (1927 – 20 February 2012) was an Indian actress, who appeared in supporting roles, often playing roles of a mother or grandmother in films. A recipient of the state government's Kalaimamani and Kalaiselvam awards, ...
as Orphanage inmate
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King Kong
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Bonda Mani
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Career
Bonda Mani has described that his stage name is derived from his diet of bondas, when he was a stru ...
*
T. K. S. Natarajan as himself (
cameo appearance
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in the song "Ennadi Muniyamma")
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Shakeela
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as herself (
cameo appearance
A cameo role, also called a cameo appearance and often shortened to just cameo (), is a brief appearance of a well-known person in a work of the performing arts. These roles are generally small, many of them non-speaking ones, and are commonly eit ...
in the song "Pombala Paappa")
*
Antara Biswas
Antara Biswas (born 21 November 1982), better known by her stage name Monalisa, is an Indian actress. She has done mostly Bhojpuri language films, and has also appeared in Hindi, Bengali, Odia, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu language films. She wa ...
in an
item number
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Suja Varunee
Suja Varunee is an Indian actress who has appeared in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, and Malayalam language films. She is the winner of ''BB Jodigal (season 2)''.
Career
Aged fourteen, Suja was selected to portray the leading role in the coming-of-ag ...
in an
item number
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Production
The film was officially launched at AVM Studios in 2006. Tulip Joshi was originally selected as the heroine but she was thrown out of the film as the crew couldn't control her starry tantrums and Mallika Kapoor was selected instead. Singer Blaze was selected to make a cameo appearance. The scene where Arjun defuses a bomb in Vinayaka Chathurthi was shot in Sri Perumbudur and cost twenty lakhs. One assistant Director named Rajkumar had lodged a complaint with the Chennai Police Commissioner stating that his story has been stolen and made as Vathiyar. However, Arjun has denied the accusations that he had walked off with Rajkumar's script. "I have no reasons to steal someone else’s work and call it mine. Vathiyar is my own creation", Arjun declared.
Release
The film was originally slated to release on Diwali, but due to financial strains, the movie was delayed for a month and finally released on 10 November 2006.
Reviews
Nowrunning wrote: "Except for the action sequences there is nothing much to write about the movie". The Hindu wrote: "The story is by Arjun and director A. Venkatesh has neatly woven the script to make it enjoyable for the masses". Indiaglitz wrote: "Vathiyar is Basha meets Gentleman meets countless vigilante justice movies. The story and treatment are on typical lines".
Soundtrack
Song composing and background score was done by
D. Imman
Immanuel Vasanth Dinakaran (born 24 January 1983), better known as D. Imman, is an Indian film composer and singer, predominantly working in Tamil cinema. Also worked in Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, and Hindi film industry. His first film as mu ...
.
References
External links
Review of Vathiyar Movie, Indiaglitz*
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2006 films
Indian action films
2006 action films
2000s Tamil-language films
Films directed by A. Venkatesh (director)