''Vilayattu Aarambam'' () is a 2017 Indian
Tamil
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-language
action thriller film
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directed by Vijay R Anand and AR Suriyan and starring
Yuvan and
Shravya. The film is based on a true story regarding the collapse of a
MLM company.
Plot
Yuvan is a youth who hangs out with his four friends: Shah Rukh Khan, a man living thirty years in the past; Vijay, a basketball player; Amitabh Rajkamal; and Anand, a moneylender. He falls in love with a girl named Anjana and has a grudge against her brother Arjun Prabhakar, a police officer. Arjun warns Yuvan not to fall in love with Anjana, but he does so anyway. As a mark of revenge, Arjun gets involved in a scam involving an
MLM company and puts the blame on Yuvan. How Yuvan comes out of this problem and reunites with Anjana forms the rest of the story.
Cast
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Yuvan as Yuvan
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Shravya as Anjana
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as Shah Rukh Khan
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Riyaz Khan
Riyaz Khan is an Indian actor and bodybuilder. He predominantly works in Malayalam and Tamil films and television series, besides acting in a few Telugu and Kannada films, as well as two Hindi films. Riyaz debuted in Malayalam through the 199 ...
as Arjun Prabhakar
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Bhanu Chander as Emcee
*Feroz Khan as Lawyer
Production
Yuvan was signed to play an unemployed
IT worker in a film directed by the duo Vijay R Anand and AR Suriyan. The film is based on a true story regarding the collapse of a
MLM company.
Riyaz Khan
Riyaz Khan is an Indian actor and bodybuilder. He predominantly works in Malayalam and Tamil films and television series, besides acting in a few Telugu and Kannada films, as well as two Hindi films. Riyaz debuted in Malayalam through the 199 ...
was brought to portray the antagonist.
Soundtrack
The songs were composed by
Srikanth Deva.
Release
After a run in Tamil Nadu, the film released in Kerala a few weeks after release.
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Maalai Malar
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'' wrote that the directors Suriyaan and Vijay R Anand had come up with a film to says that there is a widespread rumour that various scams are taking place in a company, which would bring in good income and thus eliminate unemployment in the country. Critic Malini Mannath wrote, "If there is any positive in the film, it’s that the directors have confined their story-telling to just about 120 minutes."
References
External links
*{{IMDb title, 7111640
2010s Tamil-language films
2017 action thriller films
Action films based on actual events
Indian action thriller films
Indian films based on actual events
Thriller films based on actual events