Velayudham

 


Velayudham is a 2011 Indian Tamil-language superhero film written and directed by M. Raja. It stars Vijay in the titular role with GeneliaHansikaSanthanamSaranya MohanSooriAbhimanyu Singh, and Vineet Kumar in other prominent roles. The music was composed by Vijay Antony with cinematography by Priyan.

The film revolves around a villager who arrives in the city to collect money and is persuaded by a journalist to take on the disguise of Velayudham, a superhero, to eradicate the evils pertaining within the society such as corruption and terrorism. It's story was inspired from the 2000 Telugu film Azad.

Velayudham released on 26 October 2011 and became commercially successful, completing a 100-day theatrical run.

Vijay's superhero costume was inspired from Ezio's character costume in Assassin's Creed

 









Plot

A young journalist named Bharathi, along with two of her friends, investigates a series of terrorist attacks which have taken place in Chennai and also illegal activities like human trafficking. When they are caught video-recording illicit activities happening in a secluded house one night by a group of thugs, they attempt to flee from them. While Bharathi's friends are killed, Bharathi manages to escape despite being stabbed by one of the thugs, but after the attack on Bharathi and her friends, the thugs' vehicle explodes due to a small mishap when a matchstick falls over petrol packets stored in the vehicle, killing all the thugs. Bharathi comes up with a new idea to eradicate society's evils by creating and propagating a fictional character called "Velayudham" who wants to clean up the city of terrorism and other illegal activities.

The scene then shifts to a village called Pavunoor, where a milk vendor named Velayudham alias Velu is residing with his younger sister Kaveri, whom he loves dearly. He has a cousin named Vaidehi who is deeply in love with him. One day, Velu, Kaveri, and Vaidehi leave for Chennai to collect money from a chit fund for Kaveri's marriage. At the Chennai Egmore railway station, Velu's money is stolen by Speedu, a petty thief. Velu pursues Speedu on a motorbike parked at the station and manages to get back his money, but moments after alighting from the bike, the bike explodes. The parked bike had a bomb which was meant to ensure a terrorist attack at the railway station, and thus, Velu inadvertently thwarted a deadly terrorist attack which would have killed several people. After a few more incidents where Velu unknowingly prevents more terrorist attacks, he comes to Bharathi's attention. She convinces him to take up the role of Velayudham and provide hope to the people. In the avatar of Velayudham, Velu starts to eradicate the evils that pertain within the society such as corruption, prostitution, and terrorism, among others. He soon gains wide support and acceptance among the public and even the police.

A few months later, Velu returns to Pavunoor with Bharathi for Kaveri's marriage. Unknown to Velayudham, Musafir Ibrahim, the leader of a terrorist group, followed him to the village. Ibrahim wants to kill him since he, in the garb of Velayudham, had thwarted every terrorist attack that he had planned in Chennai. On the day of Kaveri's marriage, a bomb planted by Ibrahim at Velu's house explodes, killing Kaveri.

A few days after Kaveri's death, a grieving Velu learns from Bharathi that Ulaganathan, the corrupt Home Minister of Tamil Nadu, is indirectly responsible for the terrorist attacks and Kaveri's death. Ulaganathan allowed Ibrahim to carry out terrorist attacks in exchange for money. He even tries to gain popularity by claiming Velayudham as his idea, planning to reveal Ibrahim as Velayudham's real identity in a function at the Nehru Stadium, Chennai. Velu returns to Chennai, kills Ibrahim, exposes Ulaganathan's misdeeds, and reveals himself as Velayudham to the whole world.

 





Cast

·         Vijay as Velayudham

·         Genelia D'Souza as Bharathi, a journalist

·         Hansika Motwani as Vaidehi, Velayudham's love interest

·         Santhanam as Speed, a petty thief

·         Saranya Mohan as Kaveri, Velu's sister

·         Soori as Abdullah, Velu's friend

·         Abhimanyu Singh as Musafir Ibrahim, the main antagonist

·         Vineet Kumar as Ulaganathan, the Home Minister of Tamil Nadu, the other antagonist

·         Pandiarajan as Head Constable Honest Raj, a supporter of Velayudham

·         M. S. Bhaskar as Vaidehi's father

·         Sayaji Shinde as Asst. Commissioner Mhd. Feroz Khan, a critic of Velayudham who later starts supporting him

·         Ilavarasu as a poor man

·         T. P. Gajendran as a Travelling Ticket Examiner

·         Kadhal Dhandapani as Nattamai

·         Vincent Asokan as Ulaganathan's brother

·         Pandi as Pandi

·         Ajay as Ulaganathan's partner

·         Junaid Sheikh as Abu Salim

·         Raaghav as Jai

·         Rajendran as a Local Goon

·         Manivannan as Rathnavelu, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu

·         Veerasamar as Hari, Bharathi's friend

·         O. A. K. Sundar as Inspector Kaalidaas

·         Meenal as one of the girls abducted by thugs

·         Anjali Devi as Vaidehi's mother

·         Singamuthu as Speed's father

·         Vaiyapuri as Speed's brother

·         Swaminathan as Maama

·         Crane Manohar as Theatre Operator

·         Yogi Babu as Villager

·         Krishnamoorthy as a Villager

·         George Maryan as a Villager

·         Balaji K Mohan as Bharathi's friend

·         Bonda Mani as a beggar

·         Pei Krishnan as Annachi

·         Udayabanu

·         Stunt Silva

·         Boys Rajan

·         Veera Santhanam

·         Munnar Ramesh as Local Goon

·         Bala Singh

·         Sampath Ram as Local Goon

 

 


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