Velayudham (2011)

An ordinary milkman is forced to become the fictional character Velayudham who takes on the scum of the earth.

Director:

M. Raja

Writers:

A.N. Balakrishnan (dialogue), M. Raja

Stars:

Vijay, Genelia D'Souza, Hansika Motwani

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Vijay	...	Velayudham
Genelia D'Souza	...	Bharathi
Hansika Motwani	...	Vaidehi
Saranya Mohan	...	Kaveri
Santhanam	...	Speed
Abhimanyu Singh	...	Musafir Ibrahim
Vincent Ashokan	...	Minister's brother
Rajendran	...	Local Goon
Sayaji Shinde	...	DGP
R. Pandiaraajan	...	Inspector
M.S. Bhaskar	...	Vaidehi's father
Soori	...	Abdullah
Pandi	...	Pandi
Kadhal Thandapani	...	Villager (as Dhandapani)
Ilavarasu	...	Poor man (as Illavarasu)

Storyline

The film opens in Chennai with a crusader television journalist Bharati (Genelia) trying to unravel corruption in high places. The state Home minister is hand in gloves with terrorists who are planning to create tension and planting bombs in Chennai. One day while escaping after a sting operation on city's nefarious activities she gets badly beaten and her two friends killed. At the same time in an accident, the thugs who had brutally bashed her meets with an accident and gets killed. Bharati creates an imaginary character called Velayudham and writes a note that he wants to clean up the city of the bad guys! Meanwhile there is a guy called Velayudham an ordinary milkman living in a small village who dotes on his little 'Thangachi' (Sarnya Mohan) and his life revolves around her, though his cousin Vaidehi (Hansika) is crazy about him. One day Velu comes to Chennai to withdraw the money he had deposited in a chit fund for his sister's wedding. In the city, he meets Bharati and due to ...

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Plot Keywords:

milkman | journalist | terrorism | superhero | 

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Taglines:

The ultimate weapon

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Genres:

Action

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Tamil

Release Date:

26 October 2011 (India)

Also Known As:

Velayudham: The Ultimate Weapon

Filming Locations:

Tamil Nadu, India

Box Office

Budget:

INR 450,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Aascar Film P.

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

In the train fight sequence, when Velayudham fights with henchmen, he leaves the last compartment burning. But in the very next scene, the compartment was not not shown burning at all.

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Connections

Remake of Azaad (2000)

User Reviews

Vijay proved again that he is a mass mass mass actor

A wonderful experience with this movie.A great Action,Comedy,Romance,Fantasy,Family entertainer.Again a mass hit from our'Thalapathy Vijay'.A coincidence leads vijay to do good in this film.Action scenes were awful.Comedies were good.Dance steps were good. Raja done his best in this movie plot.All will enjoy this movie.Please watch this movie in cinemas.A movie with joy,sentiment,action,etc.. We can watch this movie twice and thrice.A wondderful movie from Vijay.This will be a mass,mass,mass hit from vijay.A great hit after Kaavalan.My wishes to my Thalapathy Vijay for his forth coming movies.I wish him to give a very successful upcoming movies .