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Wikipedia article
'Vaanchinathan' is a 2001 Indian Tamil-language action film directed by Shaji Kailas in his Tamil debut. The script was written by Liaquat Ali Khan. It stars Vijayakanth, Sakshi Shivanand, Ramya Krishnan and Prakash Raj in pivotal roles. The film was released on 14 January 2001.
Plot
Vanchinathan is a cop who has been transferred from Gujarat. Chidambaram is a media mogul who thrives on chaos and confusion, which will help him boost sales of his paper. Their enmity becomes personal when Chidambaram challenges Vanchinathan to arrest him when he cleverly commits a murder in broad daylight in front of Vanchinathan.
Cast
*Vijayakanth as Vanchinathan IPS, Deputy Commissioner of Police
*Ramya Krishnan as Nandhini
*Sakshi Shivanand as Divya
*Prakash Raj as Chidambaram
*Visu as Chief minister (guest appearance)
*Manorama as Kalyani Rajasekar (guest appearance)
*Nassar as Babu Rao Patel
*Kalabhavan Mani as Maya
*Rajeev as Commissioner Venugopal
*Delhi Ganesh as Inspector Abdul Khader (Khader Bhai)
*Thyagu as Inspector Narayanan
*Thalaivasal Vijay
*Pyramid Natarajan as Varadharajan
*Anju Aravind as Saradha
*Raj Kapoor as Inspector Raveendran
*Ali Khan as Amir Khan
*Mani C. Kappan as Mahesh Gupta
*Sethu Vinayagam as Director general of police
*Sriman as Siva
*Sonia as Varadharajan's daughter
*Sabitha Anand as Abdul Khader's wife
*K. K. Soundar
*Meesai Murugesan
*Sakthivel as Inspector Subramani
*Arulmani as Inspector Bharathi
*Sooriyan as Inspector Rajendran
*MLA Thangaraj as Politician
*Kousalya Senthamarai as Varadharajan's wife
*Priyanka as Abdul Khader's daughter
*Kalukkul Eeram Ramanathan as Car driver
*Besant Ravi as Terrorist
*Thalapathy Dinesh as Terrorist
*Bobby as Terrorist
*Kovai Senthil as Man with a petition
*Nirmala Periyasamy as Newsreader
*Alphonsa in a special appearance
*Bhanusri in a special appearance
Production
The team had initially agreed terms with Suresh Gopi to feature in a pivotal role, but his unavailability led to team casting Prakash Raj. Soundarya was to appear in the film, but later opted out due to unknown reasons. Shilpa Shetty had also signed on to star in the film. Likewise, Nadhiya was expected to make a return to Tamil films through the project, but eventually went against doing so.
A fight scene involving Vijayakanth, Ramya Krishnan and rowdies was shot in a set erected at AVM studios. The song sequence, 'Amul Baby', was shot at New Zealand.
Soundtrack
Music was composed by Karthik Raja, collaborating with Vijayakanth for the second time after 'Alexander'.
*"Muthamida Vendum"
*"Sirikkum Siripile"
*"Amul Baby"
Release
The film released on 14 January 2001 and opened to mixed reviews. Rediff wrote "But the masala is appetising and in the final analysis, that is all that counts". Similarly, Lolluexpress claimed that film is a "collection of scenes from actor's previous movies". 'The Hindu' wrote "Liyakath Ali Khan's story and screenplay are crisp and action-packed" and also noted " sequences remind you of the Parthiban starrer `Abhimanyu' or Vijayakanth's own ``Vallarasu'".
Distributors who had bought the film had incurred heavy losses.[https://archive.org/details/kalki2001-02-11/page/32/mode/2up 'Kalki' review] Post release it was rumoured that footage of two heroines have been deleted to reduce the timing which earned criticism.
References
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