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Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu
Directed by	Gautham Menon
Produced by	Manickam Narayanan
Written by	Gautham Menon
Starring	Kamal Haasan Jyothika Kamalinee Mukherjee Prakash Raj
Music by	Harris Jayaraj
Distributed by	Photon Factory
Release date(s)	August, 25 2006
Running time	2 hrs 55 mins
Language	Tamil
Budget	Rs. 24 crores ($ 5.2 million)
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Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (2006) is a Tamil film starring Kamal Haasan, Jyothika, Kamalinee Mukherjee, Prakash Raj and music composed by Harris Jayaraj. The film is directed by Gautham Menon and produced by Manickam Narayan. Despite a considerable delay in its release, the movie took the biggest ever opening in Tamil cinema history.

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Raghavan (Kamal Haasan) is an honest cop in Tamil Nadu. His wife Kayalvizhi (Kamalinee Mukerji) dies in a violent incident. Arokiyaraj (Prakash Raj) is his colleague. Raghavan is deputed to investigate into Arokiya Raj's daughter murder at some remote village in Tamilnadu. Arokiya Raj shifts his base to New York after his daughter's murder.

After few months, Raghavan receives message about gruesome murder of Arokiya Raj and his wife. He proceeds to New York to conduct preliminary investigations. There, he saves Aradhana (Jyothika) from committing suicide due to problems with her estranged husband. Raghavan unearths series of young girls murdered at New York. He finds pattern in those murders and finds resemblance with Arokiyaraj's daughter murder at India. Based on these clues,he tracks down two Indian medical students studying at New York. They escape to India by causing severe injuries to Raghavan.

Raghavan returns back to India and Aradhana follows with him. She accepts Raghavan's offer for marriage. In India, culprits chase Raghavan and commit a series of murders including Raghavan's driver and security guarding his house. Meanwhile, Aradhana accedes to Raghavan's proposal to marry her and accept Maya, her daughter from her previous marriage, and herself as his own. The serial killers see this and kidnap Aradhana in an attempt to blackmail Raghavan. The rest of the story is a graphic depiction of the culprit's acts and about how Raghavan traces and brings an end to the chase.

The film is one of the most beautifully shot film with camera by Ravi Verman and ably supported by editor Anthony. Kamal Haasan's Raghavan is underplayed and is a class act.This is easily Kamal's best performance in recent years.The encounter scenes between the villains and the hero are laudable. On the down side there has been too much of violence against women. The murders are gruesome. However,the film has been declared a super hit of recent times. The highlights of the movie are Gautham Menon's incredible hold over the medium and his trademark awesome narrating skills, racy climax, incredible camerawork and Kamal Haasan's performance which included a scintillating introduction.

• Kamalhassan as Raghavan
• Jyothika as Aradhana
• Kamalinee Mukherjee as Kayalvizhi
• Lev Gorn as Anderson
• Ajay Naidu as Arun
• Prakash Raj as Aarokiyaraj
• Daniel Balaji as Amudhan Sukumaran
• Saleem Baig as Ilamaran Ganesan
• Rajshri Nair as Chitra Aarokiyaraj

• Director : Gautham Menon
• Cinematography :Ravi Varman
• Art Direction :Rajeevan
• Editing : Anthony
• Producer : Manickam Narayanan
• New York Line Producer : Tirlok Malik
• Music : Harris Jayaraj

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• The crew shot a lot of chopper shots around downtown Manhattan and Holland Tunnel.^{[citation needed]}
• This movie released after a long delay (it originally had been planned for a January 2006 release)^{[citation needed]}
• This is the 4^th continuous film that Harris Jayaraj has scored music for Gautham Menon.^{[citation needed]}
• Kamal Haasan plays the role of a cop after 11 years since Kurudhipunal (1995).^{[citation needed]}
• This film was dubbed into Telugu as Raghavan.^{[citation needed]}
• Director Gautham Menon does a hat trick in Tamil with this movie after his blockbuster hits Minnale (2001) and Kaaka Kaaka (2003).^{[citation needed]}
• This is Kamal Haasan's first film that acknowledges him as Dr. Kamal Haasan.^{[citation needed]}
• Director, Gautham Menon has plans to remake this movie in Hindi starring Ajay Devgan, after he completes shooting his next film with Surya Sivakumar.^{[citation needed]}
• The film emerged as the second biggest grosser of 2006, reports India Today^{[citation needed]}
• The film grossed Rs. 39.26 lacs in UK after 13 weeks.^[1]

• Kamal Haasan Official Fan Club Page
• Vettaiyadu Villaiyadu Official Website
• Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu Review