Hi friends in this article let us discuss about the Kamal movie, Aalavanthan.This was one of the Kamal's most expected movie, because he has done a dual role after a long time i.e after the film Indian in 1996.

In one of the two characters he acts as a Psycho and he also had his head tonsured  and the other character was an Army officer.Kamal's acting was extremely super  and he got great appreciation for this film.

Technical crew of the film and basic info

i)This film was directed by Suresh Krishna

ii)This was the first film as music director for Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and they composed for 5 songs with the Back ground music was done by music director Magesh

iii)Vairamuthu took care of Lyrics

iv)Kalaipuli S. Thanu was the producer of this film and report said that there was misunderstanding between him and Kamal as Kamal asked to postpone the release date and as a result of his this film didn't do well as expected

v)The story for this film was written by Kamal Hassan itself

vi)Tirru did the cinematogrophy for this film

vii)The art director for this film is Samir Chanda

viii)M. Kasi Vishwanathan did the editing for this film

ix)Vikram Dharma is the stunt co ordinator

x)This film was released in 2001

xi)Jayam Ravi, who is at present the famous hero in Tamil film industry was the assistant director for this film

xii)This film was not a huge hit as it grossed only 25 crores with its budget being 20 crores

Artists in the film and their cast

i)Kamal Hassan  in a dual role 1)Major Vijaykumar (Vijay) and 2)Nandakumar (Nandu)

ii)Raveena Tandon as Tejaswini and she is Major Vijaykumar's wife in this film

iii)Manisha Koirala does a cameo role Shar milee and she is a dancer

iv)Vallabh Vyas as Dr. Srinivasa Rao

v)Milind Gunaji as Lt. Col. Santosh Kumar

vi)Sarath Babu as Tejaswini's dad

vii)Anu Haasan as Kamal's mother

About the movie

The film starts when Vijay , who was the commander of an anti-terrorist squad, rescues the hostages from a terrorist gang and he hurts himself in the operation. Tejaswini was a TV reporter and she comes to see Vijay who was in hospital and says she is pregnant with their child.

After that the engagement is arranged and this time the famous song "Siri Siri..." was sung by Kamalhassan.

Then Vijay and Tejaswini goes to meet Vijay's brother Nandu, who is also Kamal Hassan and he had his head tonsured.

Nandu was in mental asylum as he was a  psycho.

When Vijay takes Tejaswini to the asylum so that Nandu can meet her Nandu decides that she is his evil stepmother.

Because in the flashback when they were child their mother(Anu Hassan) dies and their father married another woman who tortured Nandu(At that time Vijay was brought up by his uncle and this decison was taken by coining a toss so as to select nandu or Vijay), and unfortunately Nandu has to stay with his step mother.

He tortured him and when his father died due to illness she didn't help him with medical treatment and so he kills here and that's why he hates woman of that kind and he also feels Tejaswini was his step mother.

So he wanted to kill Tejaswini so as to protect Vijay and in this act he escape from the asylum and searches for
Tejaswini.After escaping from the asylum he started having drugs and he kills many that includes manish Koirall also as at one stage he imagined her to be his step mother.

He was very eager to kill Tejaswini so that he could protect his brother. At last when he was fighting with Vijay, who asked not to kill Tejaswini, he could see his mother and and she asked him to come with her .At this point of time he asked Kamal to say sorry to Tejaswini on his behalf as he understood the situation and atlast he dies.

Songs in this film

1)"Aalavandhan...." sung by Shankar Mahadevan and in film this song comes during a chase sequence between tow brothers

2)"Kadavul Paadhi..Mirugam padhi..." by Kamal Haasan and it happens when Nandu escapes from asylum

3)"Africa Kaatupuli..." by Nandini and this happens in a stage show performed by Manisha Koiralla and after this song Nandu

kills her

4)"Siri Siri..." by Kamal Haasan, Mahalakshmi Iyer, during the engagement function between Vijay and Tejaswini

5)"Unazhagukku..." by Shankar Mahadevan, Sujatha Mohan and this is a very pleasant song

The IMDB rating for this film is 6.8 out of 10