Hi friends in this article let us discuss about the action packed thriller film called as Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu. In this film Kamal has taken the role of a Police officer and this film is about a crime investigation, in search of serial killers.

The movie is very fast with some part of the movie taken in USA.Kamal did a spelndid job in his acting and also Prakash Raj who is a friend of Kamal Hassan.

Technical Crew of the film

i)This film was written and directed by Gautham Menon

ii)This film was relased on August, 25 2006

iii)Manickam Narayanan is the producer for this film

iv)The distributor of the film is Photon Factory

v)Harris Jayaraj composed music for this film and all songs were super hit

vi)Anthony done the editing for this film

vii)Ravi Varman is the camera man for this film and he took risk to shoot some of the scenes in USA. In one scene when he and Gautam were in a helicopter and shooting in USA, they almost lost their life

vii)The Art direction is done by Rajeevan

viii)Tirlok Malik is the New York line producer

ix)This film was a huge hit in 2006 and ran for more than 150 days in many theatres and grossed 60 crores with budget being 12 crores

x)This film was also dubbed in Telugu as Raghavan and it was also a hit there.

xi)Many experts believe that this film had resemblence to the Holywood movie "The silence of Lamb"

xii)reports says tht Nayantara and Nila initially rejected their roles in this film.

xiii)Some also believe that the movie is loosely based on Robert De Niro movie 15 Minutes.

Artists in the film and their cast

i)Kamal Haasan as Raghavan, who is the the Deputy Commisioner of Police

ii)Jyothika as Aradhana

iii)Kamalinee Mukherjee as Kayalvizhi

iv)Lev Gorn as Anderson, who from New York police Department

v)Ajay Naidu as Arun

vi)Prakash Raj as Arokiyaraj, who is also a senior police officer

vii)Daniel Balaji as Amudhan Sukumaran

viii)Saleem Baig as Ilamaran Ganesan

ix)Rajshri Nair as Chitra Arokiyaraj

About the movie

The film starts in a bus stand of a small town when Rani, who is Arokyaraj's daughter calling her dad form a PCO where she was called by somebody.After that Arokyaraj was restless as his daughter didn't return home. So Kamal comes to the investigation and he however managed to find the dead body of Rani

Hearing this news Arokyaraj couldn't believe it and after the funeral he says to Raaghavan that two of Rani's college misbehaved with her 2 months back and when Kamal investigated this a local inspector said that they were just students an they had no connection with the murder.

Then Arokyaraj and his wife leaves for USA as they couldn't stay in India as their daughter's taught disturbs them.After some months Raghavan gets a call and he was shocked to hear that Arokyaraj's family was murdered in USA and he goes to USA to attend the funeral and also for the investigation.

When he travels he thinks of her wife who was murdered by some of the local rowdies and how he killed them.This really disturbs him, when he thinks of his wife's(His wife was Kamalini Mukerjee) death.

Then he reaches USA and he stays there in a hotel where he sees Arathana who tries to kill herself because of her unsuccessful marriage life and she was saved by Raghavan.

After that Kamal asks the reason and the next day Kamal goes to NYPD and meets Anderson for the investigation process.

There he finishes the funeral of the Arokyaraj's family and also visited the crime scene, as he goes to Arokyaraj's house there and he starts the investigation

During the investigation Raghavan finds that another Indian girl was murdered and her finger was hanged in the car's real view mirror and he finds that there is a connection between this murder and that of Rani's murder because earlier he sound similarly a finger (Rani's finger) in Arokyaraj's car real view mirror.

So tracing this death of the Indian girl he founds 5 other dead bodies in an abandoned place and he founds this with the help of instinct called as "Raghavan's instinct".He also finds this also has a connection and he along with Anderson goes to the FBI headquarters where he said that he could trace the killer by corelating the the flights passengers manifesto.

He and Anderson worked out this problem and they could shortlist the number of names and finally they investigates all the names in that list and at last he tracks down two Indian medical students studying in New York and when they entered their house they could find evidence and they confirmed that they were the killers.

While they were searching for evidence the two murderers comes in and they kill Anderson and Raghavan was badly injured.By this time the two murderers escaped to India and Kamal who is having treatment also goes to USA with Aaradhana and when he was travelling with her he proposes to her and says that he can take care of her and also her daughter Maya.

In India, the culprits chase Raghavan and they continue to commit a series of murders, that includes Raghavan's driver and security guards. At the same time, Aradhana who rejected Raghavan's proposal earlier accepts now and after this she was kidnapped by the Killers and they attempt to blackmail Raghavan.

At this time Raghavan managed to arrest one of the killer and he askd another killer to release Aradhand , bu the other killer buries her alive and knowing this Raghavan kills both the killer and managed to save Aradhana.

At the end,Raghavan and Aradhana get married,and this means that Raghavan is the stepfather of 17-month-old Maya(who was Aradhanas daughter to her first husband).

Songs in this film

i)"Karka Karka", this song was sung by Tippu, Devan, Nakul, Andrea Jeremiah,and this is the openieng song and introduction song for Kamal.

ii)"Partha Muthal" sung by Unni Menon, Bombay Jayashri, and this occurs during the flash back when Kamal thinks of his wife, when he was travelling to USA

iii)"Manjal Veiyil" sung by Hariharan, Vijay, Nakul, and this happens in USA when Kamal and Jyotika were in Ney York   

iv)"Nerupae" sung by Franko, Solar Sai, Sowmya Raoh and this occurs when the killers were in Goa and they travel along the west coast of India and also Kamals recovery after he was badly injured by the killers

v)"Uyirilae" sung by Srinivas, Mahalakshmi Iyer, and this is the last song in this film which features Kamal and Jyotika

The IMDB rating for this film is 7.7 out of 10