Theeradha Vilaiyattu Pillai (2010) Full Movie

Karthik (Vishal Krishna) is a lazy, jobless, upper middle-class guy and the only son of his father who is a bank manager (T. S. B. K. Mouli), hanging around always with his friends, an auto driver Kumar (Santhanam), a tea-shop owner Shekar (Mayilsamy) and a traffic constable Vishnu (Sathyan). Over-ambitious in his life, he always wants the best of everything in his life, from pens and clothes to every other accessories, and has made it a rule to try out everything before zeroing in on one. Now wanting to choose his best life partner, he applies the same method and decides to select three girls, whom he would romance at the same time and make to fall in love with him, then reject two of them and finally marry the third one.

He comes across Jyothi (Tanushree Dutta), an athlete, living in the poorer area of Chennai, who has reservations against men and slaps a guy for touching her inappropriately and is Karthik's first choice. Karthik later attends a marriage, where he meets Priya (Sarah-Jane Dias), a girl, who strongly believes in traditional and cultural values and has the policy of loving and marrying only one boy in her life, Karthik's second candidate. The third one Karthik selects is Tejaswini (Neetu Chandra), a rich and arrogant girl, heir to Rs. 1,500 crores, who once had a failed love attempt in her life. Vishal enters their lives, woos them with lies and finally wins their hearts. The girls don't know the fact that Karthik is romancing three girls simultaneously and entirely trust him.

One day, thanks to her caring and understanding father (Jayaprakash), who doesn't want his daughter to sustain one more love failure, Tejaswini gets to know about Karthik's plans and intentions and confronts him. Karthik dumps her and continues to romance Jyothi and Priya, while Tejaswini vows to take revenge on him. Without revealing her own and Karthik's true identity and intentions, she befriends the other two girls and gives advice to each, how to quicken the progress to get married soon, trying to put Karthik under pressure and blow his cover. Soon Jyothi gets to know the truth, wherefore he also rejects Jyothi and settles down with Priya as his future wife, who was responsible for Karthik's change of mind as he has now learnt the value of true love and realizes his mistakes.

However, as Jyothi's brother, Anbalazhagan (Prakash Raj), a rowdy confronts Karthik that he has betrayed Jyothi, Karthik himself reveals the truth about himself, his intentions and the other girls to Priya, who was with him. Downheartedly she leaves Karthik, who is being beaten up by Anbalazhagan and his gang. Karthik then causes a traffic accident, getting himself tangled and injured in the accident, and gets admitted in a hospital, where Dr.Ramya (Sneha) comes for his treatment. He pretends to have lost his memory due to the accident in order to arouse compassion in Priya, eventually indeed succeeding in his plan as Priya returns and reunites with him, believing that he has forgotten the past and would turn over a new life.

Cast

·         Vishal Krishna as Karthik

·         Neetu Chandra as Tejaswini

·         Sarah-Jane Dias as Priya

·         Tanushree Dutta as Jyothi

·         Santhanam as Kumar

·         Sathyan as Vishnu

·         Mayilsamy as Shekar

·         T. S. B. K. Mouli as Karthik's father

·         Rathna as Karthik's mother

·         Jayaprakash as Ranganathan

·         Prakash Raj as Anbalazhagan

·         Sneha as Dr. Ramya (Special appearance)

·         Mallika Kapoor as Interviewer (Special appearance)

Production

Development

In February 2009, it was reported, that Thiru, who assisted director A. Rajasekhar in the 2008 police story Sathyam, that also starred Vishal Krishna would direct Vishal after the actor had completed his Thoranai.^[4] The film was to be produced by Ramesh Babu, who earlier produced Vijay's blockbuster film Pokkiri.^[4] However, as the producer later walked out of the project, Vishal's brother Vikram Krishna along with his wife Sriya Reddy eventually took up the project and decided to produce it under their home banner G. K. Films Corporation.^[5]

The film, during pre-production was billed up to be a remake of the 2007 Hindi film Bachna Ae Haseeno, which also starred three actresses in lead roles, but the claim proved to be false. Vishal also denied this, stating that the script is original.^[6][7] In January 2010, the film's distribution rights were acquired by Sun Pictures,^[8] which started its promotion campaign on 2 February 2010, ten day prior to the film's theatrical release.^[2]

Casting

After Vishal was confirmed as the lead actor in the film, Thiru and Vishal were looking for three actresses to play the lead female roles. Several actresses including Bipasha Basu,^[9][10] Reemma Sen,^[9] Priyamani,^[11] Tamannaah Bhatia^[12] and Shriya Saran^[11] were approached or even confirmed, before ultimately opting out again. Finally, Bollywoodactress Neetu Chandra, who starred in the horror film Yavarum Nalam opposite Madhavan and another Bollywood actress Tanushree Dutta, a former Miss India Universe, making her debut in the Tamil film industry, were confirmed for the roles.^[13] For the third female role, a newcomer Sarah-Jane Dias, a former Miss India World, was signed.^[14] Additionally, reports claimed that the film would also have two lead actresses appearing in guest roles as well.^[15] In December 2009, Sneha was roped in to appear in one of the two cameo roles,^[16] whilst the other actress' identity was not revealed until the film's release.

Filming

The shooting started on August 3 and was held in several locations as Hyderabad, the Maldives and Kochi.^[14] The title song of the film was shot in Mumbai at sets and choreographed by Bosco-Caesar, a popular choreographer duo that has worked for over 300 films in Bollywood, made their debut in Tamil with this film.^[17] For the same song, which was picturized in Vishal and the three leading actresses, Neetu Chandra is said to have soaked in a bathtub full of red chillies, which is considered one of the highlights of the entire film.^[18] Other songs were filmed in Australia and New Zealand.^[5] Furthermore, other songs were shot across Australia, in both urban and natural backgrounds.

Soundtrack

Theeradha Vilaiyattu Pillai
Soundtrack album by Yuvan Shankar Raja
Released	16 December 2009
Recorded	2009
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	25:12
Label	Sony Music
Producer	Yuvan Shankar Raja
Yuvan Shankar Raja chronology
Paiyaa (2009) Theeradha Vilaiyattu Pillai (2009) Goa (2010)

Film score and soundtrack are composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, scoring music for the fourth time for a Vishal Krishna-starrer after successful collaborations in Sandakozhi (2005), Thimiru (2006) and Thaamirabharani (2007).^[19] The album was released on 16 December 2009 at Devi Theatres in a very grand manner with more than a dozen top Tamil film directors among many other prominent film industry personalities gracing the function, which was considered the "grandest affair of the season".^[20][21] Initially actors Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth were said to the chief guests of the function,^[22] which, however, turned out to be untrue.

The album features five songs plus one introduction track by composer Yuvan Shankar Raja himself,^[23] while an additional song, not included in the soundtrack release, featured in the film as part of the film score. Lyrics were penned by Pa. Vijay and Vaali.

Tracklist
No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Introduction"	Yuvan Shankar Raja	Yuvan Shankar Raja	1:14
2.	"Poo Mudhal Pen Varai"	Pa. Vijay	Yuvan Shankar Raja	4:35
3.	"En Jannal Vandha"	Pa. Vijay	Roshini, Priya, Divya Vijay & Pan Bundy (Rap)	4:44
4.	"Theeradha Vilaiyattu Pillai"	Vaali	Andrea Jeremiah, Tanvi Shah, Vinaitha & Ranjith	4:55
5.	"En Aasai Ethiraliye"	Pa. Vijay	Vijay Yesudas & Vinaitha	5:04
6.	"Oru Punnagai Thane"	Pa. Vijay	Ranjith	4:40
Total length:				25:12

Vijay's Sachien Full Movie With Eng Subs ~ Romantic Comedy

Sachein (Vijay) is a carefree and happy go lucky guy college student, who comes across the beautiful Shalini (Genelia D'Souza) on college campus and falls in love with her but she doesn't love him. Arnold aka Ayyasamy (Vadivelu) has repeated the same class every year for nine consecutive years. He claims this is because he wants to be grateful to his teachers and Santhanam (Santhanam). Also, Arnold and Santhanam love Shalini. Shaliini doesn't take kindly to Sachein's smitten behaviour. Sachein is able to befriend Shalini through presistance. Shalini grows fond of Sachein. Santhanam, jealous of Sachein's relationship with Shalini, writes graffiti on the school wall. The graffiti read "Sachein loves Shalini". Shalini confronts Sachein, and demands an explanation. Sachein pleas his innocence, and Shalini believes him. However, Sachein tells Shalini that even though he didn't write the graffiti, he really does love Shalini. Shalini bashes Sachein, telling him that he does not know the true meaning of love, and tells him she does not love him. The next day, Sachein meets Shalini and tells her that she will fall for him. Shalini takes on Sachein's bet and gives him a total of one month to try and make her fall in love. Shalini though is a good friend of Sachein until Manju (Bipasha Basu) runs behind Sachein with skimpy costumes and makes Shalini go green with envy. Shalini's parents have arranged her wedding with an industrialist's son in Canada, yet Sachein pushes on. Days pass, and yet Sachein is not able to presuade Shalini. On the last day of their bet, Sachein decides to bid goodbye to Shalini and even apologies for running behind her so long. Shalini develops a soft corner for Sachein and decides to express her love to him until his dad (Raghuvaran) who is a multi millionaire comes to meet him. Shalini doesn't express her love because then he will think that she loves him only for the money. Sachein plans on leaving India, and goes to the airport. When Sachein was about to take the plane home Shalini expresses her love to him and they are united.

[edit]Cast

• Vijay as Sachein
• Genelia D'Souza as Shalini
• Bipasha Basu as Manju
• Vadivelu as Ayyasamy (Arnold)
• Raghuvaran as Gowtham
• Santhanam as Santhanam
• Kanika voice of Genelia D'Souza
• Linda Arsenio in a guest appearance

[edit]Crew

• Written and directed by: John Mahendran
• Produced by: Dhanu
• Music: Devi Sri Prasad
• Director of photography: Jeeva
• Editor: V. T. Vijayan
• Banner: V Creations
• Art direction: Thotta Tharani
• Action direction: S. Vijayan

[edit]Reception

The film received positive reviews.Indiagliz stated that /'Vijay, who proved his skills in playing a comedy role in Vasseegara, seems to have reproduced such a good show in Sachien too. His body language and dialogue delivery deserves a special mention. And gave a final verdict "Watching Sachien is a bit like watching the real Sachin but these days ---occasionally good."^[2]Sify wrote the verdict as "Candy floss romance" and said "Finally at the epicenter of it all is the Vijay sans any make-up. He is spontaneous, a great dancer, has perfect comedy timing and does justice to his loosely etched out character of a happy-go-lucky millionaire! If nothing else, watch Sachein for this one man show, he is there in every frame of the film."^[3]

Behindwoods praised vijay as "It is a cakewalk for Vijay and his role has been etched out keeping his fans’ expectations in mind. His comedy track with Vadivelu, who is his collegemate, is quite run-of-mill" and "Vijay looks best in roles, which require him to portray tenderness. He wins the competition thumbs down as the successful romantic hero of this generation of actors".^[4] The Hindu stated `"Sachein' is a movie that fans would watch for Vijay alone" and said "Vijay alone makes the movie extremely watchable".^[5]"Vijay is good in the film. I really liked his character," actor Vikram said during a chat with journalists on Monday.The movie was successful at the box office.^[6]

[edit]Soundtrack

The soundtrack features 6 songs composed by Devi Sri Prasad.

Song	Singer
Va Va Va En Thalaiva	Shankar Mahadevan
Kanmoodi Thirakumbothu	Devi Sri Prasad
Gundu Manga Thoppukulle	Jassie Gift, Malathy Lakshman
Dai Dai Dai Kattikkoda	Karthik, Sunitha Sarathy
Beat of Sachein	Instrumental
Vaadi Vaadi	Vijay

VANAM- Ayngaran Movie - *** 1080p HD & 3D ***

VANAM- Ayngaran Movie - *** 1080p HD & 3D ***

Vaanam (Sky) is a 2011 Indian Tamil drama film written and directed by Krish. It is a remake of his 2010 Telugu film Vedam. It features an ensemble cast of Silambarasan, Bharath, Anushka Shetty, Prakash Raj, Saranya and Sonia Agarwal.^[2][3] The score and soundtrack were composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, while cinematography and editing were handled by Nirav Shah and Anthony Gonsalves, respectively.

Vaanam is a Hyperlink Cinema film, with the story revolving around the lives of five individuals from different walks of life, representing the five natural elements— aether, air, water, fire and earth^[4][5]—and illustrates how their fates intertwine on New Year's Eve at a hospital in Chennai. The film, jointly produced by Ganesh Janardhanan and R. Ganesh and distributed by Dayanidhi Azhagiri's Cloud Nine Movies, was released on 29 April 2011,^[6] and opened to critical acclaim upon release.

Plot

Cable Raja (Silambarasan) is a cable operator born and raised in a slum area in Chennai. He bemoans his poverty and wishes to become rich by marrying his girlfriend Priya (Jasmin Bhasin). He cons her into believing he is well off, and adopts a well-bred persona in front of her. Raja is always accompanied by his best friend Seenu (Santhanam) and guided by Bhajan singer Ganesh (VTV Ganesh). When he is asked by Priya to buy high-priced passes to a New Year's Eve gala, he finds himself severely short of money. After a failed attempt at chain snatching and crossing paths with the police, he heads to a hospital with theft on his mind.

Bharath Chakravarthy (Bharath) is an aspiring rockstar from Bangalore, who is irresponsible but well-meaning. His mother disapproves of his dreams and wishes him to become an army officer, which he opposes. When his band misses their flight to a live concert because of him, he takes them to Chennai via road. En route, Bharath and his girlfriend Laasya (Vega Tamotia) are attacked by religious fanatics, but are aided by strangers, which causes him to reflect on life. They finally arrive in Chennai, but their vehicle collides with an auto-rickshaw carrying a pregnant woman. Sacrificing their concert, Bharath and Laasya rush her to the hospital.

Saroja (Anushka) is a prostitute working at Rani Amma's brothel at the Tamil Nadu-Andhra border. When she discovers that her life is constantly in danger while working there, she escapes to Chennai with her co-worker Karpooram (Nikki), a eunuch, in hopes of starting her own business venture. On arrival, she is hounded by both thugs and policemen, ultimately being led into a trap. In an ensuing fight, Karpooram is mortally wounded. Desperate, Saroja carries her to the hospital.

Rahim (Prakash Raj) and his wife Zara (Sonia Agarwal) had lost their unborn twins in a communal riot in Coimbatore. When Zara becomes pregnant again a few months later, Rahim heads to Chennai to locate his younger brother who had run away following the riots. There, he comes into repeated conflict with anti-Muslim officer Shivaram (Ravi Prakash), who suspects him of being a terrorist. Despite his claims of innocence, Rahim is brutally assaulted by the cop, and admitted in the hospital under close watch.

Lakshmi (Saranya) is the daughter-in-law of a poor weaver in Thoothukudi. When the weaver is unable to pay back a loan to a cruel money lender ('Kadhal' Dhandapani), the latter kidnaps Lakshmi's young son, a bright student, and refuses to release him until his debt is cleared. Lakshmi arrives in Chennai with her father-in-law, hoping to sell her kidney to obtain the money. After initial hassles, she undergoes the operation and receives the money, although it is still insufficient. At that point, Cable Raja enters and steals the cash from her, ignoring her pleas. In a state of despair, Lakshmi and her father-in-law contemplate suicide.

Struck by his conscience, Raja is unable to continue his plan. He admits the truth to Priya and returns the money, even giving up some of his own money, gaining Lakshmi's forgiveness. Meanwhile, Rahim discovers that terrorist leader Mansoor Khan (Jayaprakash) and his gang are planning to kill all the people at the hospital. Rahim tries to escape, but on seeing Bharath wheeling in a pregnant woman, he is reminded of his wife and offers to help them. The terrorist strike begins and several people are shot dead. Raja, Bharath, Rahim and Saroja lead a small bunch of survivors to an abandoned room.

Cable Raja and Bharath fights and kill a terrorist one-on-one. While Bharath sustaining multiple bullet wounds to his shoulder in order to save Saroja. Rahim saves Shivaram from a shooter and comes face to face with his brother, who is part of the terrorist gang. When confronted, Rahim's brother shoots himself. Just then, Mansoor Khan reveals himself to be ahuman bomb, and primes himself to explode. Cable Raja sacrifices himself by throwing himself and Khan out the window, and dies in the explosion.

In the aftermath, Bharath has lost his hand but is alive; he is hailed as a national hero. Saroja and Karpooram head toward a new decent life, hoping to find redemption. Lakshmi pays off the money lender and gives her son a proper education. Rahim is asked forgiveness by Shivaram, which he grants, and accepts him as his brother. Cable Raja is mourned by the people in his community, and Priya as well, and Ganesh and Seenu hail him as a martyr.

[edit]Cast

• Silambarasan as Thillai Raja alias "Cable" Raja
• Bharath as Bharath Chakravarthy
• Anushka Shetty as Saroja
• Prakash Raj as Rahim
• Saranya Ponvannan as Lakshmi
• Santhanam as Seenu
• Sonia Agarwal as Zara Rahim
• Vega Tamotia as Laasya
• Jasmin Bhasin as Priya
• Ganesh as "Bajna" Ganesh
• Radha Ravi as Police Officer
• Jayaprakash as Mansoor Khan
• Ravi Raghavendra
• Ravi Prakash as Shivaram
• Kadhal Thandapani as Narasimman
• Brahmanandam as Bhairavan
• Nikki as Karpooram
• Krish in a cameo appearance

[edit]Production

After Tamil producer R. B. Choudary had bought the rights of Vedam for a "hefty amount" to remake it in Tamil, his younger son Jeeva was initially supposed to play the role enacted by Allu Arjun in the original film, while either Namitha or Anushka Shetty were reported to essay the lead female role of Saroja.^[9] However, to the surprise of all,Silambarasan bagged the lead role, who had seen the original version and was immediately impressed by the "Cable" Raju character,^[10] and started shooting for the film from early July, while he was expected to work on Podaa Podi during that period.^[11] By accepting this film, Silambarasan was said to have lost the project with N. Linguswamy and Dayanidhi Azhagiri, who were unhappy about Silambarasan starting to shoot for this film without informing them and further delaying their film.^[12][13]

Meanwhile, Anushka was reported to have denied the offer, following which Taapsee Pannu, who was the female lead in Vetrimaran's Aadukalam, was considered for the prostitute character, Saroja.^[10] During the launch of the film then, sources claimed that Anushka, following her refusal, had been roped in by the producers for an item number only, which was specially included for the Tamil version and didn't feature in the original, for which she was supposedly paid an "exorbitant price".^[14][14] However, Anushka dismissed all these reports and eventually confirmed that she would reprise her role from the original, citing that "at no point did I refuse to be a part of this project".^[15] Mohan Babu's son Manoj Manchu was also supposed to reprise his original character and enact the rockstar role in Vaanam, but was forced to opt out, following an accident during the shoot of his Telugu film Jhummandi Naadam and had to undergo an operation.^[16] He was replaced by Bharath, who was approached by Silambarasan himself for the role and immediately agreed as he loved Vedam".^[17]

For the character essayed by Deeksha Seth in the original, Sneha Ullal was initially roped in. She was to make her Tamil debut with this film and play Silambarasan's love interest.^[13] Vega Tamotia was roped in to essay a rock musician, played originally by Lekha Washington, being paired opposite Bharath,^[18] while producer Ganesh would appear in a cameo role, too.^[19][20] In September 2010, Sonia Agarwal was also signed up for a pivotal role, returning to acting after four years, replacing Siya Gautham as Zara, the wife of Prakash Raj's character, which she was initially supposed to play in the original version itself, but eventually missed due to personal problems.^[21] Compared to the original, however, she cited that she would have more scenes and one "extra song".^[22] Prakash Raj himself, would play a Muslim, enacting Manoj Bajpai's role from the original.^[23] Noted Telugu actor Ravi Prakash was roped in to play the same role he did in the original version, making his Tamil film debut.^[24] However there was a turn of events in early 2011, as Sneha Ullal, who had already shot for significant portions, was replaced by Delhi-based model Jasmin Bhasin.^[25][26] Jasmin, who completed her portions in 15 days and alsodubbed for herself, had initially auditioned for the rock musician role of Vega Tamotia.^[27] Furthermore, scenes shot with Jagan were removed from the project, and then filmed withSanthanam after Jagan had fallen out with Silambarasan.^[28]

[edit]Soundtrack

Vaanam
Front CD Cover
Soundtrack album to Vaanam by Yuvan Shankar Raja
Released	27 November 2010 (Single release) 21 March 2011 (Soundtrack release)
Recorded	2010 – 2011 Prasad Studios (Chennai)
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	23:25
Language	Tamil
Label	Venus Music
Producer	Yuvan Shankar Raja
Yuvan Shankar Raja chronology
Kadhal 2 Kalyanam (2011) Vaanam (2011) Jolly Boy (2011)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Behindwoods.com	[29]
Rediff	[30]

While Krish worked with composer M. M. Keeravani for Vedam's score, Yuvan Shankar Raja was approached and assigned as the music director of Vaanam to produce original songs and score, owing to his friendship with lead actor Silambarasan, who recommended him. In a novel attempt,^[31] the song "Evan Di Unna Pethan" was separately released as a single track to promote and popularise the film. The track was initially planned to be launched in London, but after several complications and delays,^[32] it was officially unveiled on 28 November 2010 at the Citi Center, Chennai,^[33] four months ahead of the actual audio launch.

While the original soundtrack consisted of eight tracks, the Vaanam soundtrack featured only five tracks, including the earlier released single. The entire soundtrack album was finally launched on 21 March 2011 at the Residency Towers in Chennai in a simple manner.^[34][35] Na. Muthukumar had penned lyrics for three songs, while the other two songs ("Evan Di Unna Pethan" and "Cable Raja") were penned by the singers themselves. Film composer Srikanth Deva had lent his voice for the fifth song, collaborating with Yuvan Shankar for the first time, as did the composer-duo Abhishek-Lawrence.

All lyrics written by Na. Muthukumar, except where noted. 

Tracklist
No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Evan Di Unna Pethan" (Silambarasan, Yuvan Shankar Raja)	Silambarasan, Yuvan Shankar Raja	5:54
2.	"Vaanam"	Yuvan Shankar Raja	3:46
3.	"Cable Raja" (Abhishek, Lawrence)	Abhishek, Lawrence	4:01
4.	"Who Am I"	Benny Dayal	4:20
5.	"No Money No Honey"	Silambarasan, Andrea Jeremiah, Srikanth Deva	5:24
Total length:			23:25

[edit]Critical Response

The soundtrack received mixed reviews from music critics. Richard Mahesh from Behindwoods.com gave a 3/5 rating and said "‘Vaanam’ can be regarded as one of the Yuvan’s better composition and it is sure to make high waves now. While ‘Evandi Unna Pethan’, ‘Vaanam’ and ‘Who Am I’ touches the surpassing degrees on different styles, ‘Cable Raja’ and ‘No Money’ caters to the tastes of mass audiences."^[29] Kollywoodz said "On the whole, ‘Vaanam’ has a power-packed performance by Yuvan Shankar Raja. Sony BMG fetches one more feather to its cap following the huge success of ‘Engeyum Kadhal’ and ‘Ko’."^[36] Pavithra Srinivasan ofRediff gave a 2.5/5 rating and said "Like some of Yuvan's most recent albums, Vaanam too, scores in some areas: the number Vaanam and Who am I. The rest fall into the Yuvan template, while the appeal of Evandi Unnai Pethan is almost purely its in-your-face lyrics. For those who hoped for melodious numbers, this one might prove a dampener."^[30] Indiaglitz said "The audio album of Vaanam strikes an instant appeal. While all the songs are beautiful in their own right, Evandi Unna Pethan and No Money are picks of the lot, as both come with that special touch."^[37]

[edit]Release

[edit]Critical response

Vaanam garnered generally very positive critical response. Behindwoods.com rated it as three and a half out of five, citing that the film was "succulent with diverse complex human emotions from deceit to greed to rage to remorse. The film has a plot that can find patrons among wider variety of audience as the theme of humanity is much a catholic one that transcends barriers", going to describe the film as an "intelligent fare with substance".^[8] Rediff's Pavithra Srinivasan rated it as three out of five and stated that Vaanam was "engaging", further adding that "if you ignore the minor lapses, you've got a reasonably engaging story, and a moving climax."^[38] Sify.com's critic felt the film was "very good", citing that the "this short story genre [...] manages to work well for the new age audience. Almost all the stories are deftly told, with the mandatory twist in the climax which keeps you riveted". The reviewer further praised the director and his team as they "push the cinematic envelope and bring savvy freshness to Tamil cinema".^[39] A reviewer from Indiaglitz.com wrote that Vaanam was a "novel attempt in Tamil cinema and Krish pulls it off well thanks to a beautifully conceived script and well-written characters", comparing the film to "reading a set of interesting short stories".^[40] A Oneindia critic claimed that "the first half was entertaining and the second half makes the audience to sit on the edge of their seats", while pointing out that "the common and mass audiences could not understand the story because of its clumsy nature". Krish was labelled as the "real hero" of the film and was lauded for "writing a ripping story, excellent screenplay and brilliant direction".^[41] Malathi Rangarajan from The Hindu said "Pithy, poignant, funny and serious as the situation warrants, dialogue (Gnanagiri) is a highpoint of Vaanam. Climax is another. Krish seems to have cut and pasted a few scenes from the Telugu original – they give a dubbed-film feel to Vaanam. Coming after the stupendous hit, VTV, Vaanam should be another significant film in STR's career."^[42]

In contrast, Rohit Ramachandran of nowrunning.com gave the film one out of five, stating that "Vaanam is an unrealistic film about uninteresting people that deadlocks into blandness."^[43] National Film Award winning critic Baradwaj Rangan wrote that his "glass-half-full side wants to deliver a smallish pat on Vaanam’s back and label it [...] a "praiseworthy attempt", especially within mainstream parameters", while the "glass-half-empty side" was "still shaking angry fists at what could have and should have been a milestone", criticising that "half the story strands are simply not interesting enough".^[44]

[edit]Box office

The film  90 lakhs at the Chennai box office in its first weekend,^[45] notably without much publicity.^[46] At the end of its seventh week, the film had collected  4.50 crore in Chennai alone and was declared a hit.^[47] The film crossed 10 weeks in Chennai.^[48]