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{{short description|2010 film by Siddharth Chandrasekhar}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2015}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Bale Pandiya
| image = Bale Pandiya promo.jpg
| alt = 
| caption =
| director = [[Siddharth Chandrasekhar]]
| producer = Kalpathi S. Aghoram Kalpathi S. Ganesh Kalpathi S. Suresh
| writer = [[Siddharth Chandrasekhar]]
| starring = [[Vishnu Vishal]] [[Piaa Bajpai]]
| music = [[Devan Ekambaram]]
| cinematography = [[Soundararajan (cinematographer)|Soundarrajan]]
| editing = Shiva Saravanan
| studio = [[AGS Entertainment]]
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|2010|9|3||df=y}}
| runtime = 140 minutes
| country = India
| language = Tamil
| budget = $3 million
| gross =
}}
'''''Bale Pandiya''''' is a 2010 Tamil [[action comedy film]] written and directed by [[Siddharth Chandrasekhar]]. It stars [[Vishnu Vishal]] and [[Piaa Bajpai]] in the lead roles. The film was released on 3 September 2010 with mixed reviews. The movie is based on the 1990 movie ''[[I Hired a Contract Killer]]''.

==Plot==
Contract killer AKP ([[R. Amarendran]]) and his two sidekicks (one of which is a driver that does a full 360-degree flip from the car window and opens the door, allowing AKP to exit from the passenger seat) arrive at a club. The group walks into the club and starts showing their power before reaching their table. A finger with a ring is placed on the table. Pandian ([[Vishnu Vishal]]) considers himself unlucky. All his efforts to come up in life end on the wrong side. He approaches AKP and urges to kill him. A shocked AKP is initially hesitant. Soon, he decides to give him some time. Hence, he gives Pandian some money and entrusts him with the job of turning a human bomb, a job that he should execute within 20 days. Life changes for Pandian after he meets Vaishnavi ([[Piaa Bajpai]]). They fall in love with each other. When Pandian decides to go tell AKP that he would rather prefer to live, he gets a rude shock: AKP and his men are found murdered. The blame falls on Pandian. Meanwhile, Vaishnavi gets kidnapped by a gang for a big deal. It is chaos and confusion everywhere, before Pandian sets things right.

==Cast==
{{colbegin}}
*[[Vishnu Vishal]] as Pandiya
*[[Bharath Srinivasan|Bharath]] as Aravind
*[[Vimal (actor)|Vimal]] as Thiago
*[[Piaa Bajpai]] as Vaishnavi
*[[R. Amarendran]] as AKP
*[[Vivek (actor)|Vivek]] as London
*Gibran Osman as Kachitham
*[[Appukutty]] as Kachitham's assistant
*[[John Vijay]] as Pasupathy
*[[Jayaprakash]] as Vannaiyar
*[[Dr. Sharmila]] as Pandiya's mother
*[[Jayaram]] as Singam Singapore
*[[Vijay Sethupathi]] as Pandiya's brother
*[[Gadam Kishan]] as Raju
*[[Vaiyapuri]]
*[[Aarthi (actress)|Aarthi]]
*Cell Murugan as Thirupathi
*Shamsundar Asrani as Anand Rangan
*Syamantha
*[[Crane Manohar]]
{{colend}}

Guest appearances in ''Happy'' song by: (in alphabetical order)
{{colbegin}}
*[[Aalap Raju]]
*[[Anuradha Sriram]]
*[[Devan Ekambaram]]
*Divya Vijay
*[[Haricharan]]
*[[K. J. Yesudas]]
*[[Malaysia Vasudevan]]
*[[Malgudi Subha]]
*[[Manikka Vinayagam]]
*[[Megha (singer)|Megha]]
*Mukesh
*[[Naresh Iyer]]
*Naveen Madhav
*[[Paravai Muniyamma]]
*[[Rahul Nambiar]]
*[[Ranjith (singer)|Ranjith]]
*Raqueeb Alam
*[[S. P. Balasubramaniam]]
*[[Shaan Rahman]]
*[[Srinivas (singer)|Srinivas]]
*[[Suchitra]]
*Sundar
*[[Swetha Mohan]]
*[[Velmurugan]]
*[[Vijay Yesudas]]
{{colend}}

==Production==
The film marked the directorial debut of leading advertising designer Siddharth Chandrasekhar. The filming was held at Phuket, Pondicherry and Chennai. The song "Happy" featured 20 playback singers in cameo appearances.<ref>http://movies.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/sep/02/slide-show-1-south-interview-with-siddharth-chandrasekhar.htm#4</ref>

==Soundtrack==
{{Infobox album
| name = Bale Pandiya
| type = soundtrack
| artist = [[Devan Ekambaram]]
| cover =
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|df=yes|2010|04|18}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Film soundtrack|Feature film soundtrack]]
| length = 31:29
| label = SonyMusicSouthVEVO
| producer = [[Devan Ekambaram]]
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title =
| next_year =
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{{Track listing
| extra_column = Singers
| lyrics_credit = yes
| total_length = 31:29
| title1 = Sirikkiren
| extra1 = Naresh Iyer, [[Mano (singer)|Mano]], [[Sirkazhi G. Sivachidambaram]], [[Rueben Thevandran (Burn)|Burn]], Uma Shankar
| length1 = 5:05
| lyrics1 = [[Vaali (poet)|Vaali]]
| title2 = Happy
| extra2 = Malaysia Vasudevan, Haricharan, Devan Ekambaram, Naresh Iyer, Naveen Mathav, Ranjith, Rahul Nambiar, Paravai Muniamma, Manicka Vinayagam, Anuradha Sriram, Srinivas, Mukesh, Divya, Suchitra Karthik, Velmurugan, Malgudi Subha, Vijay Yesudoss, Aalap Raju
| length2 = 4:59
| lyrics2 = Vaali
| title3 = Aaradha Kobamillai
| extra3 = [[Raman Mahadevan]], [[Mahalakshmi Iyer]]
| length3 = 4:48
| lyrics3 = [[Thamarai]]
| title4 = Ivan Thedal
| extra4 = Dr. Burn, Arun Ramamurthi
| length4 = 3:39
| lyrics4 = Dr. Burn
| title5 = Kangalae Kamalalayam
| extra5 = [[P. Unnikrishnan]], Mrinalini
| length5 = 4:06
| lyrics5 = Thamarai
| title6 = Bale Pandiya
| extra6 = Velumurugan, Ranjith, Naresh Iyer
| length6 = 4:27
| lyrics6 = Vaali
| title7 = Sirikkiren
| note7 = Instrumental
| extra7 = Arun Ramamurthi
| length7 = 5:05
}}

==Critical reception==
''Behindwoods'' rated the film 2 out of 5 and mentioned "The attempts of director Siddharth appear fresh and there are touches of his ad world experience in a few scenes. [..] However, Siddharth has not held the screen play tightly through out and loses his grasp especially towards the end. The film seems to drag on with a meandering narration in the latter half".<ref>http://behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-reviews/reviews-2/bale-pandiya-movie-review.html</ref> ''Rediff'' wrote "Sidharth Chandrasekar's debut film hits the right note at certain places, and it certainly has its funny moments. If it had sustained that momentum in the second half, Bale Pandiya would have been even better".<ref>http://www.rediff.com/movies/review/south-tamil-review-bale-pandiya/20100903.htm</ref> ''Sify'' mentioned that "The trouble with Bale Pandiya is that the director just do not know whether to make a spoof or a comedy with songs and action, in the process he falls between two stools" and called it "half baked and contrived".<ref>http://www.sify.com/movies/bale-pandiya-review-tamil-pclxGahgheace.html</ref>

==See also==
* [[Bale Pandiya (1962 film)|''Bale Pandiya'' (1962 film)]], an unrelated film starring [[Sivaji Ganesan]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|1539491}}
{{AGS Entertainment}}

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[[Category:Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:2010s Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:Indian action comedy films]]
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[[Category:2010 directorial debut films]]
[[Category:2010 comedy films]]

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