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{{Short description|2014 Indian film by Vetri Mahalingam}}
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{{Infobox film
| image = Vennila Veedu.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Vetri Mahalingam
| writer = Iyndhukovilan (dialogues)
| screenplay = Vetri Mahalingam
| story = Vetri Mahalingam
| producer = P. V. Arun
| starring = [[Mirchi Senthil]]<br />[[Vijayalakshmi Feroz|Vijayalakshmi]]<br />[[Srinda]]
| cinematography = D. Kannan
| editing = [[V J Sabu Joseph]]
| music = Dhanraj Manickam
| studio = Adharsh Studio
| country = India
| language = Tamil
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2014|10|10}}
}}

'''''Vennila Veedu''''' ({{Translation|Vennila's House}}) is a 2014 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] written and directed by Vetri Mahalingam.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Karthik |first=Janani |date=28 June 2013 |title=Vennila Veedu is a gold war |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/regional/tamil/news-interviews/Vennila-Veedu-is-a-gold-war/articleshow/20797215.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216174714/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/regional/tamil/news-interviews/Vennila-Veedu-is-a-gold-war/articleshow/20797215.cms |archive-date=16 February 2016 |access-date=14 September 2013 |work=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref> Produced by P. V. Arun, the film stars [[Mirchi Senthil]], [[Vijayalakshmi Feroz|Vijayalakshmi]], and [[Srinda]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Subramanian |first=Anupama |date=7 September 2013 |title=Vijayalakshmi in a mom's role in 'Vennila Veedu' |url=http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130907/entertainment-kollywood/article/vijayalakshmi-mom%E2%80%99s-role-vennila-veedu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925090944/http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130907/entertainment-kollywood/article/vijayalakshmi-mom%E2%80%99s-role-vennila-veedu |archive-date=25 September 2013 |access-date=14 September 2013 |work=[[Deccan Chronicle]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Lakshmi |first=V |date=3 August 2013 |title=Double delight for Viji |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/regional/tamil/news-interviews/Double-delight-for-Viji/articleshow/21549276.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216174712/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/regional/tamil/news-interviews/Double-delight-for-Viji/articleshow/21549276.cms |archive-date=16 February 2016 |access-date=14 September 2013 |work=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref> Cinematography is by D. Kannan, editing by V. J. Sabu Joseph, and the soundtrack is scored by Dhanraj Manickam. The film was released on 10 October 2014.<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 October 2014 |title=Friday Fury- October 10 |url=http://www.sify.com/movies/friday-fury-october-10-news-tamil-okklvrijagafg.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924171443/http://www.sify.com/movies/friday-fury-october-10-news-tamil-okklvrijagafg.html |archive-date=24 September 2015 |access-date=29 May 2025 |work=[[Sify]] |language=en}}</ref> The film is based on a theme similar to the short story ''[[The Necklace]]'' by [[Guy de Maupassant]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Mannath |first=Malini |date=11 October 2014 |title=A Plot that Goes Awry in Translation |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/tamil/2014/oct/11/a-plot-that-goes-awry-in-translation-670363.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220809231345/https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/tamil/2014/oct/11/A-Plot-that-Goes-Awry-in-Translation-670363.html |archive-date=9 August 2022 |access-date=10 August 2022 |website=[[The New Indian Express]]}}</ref>

== Plot ==
A village couple, Karthik and Thenmozhi, migrates to the city after their marriage. Karthik works as a manager in a firm, and the couple lives happily and helps everyone around according to their capacity. They have a beautiful daughter, Vennila. Meanwhile, Ilavarasi, a new neighbor in their apartment, arrives. She lives right next door. Ilavarasi is the daughter of a rich moneylender and greedy loan shark who will go to any lengths to get his loaned money back from those who borrowed it. He also loves his daughter and will get anything she points at and will do anything for her. Ilavarasi, as a result of this upbringing, is an arrogant, spoiled brat of a man and is married to a spineless man who does whatever she bids him. Though Thenu initially does not have a good opinion about Ilavarasi, they become friends after Ilavarasi thrashes a stalker who repeatedly harassed Thenu over the phone. Soon, the women become good friends, enjoy each other's company over the day, and spend a lot of time together.

One day, when Karthik and Thenu are preparing for a wedding in Karthik's employer's family, Thenu says that she has only a simple jewellery and will feel out of place and belittled at such a grand wedding. Since Karthik is not in a comfortable financial state to buy her some jewels, she decides to ask Ilavarasi to borrow her necklace and return it after the ceremony, and Ilavarasi happily obliges. The trouble begins when a chain snatcher steals the necklace on their way back home.

When Ilavarasi's father learns of this, he becomes wild and scolds Thenu, Karthik, and even Ilavarasi. He asks Karthik to lodge a formal complaint with the police. The policemen's attitude towards this issue is lethargic, and they treat it with negligence. Meanwhile, the inspector tells Ilavarasi's father that while Thenu's own chain is still intact, his daughter's jewellery is also gone, so even Thenu and Karthik could be possible suspects; this kind of cheating is the latest trend among robbers. Ilavarasi's father hears this and poisons his daughter's mind. Ilavarasi also misjudges certain incidents with Thenu and slowly distances herself. One fine day, Ilavarasi throws a surprise party for Karthik and Thenu's wedding anniversary and gifts an expensive showpiece. However, day after day, Ilavarasi's father continues abusing them verbally and looks at them as thieves. Then Vennila is suddenly kidnapped, and after some commotion, Karthik learns that Ilavarasi and her father have orchestrated the whole kidnapping to check whether they have the money from selling the stolen necklace. Karthik is enraged and argues with Ilavarasi's father, who asks him to first find the stolen necklace or at least pay for the jewellery's worth and then talk as much as he pleases. Karthik, unable to see his family suffer humiliation, agrees to somehow give back the money.

Karthik goes to his village to sell a property, leaving Thenu and Vennila at home. However, here too, the land brokers make use of his helpless emergency and buy the land for exactly the amount that Karthik owes Ilavarasi's father, much less than the land's actual worth. Karthik comes back to the city with the money but is in for a rude shock. He finds that Thenu has committed suicide by hanging herself. He reads her suicide note, where she states that there was a secret camera in the gift that Ilavarasi gave for their anniversary, and their intimate moments were filmed and leaked to the internet. Her stalker had seen this and verbally abused her in public. When Thenu confronted Ilavarasi and her father about this, he said that they had fixed the camera only to monitor their activities to find the truth about the theft, and they were not responsible if the video was leaked online. When she argued with him, he slapped and humiliated her further. Unable to bear all the humiliation, she has taken this extreme step.

Karthik is blinded with fury after reading this, and when Ilavarasi's father comes to get his money, he gives it to him and asks him to return his dead wife. This leads to an argument, and he is beaten up by goons, but he bashes them and finally strangles Ilavarasi's father to death with his own gold chains. Except Ilavarasi, nobody else stops Karthik. The film ends with Karthik crying loudly, looking at the state he left Vennila in.

== Cast ==
* [[Mirchi Senthil]] as Karthik
* [[Vijayalakshmi Feroz|Vijayalakshmi]] as Thenmozhi (Thenu)
* [[Srinda]] as Ilavarasi
* Muthuraman as Ilavarasi's father
* Baby Mithra as Vennila
* [[Pandi (actor)|Pandi]]
* VJ Settai Senthil
* VJ Dindugal Saravanan
* Avan Ivan Ramaraj

; Special appearance in promo song
* [[Sivakarthikeyan]]
* [[Premji Amaren]]
* [[Venkat Prabhu]]
* [[Udhayanidhi Stalin]]
* [[Kreshna]]
* [[Sreeja Chandran]]
* Ram Saravana

== Soundtrack ==
The soundtrack album was composed by Dhanraj Manickam. The lyrics were written by Vetri Mahalingam and [[Kabilan (lyricist)|Kabilan]]. The track 'Johny Johny' sung by [[Gana Bala]] was released as a single on 23 July 2013.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18yCwJxxRj4 |title=Vennila Veedu – Johny Johny Official Full Song Video feat. Gana Bala |date=23 July 2013 |publisher=[[Sony Music India]] |access-date=19 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409104704/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18yCwJxxRj4 |archive-date=9 April 2016 |url-status=live |via=YouTube}}</ref> The single track is a mish-mash of the famous nursery rhymes 'Johny Johny Yes Papa', 'Baa Baa Black Sheep', 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' and the [[Bharti Airtel|Airtel]] song 'Ovvoru Friendum Theva Machan'. The audio CD was released by director [[Cheran (director)|Cheran]] and received by Thamizhachi Thangapandian and director [[R. K. Selvamani]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ashok Kumar |first=S. R. |date=14 September 2013 |title=Audio Beat: Vennila Veedu – Music to match mood |url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/cinema-reviews/audio-beat-vennila-veedu-music-to-match-mood/article5128712.ece |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130917231736/http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/cinema-reviews/audio-beat-vennila-veedu-music-to-match-mood/article5128712.ece |archive-date=17 September 2013 |access-date=14 September 2013 |work=[[The Hindu]]}}</ref>

; Tracklist
{{track listing
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| title1 = Silu Silu Mazhaiyum
| extra1 = [[Karthik (singer)|Karthik]]
| lyrics1 = [[Kabilan (lyricist)|Kabilan]]
| title2 = Naayana Oasai Ketten
| extra2 = [[Shakthisree Gopalan]]
| lyrics2 = Kabilan
| title3 = Aala Athattuthu Vayasu
| extra3 = [[Velmurugan]], Padmalatha
| lyrics3 = Kabilan
| title4 = Johny Johny — Friendsbook Song
| extra4 = [[Gana Bala]], Dhanraj Manickam
| lyrics4 = Vetri Mahalingam
| title5 = Johny Johny — Gold Craze Song
| extra5 = Sathya Prakash
| lyrics5 = Vetri Mahalingam
| title6 = Vennila Veetukulla
| extra6 = Veena Arun
| lyrics6 = Vetri Mahalingam
| title7 = Theme
| extra7 = Shakthisree Gopalan (humming)
| lyrics7 = Instrumental
}}

== Critical reception ==
Malini Mannath of ''[[The New Indian Express]]'' wrote, "A more realistic and a sensitive approach, could have helped to make ''Vennila Veedu'' an engaging watch".<ref name=":0" /> M. Suganth of ''[[The Times of India]]'' wrote, "''Vennila Veedu'' could have turned out into a hard-hitting commentary on the vulnerability of the middle class when faced with an existential crisis. But the film we get is underwhelming".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Suganth |first=M |date=11 October 2014 |title=Vennila Veedu |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movie-reviews/Vennila-Veedu/movie-review/44777942.cms |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014085251/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movie-reviews/Vennila-Veedu/movie-review/44777942.cms |archive-date=14 October 2014 |access-date=29 May 2025 |work=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref>

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