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{{Infobox film
| name = Veppam
| image = Veppam poster.jpg
| caption =
| director = Anjana
| producer = {{plainlist|
*[[Gautham Menon]]
*Madhan
*[[Elred Kumar]]
*Venkat
}}
| writer = {{plainlist|
*I.Prabu <small>'''(Dialogues)'''</small>
}}
| screenplay = Anjana
| story = Anjana
| starring = {{plainlist|
*[[Nani (actor)|Nani]]
*[[Nithya Menen]]
*[[Karthik Kumar]]
*[[Bindu Madhavi]]
}}
| music = [[Joshua Sridhar]]
| cinematography = [[Om Prakash (cinematographer)|Om Prakash]]
| editing = [[Anthony (editor)|Anthony]]
| studio = [[Elred Kumar|R. S. Infotainment]]
| distributor = [[Photon Kathaas]]
| released = {{Film date|2011|07|29|df=y}}
| runtime =
| country = India
| language = Tamil
| budget = {{INR}} 25 million<br />(US$550,000)<ref name="stockmarketwire1">{{Cite web |date=12 July 2011 |title=Photon Kathaas second film sold profitably |url=http://www.stockmarketwire.com/article/4182085/Photon-Kathaas-second-film-sold-profitably.html |access-date=1 August 2011 |publisher=Stock Market Wire}}</ref>
| gross =
}}
'''''Veppam''''' ({{trans|Heat}}) is a 2011 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[crime action film]]<ref name="TOI review">{{Cite news |last=Venkateswaran |first=N |date=29 July 2011 |title=Veppam Movie Review |work=[[The Times of India]] |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movie-reviews/veppam/movie-review/9431933.cms |url-status=dead |access-date=11 January 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20170715082426/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movie-reviews/veppam/movie-review/9431933.cms |archive-date=15 July 2017}}</ref> written and directed by newcomer Anjana Ali Khan,<ref name="thehindu1">{{Cite web |last=Y. Sunita Chowdhary |date=20 November 2010 |title=Arts / Cinema : Reality check! |url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/cinema/article900273.ece |access-date=1 August 2011 |website=The Hindu}}</ref> starring [[Nani (actor)|Nani]], [[Nithya Menen]], [[Karthik Kumar]], and [[Bindu Madhavi]]. The story narrates events from the slum areas of Chennai, showcasing characters and their struggles. The film, jointly produced by [[Gautham Menon]]'s [[Photon Kathaas]] and R. S. Infotainment,<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 July 2010 |title=Gautham turns producer — Tamil Movie News |url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/58742.html |access-date=1 August 2011 |publisher=IndiaGlitz}}</ref> had been in production for over one year.<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 June 2011 |title=Gautham Menon's Veppam, to release |url=http://www.sify.com/movies/gautham-menon-s-veppam-to-release-news-tamil-lgorU4iijfj.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617070702/http://www.sify.com/movies/gautham-menon-s-veppam-to-release-news-tamil-lgorU4iijfj.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 June 2011 |access-date=1 August 2011 |publisher=Sify}}</ref> The film released on 29 July 2011, while a dubbed [[Telugu language|Telugu]] version, titled ''Sega'', released simultaneously in [[Andhra Pradesh]].<ref name="indiaglitz1">{{Cite web |date=5 February 2011 |title='Veppam' of Naani to be dubbed as 'Sega' – Telugu Movie News |url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/63694.html |access-date=1 August 2011 |publisher=IndiaGlitz}}</ref> ''Veppam'' received mixed reviews.

== Plot ==
The film starts by showing a girl named Revathy ([[Nithya Menen]]) forwarding towards the beach and drowning herself in it. The film is then set 18 years back in a slum in Chennai. Balaji's (Muthukumar) mother dies, and his father, Jyothi (Sheimour), a drunkard, leaves him on the streets. He works hard and ensures a decent living for his younger brother Karthik ([[Nani (actor)|Nani]]) with the help of Revathy's father. Karthik, who studies in an engineering college, spends all his time with his friend Vishnu ([[Karthik Kumar]]), who is also brought up in the locality. Revathy, who lives in the neighbourhood, loves Karthik. Revathy, Karthik, and Vishnu are close friends. Vishnu also owns a mechanic shop but is not generating enough income. Vishnu's guardian pesters Vishnu to sell it and to look for a decent job which generates enough income to ensure financial security for the foreseeable future, but Vishnu refuses as the shop is the only surviving memory of his late father.

Jyothi takes to illegal ways and makes money working for a drug peddler Ammaji (Jennifer). Balaji does not want his brother Karthik to join with his father Jyothi as he left them on the streets in his young age. Jyothi supplies call girls to men in that locality. Knowing that Vishnu is in love with Viji ([[Bindu Madhavi]]), a call girl in the locality, and also needs money as his shop is not earning enough, Jyothi decides to exploit him for his selfish gain of transaction of a drug. He gives him an assignment — to transport drugs to Pondicherry, promising to give him Viji if he completes the work. Vishnu takes the help of Karthik and leaves for Pondicherry. Viji hears that Jyothi is planning to sell the drug to Ammaji's official enemy. She tries to save Vishnu through Jyothi's assistant. Meanwhile, Revathy's father survives a heart attack and is desperate to contact Karthik and Vishnu while in the hospital. Balaji finds Karthik in Jyothi's car and searches for him for a week. Meanwhile, Jyothi's assistant warns Vishnu about Jyothi's plan. Balaji finds Karthik in a bakery after a week and hits him. Karthik, in anger, leaves his house to Vishnu's house, giving a phone to Revathy, leaves the drug in his cupboard. Vishnu searches for the drug in his bag in his house and fights with Karthik. Karthik gets hurt in his head from a chair and faints. Vishnu's guardian kills Vishnu as he wanted to sell the mechanic shop which Vishnu owned. Viji dies in the depression of Vishnu's death. The police arrest Karthik, thinking that he would have killed Vishnu.

Karthik comes out through Jyothi's help. Balaji, Karthik, and Jothi go to Ammaji, where they find that Ammaji's official enemies have joined together. They try to kill Jyothi, but Balaji and Karthik save him and kill everybody there, and Jyothi kills Ammaji. They go to Jyothi's house and start drinking, and upon being asked by Jyothi about the drug, Karthik replies that Revathy had found the drug in Karthik's cupboard. She took the drug to Jyothi's house, where a man tried to rape her. She escaped and dissolved the drug in the beach. Later, Balaji gives Jyothi a glass of poisoned beer for he left them alone in their young age, and Karthik joins his brother and kills him for the reason for his friend Vishnu's death. People nearby them agree not to let anyone know that they murdered Jyothi. The film ends as both brothers walk out of the room together.

== Cast ==
*[[Nani (actor)|Nani]] as Karthik "''Karthi''"
*[[Karthik Kumar]] as Vishnu
*[[Nithya Menen]] as Revathi
*[[Bindu Madhavi]] as Viji
*Sheimour Roosevelt as Jyothi
*Jennifer as Ammaji
*Muthukumar as Balaji (voice dubbed by Gautham Menon)
*[[Ramdoss]] as Ammaji's henchman
*Mippu as Vishnu's friend

== Production ==
''Veppam'' was shot in 46 days.<ref name="thehindu1" /> Since the story was set in Chennai, it was mostly filmed in and around Chennai, with songs being canned in [[Mahabalipuram]], [[Pondicherry (city)|Pondicherry]] and [[Kodaikanal]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anjana — Tamil Cinema Director Interview — Anjana | Veppam | Gautham Menon | Joshua Sridhar |url=http://www.videos.behindwoods.com/videos-q1-09/director-interview/anjana.html |access-date=1 August 2011 |publisher=Videos.behindwoods.com}}</ref> Anjana revealed that the story revolves around three friends — two boys and one girl — from the slums, played by [[Nani (actor)|Nani]], [[Karthik Kumar]] and [[Nithya Menen]], respectively, with [[Bindu Madhavi]] playing the role of a call girl.<ref>{{Cite web |date=9 November 2010 |title=Veppam to give Bindu a break |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-11-09/news-interviews/28231884_1_indian-girls-anjana-indian-films |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103214341/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-11-09/news-interviews/28231884_1_indian-girls-anjana-indian-films |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 November 2012 |website=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=1 August 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Chowdhary |first=Y. Sunitha |date=28 July 2010 |title=FEATURES / METRO PLUS : Rules of the game |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/article537287.ece |access-date=1 August 2011 |website=The Hindu}}</ref> Nani and Bindu Madhavi had acted in a few Telugu films before and would make their Tamil film debut through ''Veppam''.<ref name="thehindu1" /> The film was also supposed to be Nithya Menen's debut Tamil film. However due to the long delay in production, it would become her second Tamil release after ''[[180 (2011 Tamil film)|180]]''. Nani and Nithya had starred together in the Telugu super hit ''[[Ala Modalaindi]]'' (2011), which prompted the makers to dub and release the film in Telugu as well.<ref name="indiaglitz1" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=25 June 2011 |title=Metro Plus Visakhapatnam / People : Beyond movies |url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2011/06/25/stories/2011062550410300.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110071745/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2011/06/25/stories/2011062550410300.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 November 2012 |website=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=1 August 2011 }}</ref> Anjana had initially signed up with another producer, but since the project failed to take off, director [[Gautham Menon]], under whom she had worked as an assistant director, stepped in and took over the production.<ref name="thehindu1" /> Produced for approximately US$550,000, the film's domestic theatrical rights were sold for US$600,000, while the television rights, international theatrical rights and the rights to the Telugu dubbed version had been sold for a total of US$270,000.<ref name="stockmarketwire1" />

== Soundtrack ==
The film's music was composed by [[Joshua Sridhar]]. The soundtrack, which features seven tracks, was released by [[Suhasini Maniratnam]] on 31 December 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |date=31 December 2010 |title=Suhasini launches Veppam audio |url=http://www.sify.com/movies/suhasini-launches-veppam-audio-news-tamil-km5tPdadjie.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110104071212/http://www.sify.com/movies/suhasini-launches-veppam-audio-news-tamil-km5tPdadjie.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 January 2011 |access-date=1 August 2011 |publisher=Sify}}</ref>

{{Track listing
| headline = Track listing
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| total_length =
| all_lyrics = [[Na. Muthukumar]]
| title1 = Oru Devathai
| extra1 = [[Clinton Cerejo]], [[Swetha Mohan]]
| length1 = 06:02
| title2 = Mazhai Varum Arikuri
| extra2 = [[Suzanne D'Mello]]
| length2 = 04:28
| title3 = Minnalaa
| extra3 = [[Benny Dayal]]
| length3 = 05:13
| title4 = Kaatril Eeram
| extra4 = [[Karthik (singer)|Karthik]], Sricharan
| length4 = 04:06
| title5 = Raani Naan
| extra5 = Apoorva
| length5 = 03:59
| title6 = Mazhai Varum Arikuri (Male)
| extra6 = [[Naresh Iyer]]
| length6 = 04:28
| title7 = Veppam
| extra7 = [[Joshua Sridhar]], Naresh Iyer
| length7 = 02:38
}}

== Release ==
''Veppam'' opened to mixed responses. Pavithra Srinivasan of [[Rediff]] gave 2.5 out of 5 citing that "a tauter screenplay, more logic in the sequences and realistic dialogues would have made Veppam an eminently enjoyable film".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/report/review-south-veppam/20110729.htm|title=Review: Veppam could have been enjoyable}}</ref> [[IBNLive]] described that "the movie has some positives in terms of looks and narrative style, but it lacks the punch."<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 August 2011 |title=Tamil Review: 'Veppam' lacks punch |url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/tamil-review-veppam-lacks-punch/172118-8-68.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927014519/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/tamil-review-veppam-lacks-punch/172118-8-68.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 September 2011 |access-date=14 December 2011 |publisher=[[IBNLive]]}}</ref> A critic from [[Sify]] wrote that "Veppam has everything to hold the audiences interest- romance, drama, violence and slick packaging. It is certainly worth a look."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Veppam |url=http://www.sify.com/movies/veppam-review-tamil-14975595.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130412003022/http://www.sify.com/movies/veppam-review-tamil-14975595.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 April 2013 |access-date=29 July 2011}}</ref> The Times of India wrote, "Swear words and swagger do not {{Sic|gangsters make}}, something director Anjana failed to factor in while working on the movie. So while we have some fearsome looking gangsters in well-shot frames, they fail to strike a chord and end up looking like caricatures."<ref name="TOI review" /> ''Supergoodmovies'' rated it 2.5/5 and called it "A {{Sic|hide=y|technically|-}}rich movie, Veppam will be here to stay for some time."<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 July 2011 |title=Veppam Movie Review |url=http://www.supergoodmovies.com/23213/kollywood/veppam-movie-review-movie-review-details |access-date=14 December 2011 |publisher=Supergoodmovies}}</ref> ''Indiaglitz'' stated the movie as "Watch this racy story for its worth your money."<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 July 2011 |title=Veppam – The temperature shoots up |url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/review/12994.html |access-date=14 December 2011 |publisher=Indiaglitz}}</ref> ''KollyInsider.com'' rated the movie with 2.5 stars out of 5, stated good fun from starting to end.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Veppam Movie Review, Rating – Tamil Movie Review |url=http://www.kollyinsider.com/2011/07/veppam-movie-review.html |publisher=kollyinsider.com}}</ref> The Telugu version ''Sega'' failed at the box office.<ref>[http://www.cinecorn.com/telugu/box-office/telugu-cinema-tollywood-movies-2011-hits-flops-movies-list.html Sega flops in Andhra]</ref> Veppam emerged as an average grosser.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Veppam – Behindwoods.com – Tamil Top Ten Movies – Doo Veppam Poota Potti Kanchana Deiva Thirumagal Venghai Theneer Viduthi 180 Pillaiyar Nootrenbadu Theru Kadaisi Veedu Udhayan Avan Ivan Aaranya Kaandam Azhagarsaamiyin Kudhirai Aanmai Thavarel Kanden Engeyum Kadhal Ko Vaanam |url=http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies-slide-shows/movie-4/top-ten-movies-august-15/tamil-cinema-topten-movie-09.html |website=www.behindwoods.com}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|2014389}}

{{Gautham Menon}}

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