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{{Infobox film
| name = Vettri Vizhaa
| image = Vettri Vizhaa.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Prathap K. Pothan]]
| producer = {{ubl | Santhi Narayanasamy | T. Manohar}}
| writer = {{ubl | [[K. Rajeshwar]] | Shanmugapriyan}}
| screenplay = [[Prathap K. Pothan]]
| story = {{ubl | [[K. Rajeshwar]] | Shanmugapriyan}}
| starring = {{plainlist|
* [[Kamal Haasan]]
* [[Prabhu (actor)|Prabhu]]
* [[Amala (actress)|Amala]]
* [[Khushbu]]
* [[Rajani (actress)|Sasikala]]
* [[Salim Ghouse]]
}}
| music = [[Ilaiyaraaja]]
| cinematography = [[Ashok Kumar (cinematographer)|Ashok Kumar]]
| editing = [[B. Lenin]]<br />[[V. T. Vijayan]]
| studio = [[Sivaji Productions]]
| distributor = [[Sivaji Productions]]
| released = {{Film date|1989|10|28|df=y}}
| runtime =
| country = India
| language = Tamil
}}

'''''Vettri Vizhaa''''' ({{Translation|Ceremony of Victory}}) is a 1989 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[action film]] directed by [[Pratap K. Pothen|Prathap K. Pothen]]. It stars [[Kamal Haasan]], [[Prabhu (actor)|Prabhu]], pairing with [[Rajani (actress)|Sasikala]] and [[Khushbu]] as lead heroine along with [[Amala (actress)|Amala]] in guest appearance. The film was a blockbuster and completed 175-day run at the box office. It is loosely based on the novel ''[[The Bourne Identity (novel)|The Bourne Identity]]'' by [[Robert Ludlum]].

''Vettri Vizhaa'' was released on 28 October 1989 during the [[Diwali]] holiday. Santhi Narayanasamy and T. Manohar produced ''Vetri Vizha'' under the production company Sivaji Productions. The story was written by [[K. Rajeshwar]] and Shanmugapriyan. Cinematography was handled by [[Ashok Kumar (cinematographer)|Ashok Kumar]], the editing was by [[B. Lenin]] and [[V. T. Vijayan]], and the art direction was by B. Salim. The first film in which Kamal Haasan and Prabhu co-starred. Filming took place primarily in [[Goa]] and [[Chennai]]. This was later dubbed into Hindi as ''The Chain Hatkhadi'' in 2007. Voot holds the digital rights of the Hindi dubbed version.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://m-origin.voot.com/movie/the-chain-hathkadi/806699 |title= The Chain Hatkhadi |access-date= 20 November 2020 }}</ref>

==Plot==
A man ([[Kamal Haasan]]) is being chased by heavily armed men in a [[coastline]]. He takes out a couple of them with his superior skills, but is shot down from a hanging ladder in the [[helicopter]] trying to rescue him. He washes up on the shores of [[Goa]] unconscious and is rescued by Shirley ([[Rajani (actress)|Sasikala]]), who brings him to her doctor aunt ([[Sowcar Janaki]]).

When he wakes up, he realizes that he is suffering from [[amnesia]] and has a few flashes of sculptures and a [[karate]] class, but does not recognize them. Meanwhile, the local rowdy has been harassing the doctor and her niece. The man manages to thwart their next attack easily, which makes him believe that he might be trained in [[martial arts]]. Since the man has enraged the rowdy, the doctor pleads with him to marry her niece for her own protection. He does so and thwarts another attack from the rowdy during their wedding.

Right after, he decides to leave for [[Madras]] to find his identity with his new wife in tow. Soon they find out that the earlier flashes he had are of the sculptures in [[Connemara]] Hotel and he used to be a regular there. After getting the bank account number he has used previously in the hotel, he visits the bank and is once again surprised to find out that he was a regular to the bank too and has a locker with a large amount of money, multiple passports of him and a hand gun.

While leaving the bank, he is attacked by an unknown assailant in the [[Elevator|lift]] but he once again successfully maims the assailant and escapes, but leaves a shocked witness. His bank locker contents along with his martial arts skills make him believe that he might have been involved in gangs before and decides to surrender to police but is talked out it by his wife.

Vijay ([[Prabhu (actor)|Prabhu]]) and Jaya ([[Khushbu]]) are part of a wedding band. The man decides to uncover another one of his image flashes and tries to locate the karate class. In one such class, the instructor recognizes him, but guides him towards a singer [[Disco Shanti]] and tells him that he might be in danger. Another group of assailants attack him, and Vijay and Jaya are caught in the chaos. Believing Vijay to be helping the man, they kidnap Jaya and demand the surrender of the man, but Vijay and the man team up to rescue Jaya, which makes Vijay pledge to help the man in his quest.

The man then goes to talk to the singer, but is soon recognized and is shot at. The singer helps him escape and gives him a phone number to contact but is seriously wounded. He contacts the number and barely escapes another attempt on his life, but manages to meet the person who the singer referred to, which happens to be Nithyanandam, the Deputy Inspector General of Police.

He finally learns of his true identity. His name is Vetrivel, and he was a happily married to Lalitha ([[Amala Akkineni]]), and was undercover IPS officer who teamed up with the DIG to bring down a notorious hit man Zinda ([[Salim Ghouse]]). Unable to find any information about Zinda's whereabouts, they devise a plan to make Vetri go undercover and make him a bigger and more dangerous hit man than Zinda, hoping Zinda would get in touch with his fiercest competitor. The plan works, and soon Zinda and Vetri become friends. But soon, Zinda learns about an undercover police officer in his gang through a spy and kidnap Lalitha to oust the spy. Vetri breaks his cover to protect Lalitha, but she is shot and killed in the shooting that ensues, and Vetri is chased (the opening in the movie), but escapes barely.

Vetri puts the pieces back together and uncovers a plot by Zinda to assassinate a very popular priest, Baba Appaji (Janagaraj) when he went to visit the singer. Vijay and Vetri thwart the plot, but Zinda still manages to escape. To avenge this Zinda kidnaps both Vijay's and Vetri's wives and sends them a photographic evidence of the kidnap. But Vetri and Vijay soon find the location with the background signboard in the photo, rescue their wives, and arrest Zinda.

Awaiting Zinda's presence in the courtroom for his trial, they are surprised to see an unknown man being presented in the trial as Zinda. This makes them think that the DIG may be the spy who swapped Zinda out and rushes to his house to confront him, but finds him murdered in the arms of his crying wife. Suspicions still exist, and Vetri and Vijay find that the real spy is the DIG's wife, and they confront her. She shows them a lot of cash and asks them to let her go. Vijay sees this, and shoots and nearly kills Vetri for the money, and asks the wife to give him the money and leave. Believing that Vetri is finally dead, she rushes back to Zinda. But Vetri is alive, and this was a plan to make her lead them to Zinda's location. Vetri and Vijay follow her to a ship docked on the port, and go in to arrest Zinda. Zinda and his men are soon overpowered by the two-man fighting machine, but before he dies, he arms a bomb in the ship. Vetri and Vijay collaborate once and successfully disarm the bomb, thus relieving the port of the threat. The movie ends with both of them shaking hands.

==Cast==
{{colbegin}}
* [[Kamal Haasan]] as Vetri IPS/Stephen Raj
* [[Prabhu (actor)|Prabhu]] as Vijay
* [[Amala (actress)|Amala]] as Lalitha
* [[Khushbu]] as Jaya
* [[Rajani (actress)|Sasikala]] as Shirley
* [[Disco Shanti]] as Shanthi
* [[Sowcar Janaki]] as Shirley's aunt
* [[Salim Ghouse]] as Zinda
* [[Sudheer (Kannada actor)|Sudheer]] as Samuthiran
* [[V. K. Ramasamy (actor)|V. K. Ramasamy]] (Cameo)
* [[Thyagu (actor)|Thyagu]] (Cameo)
* [[S. S. Chandran]] (Cameo)
* [[Janakaraj]] (Cameo),
* [[Vikram Dharma]] (Elevator fight sequence)
* [[Chinni Jayanth]] (Cameo)
* [[Mayilsamy]] (Cameo)
* [[Ponnambalam (actor)|Ponnambalam]] (Cameo)
* [[Radha Ravi]]
* [[LIC Narasimhan]]
* Abhilasha
* [[R. K. (actor)|R. K.]]
{{colend}}

== Production ==
{{Cquote|text=It just so happened that I was reading [''[[The Bourne Identity (novel)|The Bourne Identity]]''] at that time and it seemed terrific. It was basically [[Kālidāsa|Kalidasa]]'s ''[[Shakuntala (play)|Shakuntala]]'' with lot more action.|author=[[Pratap K. Pothen]], on how ''Vetri Vizha'' developed<ref name="bourne-again">{{Cite web |date=2 August 2017 |title=Bourne again |url=http://www.cinemaexpress.com/stories/interviews/2017/aug/02/bourne-again-1427.html |website=[[Cinema Express]]}}</ref>}}
The film is [[Pratap K. Pothen|Pratap Pothen]]'s fifth directorial and third in [[Kollywood]] after ''[[Meendum Oru Kaathal Kathai]]'' and ''[[Jeeva (1988 film)|Jeeva]]'' and was loosely inspired by the novel ''[[The Bourne Identity (novel)|The Bourne Identity]]'', written by [[Robert Ludlum]] in 1980.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://indiancine.ma/texts/indiancine.ma%3AEncyclopedia_of_Indian_Cinema/text.pdf | title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema | publisher= [[Oxford University Press]] | last1=Rajadhyaksha | first1=Ashish | last2=Willemen | first2=Paul | year=1998 | orig-year=1994 | isbn=019-563579-5 | page= 97}}</ref><ref name="mog">{{cite news|last1=Meena|first1=Iyer|title=When Mogambo spoke Tamil|url=http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Layout/Includes/CREST/ArtWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=CREST&BaseHref=TCRM%2F2010%2F07%2F03&GZ=T&ViewMode=HTML&EntityId=Ar02800&AppName=1|access-date=31 December 2016|work=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref> Bollywood actor [[Salim Ghouse]] made his Tamil debut with this film, portraying the antagonist.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Talking Movies: ReBourne|url=https://www.cinemaexpress.com/stories/columns/2017/aug/04/talking-movies-rebourne-1450.html|access-date=30 June 2020|website=[[Cinema Express]]}}</ref> Prabhu's character was not present in the novel, and was created for the film.<ref name="bourne-again"/> It was dubbed in Telugu as ''Vijethalu'' and released in 1989. [[Prabhu Deva]] working as dance assistant to his father [[Mugur Sundar|Sundaram Master]] choreographed a song independently for ''Vetri Vizha''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Prabhu Deva: From his father's shadow to the limelight|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/prabhu-deva-from-his-fathers-shadow-to-the-limelight/article3126100.ece|access-date=20 January 2018|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=29 June 2006}}</ref>

==Soundtrack==
{{Infobox album
| name = Vetri Vizha
| type = Soundtrack
| artist = [[Ilaiyaraaja]]
| cover =
| alt =
| released = 1989
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Film soundtrack|Feature film soundtrack]]
| language = [[Tamil language|Tamil]]
| length = 24:41
| label = Echo
| producer =
| prev_title = [[Apoorva Sagodharargal (1989 film)|Apoorva Sagodharargal]]
| prev_year = 1989
| next_title = Kokila
| next_year = 1989
| misc = {{External media
| audio1 = {{YouTube|ITF7knJ-Qys&t| Audio Jukebox}}
}}
}}
This music and background score was composed by [[Illayaraja]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Vetri Vizha (1989)|url=http://www.raaga.com/channels/tamil/moviedetail.asp?mid=t0000198|work=Raaga.com|access-date=17 December 2013}}</ref>

=== Tamil version ===

{{Track listing
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| total_length = 24:41
| title1 = Marugo Marugo
| extra1 = [[S. P. Balu]], [[K. S. Chithra]]
| lyrics1 = [[Vaali (poet)|Vaali]]
| length1 = 5:48
| title2 = Seevi Sinukkeduthu
| extra2 = Malaysia Vasudevan, S. Janaki
| lyrics2 = [[Gangai Amaran]]
| length2 = 4:30
| title3 = Thathom Talangu
| extra3 = S. P. Balu, S. Janaki
| lyrics3 = Vaali
| length3 = 4:31
| title4 = Pungatru Un Peru Solla
| extra4 = S. P. Balu, [[K. S. Chithra]]
| lyrics4 = Vaali
| length4 = 4:35
| title5 = Vaanam Enna
| extra5 = S. P. Balu, [[Malaysia Vasudevan]]
| lyrics5 = Vaali
| length5 = 5:17
}}

=== Telugu version ===

This film was dubbed into Telugu as ''Vijethalu'' and lyrics were written by [[Rajashri]].<ref>{{cite web | url = https://open.spotify.com/album/6olk8O40MbZ1TLHf66u3UD | website = [[Spotify]] | title = Vijethalu | access-date = 1 January 2021}}</ref>

{{tracklist
| headline = Track list
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| total_length = 24:18
| title1 = Edye Thullinadhi
| extra1 = [[S. P. Balu]], [[S. Janaki]]
| length1 = 4:43
| title2 = Marugo Marugo
| extra2 = S. P. Balu, [[K. S. Chithra]]
| length2 = 5:12
| title3 = Ningi Choodu
| extra3 = S. P. Balu
| length3 = 5:07
| title4 = Thathom Talangu
| extra4 = S. P. Balu, S. Janaki
| length4 = 4:27
| title5 = Undali Nee Gundelo
| extra5 = S. P. Balu, S. Janaki
| length5 = 4:48
}}

==Release and reception ==
''Vettri Vizhaa'' was released on 28 October 1989.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 October 2020 |title='மாறுகோ மாறுகோ மாறுகயீ'; ஜிந்தா...', 'வெற்றிவேல்...'- 31 ஆண்டுகளாகியும் கமலின் ‘வெற்றி விழா’வுக்கு தனியிடம்! |url=https://www.hindutamil.in/news/cinema/tamil-cinema/595653-31-years-of-vetri-vizha.html |access-date=2 July 2021 |work=[[Hindu Tamil Thisai]] |language=ta}}</ref> The film ran for over 175 days in theatres.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Balachandran|first=Logesh|date=30 June 2020|title=Tuesday Trivia: Did you know Kamal Haasan had a Bourne movie before Matt Damon?|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/regional-cinema/story/tuesday-trivia-did-you-know-matt-damon-s-bourne-movies-have-a-predecessor-in-tamil-cinema-1695508-2020-06-30|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.is/a8zLl|archive-date=30 June 2020|access-date=30 June 2020|website=[[India Today]]}}</ref>

==Re-release==
A digitally restored version of the film was released on 4 August 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/kamal-starrer-vetri-vizha-to-be-re-released/article19252229.ece|title=Kamal starrer 'Vetri Vizha' to be re-released|work=The Hindu|access-date=15 July 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Kamal Haasan's classic hits to be re-release on the big screen|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/tamil/kamal-haasan-classic-hits-to-be-re-release-on-the-big-screen-4615632/|access-date=19 January 2018|work=[[The Indian Express]]|date=16 April 2017}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0140677}}

{{Pratap K. Pothen}}

[[Category:1989 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:Films shot in India]]
[[Category:Indian action films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja]]
[[Category:1980s Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:Fictional portrayals of the Tamil Nadu Police]]
[[Category:Films set in Goa]]
[[Category:Films about musical groups]]
[[Category:Films featuring an item number]]
[[Category:Films about amnesia]]
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[[Category:1989 action films]]

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