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{{Infobox film
| name = Wagah
| image = Wagah 2016 poster.jpg
| alt = 
| caption =
| director = [[G. N. R. Kumaravelan]]
| producer = M. Balavishwaanathan
| screenplay = G. N. R. Kumaravelan
| starring = [[Vikram Prabhu]]<br />[[Ranya Rao]]
| music = [[D. Imman]]
| cinematography = [[S. R. Sathish Kumar]]
| editing = [[Raja Mohammad]]
| studio = Vijay Bhargavi Films
| distributor = Cosmo Village
| released = {{Film date|2016|08|12|df=y}}
| runtime = 122 mins
| country = India
| language = Tamil
| budget = 
| gross =

}}
'''''Wagah''''' is a 2016 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[action film|action]] [[romance film]] written and directed by [[G. N. R. Kumaravelan]]. The film features [[Vikram Prabhu]] and [[Ranya Rao]] in the leading roles, while [[D. Imman]] composes the soundtrack. Set in [[Wagah]], the flashpoint border post between India and Pakistan, the film revolves around an Indian soldier who finds himself in a tough situation when he gets caught by Pakistani soldiers while safely escorting his girlfriend to her home in Pakistan. It received mixed reviews.

''Wagah'' was extensively shot in [[Pahalgam]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]] and a few extreme border locations which had very tight securities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies-cinema-news-16/ranya-rao-talks-about-her-experience-working-in-wagah.html|title=Ranya Rao talks about her experience working in Wagah|date=12 August 2016|website=Behindwoods.com|access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref> The audio of the film was launched on 18 April 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news/wagah-trailer/articleshow/51824888.cms|title=Wagah trailer |newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies/event-photos-pictures-stills/wagah-audio-launch/wagah-audio-launch-stills-photos-pictures-index.html|title=Wagah Audio Launch, Event Gallery, Wagah Audio Launch|date=18 April 2016|website=Behindwoods.com|access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref>

''Wagah'' released theatrically on 12 August 2016 in India and other countries.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5958304/releaseinfo|title=Wagah (2016) |website=IMDb.com|access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref> Upon its release, the film met mixed responses from both critics and audiences.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibtimes.co.in/wagah-movie-review-live-audience-response-689668|title='Wagah' movie review: Live audience response|first=Prakash|last=Upadhyaya|date=11 August 2016|website=Ibtimes.co.in|access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref>
In its first weekend, the film grossed Rs.66.72 lakhs from 189 shows.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibtimes.co.in/chennai-box-office-collection-wagah-overpowers-kabali-rustom-mohenjo-daro-first-weekend-689945|title=Box office collection: 'Wagah' overpowers 'Kabali,' 'Rustom,' 'Mohenjo Daro' in 1st weekend in Chennai|first=Prakash|last=Upadhyaya|date=15 August 2016|website=Ibtimes.co.in|access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref> However, due to mixed reviews, the film later failed to sustain its collections at the box office.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://m.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies/wagah/wagah-box-office-aug-21.html|title=Wagah box office collection|date=21 August 2016|website=Behindwoods.com|access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref> After the end of its theatrical run, ''Wagah'' was made available on digital streaming platform ''Herotalkies'' on 1 September 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://herotalkies.com/wagah |title=Watch Wagah Tamil Movie Online+Video Songs in HD-HeroTalkies |access-date=12 April 2017 |archive-date=13 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413071201/https://www.herotalkies.com/wagah |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Plot==
The movie begins with the news announcement of the decapitation of two [[Border Security Force|BSF]] jawans by the [[Pakistan Army]] and a third jawan named Vasu ([[Vikram Prabhu]]) missing. The scene then shifts to a [[Pakistan]] Army base where a wounded Vasu is held prisoner. He narrates the events leading to his imprisonment.

Vasu, who is from a small town in [[Tamil Nadu]], joined the BSF after his graduation to avoid working in his father's ([[Raj Kapoor (Tamil film director)|Raj Kapoor]]) provision store and was posted at the [[India-Pakistan border]] in [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]]. One day, he encountered a young [[Kashmiri Muslim]] girl named Khanum ([[Ranya Rao]]) and immediately got attracted to her. After some days, Khanum reciprocated Vasu's feelings but sadly walked away when he asked her to marry him.

The next morning, two jawans were decapitated by the Pakistan Army (which was reported at the beginning of the film), forcing all Pakistanis in Kashmir to return to Pakistan due to rising anti-Pakistan sentiment. Vasu, who was tasked with the responsibility to ensure that all Pakistanis returned safely, was shocked when he found out that Khanum is a Pakistani from [[Pakistan-occupied Kashmir]] who had come to India to visit her grandfather. Later, the bus in which Khanum was travelling was burnt by protestors just a few kilometres from the border; however, Khanum managed to survive. Vasu took her to her home in PoK safely via an unguarded border crossing but was soon caught by the Pakistan Army for infiltrating into their country. He then gets imprisoned.

In the present day, Vasu finds out that along with him, 23 other BSF jawans are held prisoner by the Pakistan Army. One day, he is made to fight one of the imprisoned BSF jawans ([[Ajay Rathnam]]). He manages to defeat the jawan but is then taken to a nearby cliff by the Pakistan Army to be shot. However, a sympathetic Pakistan Army officer, whose daughter's illness was successfully treated by Indian doctors, secretly allows him to escape.

Vasu goes to Khanum's village, where he witnesses Khanum's family being killed by a cruel anti-Indian Pakistan Army commander named Razzaq Ali Khan (Shaji Chaudhary), who feels that Khanum is a traitor for loving the Indian Vasu. Vasu rescues Khanum and both of them leave for the Indian border, with Razzaq and the Pakistan Army in pursuit. He manages to subdue the army men as well as Razzaq, but chooses to not kill Razzaq. Razzaq, while accepting defeat, reveals that his opinion of India and Indians will not change. At this, Vasu forcefully replies that despite being an Indian, he does not hate Pakistan and Pakistanis and that the misguided hatred between the two countries only aggravates the India-Pakistan conflict.

The movie ends with Vasu revealing the presence of the 23 jawans in Pakistan and ensuring their freedom, for which he is honoured by the [[President of India|President]] as well as the [[Prime Minister of India]].

==Cast==
*[[Vikram Prabhu]] as Havildar Vasu
*[[Ranya Rao]] as Khanum (Kajal)
*Shaji Chaudhary as Razzaq Ali Khan
*[[Karunas]] as Nagappan
*[[Sathyan (Tamil actor)|Sathyan]] as Pazhani
*[[Rajendran]] as the PT Master
*[[Raj Kapoor (Tamil film director)|Raj Kapoor]] as Vasu's father
*[[Tulasi (actress)|Tulasi]] as Vasu's mother
*[[Vidyullekha Raman]] as Juhi
*[[Ajay Rathnam]] as imprisoned BSF jawan
*Rangaraj Pandey as himself
*"Jaya TV" Jacob as Periyappa

==Production==
In November 2013, director Kumaravelan was working on the pre-production of a film on a cross-border romance between an Indian and a Pakistani, starring [[Vikram Prabhu]] and approached [[Alia Bhatt]] to play the leading female role. However, in June 2014, the producer, Chain Raaj Jain, shelved the venture citing financial restraints.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sify.com/movies/vikram-prabhu-to-team-up-with-gnr-kumaravelan-news-tamil-nlesX3hgabasi.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211009211926/https://www.sify.com/movies/vikram-prabhu-to-team-up-with-gnr-kumaravelan-news-tamil-nlesX3hgabasi.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 October 2021|title=Vikram Prabhu to team up with G.N.R. Kumaravelan|website=Sify.com|access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies-cinema-news-14/alia-bhatt-to-romance-vikram-prabhu-in-gnr-kumaravelans-flick.html|title=Alia Bhatt in promising director's new flick ?|website=Behindwoods.com|access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref> Kumaravelan then found producers in the form of Vijay Bhargavi Films, who helped restart the project.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/the-romance-of-wagah/article6910271.ece|title=The romance of Wagah|first=Subha J.|last=Rao|date=19 February 2015|access-date=21 November 2021|website=Thehindu.com}}</ref> Actress [[Tulasi (actress)|Tulasi]] revealed that she would play a supporting role in the film, while [[Vairamuthu]] announced that he would be the film's lyricist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/vairamuthu-on-the-changing-shades-of-love/article6999568.ece|title='I fear the use-and-throw culture will seep into romance'|first=Srinivasa|last=Ramanujam|date=16 March 2015|access-date=21 November 2021|website=Thehindu.com}}</ref> [[D. Imman]] was signed on to compose the film's music, while [[S. R. Sathish Kumar|Satish Kumar]] and Lalgudi Ilaiyaraaja were chosen as cinematographer and art director respectively.

The film's shoot began in [[Karaikudi]] in February 2015 for ten days, before the team moved to [[Kashmir]] and then on to the [[Wagah]] border to shoot scenes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news/vikram-prabhu-in-a-cross-border-romance/articleshow/46262160.cms|title=Vikram Prabhu in a cross-border romance |newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref> The team announced the film's lead actress belatedly in June 2015, with [[Ranya Rao]] announced to be making her debut in Tamil films.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/150619/entertainment-kollywood/article/ranya-rao-act-opposite-vikram-prabhu|title=Ranya Rao to act opposite Vikram Prabhu?|date=19 June 2015|newspaper=[[Deccan Chronicle]]|access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref>

==Music==
{{Infobox album
| name = Wagah
| type = soundtrack
| artist = [[D. Imman]]
| cover =
| alt =
| released = 18 April 2016
| recorded = 2015–2016
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Film soundtrack|Feature film soundtrack]]
| length =
| label = [[Sony Music India|Sony Music]]
| producer = D. Imman
| prev_title = [[Kotigobba 2]]
| prev_year = 2016
| next_title = [[Thodari]]
| next_year = 2016
}}

[[D. Imman]] was signed to compose the film's music in [[G. N. R. Kumaravelan]]'s direction.

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#cccccf; text-align:center;"
! No. !! Song !! Singers !! Length (m:ss) !! Lyrics !! Notes
|-
| 1|| "Sollathaan Nenaikiraen" || [[Divya Kumar (singer)|Divya Kumar]] || 04:23 || |[[Vairamuthu]] ||
|-
| 2|| "Yedho Maayam Saeigirai" || [[Vikram Prabhu]], [[Jithin Raj]] || 04:46 || | Mohan Raj ||
|-
| 3|| "Aaniyae Pudunga Venandaa" || Shenbagaraj || 04:10 || |Arunraja Kamaraj ||
|-
| 4|| "Aasai Kadhal Aaruyirae" || [[Vandana Srinivasan]] || 04:53 || |Vairamuthu ||
|-
| 5|| "Love For Our Nation" || [[Theme music]] || 04:11 || |Mohan Raj ||
|}

==Critical reception==
Pressks.come rated the film 3.5/5, writing "Don't miss this film in theatres."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://pressks.com/world/wagah-tamil-movie-review-rating-public-talk/3477/ |title=Wagah Tamil Movie Review Rating (3.5/5) Public Talk - Vikram Prabhu, Ranya Rao | Press News Release |access-date=12 April 2017 |archive-date=13 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413071243/http://pressks.com/world/wagah-tamil-movie-review-rating-public-talk/3477/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Indiaglitz'' gave it a 2.5/5 saying that it "impresses as a cross-border conflict flick with more emphasis on human emotions and humanitarian values".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiaglitz.com/wagah-tamil-movie-review-19831.html|title=Wagah review. Wagah Tamil movie review, story, rating|website=IndiaGlitz.com|access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref>

''[[Rediff.com]]'' gave it a 2/5 and described it as "flippant and insensitive".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://m.rediff.com/movies/report/review-wagah-is-flippant-and-insensitive/20160812.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=12 August 2016 |archive-date=21 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821022230/http://m.rediff.com/movies/report/review-wagah-is-flippant-and-insensitive/20160812.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
''Behindwoods'' gave it a 1.75/5 and called it "an outdated cross border romance".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies/wagah/wagah-review.html|title=Wagah (aka) Wagah review|date=12 August 2016|website=Behindwoods.com|access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref> ''[[The Times of India]]'' gave it a 1.5/5 saying that "it's a badly written, clumsily directed cross-border romance whose approach towards matters of the heart is as naive and laughable as its understanding of international politics, border security and patriotism."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movie-reviews/wagah/movie-review/53664057.cms|title=Wagah Movie Review {1.5/5}: Critic Review of Wagah by Times of India|access-date=21 November 2021|website=Timesofindia.indiatimes.com}}</ref> ''[[Hindustan Times]]'' gave it a 1/5 claiming that it had "a tottering script blanketed in hyperbole".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/movie-reviews/wagah-review-a-tottering-script-blanketed-in-hyperbole/story-hg1o71ZHTqOxc4LpVXh5wM.html|title=Wagah review: A tottering script blanketed in hyperbole|date=12 August 2016|newspaper=[[Hindustan Times]]|access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref> ''Filmibeat'' also gave it a 1/5 saying that it was "half-beat and unintentionally funny".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.filmibeat.com/tamil/reviews/2016/wagah-movie-review-rating-half-baked-unintentionally-funny-vikram-prab-237237.html|title='Wagah' Movie Review And Rating: Half-baked & Unintentionally Funny|date=12 August 2016|website=Filmibeat.com|access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref>

Baradwaj Rangan of ''[[The Hindu]]'' called it "A misfire on many levels" in his review.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/Wagah-A-misfire-on-many-levels/article14576116.ece|title=Wagah: A misfire on many levels|date=12 August 2016|access-date=21 November 2021|website=Thehindu.com}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|5958304}}
*{{Facebook|WagahMovie}}
*{{Twitter|WagahMovie}}
{{G. N. R. Kumaravelan}}

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