Aadhavan
Aadhavan (transl. Sun) is a 2009 Indian Tamil-language action comedy film directed by K. S. Ravikumar and written by Ramesh Khanna. The film features Suriya and Nayantara, with Vadivelu, Bharath Murali, B. Saroja Devi, Rahul Dev, Sayaji Shinde, Anand Babu in supporting cast. The music was composed by Harris Jayaraj.
| Aadhavan | |
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| Directed by | K. S. Ravikumar |
| Produced by | Udhayanidhi Stalin |
| Written by | K. S. Ravikumar |
| Story by | Ramesh Khanna |
| Starring | Suriya Nayantara Vadivelu Bharath Murali B. Saroja Devi Rahul Dev |
| Music by | Harris Jayaraj |
| Cinematography | Ganesh Rajavelu |
| Edited by | Don Max |
Production company | Red Giant Movies |
| Distributed by | Red Giant Movies Ayngaran International (UK) FiveStar (Malaysia)[1] |
Release date | 17 October 2009 |
Running time | 168 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
| Budget | ₹25 crore[2] |
The film released on 17 October 2009 to mixed reviews but became a hit at the box office. It was dubbed in Hindi as Dildaar – The Arya in 2011 and in Telugu as Ghatikudu. The movie was loosely based on the 1990 Malayalam movie His Highness Abdullah. The film was remade in Bengali as Shikari.[3][4][5][6]
PlotEdit
In United States, an unknown client is shown speaking to a mafia group to eradicate a fake godman. The mafia group arranges the hit through a middleman who is in Kolkata as the fake godman will be arriving there. Middlemen then gives the contract to Ibrahim Rowther. The fake godman is then killed by an unknown who reveals to be Aadhavan. Aadhavan is a professional sniper working with his adoptive father Ibrahim Rowther and brother Tharani. Aadhavan then gets several contracts in various parts of the world as a result of eradicating the fake godman.
As a result, the trio gets richer. In Mumbai, Aadhavan meets Doctor Abdul Kulkarni who hires to him kill a prominent Judge Subramaniam, since he is handling the inquiry and verdict on Abdul's child Kidnapping and organ trafficking cases in Kolkata. Aadhavan attempts to snipe Subramaniam but fails at the first attempt seemingly. After that Dr. Abdul Kulkarni insults him for his failure to kill the judge. Aadhavan then becomes furious and vows to kill Subramaniam within ten days. He threatens the Judge's servant Bannerjee to help him get into the house as Murugan, Bannerjee's brother in law, by abducting the actual Murugan held in his ship.
Slowly Aadhavan begins to win over the members of Subramaniam's household – his mother, her beautiful granddaughter Thara and his other relatives. Thara is attracted to Murugan's (Aadhavan) intelligence and simple-innocent nature. Aadhavan tries to assassinate the judge at home in the middle of the night and also plants a bomb in Subramaniam's van, but both attempts fail. Meanwhile, Subramaniam's entire family is on a trip to Darjeeling, and Thara asks Aadhavan to hide a guitar belonging to Ilaiyaman, her madcap musician cousin. Aadhavan uses this opportunity and plants a mobile bomb in the guitar and places it in one of the cars, which explodes at the wrong time, and he fails to kill Subramaniam yet again. Meanwhile, a security officer at Subramaniam's house keeps informing Abdul Kulkarni of Aadhavan's entry into the house and all his signs of progress and failed attempts.
Thara is now suspicious about Aadhavan, but when she questions him in secret, he informs her that he is really Subramaniam's long lost runaway son Madhavan. Thara soon informs all the members of the household about Madhavan, and they are overjoyed, and Thara and Aadhavan fall in love. However, they hide it from Subramaniam and Ilaiyaman, because of his hatred towards Madhavan. Aadhavan, however, tells Bannerjee that he lied to Thara about Madhavan to distract her suspicion and that he really is not that runaway son at all. However, on Thara's birthday, a flashback reveals that Aadhavan is indeed the runaway Madhavan.
Years ago, a ten-year-old Madhavan unknowingly carries a gift with a hidden bomb for his cousin Thara's birthday. His friend's mother plants the bomb in the toy to avenge Subramaniam for her husband's jail sentence. Though Thara survives, her mother Anu, opens the box and is killed along with her husband in the explosion. Subramaniam blames Madhavan for his sister Anu's death and for his friendship with a gangster's son and thrashes him. In anger and fear of going to a juvenile prison, Madhavan steals a gun from the cops and accidentally shoots his father and runs away from home. He kills his friend's mother as she is responsible for his aunt's death. He saves a local goon Ibrahim Rowther, from death and is in turn adopted as his son and rechristened him as 'Aadhavan'.
Coming back to the present, Tharani tried to kill Subramanium, is stopped by Madhavan and reveals the true identity that He is the son of Subramanium and Ibrahim Rowther challenges within two days that he will kill them. Abdul Kulkarni is fed up with the repeated failed attempts of Madhavan. So he makes another plan and threatens Ibrahim and his gang to surrender to the police and make a confession about Madhavan and his plans. When the Assistant Commissioner of police, confronts Madhavan and is about to have him hauled off, Madhavan gets Subramaniam's laptop containing the verdict and inquiry reports, takes him and Thara as hostages and drives away. In the meanwhile, the police commissioner arrives and makes a confession that the police actually had caught him after his very first attempt to kill the Judge had failed.
When questioned by the commissioner, Madhavan said that he backed off and misfired on purpose at the last moment, after he found that he was going to kill his own father. The Police then ask him to go back to the house to protect his father over a 24/7 every day, for which he agrees. Commissioner uses Madhavan to nab individuals linked to various criminal & terrorist organizations. This information is relayed to the Judge by the commissioner, who is tearfully grateful to his son. Meanwhile, Abdul Kulkarni attacks the vehicle in which the trio are travelling, and a fight ensues where Madhavan saves his father and Thara, and Kulkarni is killed. Minister & the middleman in involved gets arrested. Madhavan serves a short term in prison for his previous wrongdoings but subsequently released from the prison for his contribution to saving the judge. Madhavan and Thara are now married and live in the household with the huge family, and yet again, Bannerjee brings two assistants to help him and asks approval from Madhavan and he gladly approves.
CastEdit
- Suriya as Madhavan a.k.a. Aadhavan / Murugan
- Nayantara as Thara, Madhavan's cousin and fiancée.
- Vadivelu as Banner-Kuppan (Bannerji)
- Bharath Murali as Subramaniam, Madhavan's Father
- Saroja Devi as Rajalakshmi, Subramaniam's Mother
- Priyanka Deshpande as Anjali
- Rahul Dev as Dr. Abdul Kulkarni
- Sayaji Shinde as Ibrahim Rowther
- Anand Babu as Tharani
- Ramesh Khanna as Kuppusamy (Ilaiyamaan)
- FEFSI Vijayan as Police Commissioner Rathnavelu
- Sathyan as Murugan, Bannerjee's Nephew
- Riyaz Khan as ACP Deva
- Manobala as Sundaramurthy, Subramaniam's Young Brother
- Alex as Vasudevan, Subramaniam's Young Brother
- Jaya Rekha as Rani, Subramaniam's Young Sister-in-Law
- Anu Hasan as Anu, Thara's Mother, Madhavan's aunt
- Neelu Nasreen
- Ananda Kannan
Additionally, the director (K. S. Ravikumar) and the producer (Udhayanidhi Stalin) make cameo appearances as servants at the end of the film.
ProductionEdit
The song "Eno Eno Panithuli" was shot at Iceland, making Aadhavan the first South Indian film to be shot there.[7] Shooting also took place at the Chettinad Palace, MRC Nagar, Chennai.[8]
SoundtrackEdit
The soundtrack features 6 tracks composed by Harris Jayaraj. The soundtrack was released on 19 August by S. Shankar. The album received positive reviews from critics, with praise being dedicated to the songs "Hasili Fisile" and "Vaarayo Vaarayo". Malathy Sundaram from Behindwoods said, "There is a lot of technical finesse to this album. What surprises us here is the banality of the lyrics! One would have expected better lyrics from all these songwriters! Harris Jayaraj has consciously used various instruments to add appeal to this album."[9] Pavithra Srinivasan from Rediff said "Harris Jeyaraj is one of those composers who is not capable of turning out bad stuff even on a bad day, this album stands out from a mile away."[10][11] Due to the album's critical and commercial success, Harris Jayaraj received the Vijay Award for Best Music Director and was also nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director.
| Aadhavan | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by | ||||
| Released | 19 August 2009 | |||
| Recorded | 2009 | |||
| Genre | Soundtrack | |||
| Length | 31:50 | |||
| Language | Tamil | |||
| Label | Sony Music Think Music Ayngaran Music An Ak Audio AVM Muzik | |||
| Producer | Harris Jayaraj | |||
| Harris Jayaraj chronology | ||||
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| Track-List [12] | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Singers | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Hasili Fisiliye" | Karthik, Harini, Dr. Burn, Maya | 5:21 | ||||||
| 2. | "Yeno Yeno Panithuli" | Shail Hada, Andrea Jeremiah, Sudha Ragunathan | 5:15 | ||||||
| 3. | "Dammaku Dammaku" | Benny Dayal | 4:56 | ||||||
| 4. | "Vaarayo Vaarayo" | P. Unnikrishnan, Chinmayi, Megha | 5:20 | ||||||
| 5. | "Dekho Dekho" | SuVi, Sandhya, Sri Charan, Arjunan Manoharathanan | 5:26 | ||||||
| 6. | "Maasi Maasi" | Mano, Franko, Megha | 5:32 | ||||||
Total length: |
31:50 | ||||||||
| Ghatikudu | |
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| Soundtrack album by | |
| Released | 28 September 2009 |
| Recorded | 2009 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Length | 31:45 |
| Language | Telugu |
| Label | Sony Music India |
| Producer | Harris Jayaraj |
All songs written and composed by Bhuvanachandra.
| Telugu Track-List[13] | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Singer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Asale Pilla" | Karthik, Benny Dayal, Harini, Maya | 5:20 | ||||||
| 2. | "Edo Edo" | Shail Hada, Andrea Jeremiah, Sudha Ragunathan, Sri Charan | 5:13 | ||||||
| 3. | "Damaku Damaku" | Benny Dayal | 4:56 | ||||||
| 4. | "Mrogindi" | Rahul Nambiar, Chinmayi, Megha | 5:20 | ||||||
| 5. | "Dekho Dekho" | SuVi, Sandhya, Sri Charan | 5:25 | ||||||
| 6. | "Maasi Maasi" | Mano, Megha | 5:31 | ||||||
Total length: |
31:45 | ||||||||
ReleaseEdit
The satellite rights of the film were sold to Kalaignar.[14]
Critical receptionEdit
Behindwoods gave a 2.85 out of 5 and gave a verdict "Carefree commercial – Conditions apply".[15] Sify.com gave a positive review stating, "Ranging through a wide field of comedy laced with action, Aadhavan is good fun while it lasts. It’s a roller-coaster ride of pure unadulterated masala".[16]Rediff rated the movie with 2.85 out of 5 stars and ended the review with "Aadhavan is uncomplicated, clean, fun, and doesn't expect you to take it seriously."[17] Nowrunning.com also rated it as 2.85 on 5 and Aravindan D I specially said "Aadhavan could have been good entertainment, but is marred by inconsistent script."[18] while Indiaglitz gave the verdict "above average" and stated, "Aadhavan is a movie that would bring joy to mass action lovers and front-benchers.".[19] Malathi Rangarajan from The Hindu wrote "Post-interval, you have to wait quite a while for some concrete action from Aadhavan, the Infallible!"[20]
Box officeEdit
The film grossed ₹4.76 cr from Chennai box office in its 8 weeks.[21] The film grossed good numbers in Malaysia as well as UK.[22] Overseas, the film grossed about $1,541,485, approximately.[23] The film was a hit at the box office.[24][25] The film was dubbed into Telugu as Ghatikudu.[26] It was also dubbed into Hindi as Dildaar: The Arya.[27]
Awards and nominationsEdit
| Award | Category | Nominee | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 Vijay Awards[28] | Best Entertainer | Suriya | Won |
| Best Male Playback | Karthik (Hasili Fisili) |
Won | |
| Best Female Playback | Chinmayi (Vaarayo Vaarayo) |
Won | |
| Best Music Director | Harris Jayaraj | Won | |
| Icon of the Year | Suriya | Won | |
| Best Actor | Surya Sivakumar | Nominated | |
| Best Comedian | Vadivelu | Nominated | |
| Best Art Director | Rajeevan | Nominated | |
| Best Choreographer | Shobi (Damakku Damakku) |
Nominated | |
| Favourite Film | Udhayanidhi Stalin | Nominated | |
| Favourite Director | K. S. Ravikumar | Nominated | |
| Favourite Hero | Suriya | Nominated | |
| Favourite Heroine | Nayantara | Nominated | |
| Favourite Song | Harris Jayaraj (Hasili Fisili) |
Nominated |
RemakeEdit
The movie was remade in Bengali as Shikari starring Bangladeshi superstar Shakib Khan.[3][4][5][6] Shikari is a 2016 Bangladesh-India joint venture action thriller drama film directed by Joydeep Mukherjee and Zakir Hossain Simanto.[29]
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ Malaysia Box Office, 19–22 November 2009. Boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved on 21 March 2014.
- ↑ "Suriya: Bollywood's hottest six-pack". Mint. 2 October 2009. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "New-look Shakib stirs up a storm". The Daily Star. 19 June 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Shikari filming begins in Dhaka". Bangla Tribune. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Shubho Mahurat of Shikari held". theindependentbd. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Shakib reaches London for Shikari filming". MediaBhuban. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
- ↑ Aadhavan, audio and Iceland. The Hindu (25 August 2009). Retrieved on 21 March 2014.
- ↑ Aadhavan team flees to Iceland. Kollywood Today (19 June 2009). Retrieved on 21 March 2014.
- ↑ "AADHAVAN MUSIC REVIEW". Behindwoods. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
- ↑ "Aadhavan's music is mediocre". Rediff. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
- ↑ Aadhavan Music Review songs lyrics. Indiaglitz.com (22 August 2009). Retrieved on 21 March 2014.
- ↑ "Aadhavan – All Songs – Download or Listen Free – Saavn". 9 August 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
- ↑ "Ghatikudu – All Songs – Download or Listen Free – Saavn". 28 September 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
- ↑ "LIVE TV – Watch Indian TV Channels – Live Streaming and Catchup TV – LIVE News Online". in.com. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017.
- ↑ Aadhavan – Tamil Movie Reviews – Suriya Nayanthara Ramesh Kanna Vadivelu K.S.Ravikumar Udhayanidhi Stalin Harris Jayaraj –. Behindwoods.com. Retrieved on 21 March 2014.
- ↑ Movie Review:Aadhavan. Sify.com. Retrieved on 21 March 2014.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 May 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ – Indian Movies, showitmes, reviews, videos – Indian movie portal. Nowrunning.com. Retrieved on 21 March 2014.
- ↑ IndiaGlitz – Aadhavan Tamil Movie Review – cinema preview stills gallery trailer video clips showtimes. Indiaglitz.com (16 October 2009). Retrieved on 21 March 2014.
- ↑ "Sprightly jump and then a hobble! – Aadhavan". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 23 October 2009. Archived from the original on 26 October 2009.
- ↑ "Box office". Behindwoods. 13 December 2009.
- ↑ "It's Bumper Diwali for Kollywood – Economic Times". The Times of India.
- ↑ "Overseas Total Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ↑ "Aadhavan – Behindwoods.com – Tamil Top Ten Movies". Behindwoods. 1 November 2009. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
- ↑ "Chennai box office – October 23 to 25". Sify.com. 27 October 2009. Archived from the original on 11 February 2011. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
- ↑ "Aadhavan to be dubbed in Telugu". Oneindia.in. 9 October 2009. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
- ↑ "Aadhavan unit celebrated 200 days". Sify. 25 March 2010. Archived from the original on 28 November 2016.
- ↑ "vijayawards2010.com". Vijay Awards. 19 February 2011. Archived from the original on 19 February 2011.
- ↑ "New Indo-Bangla joint production starts". The Daily Star. 18 March 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2016.