Vathiyar

Vathiyar
Directed by	A. Venkatesh
Produced by	V. Palanivel A. C. Anandan
Written by	G. K. Gopinath (dialogues)
Screenplay by	A. Venkatesh
Story by	Arjun
Starring	Arjun Mallika Kapoor Vadivelu Prakash Pradeep Rawat Manivannan
Music by	D. Imman
Cinematography	K. S. Selvaraj
Edited by	P. Saisuresh
Production company	AP Film Garden
Release date	10 November 2006 (2006-11-10)
Running time	170 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Vathiyar (English: Teacher) is a 2006 Tamil action film directed by A. Venkatesh starring Arjun and Mallika Kapoor. The music was composed by D. Imman. It was released on 10 November 2006 and recorded an average at the box office.

Plot

Dorai (Arjun) is a do-gooder don, but a police force led by ACP Easwara Pandian (Prakash Raj) and his sidekick (Sathyan) are after him. However, the poor need him as he is a Good Samaritan running an orphanage. He has help from his friends Subramani (Manivannan) and Ayyanar (Vadivelu). Dorai has a problem: his mother (Sujatha) does not approve of his ways and feels that he is just a loutish goon. There is also a TV journalist named Anjali (Mallika Kapoor), who is in love with Dorai because of his daredevil ways. Dorai has a past: he was just an honest-to-goodness schoolteacher who ends up as the deathly Dorai after a fire ravages a school and kills several children. The incident forces him to take on the system of venal officials and politics. Now, Dorai's biggest task is to nip a dark and dire politician who wants to bomb the city.

Cast

• Arjun as Annadurai alias Dorai, the protagonist
• Mallika Kapoor as Anjali, Dorai's love interest
• Vadivelu as Ayyanar
• Prakash Raj as Eashwara Pandian
• Pradeep Rawat as MP Nachiyar, the main antagonist
• Manivannan as Subramaniam, Dorai's friend
• Sathyan as Easwara Pandian's sidekick
• Kabir Srinivasa Dileep as Rajeev Modi
• Sujatha as Dorai's mother
• Devan as Anjali's father
• Thalaivasal Vijay as School Teacher
• Manobala as Ayyanar's father
• Singamuthu as Ayyanar's father's friend
• Venniradai Moorthy as Anjali's father
• Mahanadhi Shankar as Hooligan
• Sabitha Anand
• Thambi Ramaiah
• S. N. Lakshmi
• King Kong
• Bonda Mani
• T. K. S. Natarajan as himself special appearance in the song "Ennadi Muniyamma")
• Shakeela (cameo appearance in the song "Pombala Paappa")
• Antara Biswas as item number
• Suja as item number

Production

The film was officially launched at AVM Studios in 2006. Tulip Joshi was originally selected as the heroine but she was thrown out of the film as the crew couldn't control her starry tantrums and Mallika Kapoor was selected instead. Singer Blaze was selected to make a cameo appearance. The scene where Arjun defuses a bomb in Vinayaka Chathurthi was shot in Sri Perumbudur and cost twenty lakhs. One assistant Director named Rajkumar had lodged a complaint with the Chennai Police Commissioner stating that his story has been stolen and made as Vathiyar. However, Arjun has denied the accusations that he had walked off with Rajkumar's script. "I have no reasons to steal someone else’s work and call it mine. Vathiyar is my own creation", Arjun declared.

Release

The film was originally slated to release on Diwali, but due to financial strains, the movie was delayed for a month and finally released on 10 November 2006.

Reviews

Nowrunning wrote: "Except for the action sequences there is nothing much to write about the movie". Hindu wrote: "The story is by Arjun and director A. Venkatesh has neatly woven the script to make it enjoyable for the masses". Indiaglitz wrote: "Vathiyar is Basha meets Gentleman meets countless vigilante justice movies. The story and treatment are on typical lines".

Soundtrack

Vathiyar
Soundtrack album by D. Imman
Released	3 August 2006
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Hit Music
Producer	D. Imman
D. Imman chronology
Kusthi (2006) Vathiyar (2006) Rendu (2006)

Song composing and background score was done by D. Imman.

Tracklist
No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Yennadi Muniyamma"	Karthik, Blaaze	04:32
2.	"Engo paarthirukiren"	D. Imman	04:34
3.	"Thanjavooru Gopuramey"	Karthik, Kalyani	04:12
4.	"kayyaveesamma"	D. Imman, Joshna	04:27
5.	"Pappalapaappa"	Anuradha Sriram	04:51
Total length:			22:36

External links

• Review of Vathiyar Movie, Indiaglitz
• Vathiyar on IMDb