Vaanchinathan

<p>Vanchinathan is a cop who has been transferred from . Chidambaram is a who thrives on chaos and confusion, which will help him boost sales of his paper. Their enmity becomes personal when Chidambaram challenges Vanchinathan to arrest him when he cleverly commits a murder in broad daylight in front of Vanchinathan. After that, Vanchinathan kills two corrupt officers for assisting bad guys. In retaliation Chidambaram poisons Vanchinathan’s sister. Thereby Vanchinathan shoots Chidambaram and blames it on Chidambaram’ younger brother. The team had initially agreed terms with to feature in a pivotal role, but his unavailability led to team casting . was to appear in the film, but later opted out for unknown reasons. had also signed on to star in the film. Likewise, was expected to make a return to Tamil films through the project, but eventually went against doing so. The film is named after the Indian independence fighter . A fight scene involving Vijayakanth, Ramya Krishnan and rowdies was shot in a set erected at AVM studios. The song sequence, ‘Amul Baby’, was shot at . Music was composed by , collaborating with Vijayakanth for the second time after . The background score was done by Rajamani who reused score from Malayalam film (also directed by Shaji Kailas) in some scenes. Rajitha of wrote “But the masala is appetising and in the final analysis, that is all that counts”. Similarly, claimed that film is a “collection of scenes from actor’s previous movies”. wrote “Liyakath Ali Khan’s story and screenplay are crisp and action-packed” and also noted ” sequences remind you of the Parthiban starrer `Abhimanyu’ or Vijayakanth’s own “. Krishna Chidambaram of praised the director for maintaining the tempo from the beginning to end while also praising the fury in abolishing bribery and corruption is perfectly reflected with seriousness but felt the film was directed unrealistically and called it average. wrote “The film is only sound and fury with no substance”. Distributors who had bought the film had incurred heavy losses. Post-release it was rumoured that footage of two heroines have been deleted to reduce the timing which earned criticism.</p>