Vandae Maatharam

<p>In a high-level meeting, top government officials analyze farmers’ struggle and related social violence to put forward an amicable solution to have lasting harmony. Their plans are threatened by the terrorists’ infiltrations. Anandharaman , Director , forms a task force to handle the imminent threat. Gopikrishnan IPS, Deputy Director IB, leads the anti-terror operation in . He recruits SSP Anwar Hussain IPS to lead the task force and interrogations. Nandini, an , is Gopi’s wife, and they are sad that they do not have a child. IB gets information from , the foreign intelligence agency, that a terrorist code named Malik (real name Abul Hassan) has infiltrated the country via sea border and has already killed a man in the process. A peculiar obtained from the crime scene leads them to Sheikh Muhammad, a local heavyweight who in turn leads them to Balan, a man who deals in ship breaking. Balan, on severe and rigorous interrogation, reveals that Dr. Nayeem of the Metro Hospitals is their handler, and he is in contact with the terror command. When the team proceeds to arrest Nayeem, he commits suicide, where it is also revealed that he (Nayeem) had worked for the terrorist gang under the code name ‘RJ-1’. Nayeem’s mobile phone leads them to Malik. The IB command center intercepts the call between Malik and his terrorist leader and cracks their plans to communicate via migratory birds. Following the information, Gopi, Anwar, and the team catch Malik. A series of severe interrogative tortures do not break Malik, proving him immune to these, and fail to open him up or reveal any of his plans, for which Gopi and team tries to break him emotionally and psychologically, through drug treatment. Gopi finds a video of Malik showing his little daughter Kurshid. With this video background, they make changes in Malik’s face and try to make him believe that he has been in a coma for 20 years. Since the IB agent who is supposed to play the role of Kurshid was during another mission, Gopi decides to send Nandini (who is now pregnant) as Kurshid, to get Malik’s emotional with sentiments and thus making him to speak out his plans. But Malik finds out this trap and kills Nandini and escapes, thus making Gopi furious. Finally, Gopi and Anwar catch Malik before he could execute his plans, and Gopi kills Malik in an encounter. The shooting started by the middle of 2007 and was finished by feb 2009 and later on the story was modified due to some personal problems. The film was started with Karthi as the director, but after the first schedule the producer , who also wrote the script, replaced him with debutante T. Aravind. The film was shot at locations in , , and Thengapattanam. It took 100 days of shooting and ten schedules to complete the film. The Tamil version was initially titled Aruvadai but was later changed to too. The audio launch was held on 3 July 2010 and the movie was all set to release on the eve of , 10 September 2010 in both and . But at the last moment, it couldn’t make it to the theatres. Then, it was released on 17 September 2010. was approached to do a pivotal role in the movie, but as he was not able to allocate the call sheets, played the role. Two heroines were signed, was paired with Mammootty and played the role of a pilot, the other heroine was paired with Arjun and played the role of an . However, Shraddha Arya’s role was dropped. In 2007, was approached to score the music of the film. But during that time, he was busy with the composing work of . was reported to compose five songs; but at the end it turned out that was the composer. Stunts director for the film was the renowned stunt director . The soundtrack features six songs composed by , with lyrics penned by and for the Malayalam version and , , Nandalala and Viveka for the Tamil version. The albums were released on 3 July 2010. A patriotic song penned by was rendered by ten singers: , , , Haricharan, , , , Mathangi, and . Sify gave the film 2/5 saying, “The done to death patriotic theme receives no fresh makeover in the film. If only it had paid more attention to that feeble script instead of raking up all that clatter and clamor on screen, would it have made more sense”.</p>