Vettaikaaran

<p>Ravi is a youngster from who aspires to become a police officer like his , Encounter Specialist Devaraj . After completing his , he joins a college in and also earns a living by driving an auto rickshaw. During the course, he meets Suseela, an professional and falls in love with her. Although Suseela rejects Ravi’s advances at first, with the help of her grandmother, Ravi succeeds in winning Suseela’s heart. Meanwhile, Chella is a gangster and , meets Ravi’s friend Uma in a public place, where she is taking donations for some cause, and immediately develops an attraction to her. When Uma asks Chella to contribute money, he willingly donates by inserting a rupee note in her jacket. Uma feels ashamed and tells her father what happened. Ravi finds out what happened to Uma through her father, he comes to her defence and beats up Chella, hospitalizing him. His troubles start from there as Chella’s father, a powerful named Vedanayagam, with the help of his right-hand man, a corrupt police officer Kattabomman, begins to create havoc in Ravi’s life. Ravi is soon thrown into jail on a false case of and is expelled from college. Suseela is willing to help him where she goes to Devaraj and pleads with him to help Ravi, but Devaraj initially refuses to help as his entire family had died at the hands of Vedanayagam and he himself was blinded by him because he had taken action against him and his gang. However, with the help of his people known in the police department, He saves Ravi from being killed in a fake encounter led by Kattabomman. It is at this stage that Ravi takes up a new persona called “Police” Ravi to clean up the illegal activities of Vedanayagam and instill hope in the public, something that Devaraj was unable to do. In the process, however, Vedanayagam kills Ravi’s close friend Sugu, prompting Ravi to kill Chella in retribution. Vedanayagam decides to become a minister, in order to prevent Ravi from targeting him and his activities. As Ravi finally plans to kill the newly sworn in minister Vedanayagam, The police arrive to arrest him. However, Ravi sees Devaraj in the crowd and announces Vedanayagam’s location to him just as he is being arrested, allowing Devaraj to assassinate Vedanayagam, effectively avenging his family’s death. Devaraj is reinstated into the police force and offers to make Ravi a police officer. However, Ravi refuses, stating that he has found the police officer within himself and that is all he needs to succeed in life. During the filming of , served as one of his assistant directors in the film and wrote the dialogues. Sivan was later prompted to begin his maiden directorial venture with Vijay in the lead role. He was eventually chosen as the director for the next feature film to be produced by . The project was originally titled as but in August 2008 it was re-titled as , taken from the starring . was formally launched the next month. The film’s director Babusivan, producers M. Balasubramaniam and B. Gurunath Meyyappan, Vijay and his wife, , and director were present at the film’s inauguration. and were mentioned for the project, but AVM Productions chose as the director of the film. was selected as lead female role opposite to Vijay for the first time. Cinematographer Gopinath was chosen to be the lead cameraman in the film after was dropped from the film. was signed as the film’s editor. Vijay experimented with his look in two songs. In “Karigalan”, the left half of his body is a man where the right half is a female. The song is also notable for featuring Vijay without a moustache in his career for the first time; Vijay would eventually portray a full clean-shaven character in (2024). The look in Karigalan was suggested by after he watched Aamir Khan in a advertisement. In “Oru Chinna Thamarai”, Vijay sports a long hair wig. Regarding his long hair look, Vijay reveals that he “always wanted to” try long hair. Soundtrack was composed by Vijay Antony and met with a positive response. The song “Naan Adicha” was partially copied from the Marathi song “Ye Go Ye Ye Maina” from the film , composed by . gave the film a 4/5 star rating, and wrote the “major plus for the movie are the five peppy songs tuned by which are choreographed well … The action scenes by are superbly choreographed. Gopinath’s camera is slick and editing is fast-paced”. Behindwoods rated 4/5 and stated “The charismatic screen presence of , enjoyable musical tracks, sparkling stunts, fiery punch lines, the signature lighter moments and foot tapping numbers, makes the movie entertain the family audience, and stated that director had made a wholesome family entertainer movie. gave 3.5 stars out of 5 criticising Babusivan for failing to properly tell the story in the second half. rated the film 38 out of 100. The film was dubbed in as and was released on 2014. The dubbed version is .</p>