Vettaiyan

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Rajinikanth as SP V. Athiyan “Athi” IPS (Vettaiyan)
• Amitabh Bachchan as Justice Dr. Sathyadev Bramhadutt Pande, National Human Rights Commission of India
• Fahadh Faasil as Cyber Patrick “Battery”
• Rana Daggubati as Natraj “Nat” Shanmugam
• Manju Warrier as Thara Athiyan
• Ritika Singh as ASP Roopa Kiran
• Dushara Vijayan as Saranya
• Asal Kolaar as Guna
• Krish Hassan as Sathish, Guna’s friend
• Rohini as DSP Nazeema, Indian Economic Service
• Abhirami as Swetha Dhakshinamoorthy
• Rao Ramesh as DGP D. Shrinivas
• Ramesh Thilak as Anbu, Office peon
• Kishore as SP K. Harish Kumar
• Rakshan as Dharan, Athiyan’s nephew
• G. M. Sundar as an Inspector
• Sabumon Abdusamad as Kumaresan
• Supreeth as Hanu Reddy
• Shaji Chen as Chennai Police Commissioner K. Virendar
• R. Aravindraj as V. Rathinam, Tamil Nadu Home Minister
• Alencier Ley Lopez as Combined Courts Judge
• Remya Suresh as Saranya’s mother
• Ananth Nag as ASP Ram
• Birla Bose as an Inspector
• Kalki Raja as Kumaresan’s sidekick
• Thanmaya as Chithra, Guna’s sister
• Vasanthi as Guna’s mother
• Aruvi Bala as a compounder
• Sri Deva as a NAT Academy agent
• Aroul D. Shankar as Education Minister
• Vinod Sagar as a politician
• Krishnudu as Kadapa head constable Srinivasa Rao
• Anirudh Ravichander as himself in the song “Manasilaayo”

Storyline:

A sought-after supercop gets caught in a series of unexpected events in a criminal case. Amidst his struggle to justify the act, he must confront his moral compass while fighting corrupt, larger-than-life forces. Vettaiyan explores the underbelly of crime investigations with one man`s fight against a world, where justice is a rare commodity.

About Vettaiyan Movie:

Vettaiyan is a Tamil action drama film starring Rajinikanth, Amitabh Bachchan, Fahadh Faasil, Rana Daggubati, Manju Warrier, Ritika Singh, Dushara Vijayan, Kishore, Rohini, and Rao Ramesh. It is written and directed by T. J. Gnanavel and produced by Subaskaran Allirajah under Lyca Productions.

The film was officially announced in March 2023 under the tentative title Thalaivar 170, being the 170th film of Rajinikanth as the lead actor, and the official title Vettaiyan was announced on 12 December 2023, coinciding with Rajinikanth’s 73rd birthday.

Principal photography for the film began in October 2023 and is currently occurring sporadically in several legs. Filming locations included Thiruvananthapuram, Tirunelveli, Chennai, Mumbai, Andhra Pradesh, and Hyderabad. Filming of Rajinikanth’s portions ended on 13 May 2024, while overall filming ended in late August.

During this schedule, as Indian 2 was filming in the same studio, Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan met at the studio and posted videos and pictures to social media, which went viral.

A leaked picture of Rajinikanth and Fahadh, taken by paparazzi, was posted to X (formerly Twitter), where the film’s social media security partner removed the picture from the social media and warned the users not to post or else they would lose their account.

The music and background scores are composed by Anirudh Ravichander, in his fourth collaboration with Rajinikanth after Petta (2019), Darbar (2020), and Jailer (2023).

Vettaiyan was released worldwide on 10 October 2024 in theatres, coinciding with Vijayadashami, to mixed reviews from critics who praised Rajinikanth’s performance and technical aspects, while the storyline and pacing received criticism. The film failed to live up to the expectations, and underperformed at the box office, but still emerged as the second highest-grossing Tamil film of 2024 and the fourteenth highest-grossing Tamil film of all time.

The post-theatrical streaming rights were been acquired by Amazon Prime Video. The film began streaming on Amazon Prime Video from 8 November 2024 in Tamil and dubbed versions of Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada languages.

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