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Vaaranam Aayiram

  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • 2h 49m
IMDb RATING
8.2/10
15K
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Suriya in Vaaranam Aayiram (2008)
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A father and son help each other through growing up, romance, tragedy, and adventure.A father and son help each other through growing up, romance, tragedy, and adventure.A father and son help each other through growing up, romance, tragedy, and adventure.

  • Director
    • Gautham Vasudev Menon
  • Writers
    • Meghana Karthik
    • Gautham Vasudev Menon
  • Stars
    • Suriya
    • Simran
    • Ramya
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.2/10
    15K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Gautham Vasudev Menon
    • Writers
      • Meghana Karthik
      • Gautham Vasudev Menon
    • Stars
      • Suriya
      • Simran
      • Ramya
    • 59User reviews
    • 1Critic review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 22 wins & 18 nominations total

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    Suriya
    Suriya
    • Krishnan…
    Simran
    Simran
    • Malini Krishnan
    Ramya
    Ramya
    • Priya
    Sameera Reddy
    Sameera Reddy
    • Meghana
    Prithviraj
    Prithviraj
    • Asad
    Deepa Narendran
    • Shriya
    Karthik
    • Suriya's friend
    Shanker Koladi
    • Shankar Menon
    VTV Ganesh
    • Librarian
    • (as Ganesh)
    Sathish
    • Suriya's friend
    • (as Satish)
    Veera Bahu
    • Suriya's friend
    • (as Veera)
    Gautham Vasudev Menon
    Gautham Vasudev Menon
    • Commando Informer
    Pawl Bazile
    • Punk Mugger
    • (as Paul Basile)
    Brian Jennings
    • Visa Officer
    Dhanusha Murugasan
    • Shalini
    Shreya Gupto
    Shreya Gupto
    • Shreya (Suriya's sister)
    Sathish Krishnan
    • Sathish
    Sacchin Nachiappan
    • Director
      • Gautham Vasudev Menon
    • Writers
      • Meghana Karthik
      • Gautham Vasudev Menon
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    10jasin_saj

    Vaaranam Aayiram -- -Surya is in Big League....A worth watch...

    Vaaranam Aayiram--itz Surya all the way...He roxx to the core....What a versatility he gave to the different phases of his character... As a teenager, lover, loser, commando, aged man his performance is top class...His body language and voice modulation all are excellent...I can say..now he is in big league with the finest actors of our country...

    Coming to the film....itz an autobiographical one...so we cant blame the pace of the movie...Even though the narration is racy in first half. In second half there are lot of incidents...(transition from a loser to a good individual..) Surya-Sameera reddy love track is minty cool..n Surya-Divya track is also OK...Then the Delhi episode...IMO itz a refreshing idea frm Goutham..(To overcome the loss of tragic event in Hero's life..)Someone may not agree that...After that the army scenes...surya really looks like an army man...And the final dialogue from simran is also touching...

    Performancewise Surya...His career best performance till date....Next comes Simran...Matured performance ..Both Sameera and Divya are apt for the roles...No gimmicks in Cinematography and Editing...BGM and music is beautifully synchronised with the mood of the film....

    If you are looking for a masala entertainer, then stay away from here...

    Overall, itz a must watch ....
    9lingamanenijaswanth

    Ahead of it's time.

    Friend: Is it a Love story? Me: No! Friend: Is it an action movie? Me: No! Friend: Is it a Horror movie? Me: No! Is it a conspiracy movie? Me: No! Friend: Then why is the movie so rated? Me: 1. Living relationship 2. Traveling to find oneself 3. Discovering oneself 4. Pre martial sex 5. Moving on with life 6. Cool parenting 7. Letting children live on their own terms 8. Giving them right amount of freedom 9. Talking to children about their life 10. Giving them letting privacy 11. Passionate about their career 12. Can girls propose first? Ofcourse, they can! 13. MOST IMPORTANT FATHER - SON DUO RELATIONSHIP

    I have seen a number of movies, but none of them is like this one. Am sure, none of this decade or upcoming movies could be like this one. Hope, this movie exists forever. Watching this movie is like finding 'The Best In Quintillion'.

    Story writer has shown an entire life story of Surya and Krishnan in a single movie. This movie is dedicated to every father son duo.

    Story beautifully depicts an ideal relationship between father and son. I can feel my dad's presence in Krishnan's role. Love you Dad 💝.

    Background music is so charming, it drags feelings out of us.
    9a_shyam41

    A true masterpiece for Tamil Cinema

    "Vaaranam Aayiram" is a true and an honest attempt at making a realistic and meaningful Tamil film. The screenplay revolves around the most famous middle class in the world conversing in fluent English and it has all the elements that are most common within this group; studying MS in USA for instance. The direction is outstanding in some places and mostly good at other times. Gautam's conception of the Train scenes between Surya and Sameera Reddy is extremely refreshing. Harris Jeyaraj's music is of utmost quality, especially in the "Adiye Kolluthey" and "Nenjukkul Peidhidum" songs and that is evident from the fact that "Adiye Kolluthey" song was the first Tamil song to be played on V Channel.

    Simran is perfect as a charming girl from the 70's and very gracious and respectable mother of the 90's. Sameera Reddy shows a lot of signs of good acting skills in addition to the oomph factor. Divya comes across as a very sensible lady expressing her thoughts with subtle emotions. The art director shows his brilliance when he brings to life the streets of 70's and 90's and the beauty of San Francisco bridge.

    The actor, who eclipses everybody else with ease including the director, is Surya. Nobody would believe if he is the same actor after watching him in "Nerukku Ner" in 1998. He is growing by leaps and bounds in every movie and stands now as one of the real acting talents of the current generation in line with Vikram. He is extremely honorable as a father (except for some makeup goof-ups) and a truly pitiable young man having lost the love of his life. Not many actors can transform themselves completely to look like a teenager in such an incredibly realistic manner. Not stopping there, Surya has also taken extreme measures to build six packs and look like an Army Major that would even make some of the real military personnel feel ashamed. His dedication and acting abilities seem to be a serious contender for Kamal's ingenious work seen recently in Dasavathaaram.
    9divyapraba

    Stupendous

    This is Finest masterpiece from Surya & Gvm ... Sure this film come along with you.
    8arundathi

    A Substantial Movie with All the Right Elements

    This movie was well made with nice melodious songs. What I really like about this movie was that it showed how fathers are important as well. Most movies always talk about mother as the motivation and somehow portray the dad as military style attitude or just thrown in for show but this movie was all about a dad's motivation, a dad who was living and compassionate. As for the actors: They really created magic with this movie. Surya was amazing. He really dug into the characters' role equally. His expressions and flawless Hindi and Tamil made this movie very enjoyable as well as his dual role. His attitude kept changing so it held the audience's eyes. Sameera Reddy was also wonderful. Despite the limited screen time, she really made a strong impact. Simran was also great. It has been a long time since I have seen her and her presence made the movie pleasant. Divya Spandana was not bad at all. I felt that she was thrown in but there needed to be something to make the movie going. The songs were very nice and melodious. Although it was not very fast paced, the creative sounds made it worthwhile. Only negative thought: I really wished that there were subtitles so that we could understand what Hindi words were spoken. Overall, this movie had a little bit of everything: love, violence, adventure, music and it is a definite must watch.

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    • Trivia
      The opening and end credits of the movie is in English only, very rare for a Tamil language film. Most Tamil films have Tamil and English opening,
    • Alternate versions
      In Singapore, the film was initially received an NC16 rating for sequences of drug usage but the distributor chose to re-edit sequences of drug usage in order to passed with the PG rating.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Aadhavan (2009)
    • Soundtracks
      Adiye Kolluthe
      Written by: Thamarai

      Produced by: Harris Jayaraj

      Performed by: Benny Dayal, Krish Lewis and Shruti Haasan

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    • Release date
      • November 14, 2008 (India)
    • Country of origin
      • India
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • Tamil
    • Also known as
      • Сурья, сын Кришнана
    • Filming locations
      • Annanagar Tower Park, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India(Yethi Yethi song)
    • Production companies
      • Aascar Film P.
      • Photon Factory
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    • Budget
      • ₹140,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $921,007
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 49 minutes
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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