Velayutham goes to Ladhak..

'Velayudham' that stars Vijay, Hansika and Genelia is directed by 'Jayam' Raja. The team is currently traveling to Ladhak for a ten day shoot schedule. Ladhak and its naturally scenic beauty has always called for 'n' number of shoots from the film industry, within and outside our country.


Meanwhile, post-production work has started side-by-side, and is going at a brisk pace.
Also , Kollywood grapevine is abuzz that 'Velayudham' will see an audio launch by mid-July, we must remember that the movie was launched in mid-July as well, it went on floors by July 15, 2010 and the audio launch will be in mid-July this year!
'Velayudham' sees Vijay as a villager, who comes to the city to withdraw the money he has invested in a chit fund company, where shock awaits him as he understands that he has been cheated. Circumstances throw him into donning the role of superhero Velayudham, a character sketched by Genelia in the film. While Genelia plays a TV journalist, Hansika Motwani plays Vijay's love interest.

We'll get back to you shortly once the official date is out on the audio launch...
Keep watch this space for official audio launch date....

Vijay celebrates Raja’s birthday

Today, the sets of Vijay’s forthcoming flick, ‘Velayudham’ saw its team geared up in perfect celebration mode.

While the team was gathered for a shoot at the industry’s dearest Binny mill at Meenambakkam, near the airport, director Jayam Raja received a pleasant surprise from his team.

The protagonist of the film, Vijay, brought a cake that bore the wordings, ‘settai sadhuvuku pirandha naal vazhthukal.’ Meaning, we wish a happy birthday to our ‘innocent’ prankster. Raja celebrated his birthday in the presence of Ilaya Thalapathi Vijay, cameraman Priyan and the crew of ‘Velayudham.’

We must remember that it was Ilaya Thalapathi who was behind the birthday surprises of other members of the film including Hansika, Saranya Mohan and cameraman Priyan.

While there are stars who throw tantrums at the sets, Vijay’s actions must be appreciated, as he is one of the top heroes in Kollywood today. Way to go Vijay! We wish Jayam Raja on his birthday and hope that the movie works wonders for him, adding yet another feather to his cap

Genilia about Velayutham in twitter!

Genelia said in twitter that she is back to the Velyautham sets for the climax scene. The actress has said that director Jayam Raja has planned an elaborate climax and is filming it with the lead stars. Vijay, Genelia, Hansika and others are shooting together and this shooting is expected to go on for a week or so before Raja wraps it up completely.
Soon after Velayutham shooting is over, Vijay will move over to Nanban shooting which is currently going on in Europe.
With Velayutham shooting reaching the final stages, the audio launch and film release dates are expected to be announced very soon.

Vijay's Velayudham in final stages

Vijay's much awaited film Velayudham directed by Jayam Raja is is in its final stages. Vijay will reportedly enact a typical Rajinikanth's Annamalai type milkman role, who bashes baddies with the help of an investigative television reporter. This mass entertainer stars Genelia, Hansika and Saranya Mohan, Santhanam, M.S. Bhaskar, Sathyan, Pandirajan and Sayaji Shinde in pivotal roles. 
According to director Raja, Velayudham will be a non-stop rollicking mass movie with all commercial ingredients packaged to provide maximum entertainment. The buzz is that in a bid to hit out at Vijay's detractors, there will be a lot of punch dialogues in this film produced by Aascar Ravichandran.
Vijay Antony has come out with some peppy mass songs that will surely become chartbusters. The film is expected to grace theatres in August and reports suggest that Tamil Nadu's new CM J. Jayalalithaa will launch the music of this film.

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Velayutham songs..!

We have interesting details about two ‘scintillating songs’ in ‘Velayudham’, Ilaya Thalapathi Vijay’s forthcoming film, directed by ‘Jayam’ Raja and produced by Aascar Films V Ravichandran.

“A song whose starting lines are Sonna puriadhu….sollukkul adangadhu… was shot recently on a grand set. It will be the introduction song of Vijay in Velayudham,” sources in the unit tell us.

“While the lyrics speak about the bond the Ilaya Thalapathi shares with his fans, Vijay Antony’s music has provided the much-needed pep a Vijay intro songs needs. It will be a colourful song,” they say.

“The other number that was recently picturised was a duet,” they say and add: “the song Mayakkiputta ennai mayakkiputta shot on Vijay and Hansika Motwani will be remembered for a long time by (music) lovers.”

Velayutham Posponted..?

The buzz is getting bigger for Vijay's Velayudham.

M Raja the director of the film in an interview to a newspaper said: "Velayudham will be a non-stop rollicking mass movie with all commercial ingredients packaged to provide maximum entertainment. 85 per cent of the film is complete."

Raja added that the producer, Aascar Ravichandran, has spent lavishly on it to make it rich. For one particular song, he spent nearly Rs 2Cr.

The director said out of five songs two more remain to be shot, which will be done in Europe in May/June.

Meanwhile the trade feels that Velayudham will not make it for Vijay's birthday (June 22), as the post production work will take time. A more realistic release date for the big budget bonanza would be around
August 15.

விஜய்யின் வேலாயுதம் படம் ஒரு ஸ்பெஷல் ஹைலைட்ஸ்

காவலன் படத்தை தொடர்ந்து விஜய் நடிக்கும் 52வது படம் வேலாயுதம். இப்படத்தை ஆஸ்கர் பிலிம்ஸ் ரவிச்சந்திரன் தயாரிக்க, ஜெயம் ராஜா இயக்குகிறார். இப்படத்தை பற்றிய சுவாரஸ்யமான தகவல்கள்:




* மக்களில் ஒருவனாக இருக்கும் ஓர் இளைஞன், மனித நேயப் பண்பால் மக்களுக்கே தலைவன் என்கிற நிலைக்கு உயருவது தான் படத்தின் கதை. சுருக்கமாக சொன்னால் அகரம் ஒன்று சிகரமாய் மாறும் கதை.



*. படம் ஒரு முக்கோண காதல் கதையாக அமைந்துள்ளது. இந்த காதலுடன் அண்ணன் தங்கை பாசத்தையும் மிக அழககாக, புதுவிதமாக சொல்லும் படமாக இயக்கி இருக்கிறார் ராஜா. நடிகர் திலகம் சிவாஜி கணேசன் நடித்த பாசமலர் படத்திற்கு பிறகு இப்படியொரு அண்ணன், தங்கை பாசத்தை எந்தபடத்திலும் சொல்லியிருக்க மாட்டார்கள் என்று கூறுகின்றனர்.



* கிராமமும், நகரமுமாக மாறி, மாறி பயணக்கிறது வேலாயுதம் படத்தின் கதை. கிராமத்துக் கிளர்ச்சியையும், நகரத்து கவர்ச்சியையும் தரிசிக்க வைக்க காட்சி அமைப்புகள் படத்தில் உள்ளன.



* படத்தில் கிராமத்து பால்காரன் வேலுவாக வரும் விஜய் கதையின் நாயகனாகவும், கதாநாயகனாகவும் ஜொலிக்கிறார். அவன் விற்பது பால். ஆனால் அன்பால், நட்பால், பிறரையெல்லாம் தன்பால் ஈர்க்கிறான். அவர் காற்றுமாதிரி இருப்பவன் அந்த ஊருக்கு. காற்றில்லாமல் உயிர் வாழ முடியாது அதுபோலத்தான் ‌இந்த வேலு(விஜய்) அந்த ஊருக்கு. காதலனாக, பாசமுள்ள அண்ணனாக, ஆவேச இளைஞனாக விஜய்க்கு ஜீசல்பந்தி நடத்து வாய்ப்பு இப்படத்தில் கிடைத்துள்ளது.



* படத்தில் இரண்டு நாயகிகள் ஒருவர் பத்திரிகையாளராக வரும் ஜெனிலியா, மற்றொருவர் ஹன்சிகா மோத்வானி. இவர்களுடன் சந்தானம் ‌காமெடியில் தன் பங்கிற்கு அசத்த இருக்கிறார்.



* படத்தில் பாலிவுட்டை சேர்ந்த இரண்டு பிரபல வில்லன்கள் உட்பட 15 வில்லன்கள் நடித்திருக்கின்றனர்.
 
* படத்தில் ஒன்றரை கோடி ரூபாயில் ஒரு திருமண காட்சியை அமைத்துள்ளனர். இந்த திருமணத்திற்காக ஊரே பந்தல்போட்டு, கோலம் போட்டு, சீரியல் லைட்கடடி, தோரணம் அமைத்து ஊர்திருவிழா போல் அலங்காரம் செய்து ஆராவரம் செய்திருப்பது பிரமாண்டமான முயற்சி. ஊர் கூடி தேர் இழுப்பது போல, ஒரு ஊரே முன்னின்று நடத்தி வைத்துள்ள அந்த திருமணக்காட்சி, இதுவரை தமிழ் சினிமாவில் வேறு எந்த ஒரு படத்திலும் அமைந்ததில்லை.




* வேலாயுதம் படத்திற்காக அந்த ஊரில் ஒரு கிணறு வெட்டி, அதை அன்பளிப்பாக அந்த ஊருக்கே அளித்திருக்கின்றனர்.



* நடிகர்திலகம் சிவாஜி கணேசன், சாவித்திரி நடித்த பாசமலர் படத்தினை புதுபிரிண்ட் போட் அந்த ஊரில் உள்ள டூரிங் டாக்கீஸில் போட்டு காட்டி மக்கள் பார்ப்பது போன்ற காட்சி படமான போது அனைவரும் படத்தில் மூழ்கிக் கிடக்க டைரக்டர் கட் சொல்ல மறந்து விட்டாராம்.



* படத்தில் விஜய்க்கு ஓபனிங் சாங்கை சுமார் ரூ.2 கோடி செலவில் திருமூர்த்திமலையில் படமாகியுள்ளனர். ஏற்கனவே "சிவகாசி", "போக்கிரி" படங்களில் விஜய்க்கு ஓபனிங் சாங்கிற்கு நடனம் அமைத்த அசோக்ராஜ், இப்பாட்டுக்கு நடனம் அமைத்து இருக்கிறார். கிராமத்து தப்பாட்டம், கோலாட்டம், ஒயிலாட்டம், மயிலாட்டம் போன்ற ஏராளமான ஆட்டங்களும் இடம்பெற்றுள்ளன. இதில் 200கிராமத்து நடன கலைஞர்கள் நயம்காட்ட 150 வெளிநாட்டு நடனக்காரர்கள் ஆடி வெளிநாட்டுக்கலை நயம் காட்டியுள்ளனர். படத்தில் விஜய் எப்படி ஒரு பிரம்மாண்டமோ அதுபோல இந்தபாடலும் பலமடங்கு பிரம்மாண்டமாக இருக்குமாம்,..
 
* இப்படத்தின் சூட்டிங்கில் விஜய் நடிக்க தொடங்கியது முதல் முடியும் வரை ஒருநாள்கூட லேட்டாக வந்ததில்லையாம். அவரால் ஐந்து நிமிடம் கூட சூட்டிங் தாமதமானதில்லையாம். படத்தில் ஒவ்வொரு காட்சியையும், உணர்வுடனும், அர்ப்பணிப்பு உணர்வுடன் நடித்து கொடுத்திருப்பதாக கூறும் இயக்குநர், விஜய்க்கு இந்தபடம் உச்சகட்ட ‌காமெடி படமாகவும் அமையும் என்று கூறுகிறார்.




* படத்தின் தூணாக ஒளிப்பதிவாளர் ப்ரியன் அமைந்திருக்கிறார். ஒவ்‌வொரு காட்சியையும் மிக அழகாக படமாக்கி இருக்கிறாராம். இவர் ஏற்கனவே சாமி, திமிரு, போன்ற படங்களுக்கு ஒளிப்பதிவாளராக பணியாற்றியுள்ளார்.



* வேட்டைக்காரன் படத்தை மிஞ்சும் வகையில் இப்படத்தின் இசை வ‌ரவேண்டும் என்பதற்காக கடுமையாக உழைத்து இருக்கிறார் விஜய் ஆண்டனி. படத்தில் விஜய்‌யை பாடவைக்கலாம் என்று முயற்சித்து இருக்கிறார். ஆனால் கடைசியில் விஜய் ஆண்டனியை பாடும்படி செய்துவிட்டார் விஜய்.



* படத்தில் மொத்தம் 5பாடல்கள், 6சண்டைக்காட்சிகளை அமைத்திருக்கின்றனர்.

Vijay Role On Velayutham.!

Vijay, needless to say, is a great admirer of Superstar Rajinkanth and has followed certain mannerisms of the top actor in some of his films. The Ilaya Thalapathi is now going a step ahead, one has to say.

If sources are to be believed, he is playing a milkman, a role made popular by Rajini in ‘Annamalai’, in ‘Velayudham’ directed by M Raja. “The story will suddenly shift from a village to the city,” sources say.

They add: “Though Vijay is doing a milkman’s role, it has no similarity to that of Rajini’s in ‘Annamalai’. It is a fresh one conceived by director Raja and the actor has given his best to it.”
Produced by Aascar V Ravichandran, ‘Velayudham’ has music by Vijay Antony. Genelia plays a television journalist while Hansika Motwani plays a village belle and both woo the Ilaya Thalapathi.

Vijay wish , Vision

“I always wanted to do a film with Vijay. My longtime wish has come true with ‘Velayudham’, which is about a commonman’s vision to set thing rights in the society,” says ‘Jayam’ Raja.

The director, who is known for delivering hits non-stop, is excited and thrilled about working with the Ilaya Thalapathi. “Only Vijay could do justice for the role he is playing in Velayudham,” he says.

“The challenge in front of me is to justify the mass image of Vijay, without any compromise in the logic. I am sure that ‘Velayudham’ will be a real treat to his fans,” Raja says with all hope.

Produced by Aascar Ravichandran, most part of ‘Velayudham’ is complete. “Vijay Antony has come out with stunning songs. We are planning to release the film soon,” concludes the director.

Vijay to romance Hanshika again..

It seems luck is working overtime in favour of Hansika Motwani. The actress's maiden venture 'Mappillai' hit the screens only yesterday, but she has three more promising projects in hand.

And now, Hansika has made another prize catch- by becoming the heroine of Vijay's forthcoming film with Seeman, titled 'Pagalavan'. Remember she is already working with the Ilaya Thalapathi for 'Velayudham'...

Velayudham has a surprise for the fans

Vijay’s Velayudham directed by ‘Jeyam’ Raja is racing towards the finish line. Fans expect the movies of Ilaya Thalapathi to have superb action and songs with their idol doing some fabulous dance moves and Vijay wants to make sure that his fans are not disappointed. He and the director have gone the extra mile to ensure that the fans get what they want and also surprise them by taking the action and dance numbers to the next level.
The climax scenes have been shot under the supervision of a stunt choreographer from Hollywood, Tom Delmar and the makers are confident that it will be breathtaking. The action is simply superb and the finale is going to be well received by the audience.
Vijay Antony is doing the music and he has composed some peppy tunes that are going to rock. The introduction song has been shot with 1000 dancers and took about 1.25 crores to make. It is supposed to be his best intro ever. The audio will be released towards the end of April and ‘Jeyam’ Raja wants to release the movie on Vijay’s birthday on June 22nd.

‘Velayudham’ uptade

The next Vijay blockbuster is gearing for release. ‘Velayudham,’ a product of director Jayam Raja is 80% complete. The film has actor Vijay as the hero with Genelia, Hansika Motwani, and Saranya Mohan as the lead ladies. Most of director’s films have oodles of family sentiment mixed with the right amount of comedy, great songs and beautiful locales.

Sources close to the film’s unit have revealed that the team will soon be heading to an undisclosed overseas location for shooting a couple of songs. They have also revealed that the post-production work is also being carried out simultaneously. The film which set off on a positive note post Vijay’s huge success in his ‘Kavalan’ will be released by mid-2011.

Post the success of ‘Kavalan’ there is a lot of expectation on Vijay and now with the actor signing films with directors Shankar and Mani Ratnam the fans of the actor are already in high spirits. Sources close to the director have revealed that this film is a superhero subject. This news will be a bonanza for all Vijay fans who would love to see their favorite star scaling multistoried buildings and rescuing damsels in distress.

The music for this film has been scored by Vijay Antony. He was nominated by Vijay TV for the best music director award for his compositions in ‘Vettaikaran.’ The music was a rage among young children and youth. We hope Vijay Antony repeats history with this film too. Sources close to the composer revealed that he has given his best shot in ‘Velayudham.’

Genilia Dub In HIs Own Voice for Velayutham

Vijay-starrer Velayudham will be Genelia’s first film in which she will dub using her own voice. This north Indian actress, who has starred in many Tami films earlier, has never lent her voice till now. However, Genelia feels that she has gained enough experience and is confident that her voice and accent will be accepted by the Tamil audience now. Velayudham also has Hansika Motwani, Saranya Mohan, Pasupathy and MS Bhaskar in important roles. The film is directed by Jayam Raja and Vijay Anthony is scoring the music. It is produced by Aascar Films V Ravichandran

vijay will hit back

Ilaiyathalapathy Vijay has hit back at his detractors within the industry by doing two films simultaneously, and planning to start a third film by August. 

Now, Vijay, instead of getting into a slanging match with exhibitors and distributors, has quietly begun work on two films. For nearly a decade after he became a superstar, Vijay has been doing only one film at a time, and having a release once in a year. Now, the actor is working on two films — bodyguard remake,  and Velayutham — simultaneously and will also start work on the Tamil remake of 3 Idiots.

Says Siddique, who’s directing the actor for bodyguard remake, , “We are now shooting the college campus scenes of the film with Vijay and Asin in Vellore and after this schedule, nearly 70 percent of the film will be complete. It is going to be a different type of Vijay entertainer, which is sure to be lapped up by the family audiences.”

On Sunday, Hansika Motwani flew down to Chennai from Mumbai to do a photo shoot with the star at a studio in Saligramam, for producer Aascar Ravichandran’s Jayam Raja directed Velayutham. Vijay will have two heroines — Genelia and Hansika — in the film and will play a fictitious ‘man of the masses’ created by a female journalist. For the first time ever, Harris Jayaraj will provide music for a Vijay film.

The producer of Velayutham, Aascar Ravichandran, is veteran producer and distributor who controls more than 30 screens in NSC area, and has a proven track record with hits like Anniyan and Dasavatharam. Remember, it was Ravichandran who made Vijay a superstar when he took over the marketing of Kadhalukku Mariyadhai in 1996. A source close to Vijay said, “Vijay sir is reworking his mass hero image to suit the taste of family audiences. Kavalkaran and Velayutham are carefully planned out projects and he is sure to bounce back with these films followed by the 3 Idiots remake.” 

Who get chance for velayutham! ?

The works for Vijay's new film ‘Velayudham’ directed by ‘Jayam’ Raja is silently progressing even as Vijay is busy with ‘Remake of bodyguard’. A grand launching ceremony at Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium is also being worked out by Aascar Ravichandran of Aascar films.

Meanwhile the gripping buzz at the moment is the choice of heroines. Sources close to the film say ‘Velayudham’ will have two heroines and there are three girls under discussion. Genelia who earlier did ‘Sachin' with Vijay, Hansika Motwani who has become a hot heroine even before the release her first Tamil film ‘Mappillai’ opposite Dhanush and Kajal Agarwal who is high on the priority list after ‘Mahadheera’.
‘Jayam’ Raja is likely to announce the final cast as early as this month end.