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Vaanchinathan
Vaanchinathan
	Poster
Directed by	Shaji Kailas
Written by	Liaquat Ali Khan
Produced by	M. Kajamydeen
Starring	Vijayakanth; Sakshi Shivanand; Ramya Krishnan; Prakash Raj
Cinematography	S. Saravanan
Edited by	L. Bhoominathan
Music by	Karthik Raja (songs); Rajamani (score)
Production; company	Roja Combines
Release date	14 January 2001;
Running time	163 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Vaanchinathan is a 2001 Indian Tamil-language crime action film directed by Shaji Kailas in his Tamil debut. The script was written by Liaquat Ali Khan. It stars Vijayakanth in the main lead role with Sakshi Shivanand and Ramya Krishnan in the female leads and Prakash Raj as the antagonist. The film was released on 14 January 2001.^[1]

Plot

Vanchinathan is a cop who has been transferred from Gujarat. Chidambaram is a media mogul who thrives on chaos and confusion, which will help him boost sales of his paper. Their enmity becomes personal when Chidambaram challenges Vanchinathan to arrest him when he cleverly commits a murder in broad daylight in front of Vanchinathan. After that, Vanchinathan kills two corrupt officers for assisting bad guys. In retaliation Chidambaram poisons Vanchinathan's sister. Thereby Vanchinathan shoots Chidambaram and blames it on Chidambaram' younger brother.

Cast

Vijayakanth as DCP Vanchinathan IPS
Ramya Krishnan as Nandhini
Sakshi Shivanand as Divya
Prakash Raj as Chidambaram
Visu as Chief minister (guest appearance)
Manorama as Kalyani Rajasekar (guest appearance)
Nassar as Babu Rao Patel
Kalabhavan Mani as Maya
Rajeev as Commissioner Venugopal
Delhi Ganesh as Inspector Abdul Khader (Khader Bhai)
Thyagu as Inspector Narayanan
Thalaivasal Vijay
Pyramid Natarajan as Varadharajan
Anju Aravind as Saradha
Raj Kapoor as Inspector Raveendran
Ali Khan as Amir Khan
Mani C. Kappan as Mahesh Gupta
Sethu Vinayagam as Director general of police
Sriman as Siva
Sonia as Varadharajan's daughter
Sabitha Anand as Abdul Khader's wife
K. K. Soundar
Meesai Murugesan
Sakthivel as Inspector Subramani
Arulmani as Inspector Bharathi
Sooriyan as Inspector Rajendran
MLA Thangaraj as Politician
Kousalya Senthamarai as Varadharajan's wife
Priyanka as Abdul Khader's daughter
Kalukkul Eeram Ramanathan as Car driver
Besant Ravi as Terrorist
Thalapathy Dinesh as Terrorist
Bobby as Terrorist
Kovai Senthil as Man with a petition
Nirmala Periyasamy as Newsreader
Alphonsa in a special appearance
Bhanusri in a special appearance
Subhash Dhankar as Terrorist

Production

The team had initially agreed terms with Suresh Gopi to feature in a pivotal role, but his unavailability led to team casting Prakash Raj.^[2] Soundarya was to appear in the film, but later opted out due to unknown reasons.^[3] Shilpa Shetty had also signed on to star in the film.^[4] Likewise, Nadhiya was expected to make a return to Tamil films through the project, but eventually went against doing so.^[5]

The film is named after the Indian independence fighter Vanchinathan. A fight scene involving Vijayakanth, Ramya Krishnan and rowdies was shot in a set erected at AVM studios.^[6] The song sequence, 'Amul Baby', was shot at New Zealand.^[7]

Soundtrack

Music was composed by Karthik Raja, collaborating with Vijayakanth for the second time after Alexander.^[8] The background score was done by Rajamani who reused score from Malayalam film Narasimham in some scenes.

Song	Singers	Lyrics
Adi Rendu	P. Unnikrishnan, Bhavatharini	Na. Muthukumar
Amul Baby	Sujatha, Shaan	Snehan
Sirikkum Sirippil	Swarnalatha, Harish Raghavendra
Muthamida Vendum	Harini, Srinivas
Roja Vanna Roja	K. J. Yesudas	Muthu Vijayan

Release and reception

Rajitha of Rediff.com wrote "But the masala is appetising and in the final analysis, that is all that counts".^[9] Similarly, Lollu Express claimed that film is a "collection of scenes from actor's previous movies".^[10] The Hindu wrote "Liyakath Ali Khan's story and screenplay are crisp and action-packed" and also noted " sequences remind you of the Parthiban starrer `Abhimanyu' or Vijayakanth's own Vallarasu".^[11] Krishna Chidambaram of Kalki praised the director for maintaining the tempo from the beginning to end while also praising the fury in abolishing bribery and corruption is perfectly reflected with seriousness but felt the film was directed unrealistically and called it average.^[12] Chennai Online wrote "The film is only sound and fury with no substance".^[13] Distributors who had bought the film had incurred heavy losses.^[14] Post-release it was rumoured that footage of two heroines have been deleted to reduce the timing which earned criticism.^[15]^[16]

References

^ "நட்சத்திர படப் பட்டியல்". Cinema Express (in Tamil). 1 December 2002. pp. 41–43. Archived from the original on 2 February 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
^ Rasika. "Prakashraj pips Suresh Gopi at the post". Chennai Online. Archived from the original on 25 August 2004. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
^ "Soundarya with Vijayakanth". Indiainfo. Archived from the original on 7 December 2000. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
^ "The dancing brush". Rediff.com. 11 August 2000. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
^ "Nadhiya again and again". Cinesouth. Archived from the original on 15 May 2001. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
^ Paarvaiyalan. "Film: Vaanchinathan". Chennai Online. Archived from the original on 9 March 2001. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
^ "Tamil Cinema 2000". Cinematoday2.itgo.com. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
^ "Vanchinathan (2001)". Raaga.com. Archived from the original on 1 June 2002. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
^ Rajitha (25 January 2001). "Pure unadulterated timepass!". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
^ ""VANCHINATHAN" New Tamil Movie Review By Your Prabhu". Lollu Express. Archived from the original on 7 July 2007. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
^ Rangarajan, Malathi (9 February 2001). "Film Review: Vanchinathan". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 23 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
^ சிதம்பரம், கிருஷ்ணா (11 February 2001). "வாஞ்சிநாதன்". Kalki (in Tamil). p. 32. Archived from the original on 20 July 2023. Retrieved 20 July 2023 – via Internet Archive.
^ "Vaanchinathan". Chennai Online. Archived from the original on 11 December 2003. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
^ "TAMIL CINEMA 2000 – MUSIC DIRECTORS". Cinematoday2.itgo.com. Archived from the original on 2 May 2012. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
^ "Cut here and Paste there". Cinematoday2.itgo.com. Archived from the original on 23 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
^ "TAMIL CINEMA 2000". Cinematoday2.itgo.com. Archived from the original on 23 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.