Vaalu (2015) on Netflix
Sharp has no job and no worries. He falls for Priya at a bus stop in the rain, but she is promised to Anbu, a powerful businessman.
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Plot summary
Sharp is a carefree young man with no job, and he falls in love at first sight when he sees Priya at a bus stop in the rain. He helps her through an accident, and once she learns that he was the stranger who came to her aid, she agrees to be friends. Priya tells him she is promised to Anbu, a powerful businessman, and asks that the two of them stay friends. Sharp says yes, but he keeps looking for a way to win her over, and he gives himself ten days to do it. He also has a rivalry with a man in Anbu's circle.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Vaalu (2015)
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- Because filming dragged on for years, continuity errors show in the leads' appearance: Hansika Motwani looks plump in the earliest scenes and thin in the later ones, and Silambarasan's physique and styling also change across the film.
- Hansika Motwani agreed to work on the film for sixty days but was forced to extend her call sheet by a further eighty days; she said the team often failed to keep schedules and regularly wasted her dates, so she prioritised other projects instead.
- In July 2015 the Madras High Court issued an interim ban on Vaalu after distributor Magnum Rays said a 2013 deal with NIC Arts to distribute the film across Tamil Nadu had been bypassed by T. Rajendar's Simbu Cine Arts; the parties later settled amicably.
- Cinematographer Shakthi threatened legal action after leaving the delayed project, saying his name was left off the posters despite his shooting seventy percent of the film, and complained to the cinematographers' union; delays meant seven other cinematographers also filmed scenes.
- Frustrated with the constant delays, Silambarasan's father T. Rajendar bought the distribution rights of the film from producer S. S. Chakravarthy and pledged to release it under his own Chimbu Cine Arts banner.
- For the lead character's home, three separate Chennai locations — a house near Pachaiyappa's College campus, Aachi house in T Nagar and a house in Royapettah — were combined so that they read on screen as a single building.
- A song planned to feature actresses from four generations, with Saroja Devi, Khushbu, Meena, Simran and Nayantara among those approached, was never shot because of delays and time constraints; the team later shot the song with Hansika Motwani instead in June 2015.
- Vaalu was first announced in September 2010 as Vijay Chandar's directorial debut with actor Jai in the lead, but the project did not take off; Silambarasan later liked the script and got producer S. S. Chakravarthy to fund it.
