Vaaranam Aayiram (2008) on Netflix
NR20082h 49mActionDramaMusicalRomance
Major Suriya is in the air on the way to a rescue mission when he hears that his father Krishnan has died. In Madras, the young Krishnan meets Malini at college.
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Plot summary
Krishnan is an elderly man who has smoked for years. After a haircut, he vomits blood at home and dies. His son Suriya, a Major serving in the Indian Army, is on a flight toward Kashmir for a mission to free a kidnapped journalist when word reaches him. Grief carries him back through the life they shared. In Madras in the 1970s, Krishnan and Malini study together, fall in love and marry, and raise Suriya and his sister Shriya. Krishnan treats his son more as a friend than as a child under strict authority. After finishing his exams in Tiruchirappalli, Suriya meets Meghna while traveling home by train and falls for her at once. She doubts love at first sight and is preparing to leave for a master's degree in California.
Cast
- Deepa Narendraas Shreya Krishnan
- Brian Jenningsas Visa Officer
- Ramyaas Priya
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Vaaranam Aayiram (2008)
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- Two production managers assigned to carry film reels back to the producer's office stayed in Singapore for a couple of days; on arrival the reels went missing from their hotel, holding fight scenes and songs worth $500,000, and after a failed police search Singapore airport authorities found them.
- For the role of Suriya's father Krishnan, director Gautham Vasudev Menon first approached Mohanlal and Nana Patekar, but it fell through because of how they would play the character in his twenties in flashbacks, so Suriya played the part himself.
- Deepika Padukone was the first choice for the lead actress of Vaaranam Aayiram, but she backed out to take part in the Hindi film Om Shanti Om.
- Genelia D'Souza walked out soon after shooting began, after Menon refused to pay the hefty salary she was asking, which let Sameera Reddy take the role as her first Tamil film.
- Gautham Vasudev Menon got news of his father's death while in the United States in 2007 and recalled their shared experiences on the flight home; this inspired the film, which begins the same way, and Menon said 70% of it was from his life.
- Vaaranam Aayiram's songs were given to four leading Chennai radio stations, one song per station, five days before the soundtrack's official launch on 24 September 2008, which the article calls the first of its kind in Indian cinema.
- Suriya's six-pack look and workout montage in the film became iconic among Tamil and South Indian youth, who cite them as inspiration to take up fitness, and many young Tamil actors have since done a six-pack look on screen.
