Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (2006) on Netflix
Rani vanishes in Madurai. Her severed index finger is left at the door of her father, a former Chennai police officer. DCP Raghavan, his old colleague, takes the case.
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Rani goes missing in Madurai. Her father, SP Arokiya Raj, a police officer in Chennai before his retirement, learns of it when her severed index finger is found at his door, and he asks his former colleague DCP Raghavan for help. Raghavan recovers the body within twelve hours; forensic reports describe a throat cut with a scalpel and a body split with an axe, which points to a killer with surgical training. The case then goes cold. Arokiya Raj and his wife Chithra move to New York City, and six months later both are murdered there. Raghavan flies to New York to work with NYPD Detective Anderson, and during the stay he saves Aradhana, an Indian woman in the middle of a painful divorce, from a suicide attempt.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (2006)
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- During the shoot of Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu, producer Kaja Mohideen ran into financial trouble and attempted suicide, and Kamal Haasan wanted to quit the film; director Gautham Vasudev Menon persuaded him to stay because they had already taken advance payments.
- Ravichandran of Oscar Films stepped in to spend on Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu but withdrew within fifteen days, so Gautham Vasudev Menon paid for a Mumbai schedule with Kamal Haasan and Jyothika himself rather than waste their dates.
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Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu drew controversy over its portrayal of LGBT people, including a scene in which Kamal Haasan's character hurls homophobic slurs at the film's homosexual antagonists.- Ganesh Janardhanan, later known as VTV Ganesh, played the kidnapper of Kamalinee Mukherjee's character after the actor originally cast in the part failed to turn up for the shoot and Kamal Haasan asked him to take it.
- Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu, with music by Harris Jayaraj and cinematography by Ravi Varman, is one of the first Indian films to be made using Super 35.
- Gautham Vasudev Menon said that Kamal Haasan, unlike on his other films, did not want to take control of the script or production; angered by the delays, Haasan kept to himself and made only small dialogue changes on location.
