Velayudham release set to on next summer

Velayudham is a fast developing movie directed by Raja who is famous for delivering hits in Tamil. Velayudham will have Vijay, Genelia D' Souza and Hansika Motwani in lead roles. Unlike Raja's earlier movies, this will be an original script and not a remake. Raja is upbeat about this movie and has completed a lot of portions of the movie already. When asked, he said that Velayudham is a one of a kind movie and will definitely a milestone in Vijay's career.

Velayudham will have music by Vijay Anthony and is produced by Aascar Ravichandran. It is expected to be released in early summer of 2011.

vijay's Velayudham in Andhra

Velayudham is a film produced by Aascar Films V Ravichandran and has Vijay in the lead role. The film is progressing in a rapid pace. The first schedule of the film took place in Chennai for 15 days.

A mammoth seat was erected at a cost of Rs 1 Crore to shoot a song sequence. A song sequence featuring Vijay and Hansika was shot in these sets for 8 days.After this the film is being shot in Golconda in Andhra Pradesh The stunt master Selvam has shot a stunt sequence featuring Vijay and stunt men.

The shooting is going on there. Genelia, Hansika, R Pandiarajan, Santhanam and Sathyan are sharing the screen with Vijay. Priyan is handling the camera while Vijay Anthony composes the music. Jayam Raja is directing the film.

Hansika Motwani speaks about herself

Hansika Motwani is a Mumbai girl and is now pairing with Vijay in Velayudham, with Dhanush in Mappillai and with Jayam Ravi in Itch. While speaking to the media she said,” I am a Mumbai girl. My mother was a doctor. After coming from school I use to sit in her clinic and play pranks.

I use to mimic the people who are there. Seeing this I got the opportunity to act in an Ad film at the age of nine. I also acted with Sharukh Khan in a car Ad film. After this I acted in a TV serial.

I got 14 best child actor awards for acting in this serial. From that time itself I use to pass my time before the camera. Juhi Chawla got me a small role in the Hindi film Koi Mil Gaya. After this I got introduced in a Telugu film which had Allu Arjun in the lead role in the year 2007. After this I had acted in a Hindi film in Aap Ka Zaroor.

Both the films earned me a good name. Then I started acting in Kannada films and now I am acting in Tamil films. Many are asking me whether I will able to withstand in Tamil industry. Don’t think that I came from Mumbai to dance and go. I am a powerful performer.

I am called switch off-switch on star in Hindi and Telugu industry because I can immediately perform any reaction given. It is like how a bulb burns when the switch is on. Is there anybody here to compete with me.”

Vijay joins Kajal Agarwal in Lingusamy's Movie

After shelving his film with Silambarasan, director Lingusamy is gearing to start his new film with Vijay. Vijay is said to begin this film in November by which time his other film ‘Velayudham’ will be completed. And for the heroine of ‘Velayudham’, sources say Vijay and Lingusamy have finalised Kajal Agarwal for the role.

Kajar Agarwal was considered for the role Hansika Motwani plays in ‘Velayudham’. But Kajal did not have the required dates and had to sacrifice the offer. Now all are in place and Kajal Agarwal is ready to rock with Vijay.

‘Velayudham’ is an action packed film produced by Cloud Nine Movies much in the classy lines of earlier super hit ‘Paiyaa’.

Vijay and M Raja both remake king make Velayudham as successful movie

Remakes have always been safe bets for Vijay and director M Raja. With the former having a track record of films like ‘Kadhalukku Mariyadhai’, ‘Ninaithen Vandhai’, ‘Priyamanavale’ and ‘Pokkiri’, the latter has carved a niche for himself doing remakes from ‘Jayam’ to ‘Santosh Subramaniam’.
And now, both have come together for ‘Velayudham’, which too is said to be a remake of a Telugu hit, titled ‘Aazad’. Produced by Aascar V Ravichandran, the film that was launched amidst much fanfare has two heroines- Genelia and Hansika Motwani.
Says Raja, “This is my first film with a big actor like Vijay. He suits to the role well. The movie is about an ordinary youngster who transforms as a catalyst to reform the society. I am hopeful ‘Velayudham’ will work big time with the audience.”
“Vijay plays an enterprising youngster while Genelia is doing the role of a journalist,” the director says and adds: “Hansika Motwani and Saranya Mohan are also doing crucial characters. Comedy will be taken care of by Santhanam and Sathyan.”
The plot is interesting. Genelia reports that a superhero is saving the city and circumstances lead Vijay to accidentally save the city from the impostors, making him the accidental superhero!
Vijay’s costumes in the movie seem to be inspired from a popular game title. Though nothing is known how long he’d be wearing the costumes, the first look given by the makers suggest Vijay’s up to something big!
Saying Priyan’s cinematography will be a highlight and Vijay Antony has come out with catchy songs, Raja continues: “On the whole, ‘Velayudham’ will be a wholesome treat to not just Vijay fans, but for every movie-goer.”
On his part, Vijay says, “Working for a big banner like Aascar gives me immense proud. Raja is known for his knack to deliver blockbusters without a break. ‘Velayudham’ is a nice story. Hopefully our combination should rock.”
Cast: Vijay, Genelia, Hansika Motwani, Saranya MohanDirection: ‘Jayam’ RajaProduction: Aascar RavichandranMusic: Vijay Antony

Vijay's Velayudham Movie story line

Ilayathalapathy Vijay has already completed shooting for his next film ‘Kaval Kadhal’ and is now gearing up for the other project titled ‘Velayudham’. The film is produced by Aascar Ravichandran and is directed by ‘Jeyam’ Raja. The film is reported to be a remake of Telugu movie ‘Azad’ that had Nagarjuna, Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty and Late actress Soundarya

The film’s shooting has been already done for 5 days at Palakkad and will have the other schedules soon after tomorrow’s Puja at University Hall in Chennai.

The story of Velayudham goes this way…

Genelia D’Souza is completely frustrated with the misdeeds of a criminal named Deva, who covers himself as a staunch follower of Bhagavath Geetha. But what the society doesn’t know about him is that he is real troublemaker of many problems in society. One day Genelia witnesses a group of baddies dying at a car accident. Apparently, Genelia D’ Souza develops a fictional character Velayudham and he is the cause for all the heroic acts of this assassinations. Sooner, the fame about Velayudham starts spreading like forest fires across towns and cities.

Cut to a village….

There is a humble and peace loving guy called Velayudham (Vijay), who is leading a happy life with his widowed mother, sister (Saranya Mohan) and cousin girl (Hansika Motwani). Once, he comes to Chennai to withdraw the savings amount of Rs.5Lakhs from a Chit Fund Company. At the same point of time, there are 5 bomb blasts occurring in the city out of which Velayudham escapes from every blast. Later, the news is spread that he is the real hero Velayudham assassinating the baddies.

Getting to know about it, Genelia D’ Souza reveals about her deeds of frightening the baddies with a fictional name. However, Velayudham isn’t interested in striving for this cause and plans to make his way back to Village soon after withdrawing the money meant for his sister’s marriage.

But then, the Chit Fund Company happens to be a bogus and many innocent victims who invested lots of money commit suicide. Finally, Velayudham turns to be a real hero, thereby carrying each and every work of the fictional character in reality.

But the biggest twist occurs in the tale when Velayudham gets to know that Deva is actually not a Muslim, but a Muslim terrorist planning to destroy entire India by causing clashes between the religions.

Now it’s up to Velayudham is revealing the true colors of Deva and saving the innocent people, who have laid their trust on Deva.

Dhanush wait till the Vijay’s film

Vijay is said to have almost completed Kaavalkaran, which is directed by Siddique, and has moved on to Velayudham. The shooting of this venture is expected to begin soon. Enquiries in the tinsel town reveal that Priyan has already been signed up by director Jayam Raja for the Vijay-starrer Velayudham.

Reports from Kollywood also say that director Hari is waiting for cameraman Priyan, who had wielded the camera for Singam, to begin Aruva. Will Dhanush wait till the Vijay’s film is wrapped up or will Hari move on to another cinematographer? Let’s wait and watch.

Hansika and Genelia's role in Velayudham

The groundwork for Vijay’s next film Velayudham, which is produced by Aascar Ravichandran, is on. The film’s director Jayam Raja has the script ready so that he could begin this project once Vijay completes Kaavalkaran.

It is not a secret anymore that Velayudham is a remake of the Telugu smash hit Azad, which had Nagarjuna, Soundarya and Shilpa Shetty playing the lead roles. The buzz now is that Genelia will play Soundarya’s role, which happens to be that of a journalist in Velayudham. Needless to say that Shilpa Shetty’s role has been bagged by Hansika. The music for this film is being scored by Devi Sri Prasad.

Neetu Chandra doing comeo role with Vijay

Indian actress Neetu Chandra, who is from Bihar, is all set to take on Vijay’s velayudham’. It is reported that the actress will be a doing a cameo role in this film, which is yet to finalize the female lead.

According to sources, the female lead of “velayudham” is yet to be confirmed by director Raja. Director Raja is considering starlet Ileana, Genelia and Hansika as female lead in the movie. The story of the movie needs a heroine opposite o actor Vijay and a female to play he sister character to ilayapathi.

Indian actress Hansika motwani has been confirmed in one role, but the other post is still vacant and Ileana and Genelia are being considered for it. Meanwhile, there is news that director raja has approached actress Neetu Chandra for a cameo. The Bihari actress was in Chennai recently, for a discussion with director Mysskin. It was then that the director Raja approached. Sources, say that she is approached for a cameo role.

Genelia escaped in eleventh hour

Genelia D'souza, if sources are to be believed, actually planned to attend the IIFA extravaganza in Sri Lanka thanks to her 'good friend' Ritiesh Deshmukh, unaware of the controversies surrounding in Kollywood.

But a prominent person from Tamil film industry briefed her about the happenings here and stopped her at the eleventh hour from taking a flight to Colombo, sources say.

He is none other than producer 'Aascar' Ravichandran, sources reveal and add: "He was the one who saved Genelia from being issued a red card. Because he has roped in the actress for 'Velayudham', his forthcoming film with Vijay."

"It was only after Ravichandran cautioned Genelia not to attend the IIFA, she decided to stay back. She was quick to realise the gravity of the situation and knew that she might lose out on a big film if she went ahead", sources point out.

Meanwhile, reports have it that the actress was in Chennai on Sunday and completed a photo-shoot with Vijay at Balu Mahendra’s studio.