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Directed by

Gautham Menon

..

(as Gautham Vasudev Menon)

Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)

Meghana Karthik	..	(subtitles)
Gautham Menon	..	(written by) (as Gautham Vasudev Menon)

Cast (in credits order)

Suriya	..	Krishnan / Suriya
Simran	..	Malini Krishnan
Ramya	..	Priya
Sameera Reddy	..	Meghana
Prithviraj	..	Asad
Deepa Narendran	..	Shriya
Karthik	..	Suriya's friend
Shanker Koladi	..	Shankar Menon
Vtv Ganesh	..	Librarian (as Ganesh)
Sathish	..	Suriya's friend (as Satish)
Veera Bahu	..	Suriya's friend (as Veera)
Gautham Menon	..	Commando Informer (as Gautham Vasudev Menon)
Pawl Bazile	..	Punk Mugger (as Paul Basile)
Brian Jennings	..	Visa Officer
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Shreya Gupto	..	Shreya (Suriya's sister)
Rajeev	..	Sameera's Dad
Ramchander Sankar	..	Suriya's Friend
Cleo Berry	..	Thug mugger (uncredited)

Produced by

Vtv Ganesh	..	executive producer (as Ganesh)
P. Madan	..	executive producer
Tirlok Malik	..	line producer: USA
Gautham Menon	..	co-producer
Viswanathan Ravichandran	..	producer (as V. Ravichandran)

Music by

Harris Jayaraj

Cinematography by

R. Rathnavelu

Film Editing by

Anthony

Production Design by

Veera Bahu

..

(as Veera)

Art Direction by

Rajeevan

Costume Design by

Nalini Sri Ram	..	(as Nalini Sriram)
Srini Vasu

Makeup Department

Banu	..	makeup artist
Yogesh	..	makeup artist

Production Management

B. Giri Goyal	..	production manager
Sathish Kumar	..	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Meghana Karthik	..	second assistant director
P. Bharath Kumar	..	assistant director
Mani Nagaraajan	..	first assistant director
Vinitha V. Nair	..	second assistant director (as Vinitha Vinayachandran)
N. Shanmugham	..	first assistant director
R. Srikanth	..	assistant director
Venkatesan	..	assistant director

Sound Department

Raj Mohan	..	foley artist
Prathap	..	sound effects editor
M. Ravi	..	audiographer

Visual Effects by

Anoop Chandran	..	matchmove artist: EFX
Hardik Dhanesha	..	digital compositor
K.V. Hariharan	..	senior compositor
Rajesh Kumar K.V.	..	matchmove artist: EFX
Ramesh Karthikeyan	..	senior compositor
Chandran Lakshmanan	..	digital compositor
P. Mohan	..	Senior Compositor: Prasad Efx / digital compositor
Nandhakishore	..	matchmove artist
Prabhakaran	..	visual effects coordinator
Abdul Rasheed	..	digital compositor
Yuvaraj Saravanan	..	roto artist: Prasad EFX
Sajith Sethumadhavan	..	visual effects artist: Prasad EFX
Srirengaraj	..	visual effects supervisor

Stunts

Ejaz Gulab	..	stunts (as Ijazz / Javed)
Javed	..	stunts (as Ijazz / Javed)
Javed Karim	..	action director
Dhilip Subbarayan	..	stunts (as Super Subbarayan)

Camera and Electrical Department

Dinesh Krishnan	..	assistant camera (as B. Dinesh Krishnan)
M. Jagdish Kumar	..	assistant camera
Vinayak Radhakrishnan	..	steadicam operator
V. Thyagarajan	..	associate cameraman
J. Yuvaraj	..	associate cameraman (as J. Yuvraaj) / associate cameraman
Aravindkumar	..	assistant camera (uncredited)

Editorial Department

Raghunath Varma Somala	..	series colorist (as Varma Raghunath)
T.S. Suresh	..	assistant editor

Music Department

Clinton Cerejo	..	playback singer
S.P.B. Charan	..	playback singer
Benny Dayal	..	playback singer
Devan	..	playback singer
Shruti Haasan	..	playback singer (as Shruti K. Haasan)
Hariharan	..	playback singer
Naresh Iyer	..	playback singer
Karthik	..	playback singer
Krish	..	playback singer (as Krish)
Na. Muthukumar	..	lyricist
Prasanna	..	playback singer
Prashanthini	..	playback singer
Sudha Raghunathan	..	playback singer
Solar Sai	..	playback singer
Thamarai	..	lyricist
Smith Thampan	..	song recording & mixing engineer

Other crew

Antonio Graña	..	production coordinator (as Antonio Grana)
Ahmed Khan	..	choreographer
Brinda Master	..	choreographer (as Brinda) / choreographer
Philip Orr	..	driver/production assistant

MOVIESTAMILVAARANAM AAYIRAM

Vaaranam Aayiram is a Tamil - movie directed by Goutam Menon . Starring Suriya,Sameera Reddy,Divya Spandana,Daniel Balaji,Simran Bagga,VTV Ganesh.

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Vaaranam Aayiram Review

Surya shines as father and son in `Vaaranam Aayiram` (IANS Film Review)

Rating: ***

Vaaranam Aayiram, which means `a thousand elephants` in Tamil, is a Surya film all the way. The actor strides through it with his double role, giving a scintillating performance.
The tale is about a goody-goody relationship between father and son. Surya plays a wizened old man, Krishnan, in the autumn of his life and a strapping army major with aplomb.
The 33-year-old Surya even sends the audience into complete disbelief looking every inch a 17-year-old for a brief while in the film.
The story recalls the touching moments in a family that has only love for each of its members - comprising father, mother (played by Simran) son and his girlfriends (Sameera Reddy and Divya Spandana) spread between India and the US.
While it first describes the love between the father and his wife in the 1970s, it also beautifully portrays the son`s love life many years later.
After a love affair in Chennai, the protagonist head to the US, where he sweeps the fashionable and chic Sameera Reddy off her feet.
Playing men of different ages and times, Surya makes subtle changes in his gait, body language and dialogue delivery, thereby creating different shades to his two roles.
The time difference between father and son is also shown with painstaking digital detail.
The cinematography by Rathnavel is excellent as he matches the digitally superimposed visuals with live images.
Hit music in all the seven songs by Harris Jayaraj provides the icing to the cake.
Director Gautham Menon has exceeded himself in creativity, extracting great work from his cast.
The over-sweet nature of the story and its lagging length in the second half are its minus points that pale into insignificance due to Surya`s brilliant essay of the two roles and a moving climax.

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Vaaranam Aayiram Synopsis

The story, progressing from the youth stage of the lead character, spans the next two phase of his life comprising his adolescence and adulthood. Surya (Suriya) is an ordinary young man, leading a quiet life with his parents Krishnan (Suriya) and Malini(Simran). Young Surya goes through a gamut of experiences in his life: he gets bullied by his roguish school seniors, battles an intense infatuation, is thrashed by street rowdies for a trivial fault and embarks upon adventurous experiments with his friends. All these are part of his growing up years; some trifle with his budding manhood and associated feelings while others teach him life`s worthy lessons. Yet the experiences continue; each happening and its consequence adds a significant dimension, chiseling his expanding maturity. He slowly graduates from unassuming boyhood and teens, reaches adulthood and progresses to become a composed family man. His life continues to be eventful; some memories are stingingly painful, some are just unforgettable; these he treasures close to his heart.

Music is young Surya`s passion. For him, the music from his guitar resembles reflects life`s sensations. With music as his escape hatch, Surya is capable of transporting himself to places far and away from reality. What happens to this all-consuming zeal? Does it stop by just remaining his dilettante effort or does he dare to carry it through his life`s changing times and tides? Is it the same music that lands him in a career in the army? What gives this delicate performer the strength and mindset to work in the tough, danger-ridden war fields?

Does Surya ever fall in love? Meri jung song. Is love a part of his youthful flings? Does Priya (Divya Spandana) win his heart and stay to become his soulful partner? what predicaments force Surya to meet and marry Megha (Sameera)? How do failures and successes alter his personality? Vaaranam Aayiram drifts through Suriya`s life, chronicling all his feelings. Through the course of this turbulence comes another sweet and short love story, that of his parents Krishnan (Suriya) and Malini(Simran)

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