Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga

Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga
Film poster
Directed by	M. Rajesh
Produced by	Arya
Written by	M. Rajesh
Starring	Arya Tamannaah Santhanam Bhanu Vidyullekha Raman Karunakaran
Music by	D. Imman
Cinematography	Nirav Shah
Edited by	Vivek Harshan
Production company	The Show People PVP cinema
Release dates	14 August 2015 (2015-08-14)
Running time	158 minutes and 12 seconds
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga (English Translation: Vasu and Saravanan Studied Together) is a 2015 Tamil romantic comedy film written and directed by M. Rajesh. It features Arya and Tamannaah in lead roles while Santhanam plays a prominent role. Actor Vishal made a cameo appearance in this film. Arya himself is producing the film under his production company 'The Show People' associating with Prasad V Potluri's PVP cinema.

The soundtrack was composed by D. Imman. Nirav Shah and Vivek Harshan handled cinematography and editing, respectively. The film began production in November 2014 and was released on 14 August 2015. The movie was hit at the box office.

Plot

Vasu (Santhanam) and Saravanan (Arya) are best friends. Vasu's wife, Seema (Bhanu) wants Vasu to break his friendship with Saravanan and declares nothing between them until then. Vasu does not want to break his friendship with Saravanan directly as to not hurt Saravanan's feelings. He gets the help of his friend, Gautham (Karunakaran) who tells him to get Saravanan married. Vasu helps Saravanan to get a girlfriend in the hopes that the girlfriend will be a reason to end the friendship. Saravanan and Vasu go to Happy Marriage.com where Saravanan falls for Aishwarya Balakrishnan (Tamannaah).

Aishwarya, who initially dislikes Saravanan, eventually agrees to his love. As Saravanan had interviewed Seema before she married Vasu, Vasu interviews Aishwarya at a cafe. A fight breaks out between Aishwarya and Vasu, forcing Saravanan to choose between the two. Saravanan chooses Aishwarya and breaks his friendship with Vasu. Vasu later exits the cafe dramatically but secretly enjoys outside by dancing.

Vasu reunites with Seema but minutes later, Saravanan appears revealing that he was only lying in front of Aishwarya that he had broken their friendship. Seema feels cheated as Vasu had promised Seema upon their future child that their friendship was cut. Seema is furious and leaves to her mother's place. Vasu gets irritated and he tells Saravanan to leave and never show his face again.

That night, Gautham tells Vasu that Saravanan had broken up with Aishwarya for him. Vasu immediately rushes to see him and they reunite. They decide to start a club of men who have been cheated by their wives or girlfriends. This turns out to be successful. They are also supported by Akila Chechi (Shakeela), leader of Akila Indian Men Security Club. Then Assistant Commissioner Vetri Vel (Vishal) arrives and tells the trio to join up with their wives by lying that they have their friendship cut.

Cast

• Santhanam as Vasu
• Arya as Saravanan
• Vishal as Assistant Commissioner Vetri Vel (Cameo)
• Tamannaah as Aishwarya Balakrishnan
• Bhanu as Seema
• Karunakaran as Gautham
• Vidyullekha Raman as Kausalya
• Sayaji Shinde as Ashok
• Pattimandram Raja as Balakrishnan
• Siddharth Vipin as Ashwin
• Renuka as Kamatchi
• Brindha Das as Sudha
• Venniradai Moorthy as Moorthy
• Swaminathan as Point to Point Padmanabhan
• Surekha as Ambujam
• Heera as Pooja
• Jyothi Lakshmi as Lakshmi
• Shakeela as Akila Cheichi
• 'Mahanadhi' Shankar as Police Officer (Cameo)
• Supergood Subramani as Museum Security
• Ratheesh Nambiar as Rahul Varma

Production

In November 2013, Arya agreed to finance and star in the lead role of director M. Rajesh's next venture, with Santhanam also brought in to the project to play a supporting role. Nayantara was also reported to be a part of the film and an official press statement was released during the same month, stating that filming would begin in late 2014 after Arya had finished his ongoing commitments.^[1] In March 2014, Rajesh revealed that it would be a sequel to their successful comedy film Boss Engira Bhaskaran (2010) and that Tamannaah would also play a new character in the franchise.^[2] Nayantara later opted out of the film, and Rajesh began re-working the script.^[3] In October 2014, Rajesh then announced that the film would not be a sequel to his previous film and that it would be a new script.^[4]

A launch event was held on 21 November 2014 and the team began production on the same day, with scenes involving Arya and Tamannaah shot.^[5] The cast and crew list was also revealed with Bhanu, Karunakaran and Vidyullekha Raman also included in the film.^[6] The movie title has been revealed as Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga on 24 November.^[7] The logo took on the theme of alcoholic beverages, as the logo was an image of a beer bottle cap and the title itself was a play on its contraction "VSOP", which normally abbreviated to its description of certain types of brandy, "very superior old pale". It was known that Prasad V Potluri is also producing the film under his banner PVP cinema along with Arya's 'The Show People'.^[8]

Soundtrack

D. Imman, composed the musical score and soundtrack of this movie. Behindwoods rated 2.5 out of 5 and stated "VSOP is sorta catchy but lacks the Fizz".^[9]

Release

Promoted as Arya's 25th film, the satellite telecast rights were sold to STAR Vijay.^[10] The official teaser released on 22 July 2015.^[11]

Box Office

The film was a hit at the box office.

Reception

The film received mixed reviews but was praised for the comedy. Rediff gave the film 2 stars out of 5 and wrote that "the offending script make Rajesh’s Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga a silly and tasteless film that does not deserve your time."^[12] Indiaglitz gave the film 2.5 stars out of 5 and wrote, "This film has many rib tickling, entertaining and engaging moments. But when can we expect an entertainer from Kollywood that does not pass demeaning judgments on women and tease someone for their looks to make others laugh?."^[13] The Times of India gave the film 2.5 stars out of 5 and wrote, "What Rajesh has done is [..] taking bits and pieces from his previous successful films and giving us a new film that feels familiar. The only difference is that he manages to succeed... to an extent".^[14] India Today rated 1 star and criticised that "Rajesh's two-and-half-hour script has nothing, but female bashing, making fun of plus-sized women, double-meaning-ed, innuendo-ed dialogues and absurd one-liners, which are sweet-coated as humour".^[15]

References

External links

• Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga at the Internet Movie Databaseuu