Vandae Maatharam
Directed by	D. Aravind Karthik
Written by	Karthik
Produced by	Henry (Pankaj Productions)
Starring	Mammootty Arjun Sneha Sharada Arya Atul Kulkarni Kalabhavan Mani Nassar Jai Akash Jagadish Deepak J.D Rajan P. Dev
Cinematography	Vetri
Music by	D. Imman
Release date	10 September 2010 (Outside India) 17 September 2010 (India)
Languages	Malayalam Tamil Telugu (Dubbed) Kannada (Dubbed)
Budget	₹ 14 crores[1]

Vandae Maatharam is a 2010 multilingual action film with Megastar Mammootty, Arjun and Sneha in the lead roles. The movie, originally made in Malayalam and Tamil was also dubbed and released in Telugu and Kannada. The film is directed by D. Aravind after a long time. He turned Tamil film industry to technology with well made films like Oomai Vizhigal and Senthoora Poove in the eighties. Even the producer, Henry is known for quality social films like Marumalarchi, Bharathi Kannamma and Pudhumaipithan before. It was slated as a Ramzan release on 10 September 2010 but delayed to 17th september. The movie was released overseas on 10 September itself.^[2]

Plot

Mammootty and Arjun are tough police officers. They analyse farmers struggle and related social violence to put forward an amicable solution to have lasting harmony. They are highly disturbed by the terrorists' infiltrations. Sneha, an Aviator, is Mammootty's wife and they are sad that they don't have a child. The rest of the story deals with how they counter act against the terrorists and save the land.

Cast

Production

The shooting started by the middle of 2007 and later on the story was modified due to some personal problems. It took 100 days of shooting and ten schedules to complete the movie. Mammootty and Arjun play the role of cops while Sneha is playing as a pilot. Then the story revolves around the investigation and how the heroes eradicate the terrorists from being entering the border. The audio launch was held on July 3, 2010 and the movie is all set to release on the eve of Ramzan, 10 September 2010 in both Tamil and Malayalam.^[3] But at the last moment, it couldn't make it to the theatres. Then, it was released on 17 september 2010.^[4]

Amitabh Bachchan was approached to do a pivotal role in the movie, but as he was not able to allocate the call sheets, Nassar played the role. In 2007, A.R.Rahman was approached to score the music of the film. But during that time, he was busy with the composing work of Jodhaa Akbar. After deciding among composers like Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Harris Jayaraj, Vidyasagar; the crew signed in D. Imman. A highlight of the film will be a patriotic song penned by Vairamuthu and the song rendered by ten popular singers. They are D. Imman, Harish Raghavendra, Vijay Yesudas, Haricharan, Naresh Iyer, Krish, Pop Shalini, Mathangi, Srilekha Parthasarathy and Chinmayi. Stunts director for this movie is the renowned stunt director Allan Amin.

The budget of the movie has been stated to be 14 crores. This movie is huge hit upon released The soundtrack sanjeevana was huge hit and this is one and only tamil movie which had around 50 muslims viewers in Malaysia

Soundtrack

The soundtrack features 6 songs composed by D. Imman and lyrics penned by Mankombu Gopalakrishnan and Vayalar Sarath Chandra Varma for the Malayalam version and Vairamuthu, Snehan, Nandala and Viveka for the Tamil version. The album was released on July 3, 2010.

Malayalam

Tamil