Maanja Velu

The film starts with Anjali escaping on a motorcycle from her enforced engagement with the assistance of the groom; however, DIG Easwarapandian sees her from his police car. Meanwhile, a valiant Velu absconds from the police prison and beats a group of policemen. Easwarapandian arrives at the warehouse. Velu jumps over his car and then shoots it, killing him. He drives off on Anjali's motorcycle.

Past: Six months ago, ACP Bose was a sincere and happily married police officer. He lives with his parents, wife, and younger brother, Velu. Velu is a college student who manages the college canteen. He falls in love with his classmate, Anjali. Velu always loves his family and his brother. Enter Umapathi, the villain who is notorious for land deals. On a field trip with her friends, Anjali comes across Bose. She gets friendly with his daughter Pinky, who tells her that she will get introduced to her uncle Velu and that they will be a good pair. It turns out that Velu studies at Anjali's college, and after comedic incidents, they get to know one another and get close.

Bose investigates the case of Umapathi, whom no one has been able to touch. He is even involved with a land deal involving crores of money, which is illegal, and others, including the DIG. When trying to arrest Umapathi for a witness' death, the minister calls the DIG to let Umapathi go. So Bose kills goons linked to Umapathi's crime syndicate. The chairman of the chit fund, who lent ₹1,000,000,000 (US$21.5 million) for the deal, demands the money back as the agreement has not worked. Umapathi requests the help of Dinesh, Velu's friend and Umapathi's henchman. Dinesh technically assassinates the chairman by electrocuting him, and Bose uncovers his death. Dinesh lusts for Anjali. Velu saves Anjali after she gets kidnapped. He beats up Umapathi's goons and Umapathi; he threatens and beats up Umapathi.

Umapathi gets angry that Velu beat him up. Dinesh plans to kill Velu. So on a trip to Vellore for Anjali's cousin's wedding, Umapathi's goons attack Velu and Anjali; however, Velu beats up his goons. Velu asks Dinesh to get away with Anjali, unaware of Dinesh's diabolic shade. Dinesh reveals to Anjali how he is mad at her and that he was the one who organised the goons to kill Velu. There are also comedic incidents between Ezhumalai, Manickam (Velu's friend), and Bhooshan. The chit-fund customers revolt and damage the bank; Bose arrives at the location, arrests the chit-fund manager, and takes him away. Somehow, Umapathi discovers the manager's whereabouts. He reaches there with his men and the DIG. Bose beats up his goons, DIG and Umapathi. Dinesh stabs Bose with a knife, and he takes Dinesh's chain. The DIG and Umapathi also stabbed him with knives, nearly killing Bose. Umapathi kills the manager and frames Bose for the manager's murder. The DIG lies to the entire media and the people and makes them think Bose has swindled off all the people's money, and they organise protests. The doctor sees Bose leaving the hospital and informs Velu. Umapathi asks his men to dump the body. Velu ultimately rescues Bose from a burning bus. Bose dies in Velu's arms and sees the Srirangam gopuram, fulfilling his wish. Velu and his friends carry out his funeral rites and shave his head and beard. Velu receives a phone call that Bose's wife (Velu's sister-in-law) has given birth to a baby boy. His family is upset about Bose's disappearance, and Velu hides Bose's death.

Velu decides to take revenge on the people who killed his brother. First, he discovers Dinesh's locket in his pocket, which Bose left in his pocket before dying. He impales and kills Dinesh after discovering his involvement in Bose's death. Then he kills the DIG after luring him.

Present: Umapathi also kidnaps Velu's entire family after seeing Velu saving Bose in the media recording. Velu goes to an old temple, where he kills Umapathi. He burst into tears and revealed that Bose was dead, and he rescued his family under the supervision of the new DIG, Gautham Ganesh, who supported him wholeheartedly.

After the success of his film Malai Malai, Arun Vijay teams with Malai Malai team ( which consists of A Venkatesh, Mani Sharma, Santhanam and producer Mohan) for second time, Venkatesh decided to remake the Telugu film Lakshyam.[1] The film was said to be titled as Maanja Madhan[2] which proved untrue and it is changed as Maanja Velu.[3][4][5]

Suresh Gopi was initially selected to play the role of Arun's elder brother[6] but he was replaced by another senior actor Karthik who made his comeback through this film.[7][8][9] Dhansika, who was one of the five girls in Peraanmai has been selected to play the pair opposite hero making her first project as a solo heroine.[10][11]

First schedule of the film was started with song at Bangkok.[12][13] The climax fight scenes of the film were canned in Ekkattuthangal Burma Colony Muneeswarar Temple, Chennai for the last 5 days and were shot using two outdoor units and four cameras. The set was built like that of a ruined temple, with a 50 ft tall 'Aiyanaar' statue erected at a whopping 65 lakhs.[14] A scene featuring 400 junior artists and 25 stunt artists was canned in a festival set that was erected around the temple. A scene in which Arun Vijay kicking two fighters by jumping from a platform was being shot, for which both the fighters were tied on with a transparent nylon rope, to avoid accidents. One of the nylon ropes got unexpectedly tangled with Arun Vijay's right arm while he was performing the action. Arun Vijay's elbow was badly injured due to the accident and his whole arm swelling at once. The actor was immediately offered first aid by the stunt master Kanal Kannan and was rushed to the hospital where he was offered emergency treatment, for this scene Arun tonsured his head to give a new look and also hanged upside down which was shot for 7 days.[15][16][17] Songs were shot at Pazhani, Dindigul and Chennai.[18] The title song of the film was shot in Pondicherry schedule with 80 junior artists. Few stunts were shot at Trichy and Stunt master Kanal Kannan has given 45 days of his schedule.[15]

The soundtrack is composed by Mani Sharma and he reused the tunes from the original film Lakshyam. Audio function was attended by Producers Council chief Rama Narayanan, secretary Sivasakthi pandian, director Shakthi Chidambaram, actors Karthik, Shaam, Jai, Sibiraj, Sundar C.[21]

The satellite rights of the film were sold to Kalaignar. The film was given an "A" certificate by the Indian Censor Board and released on 21 May 2010 alongside Magane En Marumagane, Kanagavel Kaaka, Kutti Pisasu, Kola Kolaya Mundhirika and Kutrapirivu.[25]

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