Vaseegara
Directed by	K. Selva Bharathy
Screenplay by	K. Selva Bharathy
Story by	Trivikram Srinivas
Based on	Nuvvu Naaku Nachav (Telugu) by K. Vijaya Bhaskar
Produced by	Shots N' Stills Ltd
Starring	Vijay Sneha Gayatri Jayaraman Vadivelu
Cinematography	Balasubramaniem
Edited by	Original Editor:- N. Ganesh Kumar R. R. Eshwar Editing Supervisor:- V. T. Vijayan
Music by	S. A. Rajkumar
Production company	Shots N' Stills Ltd
Distributed by	Satya Movies
Release date	15 January 2003 (2003-01-15)
Running time	176 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Vaseegara (transl. Magical Charmer) is a 2003 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film directed by K. Selva Bharathy. It is the Tamil remake of the 2001 Telugu film, Nuvvu Naaku Nachav. The film stars Vijay and Sneha, while Vadivelu, Nassar, Gayatri Jayaraman and Manivannan play supporting roles.

The film released on 15 January 2003. It received mixed reviews and was a moderate success at a box office and it completed 100 days.^{[1] [2]}The film's title is based on a song of the same name from Minnale.

Plot

Bhoopathy is a happy-go-lucky youth from Pollachi who is sent by his father Mani Gounder to stay with his best friend Vishwanathan at Villivakkam, Chennai, so that he can get a job and behave responsibly. Priya is Vishwanathan's daughter who is engaged to an NRI groom Prakash. Priya and Bhoopathy are at loggerheads and constantly fight and play pranks on each other. Soon, however, Priya falls for Bhoopathy. While Bhoopathy also loves Priya back, he realises that she is already engaged to another man and is also reminded of his father's words that he (Bhoopathy) should not make him (father) lose face with his friend under any circumstances. With this in mind, he starts to keep a distance from Priya and decides to return to Pollachi, only to be stopped by Vishwanathan.

Some days later, Priya and Bhoopathy, along with Priya's younger cousin sister Pappi, go to Ooty to attend the wedding of Priya's friend Asha. At Ooty, Bhoopathy attends the bachelor party of the groom Sriman. While drunk, he reveals his feelings about Priya. After the marriage, Bhoopathy, Priya and Pappi, along with a photographer Ganesh, go on a day-out to Black Thunder, where Ganesh takes a photo of Bhoopathy and Priya holding hands. Bhoopathy keeps snubbing Priya and her romantic overtures to him during the trip as he is reminded of his promise to his father but cannot forget her.

On the day before Priya's wedding, Mani arrives in Chennai and knows about the relationship between Bhoopathy and Priya. Later that night, Prakash and his family see the photo of Bhoopathy and Priya holding hands and Prakash's father Chandrasekhar decides to call off the wedding unless Vishwanathan can pay ₹1 crore to him, which Vishwanathan refuses to do. When Vishwanathan confronts Priya, Priya's aunt Lakshmi, who is aware of the love Priya has for Bhoopathy as well as Bhoopathy's dilemma, reveals the truth to Vishwanathan. Meanwhile, Bhoopathy is at the railway station, trying to convince Prakash to marry Priya. Vishwanathan, who has also arrived at the railway station, sees this, and realising the true reasons behind Bhoopathy backing out over his love for Priya, sends Prakash and his family away and accepts Bhoopathy's relationship with Priya. In the end, Bhoopathy marries Priya.

Cast

Production

K. Selva Bharathy, who had worked previously with Vijay in Ninaithen Vandhai and Priyamaanavale, opted to remake the 2001 Telugu hit Nuvvu Naaku Nachav into Tamil with his previous film Priyamaanavale's cast Vijay and Simran. But Sneha was signed on to be a part of the film.^[3] Gayatri Jayaraman was also signed on to play a supporting role.^[4]

A song from the film was canned in New Zealand, while filming was also carried out in Ooty, Tamil Nadu^[5][6] and scenes were shot at Birla Planetarium and MGM Dizzee world.^[7]

Soundtrack

Vaseegara's soundtrack was composed by S.A. Rajkumar, which marked his fourth and final collaboration with Vijay after Poove Unakkaga, Thulladha Mananum Thullum & Priyamaanavale. While "Aaha Enparkal" and "Poopola Theepola" were reused from the original, "Venaam Venaam" was reused from "Vaana Vaana" from Daddy, also composed by Rajkumar.

Release

The film grossed ₹8 crore during its lifetime^[8] due to mixed reviews from critics. Sify gave 3 stars out of 5 and stated "Vaseegara is Romantic-Comedy entertainment that leaves you with a smile on your face", calling it "a perfect outing with your family this festival season".^[9] Ananda Vikatan rated the film 41 out of 100.^[10] NowRunning.com stated "I strongly believe Vijay has never been so hilarious before [...] all the characters have done their part well, especially Puppy" and rated 3 stars out of 5.^[11] The movie opened alongside several prominent films such as the Vikram starrer Dhool.^[12] It was later dubbed in Hindi as Ek Aur Loafer by Wide Angle Media Pvt Ltd in 2013.^[13]

The satellite rights of the film were sold to Jaya TV.

References

External links

• Vaseegara at IMDb