Aadhavan

Aadhavan
Directed by	K. S. Ravikumar
Produced by	Udhayanidhi Stalin
Screenplay by	K. S. Ravikumar
Story by	Ramesh Khanna
Starring	Suriya Nayantara Vadivelu Murali B. Saroja Devi Rahul Dev
Music by	Harris Jayaraj
Cinematography	Ganesh Rajavelu
Edited by	Don Max
Production company	Red Giant Movies
Distributed by	Red Giant Movies Ayngaran International (UK) FiveStar (Malaysia)
Release date	17 October 2009 (2009-10-17)
Running time	168 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	₹25 crore (US$3.7 million)

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Aadhavan (English: Sun) is a 2009 Tamil action-comedy film directed by K. S. Ravikumar and written by Ramesh Khanna. The film features Suriya and Nayantara in the lead roles, with Murali, Vadivelu, Anand Babu, Ramesh Khanna, B. Saroja Devi, Rahul Dev, Sayaji Shinde in its supporting cast. The music is composed by Harris Jayaraj. The film released on 17 October 2009 and performed well at the box office. The movie was dubbed in Hindi as "Dildaar - The Arya" and "Ghatikudu" in Telugu. The story of the movie is based on the 1990 Malayalam movie His Highness Abdullah. The movie was remade in Bengali as Shikari starring Bangladeshi superstar Shakib Khan.

Aadhavan (Suriya) is a professional assassin working with his father Ibrahim Rowther (Sayaji Shinde) and brother Tharani (Anand Babu). Doctor Abdul Kulkarni (Rahul Dev) hires Aadhavan to kill prominent Judge Subramaniam (Murali), since he is handling the inquiry and verdict on Abdul's child kidnapping, murder and organ trafficking cases in Kolkata. Aadhavan attempts to murder Subramaniam but fails at the first attempt. After Abdul insults him for his inability, Aadhavan is angry with himself and promises to kill Subramaniam within ten days. He threatens the Judge's comical servant Bannerjee (Vadivelu) to help him get into the house as Murugan, Bannerjee's brother in law, while he locks up the actual Murugan (Sathyan) in his ship.