Unnaipol Oruvan (2009 film)
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| Directed by | Chakri Toleti |
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Kamal Haasan S. Chandra Haasan Ronnie Screwvala |
| Written by |
Neeraj Pandey Kamal Haasan E. R. Murugan |
| Starring |
Kamal Hassan Mohanlal Lakshmi Ganesh Venkatraman Anuja Iyer |
| Music by | Shruti Haasan |
| Cinematography | Manoj Soni |
| Edited by | Rameshwar S. Bhagat |
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106 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
| Budget | ₹240 million (equivalent to ₹420 million or US$6.6 million in 2016) |
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| Soundtrack album by Shruti Haasan | |
| Released | 6 September 2009 |
| Recorded | 2009 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Label | Think Music |
Unnaipol Oruvan (English: Someone Like You) is a 2009 Indian Tamil drama-thriller film directed by Chakri Toleti in his directional debut. It stars Kamal Haasan and Mohanlal in the lead roles. The film was simultaneously made in Telugu as Eeenadu with Venkatesh playing Mohanlal's role, both remakes of the Hindi film A Wednesday!.
The film tells the story of City Police Commissioner of Chennai, Irinjalakkuda Govindan Raghavan Maraar (I.G.Ragavan Marar) (Mohanlal) who gets an anonymous call. The caller (Kamal Haasan) demands that he release militants in exchange for information about many bombs planted across Chennai. The caller is serious as the police find a bomb planted very close to their headquarters. The commissioner is later cornered between releasing militants who had been responsible for killing innocent people and stopping bomb blasts around the city. Whatever he chooses forms the rest of the plot. Unnaipol Oruvan received positive reviews from the critics and was a commercial success. It was dubbed into Malayalam as Oru Budhanazhcha.
The recently dismissed police commissioner of Chennai, Maraar (Mohanlal) describes in a voice-over about his sudden termination due to a common man who walked into his life. An unnamed man (Kamal Haasan) is shown strategically placing a travel bag in a train in the Chennai Central railway station and in a shopping mall. He proceeds to place another bag, under the pretence of lodging an FIR, in the toilet of a police station in Anna Salai, Chennai. He then arrives on the rooftop of an under-construction building and sets up his base of operations, equipped with gadgets and instruments. He calls up Maraar and informs him that five bombs have been planted in locations throughout Chennai, which are programmed to explode simultaneously within four hours.
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