Veeram (2014 film)

Veeram
Veeram Promotional Poster
Directed by	Siva
Produced by	Bharathi Reddy
Written by	Siva Bharathan (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Siva
Story by	Siva Bhoopathy Raja
Starring	Ajith Kumar Tamannaah Vidharth Bala Santhanam
Music by	Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography	Vetri
Edited by	Kasi Viswanathan
Production company	Vijaya Productions
Distributed by	Vijaya Pictures
Release date	10 January 2014 (2014-01-10)
Running time	2 hours 36 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	₹40 crore (US$5.9 million)
Box office	est. ₹130 crore (US$19 million)

Veeram (English: Valour) is a 2014 Indian Tamil action film directed by Siva and produced by Vijaya Productions. The film features Ajith Kumar in the lead role, while an ensemble supporting cast includes Tamannaah, Vidharth, Bala, Santhanam, Nassar, Pradeep Rawat and Abhinaya, among others. Pre-production works had been ongoing since December 2011, with shooting starting in April 2013. The film was released on 10 January 2014. The film received positive reviews from critics and became successful at box-office. The film was dubbed and released in Telugu as Veerudokkade and in Hindi as Veeram The Powerman. Despite the release of dubbed version, the film is being remade in Telugu as Katamarayudu (2017) with Pawan Kalyan.

Vinayagam (Ajith) is a brave person living in a village called Oddanchatram, who lives with his four brothers Murugan (Bala), Shanmugam (Vidharth), Kumaran (Suhail) and Senthil (Munish). The elder brother loves the younger ones to the core, and sacrifices his happiness for their good. They are often caught in fights and they are proud of it. Advocate Bail Perumal (Santhanam), who bails them out whenever legal issues arise because of their brawls. Vinayagam hates the idea of marriage as he feels that his wife might create disharmony among brothers. Though the four younger brothers say that they don't want to either fall in love or get married, when Vinayagam is not around, they all have their secret lovers. Now, in order to get the green light for their love stories, they learn through his brother's childhood friend Collector Subbu (Ramesh Kanna) that Vinayakam, in school, was in love with a girl named Koppuram Devi (fondly called Kopu) and his brothers hatch a plan to find her and reintroduce her to Vinayakam, so he can fall for her all over again. But she's married now and has kids. So the brothers conspire to do the most logical thing, which is to find another woman named Koppuram Devi (fondly called Kopu), because, you see, Vinayakam was not in love with that girl so much as her name, and when he meets another (completely random) girl with that name, he is sure to lose his heart to her, just because she bears that name. Though initially reluctant later Vinayakam himself falls in love with her. He clashes with a goon called Vanangamudi (Pradeep Rawat) to take care of market in the village. Vanangamudi tries to kill Vinayagam's brothers while Vinayagam kidnaps Vanangamudi's son (Amit Kumar Tiwari) after clashing, Vinayagam orders Vanangamudi to leave this village.