Naane Varuvean (Soldier) is a 2022 Indian Tamil-language horror thriller film[1][3] written by Dhanush and directed by Selvaraghavan, starring both of them. Dhanush appears in a dual role for the third time after Kodi and Pattas, and Naane Varuvean marks his reunion with Selvaraghavan after Mayakkam Enna. The film's music is composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, while the cinematography is handled by Om Prakash and editing is done by Bhuvan Srinivasan.[4]
The film was released theatrically on 29 September 2022 to mixed reviews from critics and positive reviews from audience and became an box office success.[5][6]
Plot[]
Template:Plot Prabhu and Kathir are identical twins, while Prabhu is an innocent guy, Kathir has always been a troublemaker, earning the wrath of their father, who is tired of constantly disciplining him. When Kathir beats up the neighbor kid, their father ties Kathir up in the backyard to a tree. Kathir goes missing overnight, apparently kidnapped by an unnamed psychotic person, where the person is revealed to be a serial killer preying on his targets in the jungle. Kathir kills him and returns home, where he continues his erratic behavior. Kathir locks Prabhu inside a wooden box and stabs his father multiple times, killing him. Kathir's mother does not turn him in to the cops, but instead, seeks the help of a local saint. The saint tells her that the twins cannot co-exist and have to be separated to save one of them. Frustrated, their mother abandons Kathir in a temple and flees with Prabhu, despite his request to not leave him there.
Years later, Prabhu is a well settled family man with a loving wife, Bhuvana, and a daughter, Sathya, with whom he is extremely attached to. At the age of 12, Sathya starts developing symptoms of schizophrenia, which starts disrupting the peace of Prabhu's family. She starts talking to some unknown person, and often loses sleep. After repeatedly hearing his daughter talk to herself in the middle of the night, Prabhu plants a baby monitor in her room and records her communication with the unknown. She breaks the monitor and throws it out of the room, revealing that the unknown person asked her to break the monitor or he will kill Prabhu. Worried by the recent happenings, Prabhu takes his daughter to a psychiatrist, who tries to extract information from Sathya about the unknown person in her room. Sathya reveals that the unknown person is Sonu, a small kid who talks to her often.
Despite Prabhu and the psychiatrist rejecting Sathya's claim that Sonu exists, Sathya is still adamant that he is real. Based on his own research, Prabhu hires a group of young ghostbusters, whom he came across on YouTube. The technical team plants high end technical equipment to monitor the paranormal activity inside Sathya's room. At the middle of the night, the team finds footprints, using UV lighting, only to find Sathya missing from her room. The footprints lead back to Sathya's room, hinting she made a quick trip back to her room. The door is locked, where they start hearing Sathya's voice again. Terrified and fearing for Sathya's life, Prabhu tries to open the door, but the door unlocks itself and Sathya begins to talk in Marathi. The crew helps Prabhu understand and translate Sathya's communication. Possessed by Sonu's voice, Sathya reveals that Prabhu has to deal with Kathir and put an end to his atrocities that caused Sonu's death.
Realizing the impact of the possession, the psychiatrist suggests to Prabhu to fulfill the requests of Sonu's spirit. It is revealed that Kathir, who was abandoned by his mother and Prabhu, struggled to find livelihood, where he was abused by the people, who tried to take advantage of him. Unable to control his thirst for killing, Kathir ended up killing all of them. Eventually, Kathir found the love of his life, Madhuri, a deaf and mute woman. They get married and settled in a remote cabin in the forest with twins Sonu and Manu. One day, Manu hid himself in his father's jeep and followed him to document and vlog the hunting of wild animals by Kathir, but witness his father killing a bunch of tourists, who disrespected him in front of his kids, over a petty issue of marijuana.
Earlier, Kathir refused to provide marijuana to the tourists. Kathir explains to Manu that he will not be able to understand his urge and requested him to hide this fact from the rest of the family. Eventually, Manu told Madhuri and Sonu about Kathir's true nature, where the family's peace was disturbed. When Madhuri wanted to abandon Kathir with the twins. She even assured Kathir that she will not go to the cops. In the fear of losing his family again, Kathir locked up the twins and Madhuri. When Kathir was drunk, Madhuri tried to escape again with the twins. Their plan backfires when Kathir saw them. Despite her pleadings that she will not report to the cops about Kathir, he refused to leave her with the twins. In the ensuing arguement, Kathir ended up killing Madhuri with his knife. His elder son and twin, Sonu was also killed in the altercation. Manu was terrified and taken back by Kathir.
The psychiatrist, Guna, Prabhu, and Sathya travel to Chopda, a North Indian hill town backed by huge acres of lush green forests. Sathya only responds when called as Sonu. Sathya's mental health eventually starts deteriorating. Prabhu takes Sathya to Sonu's school. Upon finding Manu, she tries to talk with him, but starts running away in fear. She speaks in Marathi and signals in sign language, gaining Manu's trust. Sathya promises to save Manu from Kathir, with his uncle Prabhu's help. Manu asks Sathya and the others to meet him later that night at his home and cautions them to be careful as Kathir has the knowledge about the forest and has exemplary hunting skills.
Prabhu and Kathir eventually meet up after a long time, where Prabhu confesses that he knows about Kathir's urge to kill and pleads him to leave Manu and tells him that he will not report any of these happenings, to the authorities. Upon being highly adamant, Kathir and Prabhu get into a fight. Lacking the combat and hunting skills of Kathir, Prabhu is injured heavily by him and is about to be killed. Possessed by Sonu, Sathya exhibits her archery skills and hurts Kathir to stop him from killing Prabhu. Manu threatens Kathir that he will jump down the cliff, if Kathir does not stop. Prabhu grabs Kathir and they both fall off the cliff, to their death. Sonu leaves Sathya as a result. Prabhu comes back climbing the cliff top. Prabhu claims that everything has been sorted out and that Kathir is dead. However, Manu, being confident of Kathir's survival skills, asks Prabhu to feel Kathir's existence, using twin telepathy, to confirm whether he is dead or not. Prabhu feels the presence of Kathir, following which, the screen cuts to black.
Cast[]
- Dhanush in a dual role as
- Prabhu, Kathir's twin brother and the main protagonist.
- Sylvensten as young Prabhu
- Kathir, Prabhu's twin brother and the main antagonist.
- Frankinsten as young Kathir
- Prabhu, Kathir's twin brother and the main protagonist.
- Indhuja Ravichandran as Bhuvana, Prabhu's wife[7]
- Elli AvrRam as Madhuri, Kathir's wife[8]
- Hiya Davey as Sathya, Prabhu's daughter
- Prabhu as the psychiatrist[9]
- Yogi Babu as Guna, Prabhu's colleague[10]
- Aajeedh Khalique as the Paranormal investigator[11]
- Shelly Kishore as Janaki
- Saravana Subbiah as Kathir and Prabhu's father
- Selvaraghavan as the unnamed serial killer (cameo appearance)[12]
Production[]
Development[]
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Casting[]
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Filming[]
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Music[]
| Naane Varuvean | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soundtrack album by | ||||
| Released | 2022 | |||
| Recorded | 2021-2022 | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Length | 11:52 | |||
| Language | Tamil | |||
| Label | Saregama | |||
| Producer | Yuvan Shankar Raja | |||
| Yuvan Shankar Raja chronology | ||||
| ||||
The film's soundtrack and background score is composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja collaborating with Dhanush for the seventh time, followed by Maari 2, Yaaradi Nee Mohini, Pudhupettai, Kaadhal Kondein, Pudhukottaiyilirundhu Saravanan and Thulluvadho Ilamai.[13] The film album consist of 4 songs. Selvaraghavan and Dhanush each wrote the lyrics for two of the songs while Yugabharathi wrote the lyrics for rest of the songs.[14]
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Veera Soora" | Selvaraghavan | Yuvan Shankar Raja, Muthu Sirpi | 3:26 |
| 2. | "Rendu Raaja" | Dhanush | Dhanush, Yuvan Shankar Raja | 3:23 |
| 3. | "Pinju Pinju Mazhai" | Yugabharathi | Sid Sriram | 5:27 |
| 4. | "Yaarum Illa" | Vivek | Anthony Daasan | 3:24 |
| Total length: | 15:40 | |||
Release[]
Theatrical[]
Naane Varuvean was released worldwide in theaters on 29 September 2022 a day prior to the release of Ponniyin Selvan: I.[15][5][6]
Home media[]
The satellite rights of the film were sold to Sun TV,[16] while the digital streaming rights were acquired by Amazon Prime Video.[17] The film is scheduled to have its digital premiere on Amazon Prime Video in November 2022.[18]
Reception[]
Critical response[]
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Box office[]
On the first day of its release, the film collected over Template:INR crores in India.[19] Despite clashing with Ponniyin Selvan: I after four days of its release, the film managed to collect over Template:INR crores.[2]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 [TBA Naane Varuven (2022)].
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 [TBA 'Naane Varuvean' Dhanush starrer mints Rs. 30 crore despite the 'Ponniyin Selvan release] (3 October 2022).
- ↑ [TBA Naane Varuven]. “Genre(s) Thriller [...] NAANE VARUVEN is a Tamil language horror film in which a man becomes concerned for his daughter when she starts speaking to an unseen entity.”
- ↑ [TBA Aravind Krishna to replace Yamini in 'Naane Varuven'] (15 December 2021).
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 [TBA Dhanush's 'Naane Varuven' likely to clash at box office with 'Ponniyin Selvan'] (12 July 2022).
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 [TBA Dhanush's upcoming film 'Naane Varuven' to release theatrically on September 29].
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- ↑ [TBA Prabhu joins Dhanush-Selvaraghavan's Naane Varuven] (9 April 2022).
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- ↑ [TBA Selvaraghavan shares updates on Naane Varuven's soundtrack] (1 August 2022).
- ↑ [TBA Dhanush Starrer Naane Varuven's Digital Rights Sold For Rs 24 Crore] (4 June 2022).
- ↑ Vijay, Vignesh. [TBA Naane Varuvean OTT Release Date & Time: Dhanush Starrer Officially Bagged By This Platform].
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