106-775: Jilla ( transl. District ) is a 2014 Indian Tamil -language action drama film written and directed by R. T. Neason and produced by R. B. Choudary through the company Super Good Films . Starring Mohanlal and Vijay the film revolves around the conflict between crime boss and his adopted son, a police officer whose life and approach towards law change after a violent incident. The film co-stars Kajal Aggarwal , Soori , Mahat , Nivetha Thomas , Sampath Raj and Pradeep Rawat . The film features soundtrack composed by D. Imman , with Ganesh Rajavelu and Don Max handling cinematography and editing respectively. The film released on 10 January 2014 and received generally positive reviews from critics and audience. Jilla completed
212-455: A Tamira Samghatta ( Tamil confederacy ) The Samavayanga Sutra dated to the 3rd century BCE contains a reference to a Tamil script named 'Damili'. Southworth suggests that the name comes from tam-miḻ > tam-iḻ "self-speak", or "our own speech". Kamil Zvelebil suggests an etymology of tam-iḻ , with tam meaning "self" or "one's self", and " -iḻ " having the connotation of "unfolding sound". Alternatively, he suggests
318-415: A gas leak which destroys a school and some nearby buildings, killing several people, including women and children. The incident, along with the assault of a woman by Sivan's henchmen when she had come to the police station to lodge a complaint against Sivan for killing her husband, shocks Shakthi emotionally and causes him to follow the path of an honest police officer. Shakti, donning the khaki uniform for
424-468: A lexical root to which one or more affixes are attached. Most Tamil affixes are suffixes . Tamil suffixes can be derivational suffixes, which either change the part of speech of the word or its meaning, or inflectional suffixes, which mark categories such as person , number , mood , tense , etc. There is no absolute limit on the length and extent of agglutination , which can lead to long words with many suffixes, which would require several words or
530-608: A stunt coordinator in Hollywood films such as Braveheart (1995), was assigned to choreograph the film's action sequences. Due to his commitment to Velayudham , Vijay almost lost his role in S. Shankar 's Nanban since the two films demanded two completely different looks, but later joined the film as the scenes involving the protagonist were reserved to be shot later. R. T. Neason , who earlier directed Muruga (2007) and would later direct Vijay in Jilla (2014), worked as
636-484: A , as with other Indic scripts . This inherent vowel is removed by adding a tittle called a puḷḷi , to the consonantal sign. For example, ன is ṉa (with the inherent a ) and ன் is ṉ (without a vowel). Many Indic scripts have a similar sign, generically called virama , but the Tamil script is somewhat different in that it nearly always uses a visible puḷḷi to indicate a 'dead consonant' (a consonant without
742-507: A 100-day theatrical run on 19 April 2014. The film had earned ₹ 85 crore in its entire run at the box office. The film performed commercially better than its competitor Veeram . The film was remade in Odia as Bajrangi (2017). Shakthi is the adopted son of a Madurai -based crime boss , Sivan and is also his right-hand man, bodyguard and driver. Sivan lives happily with his wife, Shakthi, his son Vignesh and daughter Mahalakshmi. Shakthi hates
848-759: A 2001 survey, there were 1,863 newspapers published in Tamil, of which 353 were dailies. Tamil is the primary language of the majority of the people residing in Tamil Nadu , Puducherry , (in India) and in the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka . The language is spoken among small minority groups in other states of India which include Karnataka , Telangana , Andhra Pradesh , Kerala , Maharashtra , Gujarat , Delhi , Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India and in certain regions of Sri Lanka such as Colombo and
954-587: A classical language by the Indian government and holds official status in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Singapore. The earliest extant Tamil literary works and their commentaries celebrate the Pandiyan Kings for the organization of long-termed Tamil Sangams , which researched, developed and made amendments in Tamil language. Even though the name of the language which was developed by these Tamil Sangams
1060-409: A derivation of tamiḻ < tam-iḻ < * tav-iḻ < * tak-iḻ , meaning in origin "the proper process (of speaking)". However, this is deemed unlikely by Southworth due to the contemporary use of the compound 'centamiḻ', which means refined speech in the earliest literature. The Tamil Lexicon of University of Madras defines the word "Tamil" as "sweetness". S. V. Subramanian suggests
1166-472: A fictional character called Velayudham (after seeing Lord Muruga 's temple nearby) who wants to clean up the city of terrorism and other illegal activities. Meanwhile, Velayudham alias Velu is a milk vendor who lives with his younger sister Kaveri and cousin Vaidehi in the village called Pavunoor. One day, Velu, Kaveri, and Vaidehi leave for Chennai to collect money from a chit fund for Kaveri's marriage. At
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#17328013902561272-605: A film role. Kajal Aggarwal and Poornima Bhagyaraj were also slated to perform in the film. Gautam Kurup was signed up as the second antagonist. Niveda Thomas said that she would be playing the daughter of Mohanlal's character and sister of Vijay's character. Due to clash of dates, cinematographer Natarajan Subramaniam was replaced by R. Ganesh. During a photoshoot with the main cast, Nesan announced that filming would take place in Madurai, Chennai and Andhra Pradesh , while songs would be filmed overseas. The opening ceremony for
1378-467: A good value for the money (" paisa vassol "), stating that the film was a "perfect outing with family, but [is] far too long." Rediff gave 3.5/5 stars and called it a "paisa vassol film." CNN-IBN defined the film as a "must watch" and "treat for Vijay fans." Indiaglitz labelled it a "racy entertainer this Deepavali season" and cited it was a "right choice for the festival mood." The Times of India gave 3.5/5 stars and concluded that Velayudham
1484-519: A grieving Velu learns from Bharathi that the corrupt Home Minister Ulaganathan is indirectly responsible for the terrorist attacks and Kaveri's death. Ulaganathan allowed Ibrahim to carry out terrorist attacks in exchange for profits and also even tries to gain popularity by claiming Velayudham as his idea. Ulagananthan plans to reveal Ibrahim as Velayudham's real identity in a function at the Nehru Stadium, Chennai . Velu and Bharathi arrives at
1590-443: A group of thugs, where they attempt to flee from them. While Bharathi's friends are killed, Bharathi manages to escape despite being stabbed by one of the thugs. After the attack on Bharathi and her friends, the thugs' vehicle explodes due to a small mishap when a cigarette falls over petrol packets stored in the vehicle, killing all the thugs. Bharathi comes up with a new idea to eradicate society's evils by creating and propagating
1696-607: A number of apparent Tamil loanwords in Biblical Hebrew dating to before 500 BCE, the oldest attestation of the language. Old Tamil is the period of the Tamil language spanning the 3rd century BCE to the 8th century CE. The earliest records in Old Tamil are short inscriptions from 300 BCE to 700 CE. These inscriptions are written in a variant of the Brahmi script called Tamil-Brahmi . The earliest long text in Old Tamil
1802-518: A number of sound changes, in particular, a tendency to lower high vowels in initial and medial positions, and the disappearance of vowels between plosives and between a plosive and rhotic. Contact with European languages affected written and spoken Tamil. Changes in written Tamil include the use of European-style punctuation and the use of consonant clusters that were not permitted in Middle Tamil. The syntax of written Tamil has also changed, with
1908-535: A relative parallel to Tamil, even as Tamil has undergone some changes in modern ways of speaking. According to Hindu legend, Tamil or in personification form Tamil Thāi (Mother Tamil) was created by Lord Shiva . Murugan , revered as the Tamil God, along with sage Agastya , brought it to the people. Tamil, like other Dravidian languages, ultimately descends from the Proto-Dravidian language , which
2014-533: A running time of 117 minutes, received a 12A classification from the British Board of Film Classification , but the distributor added extra 22 minutes of uncensored footage for theatrical release, eventually resulting in all show cancellations at Cineworld . Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV), a pro-Kannada outfit in Karnataka , requested all the theatres in the state not to screen any non- Kannada film on
2120-474: A rural action film titled Velan to be directed by Thirupathisamy , the director of Azad , but was postponed indefinitely due to the director's demise. Raja told his cast that it was inspired by Azad and requested them to not watch the original. Velayudham marks Raja's first Tamil venture which did not include his brother Jayam Ravi in the cast. While writing the script, Raja analysed Vijay's popularity among family audiences to insert certain scenes into
2226-528: A second unit director. The filming was carried out primarily at three locations: Southern Tamil Nadu , Kerala , and Chennai . A song sequence choreographed by Shobi that was originally to be shot in Switzerland was canned in Srinagar , Jammu and Kashmir with Genelia and Hansika filming alongside Vijay. Delmar was behind the shooting of an extremely tricky train sequence for Velayudham . It
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#17328013902562332-519: A sentence in English. To give an example, the word pōkamuṭiyātavarkaḷukkāka (போகமுடியாதவர்களுக்காக) means "for the sake of those who cannot go" and consists of the following morphemes : போக pōka go முடி muṭi accomplish Velayudham Velayudham ( / v eɪ l ɑː j ʊ ð əm / ) is a 2011 Indian Tamil -language superhero film directed by Mohan Raja and produced by V. Ravichandran under Aascar Film. It stars Vijay in
2438-647: A small number speak the language. In Reunion where the Tamil language was forbidden to be learnt and used in public space by France it is now being relearnt by students and adults. Tamil is also spoken by migrants from Sri Lanka and India in Canada , the United States , the United Arab Emirates , the United Kingdom , South Africa , and Australia . Tamil is the official language of
2544-468: A special screening for the latter. The Telugu dubbed version was confirmed in mid April 2015. Tamatam Kumar Reddy and Prasad Sannidhi of Sri Obuleswara Productions acquired the Telugu dubbing rights while R. B. Chowdary was announced to present the film. The deleted track that was shot with Mohanlal, Vijay and Brahmanandam in Tamil was kept in the Telugu version. Shashank Vennelakanti penned the dialogues for
2650-610: A subject of study in schools in the French overseas department of Réunion . In addition, with the creation in October 2004 of a legal status for classical languages by the Government of India and following a political campaign supported by several Tamil associations, Tamil became the first legally recognised Classical language of India. The recognition was announced by the contemporaneous President of India , Abdul Kalam , who
2756-588: A total of A$ 43,899 ₹ 24.06 lakh (US$ 29,000) in 17 days at the Australian box office. Jilla opened at Number 2 in Malaysian Box Office and was released in 69 screens. Mohanlal's Jilla has made ₹ 24.06 lakh (US$ 29,000) from 36 screens in the first weekend. In a meeting with his fans' association at Srikakulam in January 2014, Chiranjeevi announced that he wants V. V. Vinayak to direct
2862-463: A variety of dialects that are all collectively known as Brahmin Tamil . These dialects tend to have softer consonants (with consonant deletion also common). These dialects also tend to have many Sanskrit loanwords. Tamil in Sri Lanka incorporates loan words from Portuguese , Dutch , and English. In addition to its dialects, Tamil exhibits different forms: a classical literary style modelled on
2968-438: A vowel). In other Indic scripts, it is generally preferred to use a ligature or a half form to write a syllable or a cluster containing a dead consonant, although writing it with a visible virama is also possible. The Tamil script does not differentiate voiced and unvoiced plosives . Instead, plosives are articulated with voice depending on their position in a word, in accordance with the rules of Tamil phonology . In addition to
3074-562: A wholesome entertainer, keeps packing in scenes oblivious to the running time. Ananda Vikatan rated the film 41 out of 100. Indiaglitz gave 3.25/5 and stated that the film is racy and pure family entertainer and movie entertains all audience". Behindwoods gave 2.75 out of 5 and stated, "The charismatic screen presence of Mohanlal and Vijay , enjoyable musical tracks and comedy scenes and power packed action sequences marks Jilla that satisfies audience. Bangalore Mirror gave 3.5 out of 5 and called it "a perfect festival film that has all
3180-412: Is Malayalam ; the two began diverging around the 9th century CE. Although many of the differences between Tamil and Malayalam demonstrate a pre-historic divergence of the western dialect, the process of separation into a distinct language, Malayalam, was not completed until sometime in the 13th or 14th century. Additionally Kannada is also relatively close to the Tamil language and shares the format of
3286-469: Is an Inspector . When Sivan is insulted by Ajay Rathore, a newly appointed police commissioner of Madurai, who wants to wipe the criminal system of Madurai, Sivan forces Shakthi to become an IPS officer to save his crime syndicate and prove the commissioner's words wrong. Reluctantly taking charge as ACP of Madurai City East, Shakthi gives free rein to Sivan and his henchmen, who wreak havoc over Madurai, until one of their activities inadvertently causes
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3392-457: Is based on the dialect of Jaffna . After Tamil Brahmi fell out of use, Tamil was written using a script called vaṭṭeḻuttu amongst others such as Grantha and Pallava . The current Tamil script consists of 12 vowels , 18 consonants and one special character, the āytam . The vowels and consonants combine to form 216 compound characters, giving a total of 247 characters (12 + 18 + 1 + (12 × 18)). All consonants have an inherent vowel
3498-563: Is extensively described in the oldest known grammar book for Tamil, the Tolkāppiyam . Modern Tamil writing is largely based on the 13th-century grammar Naṉṉūl which restated and clarified the rules of the Tolkāppiyam , with some modifications. Traditional Tamil grammar consists of five parts, namely eḻuttu , col , poruḷ , yāppu , aṇi . Of these, the last two are mostly applied in poetry. Tamil words consist of
3604-405: Is generally taken to have been completed by the 8th century, was characterised by a number of phonological and grammatical changes. In phonological terms, the most important shifts were the virtual disappearance of the aytam (ஃ), an old phoneme, the coalescence of the alveolar and dental nasals, and the transformation of the alveolar plosive into a rhotic . In grammar, the most important change
3710-409: Is generally used in formal writing and speech. For instance, it is the language of textbooks, of much of Tamil literature and of public speaking and debate. In recent times, however, koṭuntamiḻ has been making inroads into areas that have traditionally been considered the province of centamiḻ . Most contemporary cinema, theatre and popular entertainment on television and radio, for example,
3816-410: Is in koṭuntamiḻ , and many politicians use it to bring themselves closer to their audience. The increasing use of koṭuntamiḻ in modern times has led to the emergence of unofficial 'standard' spoken dialects. In India, the 'standard' koṭuntamiḻ , rather than on any one dialect, but has been significantly influenced by the dialects of Thanjavur and Madurai . In Sri Lanka, the standard
3922-425: Is masala entertainment and a full course meal that leaves you with a smile on your face", calling it "a perfect outing with your family this festival season and rated 4/5". The Times of India gave 3.5 stars out of 5 and stated "As far as commercial films are concerned, Jilla is definitely assured filmmaking", while adding, "the main issue with Jilla is that it is overlong. Neason, probably in an effort to make it
4028-511: Is mentioned as Tamil, the period when the name "Tamil" came to be applied to the language is unclear, as is the precise etymology of the name. The earliest attested use of the name is found in Tholkappiyam , which is dated as early as late 2nd century BCE. The Hathigumpha inscription , inscribed around a similar time period (150 BCE), by Kharavela , the Jain king of Kalinga , also refers to
4134-771: Is not always consistently applied. ISO 15919 is an international standard for the transliteration of Tamil and other Indic scripts into Latin characters. It uses diacritics to map the much larger set of Brahmic consonants and vowels to Latin script , and thus the alphabets of various languages, including English. Apart from the usual numerals, Tamil has numerals for 10, 100 and 1000. Symbols for day, month, year, debit, credit, as above, rupee, and numeral are present as well. Tamil also uses several historical fractional signs. /f/ , /z/ , /ʂ/ and /ɕ/ are only found in loanwords and may be considered marginal phonemes, though they are traditionally not seen as fully phonemic. Tamil has two diphthongs : /aɪ̯/ ஐ and /aʊ̯/ ஔ ,
4240-421: Is struck and sunk by crude melodrama." The Hindu stated that the film "simply enters and entertains" and that Raja had "churned out reasonably engaging fare", adding that it had a "strong story, a neat screenplay arresting action, admirable dance movements, one or two hum-worthy numbers and the ever-helpful sister sentiment." Indo-Asian News Service gave 3.5/5 stars citing that it "defies all logic, but has
4346-417: Is sure to add to his box-office muscle. Behindswoods gave 3/5 stars and concluded the film a "complete mass entertainer spiced up by Vijay." Similarly Oneindia gave 4/5 stars and described it as a "complete masala entertainer", highlighting its story and "amazing action sequences." Nowrunning gave 3.5/5 stars and wrote " Velayudham , part comedy part action sails through both streams smoothly until it
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4452-409: Is the Tolkāppiyam , an early work on Tamil grammar and poetics, whose oldest layers could be as old as the late 2nd century BCE. Many literary works in Old Tamil have also survived. These include a corpus of 2,381 poems collectively known as Sangam literature . These poems are usually dated to between the 1st century BCE and 5th century CE. The evolution of Old Tamil into Middle Tamil , which
4558-848: Is used as one of the languages of education in Malaysia , along with English, Malay and Mandarin. A large community of Pakistani Tamils speakers exists in Karachi , Pakistan , which includes Tamil-speaking Hindus as well as Christians and Muslims – including some Tamil-speaking Muslim refugees from Sri Lanka. There are about 100 Tamil Hindu families in Madrasi Para colony in Karachi. They speak impeccable Tamil along with Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi. Many in Réunion , Guyana , Fiji , Suriname , and Trinidad and Tobago have Tamil origins, but only
4664-659: The Chennai Egmore railway station , Velu's handbag is stolen by a petty thief named Speedu. Velu pursues Speedu on a motorbike parked at the station and manages to get back his money. Moments after alighting from the bike, the bike explodes. The parked bike had a bomb which was meant to ensure a terrorist attack at the railway station, which leads to Velu inadvertently thwarted a deadly terrorist attack. Velu unknowingly prevents more terrorist attacks and comes to Bharathi's attention. At first, Bharathi hates him due to various incidents, but when she saw him unknowingly handing over
4770-599: The University of Madras , was one of the earliest dictionaries published in Indian languages. A strong strain of linguistic purism emerged in the early 20th century, culminating in the Pure Tamil Movement which called for removal of all Sanskritic elements from Tamil. It received some support from Dravidian parties . This led to the replacement of a significant number of Sanskrit loanwords by Tamil equivalents, though many others remain. According to
4876-491: The 11th century, retain many features of the Vaishnava paribasai , a special form of Tamil developed in the 9th and 10th centuries that reflect Vaishnavite religious and spiritual values. Several castes have their own sociolects which most members of that caste traditionally used regardless of where they come from. It is often possible to identify a person's caste by their speech. For example, Tamil Brahmins tend to speak
4982-532: The Indian state of Haryana , purportedly as a rebuff to Punjab , though there was no attested Tamil-speaking population in the state, and was later replaced by Punjabi , in 2010. In Malaysia, 543 primary education government schools are available fully in Tamil as the medium of instruction . The establishment of Tamil-medium schools has been in process in Myanmar to provide education completely in Tamil language by
5088-474: The Indian state of Tamil Nadu and one of the 22 languages under schedule 8 of the constitution of India . It is one of the official languages of the union territories of Puducherry and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands . Tamil is also one of the official languages of Singapore . Tamil is one of the official and national languages of Sri Lanka, along with Sinhala . It was once given nominal official status in
5194-696: The Tamils who settled there 200 years ago. Tamil language is available as a course in some local school boards and major universities in Canada and the month of January has been declared "Tamil Heritage Month" by the Parliament of Canada . Tamil enjoys a special status of protection under Article 6(b), Chapter 1 of the Constitution of South Africa and is taught as a subject in schools in KwaZulu-Natal province. Recently, it has been rolled out as
5300-581: The Telugu dubbed version. After considering many other titles, Jilla was retained for the Telugu dubbed version. Tamil language Sri Lanka Singapore Malaysia Canada and United States Tamil ( தமிழ் , Tamiḻ , pronounced [t̪amiɻ] ) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia . It is one of the two longest-surviving classical languages in India , along with Sanskrit , attested since c. 300 BCE. The language belongs to
5406-442: The ancient language ( sankattamiḻ ), a modern literary and formal style ( centamiḻ ), and a modern colloquial form ( koṭuntamiḻ ). These styles shade into each other, forming a stylistic continuum. For example, it is possible to write centamiḻ with a vocabulary drawn from caṅkattamiḻ , or to use forms associated with one of the other variants while speaking koṭuntamiḻ . In modern times, centamiḻ
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#17328013902565512-942: The approximately 100,000 inscriptions found by the Archaeological Survey of India in India are in Tamil Nadu. Of them, most are in Tamil, with only about 5 percent in other languages. In 2004, a number of skeletons were found buried in earthenware urns dating from at least 696 BCE in Adichanallur . Some of these urns contained writing in Tamil Brahmi script, and some contained skeletons of Tamil origin. Between 2017 and 2018, 5,820 artifacts have been found in Keezhadi . These were sent to Beta Analytic in Miami , Florida , for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) dating. One sample containing Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions
5618-549: The audience entertained with their powerful performances, both equally confident and secure in their own ability, undoubtedly making the film a solid commercial entertainer for the masses." Jilla 's opening netted around ₹ 10 million (US$ 120,000) in Tamil Nadu alone. IB Times stated it opened well in Kerala too. It grossed around ₹ 25 million (US$ 300,000) worldwide on its opening day and ₹ 70 million (US$ 840,000) worldwide in its extended five-day weekend. In Chennai city alone,
5724-478: The audience. The album has all kinds of songs and the music director has targeted the mass as well as class listeners." Indiaglitz wrote "The music album [...] presents us a variety fare, however with the main target being the 'mass audience'", labelling it as a "food festival for the appetite of Vijay fans, who are craving for mass masala numbers from their hero." Velayudham was initially supposed to be released on 22 June 2011, coinciding with Vijay's birthday, but
5830-952: The dialect of Madurai , and iṅkaṭe in some northern dialects. Even now, in the Coimbatore area, it is common to hear " akkaṭṭa " meaning "that place". Although Tamil dialects do not differ significantly in their vocabulary, there are a few exceptions. The dialects spoken in Sri Lanka retain many words and grammatical forms that are not in everyday use in India, and use many other words slightly differently. Tamil dialects include Central Tamil dialect , Kongu Tamil , Madras Bashai , Madurai Tamil , Nellai Tamil , Kumari Tamil in India ; Batticaloa Tamil dialect , Jaffna Tamil dialect , Negombo Tamil dialect in Sri Lanka; and Malaysian Tamil in Malaysia. Sankethi dialect in Karnataka has been heavily influenced by Kannada . The dialect of
5936-594: The district of Palakkad in Kerala has many Malayalam loanwords, has been influenced by Malayalam's syntax, and has a distinctive Malayalam accent. Similarly, Tamil spoken in Kanyakumari District has more unique words and phonetic style than Tamil spoken at other parts of Tamil Nadu. The words and phonetics are so different that a person from Kanyakumari district is easily identifiable by their spoken Tamil. Hebbar and Mandyam dialects, spoken by groups of Tamil Vaishnavites who migrated to Karnataka in
6042-486: The film netted ₹ 3.24 million (US$ 39,000)in the first week with an average theater occupancy of 97% and stood first for the weekend. The second week had an occupancy of 85-90% in the city and netted around ₹ 3.60 million (US$ 43,000) The film still stood at the number ten position in Chennai by the third week resulting in a total collection of ₹ 5.98 million (US$ 72,000). Jilla grossed around ₹ 5 million (US$ 60,000) by
6148-677: The film released in 17 theatres in United Kingdom. The United States theatrical rights were acquired by GK Media. The satellite rights of the film were sold to Jaya TV for a price of ₹ 4 crore and overseas DVD were marketed by Ayngaran DVD. The satellite rights of the Malayalam dubbed version were sold to Surya TV while the satellite rights of the Hindi dubbed version went to Colors Cineplex . Velayudham received positive reviews from critics. Sify gave 4/5 stars and called it
6254-599: The film was "rocking internationally." Velayudham collected a total of £5,244 in United Kingdom and A$ 7,175 in Australia . Velayudham was honored with the Best Film Award at V4 Entertainment Awards 2011. Velayudham won the honours in the Best Musician category too. Actor Vijay received Edison Award for Best Actor and Superstar Rajini Award in the year 2012 for Velayudham. Vijay received
6360-417: The film was held on 11 March 2013 at R. B. Choudary 's Chennai office. The first schedule of film shooting took off on 13 May in Madurai and Karaikudi with Mohanlal and Poornima Bhagyaraj . Vijay was reported to join by the end of the month, but this didn't materialise. For the next schedule the film crew shifted to a Chennai -based studio where large sets resembling the city of Madurai were built up for
6466-428: The film were purchased by Sun TV for a record price of ₹ 16 crore (US$ 1.9 million). Jilla received generally positive reviews from critics and audience who praised the cast performances (particularly Mohanlal and Vijay), background score and action sequences, while the length was criticized and consequently trimmed by ten minutes. Sify stated that the film is a "Mass Masala Entertainer" and wrote, " Jilla
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#17328013902566572-506: The film. Vairamuthu was chosen to pen the lyrics for a song in Jilla , who would be writing a song for Vijay after 12 years. Malayalam Superstar Mohanlal plays the other leading role when he liked the script and accepted the film. Raju Sundaram will be choreographing the dance sequences in the film. Nisha Agarwal was rumored to be performing in the film, but she denied these rumors on Twitter , stating that she had not been approached for
6678-537: The film. In September 2013, it was reported that Vijay and Kajal Aggarwal would be playing police officers in the film. The fourth schedule of the film was supposed to start on 14 August. However, the shooting got cancelled due to heavy rain. In October it was reported that 80% of the film had been completed with only the song sequences remaining. Jilla was released on 9 January 2014 in France, Singapore and Canada, and worldwide on 10 January 2014. The satellite rights of
6784-414: The first time, thrashes Sivan's henchmen who assaulted the woman. Shakthi's new person is not liked by Sivan and after a heated argument between the two. A cat-and-mouse game then begins between Sivan and Shakthi, with Sivan and his henchmen, determined to humiliate Shakthi at every opportunity, while Shakthi, assisted by Shanthi and Gopal, tries to rid Sivan's influence in Madurai. Shakthi is soon promoted to
6890-565: The first week worldwide. On 28 October 2011, two days after its release, Vijay, Vijay Antony and director Raja met the press at a hotel in Chennai to celebrate the success of the film. The total collections in Chennai amounted to ₹ 7.75 crore in seven weeks. Velayudham also grossed ₹ 5.20 crore in Kerala during its complete run. Velayudham was a relatively high grosser in Europe and North America with Taran Adarsh highlighting that
6996-471: The formal ancient Tamil language. While there are some variations from the Tamil language, Kannada still preserves a lot from its roots. As part of the southern family of Indian languages and situated relatively close to the northern parts of India, Kannada also shares some Sanskrit words, similar to Malayalam. Many of the formerly used words in Tamil have been preserved with little change in Kannada. This shows
7102-452: The fourth week in Kerala. After 8 weeks at the Chennai box office, the film netted around ₹ 5.8 million (US$ 69,000). Jilla released at 44 screens in UK. The film collected ₹ 1.54 crore (US$ 180,000) Jilla has grossed £4,815 from five screens in its third weekend at the UK box office. It had a collection of £243,029 ( ₹ 2.54 crore (US$ 300,000)) in 17 days. In Australia. The film has grossed
7208-543: The hands of Sivan by killing Sivan's son Vignesh and putting the blame on Shakthi for Vignesh's death. Unfortunately for Aadhi, Sivan learns about his plan and reconciles with Shakti, where they fight Aadhi's henchmen and Aadhi. Shakthi beats up Aadhi and gives him to Sivan to kill. Sivan gives Aadhi a choice to kill himself. Aadhi takes up the choice and slits his throat thereby killing him. The next day, at Sivan's house, as per Sivan's request, police come to arrest Sivan and Shakti reluctantly arrests him and they both walk out of
7314-699: The hill country . Tamil or dialects of it were used widely in the state of Kerala as the major language of administration, literature and common usage until the 12th century CE. Tamil was also used widely in inscriptions found in southern Andhra Pradesh districts of Chittoor and Nellore until the 12th century CE. Tamil was used for inscriptions from the 10th through 14th centuries in southern Karnataka districts such as Kolar , Mysore , Mandya and Bengaluru . There are currently sizeable Tamil-speaking populations descended from colonial-era migrants in Malaysia , Singapore , Philippines , Mauritius , South Africa , Indonesia, Thailand, Burma , and Vietnam . Tamil
7420-700: The house in resemblance to their father-son walking style. Upon the completion of Velayudham (2011), Vijay announced his next project to be with Nesan , who had worked in Velayudham as an assistant to director Jayam Raja . The project however commenced only two years later, after Vijay completed three other films. Neason described Jilla as a " Madurai -based movie" and also revealed that right from 2009, he had this story line about two powerful characters and their emotional interaction, making it his second directorial after Muruga (2007). Vijay who had several collaborations with R. B. Choudary decided to produce
7526-432: The introduction of new aspectual auxiliaries and more complex sentence structures, and with the emergence of a more rigid word order that resembles the syntactic argument structure of English. In 1578, Portuguese Christian missionaries published a Tamil prayer book in old Tamil script named Thambiran Vanakkam , thus making Tamil the first Indian language to be printed and published. The Tamil Lexicon , published by
7632-461: The latter of which is restricted to a few lexical items. Tamil employs agglutinative grammar, where suffixes are used to mark noun class , number , and case , verb tense and other grammatical categories. Tamil's standard metalinguistic terminology and scholarly vocabulary is itself Tamil, as opposed to the Sanskrit that is standard for most Indo-Aryan languages . Much of Tamil grammar
7738-423: The lead roles. Art director Veerasamar was roped in to play a journalist with Genelia D'Souza also playing the role of a journalist. Saranya Mohan plays the sister of Vijay's character, while Santhanam and M. S. Bhaskar were chosen to play the comedy leads in the film. Sayaji Shinde , Vineet Kumar , and Abhimanyu Singh were selected to play negative roles in the film. Tom Delmar, who had worked as
7844-412: The magic of the star called Vijay." Ananda Vikatan rated 42 out of 100. Velayudham took a big opening on Diwali day. The film topped the overseas box office, forcing the producers to release more prints. In its opening weekend, spanning five days, the film grossed ₹ 2.1 crore in Chennai. According to trade sources, the film grossed ₹ 19 crore in Tamil Nadu and around ₹ 40 crore during
7950-632: The meaning "sweet sound", from tam – "sweet" and il – "sound". Tamil belongs to the southern branch of the Dravidian languages , a family of around 26 languages native to the Indian subcontinent . It is also classified as being part of a Tamil language family that, alongside Tamil proper, includes the languages of about 35 ethno-linguistic groups such as the Irula and Yerukula languages (see SIL Ethnologue ). The closest major relative of Tamil
8056-487: The money was a corrupt company. The people get enraged when they learn that their money was stolen. One of them commits suicide by burning himself alive. When the villagers tells that Velayudham will come and help them, Velu plans to take the role of Velayudham and kills the person who stole the people's money and returns the money to the people. In the avatar of Velayudham, Velu starts to eradicate society's evils among others, where he soon gains wide support and acceptance among
8162-479: The occasion of Kannada Rajyothsava , but some of the cinema halls did not take their plea seriously, which irked the KRV activists to show their anger against the Tamil film. However, the theatre authorities realized that the situation might reach out of control and agreed to cancel all the shows of the day. The film was distributed by producer K. Manju in Karnataka. As per overseas distributor Ayngaran International ,
8268-537: The old aspect and time markers. The Nannūl remains the standard normative grammar for modern literary Tamil, which therefore continues to be based on Middle Tamil of the 13th century rather than on Modern Tamil. Colloquial spoken Tamil, in contrast, shows a number of changes. The negative conjugation of verbs, for example, has fallen out of use in Modern Tamil – instead, negation is expressed either morphologically or syntactically. Modern spoken Tamil also shows
8374-544: The past few years. After the release of Gopala Gopala (2015), its co-producer Sharat Marar acquired the remake rights of Jilla and approached Daggubati Venkatesh and Ravi Teja with the proposal of its remake to be directed by Veeru Potla . In the past, Potla approached both Venkatesh and Ravi Teja with a storyline in July 2014 which upon their consent was developed into a script, which remained in scripting stage according to Ravi Teja as of late September 2014. Kona Venkat
8480-438: The police force due to a police officer killing his father, who was Sivan's driver, in his childhood. His hatred is such that he hates the khaki colour (which is worn by police in India), Shakthi doesn't let Sivan's watchman to wear his watchman uniform which is of Khaki colour, constantly teases his friend Gopal, who gets selected as a constable, and even loses romantic interest on a woman named Shanthi after he finds out that she
8586-430: The public and police. Few months later, Velu returns to Pavunoor with Bharathi for Kaveri's marriage. Unknown to Velu, Musafir Ibrahim, who is the leader of a terrorist group followed him to his village. Ibrahim wants to kill Velu since he thwarted every terrorist attack that he had planned in Chennai. On the day of Kaveri's marriage, a bomb planted by Ibrahim at Velu's house explodes, killing Kaveri. After Kaveri's death,
8692-463: The rank of DCP for his success in arresting most of Sivan's gang members and beneficiaries within one night. Later, Shakthi finds out that Sivan's other adopted son, a minister Aadhi Kesavan is plotting to kill Sivan in revenge for Sivan killing his police officer father (the same police officer who killed Shakthi's father) in his childhood. Since Shakthi had inadvertently thwarted his earlier plans to kill Sivan, he also plans to get Shakthi killed at
8798-399: The remake of Jilla (2014) starring himself and his son Ram Charan after the 2014 Indian general elections . It was supposed to be Chiranjeevi's 150th film as an actor. Chiranjeevi opted to choose a script that would reflect the sentiments of Telugu people and walked out from the remake. Charan felt uncomfortable to reprise a role where he has to oppose his father and being dissatisfied with
8904-445: The response the movie and the music have received. Velayudham has broken all records and we have sold all our units within a day of its launch. The soundtracks are original, soulful and memorable. We're sure that the compositions will go down in history as some of the best melodies of our times." — Sony Music Entertainment Chennai . Pavithra Srinivasan of Rediff gave 3/5 stars and wrote "Vijay Antony plays it safe mostly, with
9010-418: The result that there's nothing new." P. G. Devi from Behindwoods gave 3/5 stars and wrote "Vijay Antony continues to flaunt his success this time around with Velayutham. The album has a bunch of entertaining soundtrack like Molachu Moonu , Mayam Seidhayo and usual mass beat tracks Sonna Puriyadhu and Vela Vela ." Prakash Upadhyaya from OneIndia wrote "Vijay Antony's music has met the expectations of
9116-479: The script. Post the film's release, Raja said that Ravi had help him in improving the script. Another reported influence for the film was the superhero costume worn by Vijay's character, which was believed to have been borrowed from the Assassin's Creed video game series, bearing a resemblance to the robes of young Altaïr , one of the protagonists in the series, leading to criticism of the film being "copied" from
9222-539: The southern branch of the Dravidian language family and shares close ties with Malayalam and Kannada . Despite external influences, Tamil has retained a sense of linguistic purism, especially in formal and literary contexts. Tamil was the lingua franca for early maritime traders, with inscriptions found in places like Sri Lanka , Thailand , and Egypt . The language has a well-documented history with literary works like Sangam literature , consisting of over 2,000 poems. Tamil script evolved from Tamil Brahmi, and later,
9328-474: The stadium, where Velu kills Ibrahim and his henchmen, by beheading him and avenges Kaveri's death. Velu asks the people not to celebrate him as a superhero anymore, but asks them to express their anger on their own without fear. Velu also exposes Ulaganathan's misdeeds with Bharathi's help. Ulaganathan gets killed in a stampede while Velu returns to his village. The film was launched on 15 July 2010 at Madras University campus with Vijay and Hansika Motwani in
9434-470: The standard characters, six characters taken from the Grantha script , which was used in the Tamil region to write Sanskrit, are sometimes used to represent sounds not native to Tamil, that is, words adopted from Sanskrit, Prakrit , and other languages. The traditional system prescribed by classical grammars for writing loan-words, which involves respelling them in accordance with Tamil phonology, remains, but
9540-432: The story, he dropped the remake's proposal. In late March 2014, R. T. Neason , the director of the original, wanted to direct the Telugu remake bankrolled by Super Good Films. Neason wanted Nandamuri Balakrishna and N. T. Rama Rao Jr. to reprise the roles played by Mohanlal and Vijay in the original respectively. Its possibility was doubtful because of the strained relationship between Balakrishna and Rama Rao Jr. in
9646-399: The terrorists to the police, she falls in love with him without knowing that Vaidehi also loves him. When Bharathi learns that Velu unknowingly prevented the attacks, she convinces him to take up the role of Velayudham and provide hope for the people, but Velu refuses and tells her to finish the avatar of Velayudham. Later, Velu learns that his money is stolen and the company where he insured
9752-416: The titular role with Hansika Motwani and Genelia D'Souza , while Santhanam , Saranya Mohan , Soori , Abhimanyu Singh , and Vineet Kumar play other prominent roles. The music was composed by Vijay Antony with cinematography by Priyan and editing by B. Lenin and V. T. Vijayan . The film was inspired from the 2000 Telugu film Azad and also marks Genelia's last Tamil film till date. Velayudham
9858-446: The trappings of a blockbuster" International Business Times gave 4/5 and stated Mohanlal and Vijay 'sperformances makes the movie entertaining to the audience. Gautaman Bhaskaran of Hindustan Times gave the film 3/5 stars and stated, Mohanlal and " Vijay captivating style and powerful performance makes the movie a solid family entertainer". S Saraswathi of Rediff gave 3.5/5 and wrote, Mohanlal and " Vijay easily keep
9964-437: The vatteluttu script was used until the current script was standardized. The language has a distinct grammatical structure, with agglutinative morphology that allows for complex word formations. Tamil is predominantly spoken in Tamil Nadu , India, and the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka . It has significant speaking populations in Malaysia , Singapore , and among diaspora communities . Tamil has been recognized as
10070-555: The video game. 7aum Arivu , which had released alongside Velayudham , was also compared with the game. Sudhish Kamath compared Velayudham to the Pink Panther films for featuring a series of "unintentional world-saving incidents." Harris Jayaraj was initially approached to compose music for the film, but he declined citing scheduling conflicts, subsequently promising Vijay that he would score for his next, which eventually became S. Shankar 's Nanban . The soundtrack
10176-526: The word for "here"— iṅku in Centamil (the classic variety)—has evolved into iṅkū in the Kongu dialect of Coimbatore , inga in the dialects of Thanjavur and Palakkad , and iṅkai in some dialects of Sri Lanka . Old Tamil's iṅkaṇ (where kaṇ means place) is the source of iṅkane in the dialect of Tirunelveli , Old Tamil iṅkiṭṭu is the source of iṅkuṭṭu in
10282-534: Was a Tamilian himself, in a joint sitting of both houses of the Indian Parliament on 6 June 2004. The socio-linguistic situation of Tamil is characterised by diglossia : there are two separate registers varying by socioeconomic status , a high register and a low one. Tamil dialects are primarily differentiated from each other by the fact that they have undergone different phonological changes and sound shifts in evolving from Old Tamil. For example,
10388-600: Was claimed to be dated to around 580 BCE. John Guy states that Tamil was the lingua franca for early maritime traders from India. Tamil language inscriptions written in Brahmi script have been discovered in Sri Lanka and on trade goods in Thailand and Egypt. In November 2007, an excavation at Quseir-al-Qadim revealed Egyptian pottery dating back to first century BCE with ancient Tamil Brahmi inscriptions. There are
10494-493: Was done by M. R. Rajakrishnan , and the dubbing was done in Four Frames Recording Studio in Chennai. The film has been widely reported to be a remake of the 2000 Telugu film Azad , but Mohan Raja claimed that it is his original written story. Raja later admitted that Azad served as the inspiration for Velayudham and that he had penned a new script. In 2001, Vijay had signed up to appear in
10600-469: Was later composed by Vijay Antony and the audio rights were bought by Sony Music for a huge amount. The soundtrack consisted of six tracks and was released on 31 August 2011 at CSI Grounds in Madurai , attended by thousands of Vijay fans. Vijay, Hansika Motwani, S. A. Chandrasekhar , Vijay Antony, Viveka and several distributors and theatre owners were present in the function. "We are overwhelmed with
10706-614: Was most likely spoken around the third millennium BCE, possibly in the region around the lower Godavari river basin. The material evidence suggests that the speakers of Proto-Dravidian were of the culture associated with the Neolithic complexes of South India, but it has also been related to the Harappan civilization . Scholars categorise the attested history of the language into three periods: Old Tamil (300 BCE–700 CE), Middle Tamil (700–1600) and Modern Tamil (1600–present). About of
10812-506: Was postponed due to a delay in production. The film was released on 26 October 2011 during the Diwali festival and had a tough competition with Ra.One and 7aum Arivu . The film was released with over 820 prints worldwide. It also saw a release in about 100 theaters in Karnataka and 120 theaters in Kerala . In the United Kingdom , the film was sent for censor certification and with
10918-411: Was released on 26 October 2011 to positive reviews and became a commercial success at the box office. Bharathi, a young journalist, and her two friends investigate a series of terrorist attacks which have taken place in Chennai and also other illegal activities like human trafficking . One night, Bharathi and her friends are caught video-recording illicit activities happening in a secluded house by
11024-512: Was reported to pen the remake's screenplay. Ravi Teja evinced interest to be a part of the remake and the film's production was expected to begin in April 2015. However, there were reports stating that Jilla would be dubbed into Telugu with a duration of 140 minutes including a separate comedy track on Brahmanandam with Vijay. Also, Rama Rao Jr.'s elder brother Nandamuri Kalyan Ram planned to remake Jilla in Telugu with Balakrishna after arranging
11130-462: Was shot on a train moving on a bridge with Vijay performing the risky sequence coolly. Mohan Raja said, "A slight miss and the actor could fall 100 feet below! A very risky sequence, but Vijay did it coolly. My heart was in my mouth when it was being filmed". This stunt was performed in the location Rayagada in Orissa . Another fight sequence was filmed at Golkonda fort , Hyderabad . The audiography
11236-451: Was the emergence of the present tense. The present tense evolved out of the verb kil ( கில் ), meaning "to be possible" or "to befall". In Old Tamil, this verb was used as an aspect marker to indicate that an action was micro-durative, non-sustained or non-lasting, usually in combination with a time marker such as ṉ ( ன் ). In Middle Tamil, this usage evolved into a present tense marker – kiṉṟa ( கின்ற ) – which combined
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