Velayutham :Vijay's new release

Velayutham  : Vijay's new release

                                               Velayudham is an upcoming Tamil action-masala film directed by M. Raja. It stars Vijay, Genelia D'Souza, Hansika Motwani and Saranya Mohan in lead roles. The film was formally launched on July 15, 2010 with its photo shoots taken earlier during the month. Produced by V. Ravichandran's Aascar Films, the film is currently in its post-production stage and expected to release on June 22, 2011.

 Vijay was roped in for the lead role to portray a villager.Genelia D'Souza, who had paired up with Vijay in the 2005 romantic flick Sachein was chosen for the role of a journalist in the film,[10] and Hansika Motwani was chosen to portray Vijay's love interest,while Saranya Mohan would play the sister to Vijay's character. Hollywood stunt director Tom Delmar joined the crew for choreographing the stunts in the film.Vijay even walked out of Shankar's Nanban reasoning that the two films demanded two completely different looks and he couldn't afford to lose his commitment towards his films.

However, he joined in the shooting of the film later as the scenes starring the main hero were reserved to be shot in a later schedule.Santhanam and M. S. Baskar were chosen to play the comedy lead in the film. Vijay donated 100 cows to poor people in Udumalapet near Coimbatore as per Hindu Tradition to pray for the success of the film.

The film has been widely reported to be a remake of the 2000 Telugu film Azad that starred late Soundarya as a journalist and Akkineni Nagarjuna as a villager, incidentally the roles essayed by Genelia D'Souza and Vijay, respectively.Director M. Raja, however, who so far has been making remakes only, claims that it's not a remake, but his own story.