Brothers 2009 Tamilyogi

[Chiquita Mcnicholas]

Thefilm was launched on 22 July 2011, along with the commencement of principal photography. A major portion of the film was shot in the Balkan region in countries like Croatia, Serbia, Albania and Macedonia, as well as Latvia and other parts of Europe, with rest of the scenes in India. Maattrraan was the first Indian film to use performance capture technology.[5] Based on the conjoined twins concept,[6] It was also touted to be the first Indian film based on conjoined twins, until two other films, with the same concept were launched later.[7] The film was released on 12 October 2012.

Ramachandran is an Indian Geneticist who works for the USSR. While on a vacation in India, he attempts to create a human with several talents through baby designing, which leads to the birth of his sons, Vimalan and Akhilan, who are conjoined from the waist. As they both share a common heart, doctors recommend a sacrificial surgery to which their mother, Sudha objects. As the brothers grow older, they are poles apart in character; Vimalan being intellectual and good at studies while Akhilan is carefree and poor at studies. Following the dissolution of the USSR, Ramachandran becomes unemployed and returns to Chennai.

For many months, Ramachandran attempts to secure funding for his projects but fails as neither the Government of India or Venture capitalists are willing to help him. Ramachandran attempts to take his own life, but is stopped by Sudha. With the savings earned by his family, Ramachandran begins work on his most ambitious project at a small scale.

Many years later, Ramachandran is successful with the help of his family. His company, Locus Lacto Product, has made a large amount of profit through their product Energion, which is the best selling children's powdered milk energy drink in the market, making him a billionaire. Vimalan has grown up to be an honest man who has graduated from college with a degree in chemistry, while his brother, Akhilan enjoys life. They become smitten by Anjali, who has joined their company as a translator, along with her Russian friend, Volga, a journalist. Vimalan and Anjali fall in love, causing Akhilan to feel jealous, yet he is happy for them.

It is revealed that Volga is a spy who has been tasked with stealing Energion's secrets. After her cover is blown, she is fired by Ramachandran. Volga takes the brothers to their cattle farm under the pretext of an interview, where she takes photos and collects a milk sample from the farm.

When Vimalan confronts Volga, she reveals to him that Energion is an adulterated product that can lead to the deaths of thousands of children. Volga also reveals that an industrialist named Ajay Rathnam, joined their company as a spy, and after being exposed was murdered by Ramachandran. She also accuses their father of killing their R&D head, Raghu and setting the lab on fire to destroy evidence. Consequently, Volga is killed by Ramachandra's henchman, Dinesh. However, she swallows a pen-drive containing evidence of foul play before dying. Anjali acquires it from the surgeon performing the autopsy and hands it to Vimalan. Following this, Vimalan and Akhilan are attacked by Goons who attempt to steal the pen-drive from him. Akhilan believes the attack was only meant for robbing them. In the midst of the fight, Vimalan is struck on the head by the gang leader, Prathap Bihari.

Vimalan is declared brain-dead, and his heart is transplanted to Akhilan. After the brothers are separated through a surgery, which results in Vimalan's total death, Akhilan and Anjali become depressed. Sudha is warned that Energion is adulterated, and confronts Ramachandran, who asks the food safety department to raid their company. To her surprise, Energion is declared safe and hygienic. Meanwhile, Akhilan captures Prathap, who is then killed by an oncoming train. Akhilan tracks down Dinesh, using Prathap's phone. He finds the pen-drive that contains several documents declaring that the ingredients supplied at the cattle farm are unsafe to eat. It is also revealed that the scheme was planned in Ukraine.

Accompanied by Anjali, Akhilan sets out to solve the mystery. They seek the help of Anjali's friend, Ashok, who works for the Indian Embassy in Ukraine. However, Ashok is killed by Dinesh, who tracked him down. They discover photos showing athletes competing under the USSR in the 1992 Summer Olympics. The athletes in the photos were declared dead in a plane crash. They discover at a army research center that Ramachandran created Energion as a steroid to improve the performances of athletes at the Olympics. Despite the country performing well, the athletes became unwell from the ingredients of the steroid, leading to their deaths. The plane crash was fabricated to avoid national shame.

They learn that the Energion could only be detected using an ionization enhancer. Dinesh tracks them down and proceeds to attack them. Akhilan manages to kill his goons including Dinesh. Akhilan discovers that Ramachandran sent Dinesh to kill Vimalan and Volga.

He takes the ingredients back to India and exposes Ramachandran. As Ramachandran is about to be arrested, Akhilan requests him to surrender and finds out that him and Vimalan are a result of his father's failed experiment. He and Vimalan were made up of several talented people's DNA. Ramachandran reveals that he used society to create Energion. Ramachandra attempts to kill Akhilan, but his leg is crushed by a falling rock. Akhilan leaves his father to die by letting rats chew his flesh, thereby avenging Vimalan and Volga's death. Antidotes are given to all the children who drank energion across the country and Akhilan is given national recognition for his work. Sometime later, Akhilan and Anjali get married and give birth to conjoined twins.

During the post-production stage of Ko, K V Anand announced that he would direct Suriya again after the success of Ayan, further noting that it would be produced by AGS Entertainment and would begin once Suriya finished shooting for A R Murugadoss's sci-fi thriller 7aum Arivu.[6] Anand had supposedly narrated the script of Maatraan to Suriya in 2009, but the project failed to launch then, due to the lack of technology. In an interview he stated that the film was inspired from the true story of Thailand-based Siamese twins Ying and Sang. Anand said, "I read an article about them, which inspired me to come up with a similar story. I imagined how would it be if two people, who are physically conjoined, completely differ in their ideologies".[7] During the late production stage the title was slightly changed from Maatraan to Maattrraan.[8]

Several actresses were considered for the lead female role including Taapsee Pannu, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Sonakshi Sinha and Anushka Sharma,[9] with Kajal Aggarwal eventually grabbing the role.[10] Kannada actress Tara was signed on to play the mother to Suriya's character.[11] Prakash Raj was dropped from the film and was replaced by Sachin Khedekar who had played notable roles in Yaavarum Nalam and Deiva Thirumagal.[12] Daniel Balaji was said to be a part of the cast but he denied that he was a part of the crew.[13] Hindi actor Milind Soman was also wrongly reported to be working for the film.[14]

Maattrraan was officially launched on 22 July 2011 in Chennai.[15][16] The first schedule was held near the Pakistan border. In November 2011, the crew filmed a song in Latvia.[17] A major portion of the film was shot in the Balkan region in countries like Croatia, Serbia, Albania, Macedonia and especially a large chunk in Latvia.[18][19] Another large portion was filmed in sets erected at Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad.[20] In February 2012, the team left for the United States to do special facial scanning led by VFX Supervisor V Srinivas Mohan. Maattrraan thus became the first Indian film to use performance capture technology.[5] Isha Sharvani performed an item number for a song titled 'Theeyae Theeyae' which was shot at AVM Studios.[21] Furthermore, a duet song featuring Kajal and Suriya was shot at Wai, a village near Pune in Maharashtra.[22] Moreover, many CG scenes were shot at Balu Mahendra studios.[23] A song featuring over 500 junior artists and Suriya was shot in Jodhpur, touted to be the last phase of canning songs.[24] Next, filming for an important talkie portion was held at Bhuj in Gujarat near the safe zone along the Indo-Pakistani border that lasted for five days. K V Anand and cinematographer Soundararajan subsequently were in Madagascar, hunting for a forest location to shoot a song for the film. However, since Suriya could not afford filming there due to his other commitments, Anand decided to erect a similar set in India to create the same look as in Madagascar.[25] The shooting which was to be held in the US, was cancelled in June 2012.[citation needed] The entire filming was wrapped up in Norway by completing the 'Naani Koni' song in outdoor scenes shot at Trollstigen, Geiranger, Atlanterhavsveien, Mly and Aurlandsfjorden.[26][27]

Harris Jayaraj composed the soundtrack album and background score for Maattrraan, in his third collaboration within K. V. Anand. It also marks his seventh collaboration with Suriya, after Kaakha Kaakha, Ghajini, Vaaranam Aayiram, Ayan, Aadhavan and 7aum Arivu. As per Anand's idea, he and Jayaraj sailed on a ship in the Mediterranean Sea where most of the songs were roughly composed.[28] Harris roped in Chennai-based singer-songwriter Mili Nair, who appeared in the MTV based Coke Studio,[29] to provide vocals for the teaser theme.[30] Mili, who had previously sung for jingles, rendered the English lyrics used in the theme, and also included in the song "Rettai Kathirae".[30]

The makers announced that the audio launch of the film will take place on Singapore on 9 August 2012, which also coincided with the National Day of Singapore.[38] The track list was released on 31 July 2012.[39] The audio was released at the Singapore Expo in Singapore,[40][41] in the presence of several noted personalities from the film industry, along with the technical crew and cast of the film.[42] The event was witnessed around 10,000 fans.[citation needed] A live performance was given by Harris Jayaraj and singers Karthik, MK Balaji, Vijay Prakash, Krish and Charulatha Mani, Velmurugan, Suchitra and Sunitha Sarathy, and dance performance for the songs were done by Anjali, Neetu Chandra, Poorna, Dhanshika and Russian actress Julia Bliss, who performed in the film, and was choreographed by Brinda.[43] The first copy of the audio CD was released by Gautham Vasudev Menon, N. Lingusamy and Hari and received it to the crew members.[44] The event's satellite rights were secured by Jaya TV for an undisclosed price,[44] and was premiered on 2 September 2012 at 2:30 p.m. IST.[45]

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