Aal (film)

Aal (transl. Person) is a 2013 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by Ananda Krishnan in his directorial debut and produced by Vidiyal Raju. A remake of the 2008 Hindi film Aamir , which itself is inspired by the Filipino film Cavite , it stars Vidharth, Hardika Shetty, and Vidiyal Raju in the lead roles. The background score and soundtrack were composed by Johan Shevanesh with cinematography by N. S. Uthayakumar and editing by M. Ramesh Bharathi. The film released on 19 September 2014 to negative reviews from critics.^[1]

The film is about the life of an ordinary man facing an extraordinary situation in a single day. The story starts in Sikkim and travels with a grip towards the climax in Chennai. The film screens about how the youngsters are brought to the terrorism. Amir is an intelligent professor who has already been in love with Meenakshi, who works in Sikkim. When Amir goes back to Chennai, he is blackmailed into joining a terrorist organization that would hold his family and Meenakshi captive. Then, the extraordinary things happen in one day.

The makers of the film noted that they managed to shoot the film in parts in Parry's Corner, making it the first film to do so in forty years. Similarly Anna Salai was used as a filming location for the first time in nearly twenty years.^[2] Scenes were also shot in Gangtok in Sikkim, a location not shown before in Tamil films.^{[3] [4]} The tagline of the film is ‘Who says a man writes his own destiny?’

The film score and soundtrack were composed by Johan Shevanesh.

• Aal at IMDb