Vaaliba Raja

Vaaliba Raja
Poster
Directed by	Sai Gokul Ramanath
Produced by	H. Murali
Written by	Sai Gokul Ramanath Ganesh Raj
Starring	Sethu Santhanam Vishakha Singh Nushrat Bharucha
Music by	Radhan
Cinematography	Loganathan Srinivasan
Edited by	Sathyaraj Natarajan
Production company	Vanks Vision
Release dates	25 March 2016
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Vaaliba Raja is an Indian 2016 Tamil psycho-comedy film. It was directed by Sai Gokul Ramanath and produced by Murali. The film features Sethu, Vishakha Singh and Nushrat Bharucha in the leading roles, while Santhanam also essays a pivotal role.^[1] The film began production in June 2013 and was released on March 25, 2016 to negative reviews from critics.^[2]

Cast

Santhanam as Dr.Raja (Vaaliba Raja)
Sethu as Karthik
Vishakha Singh as Shaalu
Nushrat Bharucha as Sweety
Jayaprakash as Ramachandran
Sriranjini as Durga, Karthik's mother
VTV Ganesh as Prabhakaran Sethji, Sweety's father
Devadarshini as Devadarshini
Chithra Lakshmanan as Chithra Lakshmanan
Neelima Rani as Chithra Kala
Subbu Panchu as Pathmanaban
Rajendran as Ragendra
Meera Krishnan as Chithra Lakshmi
Jangiri Madhumitha
Pandu as Traffic police
Pattimandram Raja as astrologer
Mahanadi Shankar
Baby Mithra as Mithra
Agavamma
Bonda Mani
Kanal Kannan as Romantic Kannan (guest appearance)
Ashvin Raja in a guest appearance
Srinivasan in a guest appearance

Production

In June 2013, it was announced that several members from the cast of the successful 2013 comedy film, Kanna Laddu Thinna Aasaiya, would collaborate again for another comedy film to be directed by Sai Gokul Ramnath, who had previously made the unreleased horror film Shivani. Sethu was signed to play the lead role, with Vishakha Singh as the lead actress, while Santhanam also agreed to feature in the film as a psychiatrist.^[3] The film continued to shoot through 2013, with Hindi actress Nushrat Bharucha brought in during mid 2013 to portray another heroine in the film.^[4]^[5] The film was completed in early 2014, and the director revealed that the makers were targeting to release the film in May 2014, but the release was subsequently postponed.^[6]

Soundtrack

Soundtrack was composed by Radhan. The team held an audio launch event in June 2014, with Kamal Haasan attending as the chief guest.^[7]^[8] The soundtrack received mixed reviews.^[9]

Ennamo Pannura - Rajan, Ramee
Oru Naal -Bobo Shashi, Veena Ghantasala
Vaa Madhi -Blaze, Mukesh
Nadukadula - Gana Bala

Release

Despite being completed in early 2014, the producers were keen that the film was released at a suitable time and the film remained complete but unreleased till late 2015, evading several announced release dates and at last it was scheduled to release on november 27 2015. After that the booking was open for the movie on Jan 1 2016, got postponed again. The film was finally released on 25th March 2016, thus being in the making for 3 years.^[10]^[11]

References

External links

Vaaliba Raja at the Internet Movie Database

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