Directed by Jayam Raja · Music by G.V. Prakash Kumar · October 2011
Mass blockbuster. Vijay as a superhero with a powerful social message.
This was Vijay's film 52 of 69 as a lead actor — counted from his debut Naalaiya Theerpu (1992) — released in 2011 during the 2010s.
Vijay as an ordinary villager who becomes a masked vigilante 'superhero' — a socially-themed Diwali hit.
The vigilante-for-the-people theme foreshadowed the political consciousness of his later films.
Velayudham (2011) stands among the commercial high points of Vijay's 69-film journey as a lead actor — a film that resonated deeply with audiences and reinforced his stature as one of Tamil cinema's most bankable stars of the 2010s. Every blockbuster in this filmography was another step on the road that ultimately led from cinema halls to the Chief Minister's chair.