| Director: | A. Venkatesh |
| Producer: | M. R. Mohan Ratha |
| Music: | D. Imman |
| Cinematography: | K. S. Selvaraj |
| Editing: | V. T. Vijayan |
| Distributor: | Screen Play Entertainment Ptd. Ltd. |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Tamil |
Vaada is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language action film directed by A. Venkatesh. The film featured Sundar C, Sheryll Brindo and Vivek. The film was released after several postponements on 15 October 2010.
Singamuthu aka Singam is a person who lives as a temporary driver in Rishikesh, Uttranchal. Annamalai is the owner of Annamalai Transports but not the building-cum-residence of the transports and the staff. He is very innocent and funny. Annamalai always arranges a marriage bride for himself but in one way or another Singam will stop the marriage. Anjali is an ardent fan of MGR and she feels her husband should also be like him. She is the very beautiful and attractive daughter of the Annamalai Transport building owner and she comes to Rishikesh to check the building's condition and to collect the yearly rent. She meets Singamuthu. and falls in love. Singamuthu also falls in love with Anjali and reveals his past to her. Singamuthu by the real name Vetrivel was a highly accomplished district collector and was transferred to Tanjore. He gets himself in a cat-and-mouse chase with local goon Naachiyaar. Naachiyaar's son kidnaps Vetrivel's friend's sister, who was engaged to another man, and tries to rape her. Vetrivel comes in and saves the girl and destroys Naachiyaar's son's reproductive capacity. Naachiyaar's son dies in hospital. The marriage of the girl happens happily. Naachiyaar kills Vetrivel's friend brutally for revenge. Then the governor comes to Tanjore and CBCID informs that an attempt will be made on governor's life at a Tanjore meeting. Vetrivel is told to protect the governor as he trained for IPS first and was an excellent shooter. However, the governor is killed and Vetrivel is framed by the DGP himself. The rest of the film shows how Vetrivel proves himself and again stops another marriage of Annamalai after returning to being a collector.
Prem plays a police officer for the third time in this film after Nepali (2008) and Unnaipol Oruvan (2008). His character is the brother-in-law of Sundar C's character.[1] The film was shot in Alleppey, Goa, Hrishikesh, Tuticorin amongst other places.[2] During filming near Hrishikesh, O. A. K. Sundar, who plays the film's antagonist, was briefly detained by authorities mistaking him for Osama Bin Laden due to his getup.[3]
The soundtrack was composed by D. Imman and was released on Saregama.[4] It includes a remixed version of the song "Adi Yennadi Raakkamma" from the 1972 film Pattikada Pattanama, composed by M. S. Viswanathan.[5]
Vaada was planned to release on 16 April 2010 after being completed in December 2009 but was delayed.[6] The film was released on 15 October 2010, a crowded release date with several other low budget films.[7] The film ran for 25 days and was still running as of Diwali of 2010.