Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga

 

Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga (English Translation: Vasu and Saravanan Studied Together) is an Indian Tamil romantic comedy film written and directed by M. Rajesh. It features Arya and Tamannaah in lead roles while Santhanam plays a prominent role. Actor Vishal made a cameo appearance in this film. Arya himself is producing the film under his production company 'The Show People' associating with Prasad V Potluri's PVP cinema.
The soundtrack was composed by D. Imman. Nirav Shah and Vivek Harshan handled cinematography and editing, respectively. The film began production in November 2014 and was released on 14 August 2015.

Cast

• Arya as Saravanan
• Santhanam as Vasu
• Vishal as Assistant Commissioner Vetri Vel (Cameo)
• Tamannaah as Aishwarya Balakrishnan
• Bhanu as Seema
• Karunakaran as Gautham
• Vidyullekha Raman as Kausalya
• Sayaji Shinde as Ashok
• Pattimandram Raja as Balakrishnan
• Siddharth Vipin as Ashwin
• Renuka as Kamatchi
• Brindha Das as Sudha
• Venniradai Moorthy as Moorthy
• Swaminathan as Point to Point Padmanabhan
• Surekha as Ambujam
• Heera as Pooja
• Jyothi Lakshmi as Lakshmi
• Shakeela as Akila Cheichi
• 'Mahanadhi' Shankar as Police Officer (Cameo)
• Supergood Subramani as Museum Security
• Ratheesh Nambiar as Rahul Varma

Production

In November 2013, Arya agreed to finance and star in the lead role of director M. Rajesh's next venture, with Santhanam also brought in to the project to play a supporting role. Nayantara was also reported to be a part of the film and an official press statement was released during the same month, stating that filming would begin in late 2014 after Arya had finished his ongoing commitments.^[1] In March 2014, Rajesh revealed that it would be a sequel to their successful comedy film Boss Engira Bhaskaran (2010) and that Tamannaah would also play a new character in the franchise.^[2] Nayantara later opted out of the film, and Rajesh began re-working the script.^[3] In October 2014, Rajesh then announced that the film would not be a sequel to his previous film and that it would be a new script.^[4]
A launch event was held on 21 November 2014 and the team began production on the same day, with scenes involving Arya and Tamannaah shot.^[5] The cast and crew list was also revealed with Bhanu, Karunakaran and Vidyullekha Raman also included in the film.^[6] The movie title has been revealed as Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga (VSOP) on 24 November.^[7] It was known that Prasad V Potluri is also producing the film under his banner PVP cinema along with Arya's 'The Show People'.^[8]