Suriya lost 15 kgs to look like a teenager for 'Vaaranam Aayiram'; Read more movie trivia

Vaaranam Aayiram (2008) is a Tamil langu romantic drama movie, written and directed by Gautham Vasudev Men.  movie cast Suriya, Simran, Divya Spandana, and debutant Sameera Reddy as le characters. plot of film revolves around story of a son recollecting different parts of his life with his far upon hearing about his death. movie was a commercial success and won a number of awards, including  National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil.

movie is biggest hit in Suriya's career, who plays dual le roles as a far and his teen son. Fans will be surprised to kw that Suriya h to really work on his weight to play different characters in movie. Here are some of lesser-kwn and interesting facts about Vaaranam Aayiram that fans would love to kw about. 

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Vaaranam Aayiram lesser-kwn facts

• Suriya h to lose 15 kgs in order to play character of a teenr and n h to again gain a bulk for his character of an army officer.
• director of movie, Gautham Men has studied engineering at Moogambigai College, and in movie, Suriya is shown studying in same college.

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• opening and closing credits of movie are in English langu only, that is very rare for a Tamil langu movie.
• According to director Gautham Men, song Annul Maelae was t received well by many of members on production team. In fact, only people who were in support of song was composer Harris Jayaraj's wife and director Gautham Men. When Harris asked Gautham Men if he wanted to change song, he declined and chose to keep song as it is. Gautham Men’s choice paid off as song is w regarded as a modern classic.

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• For song, Ava Enna, director of movie Gautham Men h to dance as if he was drunk in front of music composer Harris Jayaraj so that Harris could get a proper idea of what Suriya was going through during that song.
• After Visa Interview scene in movie, Suriya is seen playing a tune on guitar. When his sister, Shreya, asks him from which movie song he is playing is from, he says that it was his own composition. But, tune that he plays in scene is Manjal Veyil from Vettaiyu Vilayu, that is also directed by Gautham Men, which released in 2006.  

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Disclaimer: All information has been sourced from IMDb