Vadhandhi: The Fable of Velonie

Vadhandhi: The Fable of Velonie (transl. Rumour: The Fable of Velonie) is a 2022 Indian-Tamil-language mystery crime thriller television series created by Andrew Louis, of Leelai and Kolaigaran fame,^[1][2] for Amazon Prime Video.^[3][4] It was directed and written by Andrew Louis. The principal cast of the series includes S. J. Suryah,^[5] Sanjana Krishnamoorthy, Laila, Nassar, Smruthi Venkat, Vivek Prasanna, Kumaran Thangarajan, Vaibhav Murugesan, Vikky Aadithya and Hareesh Peradi. It premiered on 2 December 2022^[6][7][8] and consists of eight episodes.

Vadhandhi: The Fable of Velonie
Genre	Mystery Crime thriller
Written by	Andrew Louis
Directed by	Andrew Louis
Starring	S. J. Suryah Sanjana Krishnamoorthy Laila Nassar Vivek Prasanna
Music by	Simon K. King
Country of origin	India
Original language	Tamil
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8
Production
Executive producer	Gowtham Selvaraj
Producer	Pushkar–Gayathri
Cinematography	Saravanan Ramasamy
Editor	Richard Kevin
Running time	40-50 minutes
Original release
Network	Amazon Prime Video
Release	2 December 2022 (2022-12-02) – present

Synopsis

The story revolved around the murder of a young girl, seen from the Rashomon-esque perspectives of Vivek (S. J. Suryah), an unrelenting obsessed cop, a novelist captivated by her grace, and an opportunistic news editor. This show shows various dynamics and sociological aspects of indian society. The story evolves in the outskirts of Kanyakumari.

Cast

• S. J. Suryah as SI Vivek
• Sanjana Krishnamoorthy as Velonie
• Laila as Ruby, Velonie's mother
• Nassar as KI Sebastian
• Vivek Prasanna as SI V. Ramar
• Vaibhav Murugesan as Jones Durai, Lodge Manager
• Pradeep Krishnamoorthy as Valan
• Smruthi Venkat as Anandhi Vivek, Vivek's wife
• Avinash Raghudevan as Sanjeev
• Ashwin Kkumar as Santhosh
• Vikky Aadithya as Sunny
  • Videsh Anand as young Sunny
• C. Sujatha as Rani
• Hareesh Peradi as Sethuraman, editor of "The Fourth Column"
• Kumaran Thangarajan as Vignesh, Velonie's fiancée
• Aruvi Balaji as Alex
• Mahesh G as Amalraj
• Kulappulli Leela as Old Lady
• Kavin Jay Babu as Paulraj
• Ashwin Raam as Tony
• Ashiq Rahman as Director Shakthi
• M. Meeran Mitheen as SP
• Pranika Dhakshu as PC Mallika
• Mrithun Jayan as Suspect 1 in the lodge entry list
• Saranya Ravi as a prostitute

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	"The Dead Star"	Andrew Louis	Andrew Louis	2 December 2022 (2022-12-02)
2	"Vivek Takes Charge"	Andrew Louis	Andrew Louis	2 December 2022 (2022-12-02)
3	"Brothers in Crime"	Andrew Louis	Andrew Louis	2 December 2022 (2022-12-02)
4	"Closed, but Unresolved"	Andrew Louis	Andrew Louis	2 December 2022 (2022-12-02)
5	"An Intellectual Killer"	Andrew Louis	Andrew Louis	2 December 2022 (2022-12-02)
6	"From Bad to Worse"	Andrew Louis	Andrew Louis	2 December 2022 (2022-12-02)
7	"A Fictitious Fact"	Andrew Louis	Andrew Louis	2 December 2022 (2022-12-02)
8	"The Vadhandhi Continues"	Andrew Louis	Andrew Louis	2 December 2022 (2022-12-02)

Development

Production

The series is Pushkar–Gayathri`s second collaboration with Amazon Prime Video.^[9][10] Earlier, the filmmaker duo had created the investigative thriller, Suzhal: The Vortex, for the streaming giant.^[11] The series is directed by Andrew Louis.^[12][13]

Casting

Tamil film director and actor, S. J. Suryah^[14] was cast as police officer Vivek. This is his debut role in a limited series.^[15][16][17] Sanjana Krishnamoorthy was cast as Velonie,^[18] actress Laila^[19] was cast as Ruby, making their debut with the series. Besides Nassar, Sanjana Krishnamoorthy, Smruthi Venkat, Vivek Prasanna, Kumaran Thangarajan, Vaibhav Murugesan, Vikky Aadithya and Hareesh Peradi were cast then.^{[citation needed]}

Release

It was announced on Thursday 17 November that the series will be released in Tamil and dubbed in Telugu,^[20] Hindi,^[21][22] Malayalam^[23] and Kannada and will make its streaming debut on 2 December,^[24] on Amazon Prime Video.^[25] And also was Release the first look poster, The poster features a visibly shocked S. J. Suryah looking at a person lying dead in a field. The series was highly inspired by the American TV Series The Killing. The Murder mystery of Rosie Larson. ^{[26][27][28][29]}

Reception

Haricharan Pudipeddi of Hindustan Times "The small-town set up helps in making the narrative quite interesting as the story presents us with multiple suspects and this naturally piques the excitement of a viewer. Upon the release performance of the cast much appreciated especially S J Surya and Sanjana Krishnamoorthy"^[30]