Arrambam 2013

Ajith Kumar 53rd Movie Arrambam is a Indian Tamil action thriller film directed by Vishnuvardhan. Produced by A. Raghuram, the film will feature Ajith Kumar, Arya, Nayantara and Taapsee Pannu playing lead roles. At first a teaser released without the title and became a popular video on YouTube On 1 May 2013, coinciding with Ajith Kumar's birthday with most views and likes. And later the film titled as Arrambam the title also got a great response from the fans and this also creates a record in social networks like facebook and twitter fans where created more than 100 fb pages in the name Arrambam . and the The Songs where expected to releasing on Aug 15 and the Movie releasing on Sep 13.

In September 2011, producer A. M. Rathnam stated that he was working in a project with Ajith Kumar. Ajith will be possessing salt and pepper look from Mankatha and also hitting gym to build body in a good shape. Vishnuvardhan in an interview opened up about the film that "I am planning to work on a drama, more on family action drama."
The film was initially reported to be titled as Surangani, but was in January 2013 stated by "A source in the know" to be Valai. Although not officially confirmed, the film was henceforth referred to as Valai by the media. Vishnuvardhan, who was at Anna University’s Gateway 2013 Short Film Festival by the Department of Media Sciences revealed that that the film was not titled Valai, adding that two titles were under consideration. The film title was not revealed until the post production of the film. A teaser was also released without the title and became a popular video on YouTube. And after that a lots of rumor coming our as the film titled as Paravai , Retta Thala etc finally Ajith Kumar 53 rd team officially announced the Title as Arrambam.

Nayantara was the female lead. Next Vishnuvardhan approached Arya for another lead role. Yuvan Shankar Raja is scoring the music for the film. Richa Gangopadhyay was initially considered for the second female lead. Later Taapsee Pannu was selected for her role. It is also reported that Arvind Swamy and Prithviraj Sukumaran will play pivotal roles and Telugu actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Ravi Teja and Jagapathi Babu will have cameo appearances in the film. Mahesh Manjrekar will be essaying the role of a villain in the film. Suman Ranganathan has been cast role of a reporter. Furthermore, the director approached Rana Daggubati for an important role in this film. Rana Daggubati will do a "special appearance". Rana took part in the shooting in Mumbai. Kishore would enact an Anti-terrorist squad member, claimed to be a prominent role in the film. Akshara Gowda stated that she was also part of the film. Prashant Nair informed that he had a small role in this film.
Stephen Richter will be working stunts in this film. Sunil Babu was initially called in as the art director but opted out later, with Ilaiyaraja taking his place. P. S. Vinod was replaced by Om Prakash as cinematographer. Vishnuvardhan's wife Anu Vardhan, who had worked on all of her husband's film, was in charge of costume designing in this film as well.

Yuvan Shankar Raja was signed on to compose the film's soundtrack and score. Kabilan Vairamuthu was signed to pen lyrics for one song in this film, while the other songs were planned to be written by Pa. Vijay.