Unnaipol Oruvan (2009 film)
Unnaipol Oruvan (also released internationally under the translated title Someone Like You) is a 2009 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Chakri Toleti in his directorial debut. It stars Mohanlal and Kamal Hassan. The film was simultaneously made in Telugu as Eenadu (transl. Today) with Venkatesh playing Mohanlal's role, both remakes of the 2008 Hindi film A Wednesday!. Set in Chennai and Hyderabad in the Tamil and Telugu versions respectively, the film depicts the confrontation between an anonymous caller who has planted bombs in the city and wants four terrorists to be released, and a police commissioner who tries to hunt him down.
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| Directed by | Chakri Toleti |
| Written by | Neeraj Pandey Kamal Haasan E. R. Murugan |
| Story by | Neeraj Pandey |
| Based on | A Wednesday! by Neeraj Pandey |
| Produced by | Kamal Haasan Chandra Haasan Ronnie Screwvala |
| Starring | Kamal Haasan Mohanlal (Tamil) Venkatesh (Telugu) Ganesh Venkatraman Lakshmi Anuja Iyer |
| Cinematography | Manoj Soni |
| Edited by | Rameshwar S. Bhagat |
| Music by | Shruti Haasan |
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Running time | 109 minutes (Tamil) 106 minutes (Telugu) |
| Country | India |
| Languages | Tamil Telugu |
Released on 18 September 2009, both Unnaipol Oruvan and Eenadu received positive reviews from the critics and were commercially successful. The Tamil version film was dubbed and released in Malayalam as Oru Budhanazhcha, which translates to A Wednesday akin to the title of the film it is based on.