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Vettai -LRB- English : Hunt -RRB- is a 2012 Indian Tamil action comedy film co produced , written and directed by N. Linguswamy . The film stars Arya , R. Madhavan , Sameera Reddy and Amala Paul in the lead roles while Ashutosh Rana , Thambi Ramaiah and Nassar played supporting roles . The film score is composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja , while cinematography is by Nirav Shah and editing handled by Anthony Gonsalves . The film became announced shortly after the release of Lingusamy 's Paiyaa , with Dhayanidhi Alagiri 's Cloud Nine Movies agreeing to produce the film , following a successful collaboration during the director 's previous film . During a lengthy pre-production phase , the film underwent major changes in its main cast and Cloud Nine Movies stepped out of the project , with Linguswamy 's own banner , Thirupathi Brothers , taking up the film . Filming was initially planned to begin by mid-2010 , but was delayed until March 2011 . The film was later remade into Telugu as Tadakha by Kishore Kumar and in Bengali as Hitman by Sumon .   The film revolves around two brothers , the elder being sensitive to violence and the younger being a jobless rogue , settled in Thoothukudi . After the death of their father , a police officer , the elder brother takes on the same job by request of the younger . The older brother rises to fame in his job by having his younger brother secretly punish suspects and save victims for him . This angers two of the village 's biggest mob bosses , who begin to seek revenge on the elder brother . After getting severely beaten by them , the elder brother loses his fear and becomes physically stronger through training from his younger brother . How the brothers get back at two gangs and protect their families form the rest of the story .