Unnaipol Oruvan (transl.

 Someone like You) is a 2009 Indian Tamil-language thriller

film directed by Chakri Toleti in his directorial debut. It stars Kamal Haasan and
Mohanlal. The film was simultaneously made in Telugu as Eenadu (transl. Today) with
Venkatesh playing Mohanlal's role,[1] both remakes of the Hindi film A Wednesday!.
[2]

The film tells the story of Chennai City /Hyderabad City(telugu) (Police
Commissioner/DGP (Mohanlal / Venkatesh) who gets an anonymous call. The caller
(Kamal Haasan) demands that he release militants in exchange for information about
many bombs planted across the city. The caller is serious as the police find a bomb
planted very close to their headquarters. The commissioner is later cornered
between releasing militants who had been responsible for killing innocent people
and stopping bomb blasts around the city. Whatever he chooses forms the rest of the
plot. Both Unnaipol Oruvan and Eenadu received positive reviews from the critics[3]
[4] and were commercially successful. The Tamil version film was dubbed and
released in Malayalam as Oru Budhanazhcha.

Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Casting
3.2 Filming
4 Themes
5 Soundtrack
6 Release
7 Critical reception
7.1 Unnaipol Oruvan
7.2 Eenadu
8 Awards and nominations
8.1 Ananda Vikatan Cinema Awards
9 References
10 External links
Plot

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The recently dismissed police commissioner of Chennai (Hyderabad in Telugu
version), Maraar (Eashwar Prasad in Telugu version) describes in a voice-over about
his sudden termination for police, due to a common man who walked into his life. An
unnamed man is shown strategically placing a travel bag in a train in the Chennai
Central railway station and in a shopping mall. He proceeds to place another bag,
under the pretence of lodging an FIR, in the toilet of a police station in Anna
Salai, Chennai (Lakdi-ka-pool, Hyderabad in Telugu version). He then arrives on the
rooftop of an under-construction building and sets up his base of operations,
equipped with gadgets and instruments. He calls up Maraar and informs him that five
bombs have been planted in locations throughout Chennai, which are programmed to
explode simultaneously within four hours.

The caller demands that he would like to negotiate with a senior government
official, who has the full authority. Maraar seeks the services of the chief
secretary to act as the negotiator. Maraar also alerts his team involved in
intelligence research and surveillance, tapping all the available resources in
gathering preliminary information and tracing the location of the caller.
Meanwhile, the caller tips off news reporter Natasha Rajkumar, telling her to reach
Anna Salai police station immediately.
Maraar initially suspects the caller to be bluffing, but his doubts are dispelled
as the caller, to prove his seriousness and the police force's helplessness,
reveals that a bomb has been planted in the Anna Salai police station. When the
bomb disposal squad find the bomb, there is only three minutes left. They manage to
deactivate the bomb after following the caller's instructions. Natasha reaches the
scene on the caller's instructions and reports about the situation. An intense
debate ensues between Maraar and the chief secretary on who would act as the
negotiator with the caller. The chief secretary appoints Maraar as the State's
negotiator with unrestricted power for one day. The caller talks full of life
logics and religious philosophy and finally asks Maarar to release three terrorists
and one convicted arms seller, all who were arrested by him years ago.

Maraar's men realise that the caller is using advanced software to automatically
switch the numbers and locations of his mobile phone SIM card every minute,
rendering their manpower and the obsolete equipment useless and prompting them to
employ the services of a young hacker, an IIT drop-out. In the meantime, Maraar is
able to obtain a facial composite of the caller with help of the police officer to
whom the caller had approached to lodge the fake FIR, but much of the time passes
without any concrete results on the identity or the location of the caller.

Ultimately, Maraar agrees with the caller's demand and puts two of his best men,
Arif Khan and Sethuraman (Gautham Reddy in Telugu version), in charge of handing
over the four terrorists at the Sholavaram airstrip. Once there, the caller
confirms the identity of the four men via a conference call with Arif and Maraar.
He then asks Arif and Sethu to unlock their handcuffs and leave them alone at a
particular spot. Sethu orders his men to do as told but, at the last moment, Arif
decides not to hand over terrorist Abdullah, to ensure all the information
regarding the locations of the bombs can be forced out from the caller. Sethu
argues with Arif and demands he do as ordered, but Arif forcefully grabs Abdullah
and starts walking away. The other three enter a car which explodes soon after,
killing them. But the caller knows that Abdullah is alive.

The caller threatens to blow up the remaining bombs across the city unless Arif and
Sethu kill Abdullah. The Chief Secretary tells Maraar that the Chief Minister has
to know about the current situation but Maraar disagrees and tells her that he will
face the consequences, and orders Arif to kill the terrorist. Arif kills Abdullah
and Sethu shoots Arif in the hand to make it look like an attack for self-defense.
The caller confirms it via the news and reveals that he was bluffing and there are
no more bombs anywhere in Chennai. He tells that as terrorism is instant, justice
and safety must be so. Then Maarar questions the IIT hacker to trace the caller,
but he refuses. But Maraar looks in the hacker's computer, discovers the location,
and leaves abruptly towards the site. The caller, meanwhile destroys all of his
gadgets with a mini-bomb inside a drum. As he leaves his hideout with all his
camouflage, Maarar catches up to him.

Both shake hands; in a voiceover, Maraar says the caller told him his real name,
but does not reveal it as it does not have any significance. He adds that the
higher most officials saved themselves by framing him as a recluse and the Chief
Minister fired him. Maraar admits that they all knew the caller was disturbed
because of the insecure environment and the incompetence of the governing
authorities but he never imagined him to go to such lengths and have the guts to do
something like that. He also repeats that the facts of this incident cannot be
found in any written records but only in the memories of those who actually
witnessed it. He acknowledges that although the incident has ambiguous moral
significance, he personally feels that whatever happened, happened for the best.