
It flies high and lands in a skyscraper off the office window of a psychologist who is conducting a session with her client Nirupama, a nuclear oncologist. The film opens in a rundown pigeon shop in New York City where an old man feeds them. ( February 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed.

A sequel to the film, Vishwaroopam II, was released on 10 August 2018. The film was honoured with awards for Best Art Direction and Best Choreography at the 60th National Film Awards. Heeding the requests of Muslim civic organisations, controversial scenes were muted or morphed, allowing the film to be released on 7 February 2013 in Tamil Nadu. The ban resulted in similar decisions in major overseas markets like Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Singapore while release was delayed in the south Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Karnataka.ĭespite the fragmented release, Vishwaroopam garnered positive reviews and, at the time of its release, peaked as one of the highest-grossing Tamil film at that time. Legal controversies, regarding the film's plot of India's foreign intelligence service Research and Analysis Wing's participation in America's war on terror after the 9/11 attacks perpetrated by Al-Qaeda agents, arose as several Muslim civic organisations protested the film's release in Tamil Nadu, resulting in an official ban being imposed on the film in the state for 15 days by the Government of Tamil Nadu. The Hindi version was released on 1 February 2013. The film was released worldwide, excluding Tamil Nadu, on 25 January 2013 and was released in Tamil Nadu on 7 February 2013. The film was also to be the first Indian film to release via direct-broadcast satellite, also known as direct-to-home (DTH), but after protests of theatre owners this plan was dropped. Vishwaroopam is the first Indian film to utilise the new Auro 3D sound technology. The first teaser was revealed in April 2012 and the first theatrical trailer was revealed in June 2012. The direction was taken over by Kamal Haasan from Selvaraghavan and reports indicating comparison with several English films surfaced during the production. Filmed simultaneously in two languages: Tamil and Hindi, the film features a soundtrack composed by Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, with the Tamil lyrics written by Vairamuthu and Haasan himself, while Javed Akhtar translated them for the Hindi version.ĭevelopment of the project began after the release of Haasan's Manmadan Ambu (2010) when several of the crew were brought in from the United States to lend their technical expertise. The film has Rahul Bose, Shekhar Kapur, Pooja Kumar, Andrea Jeremiah and Jaideep Ahlawat in supporting roles. The magnificent incarnation) is a 2013 Indian spy action thriller film directed and produced by Kamal Haasan, who also enacts the lead role and written by Kamal Hassan, Chakri Toleti and Atul Tiwari.


Vishwaroopam (titled Vishwaroop in Hindi transl.
