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Velayudham is a 2011 Indian Tamil-language superhero film directed by Mohan Raja and produced by V. Ravichandran under Aascar Film. It stars Vijay in the titular role with Hansika Motwani and Genelia D'Souza, while Santhanam, Saranya Mohan, Soori, Abhimanyu Singh, and Vineet Kumar play other prominent roles. The music was composed by Vijay Antony with cinematography by Priyan and editing by B. Lenin and V. T. Vijayan. The film was inspired from the 2000 Telugu film Azad, but was reported to be also inspired from Assassin's Creed video game series, with Vijay wearing the costume of Altaïr, one of the protagonists in the series, leading to criticism of the film being "copied" from the video game. Velayudham was released on 26 October 2011 to mixed reviews and became a commercial success at the box office and also marked as Genelia's last Tamil film till date.