decides to send Nandini (who is now pregnant) as Kurshid, to get Malik's emotional with sentiments and thus making him to speak out his plans. But Malik finds out this trap and kills Nandini and escapes, thus making Gopi furious. Finally, Gopi and Anwar catch Malik before he could execute his plans, and Gopi kills Malik in an encounter. Cast Mammootty as DIG Gopikrishnan IPS aka GK, Deputy Director IB Arjun as SP Anwar Hussain IPS, an officer who assists GK in the mission (Voice dubbed by Shobi Thilakan in the Malayalam version) Sneha as Nandini Gopikrishnan Deepak Jethi as Malik Mukthar Khan as Terrorist Leader Nassar as Prime Minister Jagadish as Sheshadri, IB officer Jai Akash as Ashok, police officer Vijayakumar as SP Mohan Sharma as Anadharaman IPS, Director IB Rajan P. Dev as Dy. SP Mansoor Rajkapoor as Sheikh Muhammad Riyaz Khan as Balan Jayaprakash as Dr. Nayeem Rachana Mourya (Special appearance) Daisy Shah (Special appearance) Production The shooting started by the middle of 2007 and was finished by feb 2009 and later on the story was modified due to some personal problems. The film was started with Karthi as the director, but after the first schedule the producer Henry, who also wrote the script, replaced him with debutante T. Aravind. The film was shot at locations in Kochi, Chennai, Marthandam and Thengapattanam. It took 100 days of shooting and ten schedules to complete the film. The Tamil version was initially titled Aruvadi but was later changed to Vandae Maatharam too. The audio launch was held on 3 July 2010 and the movie was all set to release on the eve of Ramzan, 10 September 2010 in both Tamil and Malayalam. But at the last moment, it couldn't make it to the theatres. Then, it was released on 17 September 2010. Amitabh Bachchan was approached to do a pivotal role in the movie, but as he was not able to allocate the call sheets, Nassar played the role. Two heroines were signed, Sneha was paired with Mammootty and played the role of a pilot, the other heroine Shraddha Arya was paired with Arjun and played the role of an ornithologist. However, Shraddha Arya's role was dropped. In 2007, A. R. Rahman was approached to score the music of the film. But during that time, he was busy with the composing work of Jodhaa Akbar. Vidyasagar was reported to