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The document discusses the development of the film Aalavandhan, originally intended to be directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon but later taken on by Suresh Krissna. The film underwent several casting changes and was produced by S. Thanu, with music composed by Mahesh Mahadevan. Key actors initially considered included Simran and Rani Mukerji, who were eventually replaced by Raveena Tandon and Manisha Koirala.

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The document discusses the development of the film Aalavandhan, originally intended to be directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon but later taken on by Suresh Krissna. The film underwent several casting changes and was produced by S. Thanu, with music composed by Mahesh Mahadevan. Key actors initially considered included Simran and Rani Mukerji, who were eventually replaced by Raveena Tandon and Manisha Koirala.

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Minnale. But Harris refused as he owed to do his first movie with Gautham Vasudev Menon.

Later,
music trio Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy was signed as music composers.[17]

but felt that the story was ahead of its time.[13] In 2000, he picked up the story again and agreed to
make the film with director Suresh Krissna, a former assistant of Balachander, and producer S. Thanu.
When Thanu had agreed to produce a film for Haasan, he had initially rejected the storylines of Pammal
K. Sambandam and Nala Damayanthi.[14] This prompted the pair to begin work on Dhayam instead, and
the film was revealed to be called Aalavandhan in Tamil and Abhay in Hindi. Abhay was distributed by
reputed Shringar Films.[15][16] Mahesh Mahadevan was signed on to compose the background music,
Tirru was selected to be the cinematographer and Sameer Chanda was picked to be the art director.
Actor Jayam Ravi also worked on the film as an assistant director.[17][18]

The film was first announced with Haasan and Simran and Bollywood actress Rani Mukerji in a special
appearance. Both actresses left the project for its delay in start,[19] being replaced by Raveena Tandon
and Manisha Koirala. Producer Dhanu had initially tried to cast Aishwarya Rai in the film, but the actress
did not sign the project.[20]

Composer Harris Jayaraj was first approached by the producer to do music for the film, and he assured
to introduce him as a music composer before

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