Ottran

Ottran is a 2003 Indian Tamil-language spy thriller film directed by Ilankannan in his debut. The film stars Arjun and Simran, while Manorama, Vadivelu, Tejashree, and Sarath Babu play supporting roles. The score and soundtrack was composed by Pravin Mani. The film released on 24 October 2003 and was a success.

Plot
Karthik is an upright RAW agent who is on the trail of an anti-national group who are out to destabilize the country. He lives in a palatial house with his mother in New Delhi. The police in Chennai nab Ali, a terrorist behind the Parliament and temple attack. Sudha and Shiva are the children of Manikkavel IPS, IG-Prisons, police officer who is in charge of bringing Ali to court.

Now Ali's people kidnap Sudha and blackmail her brother to bring home three terrorists and give them shelter, so he is forced to introduce them as his friends and keep them in his father's official bungalow. Karthik saves Sudha from the terrorist and comes to Chennai to uncover the ISI plan to rescue Ali and create communal tension in the state. How Karthik emerges winner single-handedly forms the rest of this predictable yarn.

Production
After the success of Arjun-directed Ezhumalai, Arjun and Simran came together again for Ottran. It is the directorial debut of Ilankannan, who earlier apprenticed under S. Shankar. Shooting commenced in Chennai in a 40-day schedule.

Soundtrack
Soundtrack was composed by Pravin Mani. The song "Chinna Veeda" became popular. Bharadwaj was originally chosen to compose the music; however he left the film due to Arjun's intrusion in his work and he was replaced by Pravin Mani.


 * "Yeh Thiththippey" – Karthik, Suchitra
 * "Oru Paarvai" – Srinivas, Sujatha
 * "Chinna Veeda" – Manikka Vinayagam, Srilekha Parthasarathy
 * "Kitchu Kitchu" – Shankar Mahadevan, Lavanya
 * "Uttalangadi" – Manikka Vinayagam
 * "En Kanave" – Srinivas, Sujatha

Critical reception
Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu wrote, "first half of the film is the screenplay that allows no room for sluggishness or dampeners. The film moves on at breakneck speed and by the time you take a breather it's intermission". Visual Dasan of Kalki called it a combination of patriotism and screen masala.