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10 Endrathukulla

10 Endrathukulla (transl. Before counting to 10) is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language road action film written and directed by Vijay Milton and produced by A. R. Murugadoss under the banner A. R. Murugadoss Productions and Fox Star Studios. The film stars Vikram and Samantha Ruth Prabhu, alongside Pasupathy, Rahul Dev and Abhimanyu Singh.

Made on a budget of ₹40 crore, principal photography and filming took place in February 2014. The film was slated for a January 2015 release, but was postponed, due to the release of I (2015). 10 Endrathukulla was released on 21 October 2015, coinciding with the Dusshera festival. The film received mixed reviews. This film was a box office bomb.

A getaway driver who refers to himself by various names (such as "James Bond," "Mani Ratnam," "Sunil Gavaskar," and "Sachin Tendulkar) but never reveals his actual name is assigned by a local criminal named Das to deliver a woman named Shakeela to Pooran Singh in Mussoorie. Shakeela is an orphan who has failed her driving test 14 times. The driver is constantly irritated by Shakeela's antics during the journey to Mussoorie but soon falls in love with her. At Mussoorie, he kills Pooran and learns that Shakeela will be delivered to Daksha Bhai, an upper-caste landlord from an Uttarakhand village.

The driver delivers Shakeela to Daksha and is invited to stay at his ancestral mansion for a festival. During the stay, he finds out why Shakeela has been delivered to Daksha: Shakeela is the doppelgänger of Daksha Bhai's sister Gadgi Moi, a cruel, merciless upper-caste leader who has been sentenced to death for orchestrating a massacre against the lower-caste people. Daksha Bhai plans to send Shakeela to jail in place of Gadgi, who has been released on parole, to perform the last rites of her dead grandmother. The plan backfires as Shakeela escapes from the police.

In the chaos that ensues, Gadgi breaks her cover and kidnaps Shakeela, planning to kill her on a moving train, but the driver arrives to save Shakeela and defeats Gadgi. He kills Gadgi by throwing her off the train and in anger Daksha kills Shakeela. Later, Daksha realizes that he had killed Gadgi and the driver had thrown Shakeela into his car. Distraught at Gadgi's death, Daksha commits suicide by jumping off the train with her corpse. Ultimately, the driver and Shakeela, who are now in a relationship, happily drive back to Chennai. During the journey, the driver whispers his real name in Shakeela's ear, to which she acts repulsed

Vijay Milton collaborated with Vikram for his next film. Director AR Murugadoss was confirmed to be bankrolling the film along with Fox Star Studios. Initially titled Idam Maari Irangiyavan, the film was later renamed as 10 Endrathukulla. D. Imman was signed on as composer for this film, which the composer confirmed through his official Twitter handle. The film is supposed to be a road movie, which Behindwoods states was a relatively fresh genre for the Tamil audience.

Samantha was selected to play a lead role, marking her first collaboration with Vikram. Pasupathy has been roped in to play an important role in the film. In August 2014, Ramdoss of Mundasupatti (2014) fame was added to the cast.

Scenes involving Vikram and Samantha were shot in Chennai for a week's time, and the team was spotted filming in the MRC Nagar area of Chennai. The film began its first schedule on 26 May 2014. The film's first schedule ran for 7 days covering Hyderabad, Ladakh, Sikkim and many major North Indian cities. A major portion of filming is also done in Nepal, whose location are mainly Bhaktapur. The crew reported that they would shoot in many exotic locations across the globe, but also strictly adhere to a 6 months time frame, when the project will be completed. Furthermore, the team also promised a surprise Hollywood crew in the movie. The second schedule began on 23 June 2014. On 23 July 2014, the second schedule was completed, and the next schedule began subsequently. A song sequence featuring the lead pair was shot in a set erected near DMI College of Engineering near Sriperumbudur in August 2014. In late August 2014, about 3 schedules in were completed in Chennai, In One of the 3 schedules, a scene featuring the lead actress Samantha, actor Vikram in a duck farm near Madha Engg. College was shot, and the fourth schedule was planned to be shot in Pune for close to 20 days, with the schedule including a song sequence as well. The climax of the film was shot in Nepal and the train sequence Cappadocia, Turkey.

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