Vettaikaaran - Movie Review

Oh The guilt! I Couldn't have commited a sin worser than this.....I was dragged by my family..It was meant to be a birthday present....I saw Vettaikaran yesterday!.


My family had chosen Vettaikaran...I can't blame them completely...After all they wanted to give me a treat..They didn't have much of a choice I guess...They had to settle for either Vettaikaaran or kandhakottai...yep.. We had already seen AVATAR and 2012 by then.it was 10:00 Pm....I was shocked when I entered the theatre......The Price of the Ticket..Rs.150..We hesitated initially..but then we decided that we were going to watch it anyway since we had come all the way...I was lamenting about this situation to my cousin and i casually exclaimed,"Indha Padathukku poi 150 aa...aiyyo!"..A man standing beside who had overheard us said,"Enna sir 150 lan cheap...nethu vijay sir vanthappa..ticket velai 400 sir...vijay sir vandu oru kalakku kalakkitaaru!. "Oh,appudiya!Great!"..I sighed.


I braved the crowd,got the tickets and got in. I remembered one of my friends saying.."You have a bad mindset about him..With your mindset you'll never be able to "appreciate" his movies..anything he does on screen would be absurd to you!"....hence I thought.. "Ok..I am going to throw that mindset away...I am going to make myself think that I am enjoying this movie and make this a pleasurable outing...By the way...I paid 150 bucks...So Its not like I had a choice! The usual ads of local jewelry and clothing stores wizzed off. The CBFC certificate for the movie appeared...The fans went berserk!.So the stage was set..A cliched tamil movie was about to begin...The film opened with a cheesy graphic of the film's title along with the usual animated glorification of Dr.vijay. I tried my best not to be biased and I was desperately searching for the positive aspects of the movie.Hero-Introduction , Hero meets heroin(Anoushka was drop dead gorgeous and you could get addicted!) , Sentiment , Gravity-Defying stunts , an item number , the antagonist getting bashed up pretty bad , so on and so forth..This was supposed to be the hailed as the newton's law of the Tamil film industry . Dr.vijay was one of the founding fathers of this philosophy. Oh yeah I was making my best effort to find the positive aspects of this movie,i did find good lyrics but then they were more poised toward earning an audience among the the B&C centres(Political Motivation? may be..) and considered tacky in the A centres.


There are a number of parallels in the movie...Rip offs would be the right word in this context , but i leave the benefit of the doubt to you. Apart from the name of the name of the movie , an obvious Rip-off , playina an Auto-Driver ,Hero comes from a village and mercilessly bashes up the bad-guys in the city are some notable cliches. Scene by scene blatant copying is an art mastered by directors of Tamil movies.A scene from 'The Beautiful mind' was "adapted" to make another opportunity for 'The Dr.' to preach sense. I'd rather be very eloquent on this, I found the monologues very irritating, preachy and in some cases really stupid. I guess 'the dr.' was following in T.R's footsteps! GRAVITY-The phenomena that is responsible for life on earth! People watching this movie would have been made to believe that it doesn't exist anymore!. It would take a really long time to painstakingly catalog the places where logic disappears in the movie. Poor anoushka didn't get much of a chance to actually act! All In all watching this movie is a complete waste of time , so is writing a review about this movie , but hey I didn't want everyone else to do the same mistake I did.People who think otherwise and want to get back at me can most efficiently do so by tying me up and making me watch this movie again,one cannot torment anyone better than this!