Veeram by Shiva (Review)

Story:A village based story of 5 brothers. It's a masala movie with enough comedy,action,romance and drama. It has the common telegu movie influence with "expected unexpected" twists. There are contradiction between first half of the movie and second half. A very simple story yet a very usual story of family love based theme. Again to many telegu cliche in this movie.

Cast: Thala Ajith Kumar played Vinayagam, the big brother. He used a different accent in the first half of the movie. He really did great in terms of dialogue deliverance using that accent. Other than that it's usual Thala slow-mo and theme music. Maybe it's good to see thala back in dhothi but major mess up makeover in song sequences. Vidhart of myna fame, Bala of Kathal kisu kisu, Munish and Suhail Chandhok played the 4 brothers. They were the entertainment part. They handled major part of the comedy together with santhanam. Tamanah played Kopurendevi, as Vinayagam's pair. She over acted in this movie as usual. But she was the turning point for the movie. Abhinaya (Eesan) and Suza Kumar played the brothers pair. Pradeep Rawat was the villain in first half while Atul Kulkarni took over the second half. Just some village aruva villains with vengeance. The supporting characters done by Ramesh Khana, Devadharshini, Vidyulekha Raman, Nassar, Appukutty, Thambhi Ramaiyah and many others.

Screenplay: I think there were too many slow motions, I don't know it's just to show the "mass" effect of Ajith or what. but having it too frequent was a drawback. The comedy sequences was good. It was all four 4 brothers with santhanam and their :Looty". Thambhi Ramaiyah joined in second half of the "looty". The song sequences were a major drawback for the movie. It was not attractive at all. Some good moral value instilled in this movie. Cinematography was not that good. The shades were like film roll. The fight scenes are crap of course. Even the movie was kind of draggy.

Music: Songs composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The songs were crap but the the Veeram theme did gave Ajith's entrance goosebumps.

Plus Point: Good cast, good comedy, good family value

Minus Point: bad stunts, bad song sequence, usual telegu movie story, bad cinematography, draggy.

Verdict: You can watch it once in cinema for the comedy. 

Jilla by R.T.Neason (Review)

Story:A typical Vijay commercial entertainer. Nothing complex about the story. In line with Vettaikaran and Velayutham. There'll be first half Vijay and Second half Vijay like most of his movies. Ample of Exaggerated Action, Nice Family Sentiments, Good Comedy and not so Good Romance. Can't say much about the story since there's nothing unique to tell.

Cast: ilayathalapathy Vijay as Shakthi, the main cast. Seriously I think he really need to change his style of acting. I really hope to see Thuppakki magic soon. The same "I'm too good" type of dialogue deliverance like Pokkiri is too common for him. Mohanlal played Shiva, another main cast with Anti-Hero nature. We know he is a good actor as he's got 3 National Award in hand. But giving him too many punch dialogue totally not so Lal-Ettan style. Ok he had the hard man look but still I think the movie was not 2 man army movie, it was more concentrating on Vijay. Kajal Agrawal played Shanthi, Shakti's lady love. Just a passing cloud heroine who comes once in a while and mostly for songs. Soori played Gopal and he was at the humour part. averagely good, will make you laugh with his dialogues. Sampath is the main surprise antagonist. He was good and can say a good replacement for Prakaash Raj. He really did that evil guy with good humour character very well. A lot of misleading villains as well like RK, Ravi Mariya and Pradeep Rawat. Supporting character was played by Mahat Raghavendra, Niveda Thomas, Poornima Bhagyaraj, Thambi Ramaiyah and many others

Screenplay: Too many cliche in screenplay. Sister sentiments, Death of an important person, a havoc that change the hero's life and many more. The Cinematography was poor. There were variation in the tonal quality between the scenes. The comedy scenes were good especially Vijay does it himself. Song scenes were not bad. Kandangi could have been done better. But the BGM boosted some of the scenes.

Music: Songs composed by D.Imman. It was great plus point for the movie. especially the BGM. 

Plus Point: Heavy Cast, Music

Minus Point: Story, Screenplay

Verdict: If you like Velayutham and Vettaikaran, you'll like this movie. If you don't then please don't watch this movie in cinema.