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. 

Arrambam by Vishnuvardhan (Review)

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Story:An usual story of gaining justice over past incident. Can be said modern adaptation of "Citizen" with a different theme. Lack of originalty in terms of story. But it has good elements of Action, Thriller and Drama. A small scope for romance but it was just nice for the movie. The movie was made meatier with some technological terms (Not so advance), bomb defusing, and strategy plans. But still it maintained it's traditionality like hero's flashback and so on.

Cast: Ajith Kumar@Thala played Ashok@AK. He is played a stylish character. Cant reveal much about his role but it was definitely usual less talk more action type of character. He did that several times before in a few movies, so you won't see a different thala in this movie. But still he will keep you attended throughout the movie. Nayanthara played Maya, the heroine. But it was not defined whether she was Ashok's lady love. She played a supportive character for Ashok and plays glamourous and badass when needed. Arya is the second lead in the movie. He played Arjun the professional hacker in this movie. He was an important backup for this movie. Eventhough the movie Thala-centered but he had ample of scope and role to perform in this movie. His comedy was a bit overdone at first but it gets better along the movie. Tapsee played Anita, Arjun's lady love. She played a a journalist with drama queen character nature. she was really good at it and was a good pair for Arjun. The movie antagonist was played by Atul Kurkani as corrupt police and Mahesh Manjrekar as Corrupt Minister. Rana Dagubati made a very significant cameo. It was totally worth watching him in action in Tamil Movie. And then there were a few supporting characters played by Krishna, Kishore, Akshara Gowda and many others.

Screenplay: Just like every other Vishnuvardhan movie, it was totally action packed movie. Eventhough the story was an usual one but the screenplay was different for tamil movies. There were a lot of shooting scenes and stunt acts which will grab your attention. Just like every other vishnuvardhan movie, this movie had green tint photography. The whole movie cinematography had green shade. The movie had good plotting where you wont feel like it is dragging too much. Every scene made important and every character has it's own role. None were superceded onto each other except a tiny role played by Malaysian Artist Haani Shivraj. she had two blur scenes. This movie is definitely not a swordfish movie remake as claimed by many. The scenes involving planning strategies and cop investigation were fast and reasonable. Did not have that much of illogical elements. There were flaws in the movie's flashback scene towards the end. How Nayanthara and Ajith survived was a bit lame. But it was just a tiny flaws. Traditionality still maintained in bomb defusing (Cutting coloured wires). Good BGM boost the feel of style in the movie. Dialogues were superb and worth accolades. The movie was intended to spread a valuable message about corruption. The En fuse poche song was cute and well visualized. Other songs were great as well. But Hare Rama Hare Krishna song was missing in the movie. Besides if the song was there, it would have made the movie draggy. The climax was kind of cool. A movie with true commercial value. 

Music: Composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. The songs were already a chartbuster. The BGM was superb

Plus Point: Screenplay, Cast, BGM, Dialogues, Action sequence, Song sequence.

Minus Point: Cliche in story and Cinematography. 

Verdict: Stop making research on the logics and enjoy the movie for its action and commercial value. worth watching in cinema.