Velayudham-Vijay Fan's Delight

 

Cast : Vijay,Genelia,Hansika,Santhanam,Saranya Mohan

Music : Vijay Antony

Cinematography : Priyan

Direction : M Raja

Production : Aasacar Films

Review : Kumar (The 70 MM Team)

After the success of Kaavalan, Vijay joins hands with Raja for this commercial megabudget movie that tries to portray innocent heroism on screen.Vijay Antony yet again tunes for Vijay movie after super hit songs in his earlier venture Vettaikaran.

Story

The prologue of the story starts in pakistan where Home minister of Tamil Nadu is taken blindfolded to terrorists where they plan to disturb the peace of South India with the Home Minister's help. The Home Minister joins them for a huge ransom and agrees to trigger bomb blasts in various places of Chennai. Genelia(Bharathi) plays a journalist who happen to witness the bomb blast tries to uncover the people behind the blasts where she unfortunately loses two of her friends. The baddies who triggered bomb blasts die in a freak accident and Genelia makes use of this situation to make a fictional character with the name Velayudham who dares to kill all miscreants involved.

The story then cut across to Village where Vijay (Velayudham) is portrayed as an innocent caring brother who dares to do anything for her sister Saranya Mohan(Kaveri) and Hansika Motwani plays his love interest. He comes to Chennai to get financial aid from a chit fund for his sister's marriage.He saves people from various dangers without his knowledge . Then Vijay finds out that the chit fund company is a bogus one. What leads Vijay to transform into Velayudham ? How does he save people from danger forms the rest of the story and ends with a fitting climax.

Performances

Vijay's performance takes the movie to the next level. He delivers his best in every aspect, be it songs, comedy , dance or action, and he just outperforms everyone in the movie.

Genelia has a strong characterization in this movie which gives ample scope for performance but she could have been better. Hansika mesmerizes the audience with her cute bubbly reactions and glamour quotient.Santhanam and Suri can be termed as other heroes of the movie where they provide good humour . Saranya Mohan repeats her good sister act yet again . Please Saranya, no more sister characters. Time to move on .

Technicalities

Raja lacks story writing skills but he proves to be a good screenplay writer and caters vijay fans to the core with logical screenplay.Though the second half of the movie drags a little, Raja ends the movie with an apt climax that moves Vijay fans .He proves that he can offer a mass masala entertainer which will be enjoyed by all.

Priyan's Cinematography captures death defying action sequences. The songs are very well captured, especially 'Mayyam Seidhao' and 'Molachu Moonu' songs prove to be a visual treat. Vijay Antony's songs come as diwali bonus for Vijay fans .VT Vijayan's editing could have been much better especially in the second half of the movie .

Wow Factors

• Vijay's Charisma

• Rib-tickling comedy by Santhanam and Suri

• Genelia's and Hansika's characterization

• Climax

Oops Factors

• Usual Story

• Dragging second half

• Background score could have been better

Bottomline

Velayudham will entertain you if you don't look for anything new.