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Theeratha Vilayattu Pillai

Starring: : Vishal, Sarah Jane, Neetu Chandra, Tanushree Dutta, Santhanam, Mayilswamy. Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja. Production: Vikram Krishna,distributed by Sun Pictures and directed by Thiru;
Rating: ** - Theratha Pillai (i.e. wont make it in the box office)

It is now becoming evident that Sun Pictures is picking all the movies that wont make well in box office and depends on its sheer marketing strategy to get this movie to the top spot. Even with a solid cast, a very thin storyline with predictable storyline, twists and turns has brought down the movie.

Vishal plays the role of a happy-go-lucky guy Karthik (i wonder why in all Tamil movies the name of a romantic hero will be Karthik!!!) who wants best in everything wether be it a pen or book or the girl he marries. He embarks on a bizzare journey of falling in love with 3 different girls at the same time and wants to select a life partner. It sounds ridiculous and there are reality TV shows called Bachelor and Swayavaram etc... so who go take a full length movie???





Karthik finds three girls, Tejaswini (Neetu Chandra), a millionaire, Jyothi (Tanushree Dutta), an athlete who hates guys, and Priya (Sarah Jane), a student who wants to avoid an arranged marriage, fools them, and finally wins their hearts. But he gets caught by Tejaswini and she vows to revenge him. Karthik tries to outsmart her every attempt to expose him and eventually what happens is the rest of the story.

The director has done a poor job on developing the script for this movie. He makes it look so easy that these young woman fall for the guy without any strong reason. The scenes in the movie are not very convincing and it clearly shows that he has banked on Vishal's image a lot and didnt bother about other things for the movie.

The saving grace in this movie is the comedy sequences by Vishal, Santhanam and Mayilsami trio. Neetu has done a good job for her role and giving her best in the song sequences. Tanushree has tried but still there is lot of scope for improvement. Sarah Jane, well she looked tired.. so not sure what is going on. Veteran actor Prakash Raj has been wasted in this movie. Music by Yuvan has tried to give some youthful beat but has failed miserably. But all these negative points will be nullified by Sun Picture's massive advertisement campaign and they will pull the crowd by just advertisement and media campaigns.

Review by - 'Cinema Pakkam' AK