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Vaanam

Cast: Silambarasan a.k.a Simbu(STR), Bharath, Anushka Shetty, Prakash Raj, Sonia Agarwal, Santhanam, Ganesh, Jayaprakash, Saranya Ponvannan, Vega Directed by Krish, Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja,Produced by Dayanidhi Azhagiri.
Rating: ** - Head spinning nonsense.

Simbhu always tries something different and afer a huge success with Vinnai Thandi Varuvaya, he decided to select a super hit Telegu movie 'Vedam' and remake it in Tamil. Director Krish who directed the Telegu movie has directed this movie and ths storyline invovles 5 different stories running in parallel and coming together at climax. Though the concept looks innovative, several problems plagued this movie right from actors walking out of the set to reusing some portion from the Telegu movie dubbed in Tamil. Ok lets go to the story

Cable Raja (Silambarasan) who is basically a guy from the slums in love with a super rich Pooja (Debutant Jasmin) under the disguise that he is also a rich guy. There is Bharath (Bharath) a rock start, aspires to have his own rock band and is on his way from Bengaluru to Chennai to have his first live performance and a silly mistake makes him miss the flight and hence the show. The third story is that of Saranya who is a widower and belongs to a poor family is in need of money to save her son from being employed due to their non-payment of dues. The fourth story has Rahim (Prakash Raj) who comes from Tuticorin to Chennai in search of his brother who disappeared three years ago. Finally it is the story of Saroja (Anushka) who is a prostitute by profession who comes to Chennai to have her own company so that she can earn more money.



All these 5 stories come together during climax and how these disconnected stories come together and how the climax ends has to be watched in the big screen. The climax does save the movie to some extent but it is too late as the audience are so frustrated that they fail to appreciate. Also the Saroja's portion of the story is dubbed from the Telegu version which very clearly misses the lip sync and clearly shows it is a Telegu version.

Cable Raja's role is a cake walk for Simbhu but the spoiler is Jasmine who with her childish act failed to click with Simbhu. The lazy, lethargic role for Bharath failed to click eventhough Bharath did the role well. PRakash Raj as usual with his superb acting has created an impact in the role he played in this movie. Sonia Agarwal returns to big screen after a long gap of 4yrs and after her separation with Director Selvaraghavan. The most touching story is that of Saranya and it does create and impact with the audience. Anuska fitted perfectly in this glamourous role.

Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja. In one word - Noise Pollution. There is one song "evandi unnai Pethan" is way too vulgar and abusive. This song takes Tamil music to a new low. A totally different concept but didnt go well with the way it was scripted and resulted in a totally confusing script. !!!! Review by - 'Cinema Pakkam' AK


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