"Movie Review : Azhagiya Thamizh Magan"

It's been quite long since I have written anything about the movies that I happened to watch.

By coincidence, I happened to watch two movies in the same multiplex -Maayajaal, around 17kms from Chennai. It is said to be the largest multiplex in south India with six screens, and they are adding another six to it. Maayajal is also a weekend hangout (got to have bucks!!!). It has a sports village, a karting track, swimming pool, a bar, bowling arcade, a shopping center... and what not.

Now, let me get into the real stuff. I happened to watch the movie "Azhagiya Thamizh Magan" yesterday. To promote the movie the producers have even casted Sha-kee-lah (am not sure how her name is spelt).

Vijay plays a double role in the movie - Guru and Pradeep. Both the villain and the hero look alike (almost like twin brothers), but is not related. By the interval time, I wanted to get out and thought I would rather spend my time in the Karting track rather than wasting it before the screen.

I was disappointed and frustrated. To watch some of the sequences in the movie, you should leave the following things back at home:

1. Intelligence

2. Consciousness

3. Brains.

Unlike many of the movies, Ashish Vidyarthi is not a villain... (villians also need a change).... Shriya plays the role of Vijay's lover and also happens to be Ashish Vidyarthi's daughter. Some of the fight sequences in the movie, would actually make you want to hit your own head. If Newton was watching the movie, he would have re-written the concept and the law(s) of Gravity.

All of a sudden, Guru's ESP is triggered and his visions starts to come true. After visualizing a scene, where he ends up hurting Shriya, he flees to Mumbai so that no harm comes to her. The movie seems to be dragging in many shots.

The story is based on the life of two men. One an ordinary man, the embodiment of all the good things in the world. The other, a mean money lender whose only aim in life is money and the pleasures it offers. Everything breaks lose when Pradeep (the impostor) decides to act as Guru (hero) and marry the rich Shriya. The rest of the story is how the original Guru goes about saving Shriya from the impostor Guru. In short, you can call the theme of the movie as "Love Vs Greed".

Shriya has to act as if she doesn't have a clue on who the love of her life is. All through the movie, she runs into the arms of the wrong man.

The final scenes of the movie portrays her being hospitalized after being hurt by Guru. She delivers spicy dialogues on sex and virginity to the Villain. Hearing the dialogues, the villain changes the outlook of his life and becomes a good person!!!!!! Unbelievable???

Overall experience : Waster of money, time - A movie which can only be enjoyed by die hard Vijay fans.

I wanted to write about the other movie "Vel" also. But having the patience to remember the sequences and write about the movie in the most polite and courteous tone I could manage have taken its toll on me. I will write about "Vel" as another post.