Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu Movie Review
Anand’s review of the movie Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu here
Movie starts with a 007 style action – Kamal against a local don – dishum dishum – kamal wins and the title song kicks in. Intro graphics are ordinary but the music score was cool. Kamal looks his usual charismatic – only a touch old and little out of shape. One thing, the way he walks, talks and moves with a stiff poture makes us imagine if his clothes were probably over starched or something :)
As we enjoy watching these pretty ladies, boom! We are bombarded with a really lengthy flashback of Mr. and Mrs Raghavan(Kamal and his dead wife Kamalee). Yes, Yes – We’ve seen these flashback way too many times! From the days of “Vetri Vizha” – Dashing brave cop. Falls in love with a cute girl. Gets married. Villains kill the girl and the cop takes revenge.
But God is not so merciless, he at least saves us from Kamal’s “Abirami-Abirami” style crying by asking Harris Jeyaraj to pitch in with some sad back ground music when Kamal mourns the death of Kamalee.
Kamal teams up with a phirangi police officer Anderson to crack down on the murderers in New York. Kamal is gifted with super natural powers called “Raghavan’s instinct” and leads the NY Police to find dead bodies of people who were killed in four different places in the USA. Wow!
What’s even more miraculous is that Kamal cracks the traces of the serial killers with ease and manages to find them in no time. You would notice that Kamal uses a MacBook (Apple laptop) to help him with the investigation. Kamal sir, if only you used a Microsoft Windows XP based laptop you would have solved this mystery even earlier :)
Gautam suddenly realizes that it’s only two hours in to the movie now and he can’t let Kamal catch the villains so soon – he makes the villains escape from NY and hit Mumbai to sing “Neruppe Sikki Mukki Neruppe” with Deepal Shaw dancing in the beaches of Goa.
- Positives from the movie
- Kamal , Kamal’s getup, Kamal’s dressing
- Harris Jeyaraj
- Ravi Verma’s camera
- Song sequence of “Paartha Mudal Naale” with Kamal and Kamalniee is cute
- The NYPD detective guy “Anderson”
- Negatives
- Loose story line
- Non-impressive dialogues
- Too much similarity with Kaaka Kaaka for characters, dialogues and sequences
- Gautam tries to create an impact by making the corpses look as gory as possible! Ech!
- Too lengthy ! Too many sub-stories within the main plot
Anand signs off in Sun TV thirai vimarsanam style punch dialogue!
Kaaka Kaaka was like adrenaline
Vettaiyadu Velaidya was like Anacin(headache)!
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Sukesh said,
August 27, 2006 @ 3:57 pm
I thought the movie is going to be good! Another failed attempt by Kamal or what?
Vidhya Rajan said,
August 30, 2006 @ 1:24 am
Hi
i am sure that the movie will be a hit as the hype can save the movie from bombing at the box office.
harris’ bgm score irritates our ears at many sequences. am i right?? songs are damn good. especially the title song “karka karka”
camera must be appreciated. well done ravi verman sir…
Anand has left out one more positive from the movie. its the villain amudhan (Daniel) performance is damn good. very good expressions especially during the raping scene and executing scenes.
not like kakha kakha…
Bye
Anand said,
August 30, 2006 @ 5:53 am
I am hearing that the movie is already a hit ! :)
And yes, “Amudan” did play a good villan - but why did his counterpart “ilamaran” had voice dubbed by Jeeva(Kaaka Kaaka Villan) ??
Seems like Gautam wanted to cast Jeevan but since he couldn’t get him to play the role- he choose to atleast get his voice in to the villan character.. he hee.. Bad choice Gautam!
Ramesh KK said,
August 30, 2006 @ 4:04 pm
Dr.Kamal had already taken tamil cinema to the next stage.
ganesh said,
August 31, 2006 @ 7:20 pm
I really like this movie bcz there is no group dance,no mass, punch dilogs and no silly comedies great kamal,u only satisfy me
Arun Kalyan said,
September 1, 2006 @ 11:43 pm
One of the worst movie i have seen for this year 2006.
disha said,
September 9, 2006 @ 1:10 pm
To Mr. Anand,
u siad villian jeeva had given voice for “ilamaran”…but do u know something, the director gautam menon only had given voice for both jeevan in kakha kakha & ilamaran in vetaiyadu vilayadu. Kamal & Gautam combination could have worked out more…..
Silpa said,
September 21, 2006 @ 3:19 pm
Can someone tell me what happens in the end? Friend, maybe you can email it to me. Thanks. Not knowing the climax is killing me. I saw the rest of the movie, somehow until he finds Jo in the end leaving the two lovers to rot.
shane said,
September 24, 2006 @ 2:28 pm
We may try and take our movies to hollywood style, but , no hollywood movie which were super hits in india, portrayed such cruel ideas and themes. This is no way differnet from the series of gangster movies released in TN namely kokki, thalanagaram etc, and this film portrays the worst ever instincts of human beings, and that too , 2 doctors. Screnplay, camera, bg music were fine, but at the end, u d find too much of violence and atrocity by the murderers.
if kamal was nt there in the movie, it would not have even ran for 1 week.
I think the director can go back to minnale ways.
Steven.j said,
November 13, 2006 @ 10:00 am
It rocked all the movie which has realised in diwali. it is super dooper block busters mega made dr.kamal haasan ji from steven, bangalore, rbanm’S COLL.
Gobika said,
November 15, 2006 @ 3:17 pm
Hi,
The songs in the film are very nice. Espcially ‘Partha mudal naale’. But the story is not so interesting.
manix said,
November 25, 2006 @ 12:08 pm
For those dissapointed with VV, you are all better off with the likes of Gilli, Gemini, Thirupatchi…where all of your artistic yearnings are immensely fulfilled. You will all have your regular fill with the rest of the pack of Tamil moviedome churning out of the Kollywood mills.
VV is for the selected few with matured, gritty and bold tastes that unfortunately stretches the conventional perimeters of Tamil movies. For that many thanks to Gautham & Kamal. May the spark ignite an awakening of the ungratefully dead in the intellect…
karthika said,
December 31, 2006 @ 4:09 pm
since i like kamal i love this film too
Sridhar said,
September 7, 2007 @ 3:14 am
Dr. kamal hassan simply rocks. One Ragavan is equal to hundred Anbuchelvan.
Sara said,
November 27, 2008 @ 2:07 pm
has to rank among the most hyped - non - substance logic less movies ever.
So the 2 villains are gays. they are in love. so this was the climax Gautam was playing at?..honestly this is obvious minutes into the entry of the 2 villains.
and why do they kill? Seriously..coz they are homosexuals?…this is such a blah movie with a blah storyline and the crappiest end…
Sam said,
December 26, 2009 @ 10:42 am
@ shridhar, you are right one raghavan is equal to 100 anbhus, beacause rag is such a fat bitch….
even kamal could not save this puke of a movie….i can watch some comedy movie like PKS 100 times for its dialogues than this abomination…
divya jagan said,
September 22, 2010 @ 3:51 pm
gethu film by hasan