Film: Thalaivaa
Starring: Ilayathalapathy Vijay,Amala Paul,SathyaRaj
Director: A. L. Vijay
Producer: Chandra Prakash Jain,C.P. Sunil
Banner: Sri Mishri Productions
Music: G. V. Prakash Kumar
Story:
Vijay (Vishwa) is a professional dancer
and a dance school owner in Australia. One day Vishwa happens to see
Amala Paul, who joins his dance school and fell in love with her. As
story progresses, Vishwa plans to come back to Mumbai to meet his
father-leader Sathyaraj (Anna) and travels along with Amala Paul and her
father (Suresh), which split up with a twist for second half.
In addition, Sathyaraj gets arrested and
in process Vishwa happens to replace his father as Vishwa bhai, faces
antagonist, needless second heroine leads to excellent climax finally.
Why Sathyaraj is arrested? Why did Vishwa become a bhai? Watch Thalaivaa
to know the itching interval twist, intellectual scenes and climax…
Performances:
Vijay appears in new
look as a cool dude Vishwa and Vishwa bhai. Known for his dance, Vijay
has given his finest performances till date as a dance guy.
Ilayathalapathy is feast to watch as a typical lover and also as leader.
Amala Paul has given
her best and the interval bang needs a special mention. Amala managed to
equal her dancing levels with Ilayathalapathy as his dance partner.
Santhanam is back with
his pack of one-liners. His comedy is an asset to Thalaivaa amidst
engaging script and evergreen classic outlook. Ponvannan and Rajiv
Pillai have done their parts well.
Veteran Satyaraj is
outstanding as Vijay’s father and leader. Ragini Nandwani is gorgeous in
meaty role. Abhimanyu Singh is ok but Nassar is wasted.
Technical Analysis:
AL Vijay has engaged audiences with slow
screenplay and well executed twists in Thalaiavaa but failed to present
few scenes that ended in reviewing of evergreen classis way reminding
viewers of Nayagan and Thevar magan.
GV Prakash Kumar’s background is not as
appealing as Thalaivaa music album especially some scenes were not so
appealing because of poor BGM.
Nirav Shah’s cinematography is felt
throughout the film. Editor Anthony could have trimmed the second half,
because it is slow pace and more ethics.
Analysis:
Most of the first half of Thalaivaa is
taken in Australia, based on the script that Vijay is a professional
dancer there. Followed by Sathyaraj [a local leader] scenes were
captured in Chennai suburbs.
Thalaivaa’s first half is breezy
compared to second half, due to the good on-screen chemistry of
Ilayathalapathy and Amala Paul along with Santhanam’s comedy and hair
raising interval bang. Vijay, Amala Paul and Santhanam are the assets f
Thalaivaa, besides probable screenplay and GV Prakash’s misplaced
background scores and last but not least AL Vijay’s ever-liking slow
pace taking.
Unlike other Vijay films, Thalaivaa is a
clean entertainer with not many action scenes and fights. Thalaivaa has
upbeat first half ,with a hold in second half by means of a bit serious
into script leading to climax alongside Ilayathalapathy dance and cool
dude looks.
Final Verdict:
Thalaivaa is a well able tale with quite predictable screenplay…