Film: Veeram
Starring: Ajith, Tamanna, Santhanam, Vidharth, Bala
Director: Siruthai Siva
Producer: Bharathy, Venkatrama Reddy
Banner: Vijaya Productions
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Story:
Veeram is the tale of five brothers in
the city called Vinayagam Brothers named after the eldest brother.
Vinayagam [Ajith] works really hard to raise his four brothers. He
decides not to get married and stay bachelor for life, while remaining
fell in love. Here comes Temple renovator Kopperundevi aka Koppu
[Tamanna] and lawyer Koppu [Santhanam], Vinayagam's childhood friend.
After a series of confusions and laughters, brothers want Vinayagam and
Kopperundevi to get married. Koppu's father makes an obligation that
finally ends with tremendous fights between Ajith and his revenge
seeking enemies. How will he manage to defend enemies? Will Ajith win
Tamanna heart? Forms the crux of Veeram...
Performances:
Ajith has fit the bill
as a village guy in Veshti. With his ample energy, Ajith carried the
movie on his shoulders. His rustic look with grey hair suited the role
of Vinayagam without trailing his age.
Tamanna made a perfect
comeback with Veeram. She looked gorgeous in sarees. Her act as a
peace-loving female and a renovator from archeological department is
quite upbeat.
Santhanam delivered notable performance among others, while Nassar has done similar roles many times earlier and he appears typecasted.
Vidharth is ok among
Ajith's brothers while others looked plastic.However, Pradeep Rawat
looked more villainous compared to Atul Kulkarni, the main villain.
Technical Analysis:
Siva has to be appreciated for his racy
and neat screenplay including all the mass and commercial elements to
suit the audiences of all ages. He needs a tap for the choice of cast
and crew, who supported well in the success of Veeram.
Bharathan dialogues are one of the highlights. Though there are few punch dialogues for Santhanam they doesn't look exaggerated.
Devi Sri prasad's background scores
created the right mood in the fight sequences. Whereas 'Thangame
Thangame' and 'Ival Thaana' acted a breakpoints because of wrong timing.
Songs could have been betterly choreographed.
Vetri excelled with his camera works
throughout the film. Especially the tight closeup shots along with the
action stunts and train hang sequences in railwaystation are excellently
shot.
K. Viswanathan's editing is crisp.
Analysis:
Siva's tight script and timely execution
are the highlights of Veeram, which is laced with all the ingredients
such as action, sentiment, dance, performances and emotions.
There is no doubt that it is Ajith
allover Veeram. Yet Veeram also marks appreciating comeback of glamorous
Tamanna and Santhanam to his original not so witty comedy role. Infact,
Santhanam takes the second place after Thala in the movie.
First half of Veeram starts on a lighter
note with the nick of Ajith raising his younger brothers and few action
sequences with local goons plotting the instances for the later part,
whereas in the second half we see the differences being raised by
Tamanna's family that ends up after climax fight.
Final Verdict: Perfect entertainer this Pongal...