SACHIEN
Sachien is one of the much awaited Vijay movie of the Tamil new year releases. This is a campus love story much in the shades of Vijay’s earlier super hit venture Kushi. The same hero (with a bigger fan fallowing image though), an egoistic heroine, an old comedian still studying in the campus and an oomph girl, introduced to get the audience’s libido to fore front, having fun with the hero. This is Kushi Second innings.
Vijay plays the title role of Sachien. He is a loquacious, happy go lucky kind character. He cares a dam of what people think of him. The hero falls in love at first sight on seeing Shalini played by Genelia. The female lead is also impressed by Vijay’s character but does not accept the hero’s invitation for a life together, because her ego does not allow her to give up herself to a glib talking person who bets that she would fall for him in 30 days. This is supposedly the story line, which unfortunately has null turns and zero twists. Most of the egoistic characterization and situations of compromise seem to be direct inspirations from Kushi.
The music by Devi Sri Prasad is good. The most impressive of the numbers is the melody which has been shot stupendously by Jeeva. Infact the real hero of Sachien is Jeeva. His cinematography has defineltly taken him places. At times to avoid too much brightness, too much of smoke has been utilized which looks artificial. Other than this the movie makes the audience freeze with every screen-shot.
Vijay fortunately comes out of the cliched 3 dance 5 fight 2 villain masala movies and does a nice comic, active role for a change. Although Ilaya thalapathi’s peroformance is incredible, the story gets too predictable. Lack of a novel story and a dull script moves the movie at a snail’s pace. It tends to take the sheen out of it all. The comedy sequence between Vijay and Vadivelu could have been portrayed/scripted better.
Genelia as the female lead is a bright prospect for the future. In this movie, she looks gorgeous but emotes/enacts very poorly. Her performance adds to the woes of the audience. Not to forget the irritating cameo played by Bipasha Basu, the bolly bombshell. The dress-design of Bipasha was far below par compared to those of Vijay or Genelia. This characterisation was a totally unnecessary one in the context of the movie. May be she seems wasted because of the song picturised with her is not a part of the movie anymore. Otherwise, may be, we would have witnessed another ’’katipudi katipudi da...’’.
Vadivelu had done a descent job as the everlasting college student. Of the young emerging directors John Mahendra’s visual thought is very peppy and ranks in the high class level. It was his saving grace that his virtual visuality became a real apparent visual on the big screen because of Jeeva. But John has to be more precise and careful about his screen play and script in his future endeavors.
In a nutshell, it is Vijay’s show all through. His glib loquacious character may just be difficult to accept for his fans. But a daring attempt to break the shackles though through this Kushi part 2.