I used to be a great fan of Vijay, but not anymore. There has been a continuation of mediocrity in tamil star films for sometime now. Thiruvalai is no exception. everything that you expext in avijay movie is here too. and everything here happens as usual as it appears in other vijay movies.
This is the same breed of those films, where the hero is everything, and everything else revolves round him. most of the films of vijay, ajith, prasanth etc have degraded to a level just to please die-hard fans and have no other watchable value. The hero is each and everything. Theres usually no story, no strong script, nothing.
Vijay as Thirumalai is everything that he has been for the last 10 or so films.
He is:
a youth with a golden heart (and I mean 24 carat)
has no job, zips around on his fancy bike all day
takes up other peoples burden and solves them in his sparetime.
of course, he has to meet a girl and fall in love with her (at first sight), try every trick in the book to make her his, sing meaningless duets with her in switzerland and beat up all the baddies to win her hand in the end.
has to deliver long and stupid lectures on love. and its pain, and all that crap.
and so on.
I dont think this formula will change in anywhere the recent future.
Well, heres what the story is: Thirumalai (Vijay) is a bike mechanic, an orphan, who is (ofcourse) the apple of the eye of every1 who is living in that area. He has two friends with him. who, of course, have nothing to do with the film.
anyway, along comes lawrence for a bike race with vijay, dances in a song with him and is gone.
then raghuvaran and kausalya come to live in vijays street. they tell him how they met and how they felt attracted to each other etc etc. vijay gets his first impressions about love. (as usual)
enter the villain. arasu. (manoj k jayan) as usual here too, hes the all-powerful underground don who controls everything from politics and mafia and street thugs and just to about everything else driving around in his ’for-registration’ merc. guess he hasnt got to do anything better in malayalam cinema.
then vijay meets jyothika at a new years party. she wishes him and goes away. shes the daughter of a super rich media baron (sigh). but she remains in his mind and he now decides to be in love with her.
now everything moves on, u guessed it, as usual. vijay follows her where ever she goes, even to her house. she tries to tell him that some1 cant love some1 else spontaneously, and all that crap. but the ever enthusiastic vijay never gives up.
he gives long lectures about love (that too, as usu...), tells her that she will love him someday and he will be waiting. I was waiting for the movie to end.
kiran appears, shakes everything she has, and poof!
now two horrible songs later and after several and tricks by jyothika to get rid of vijay backfiring, we see jyothika falling for vijay (my god. its a shame these movie character girls dont exist in real life.) her father teams up with arasu to make them part ways. but no can do. vijay rushes up to arasu and delivers fiery speeches, about love, peace, fights, strength, ’minding-ones-own business’ etc
then, we see several encounters between them, and finally, arasu, impressed by thirumalais mannerisms and lectures, decides to give up don-ism. but arasus side-kick then turns against him and vijay has to rescue arasu. then arasu calls up jyothika and her father, and the two are united. as usual, of course.
and I almost 4got. every now and then, vivek pops up, delivers some stupid dialogues and makes expressions that makes one want to cry. but thankfullt he has only about 10 minutes in the film.
wow.
vijays acting is as easy and effortless as ever, his great mannerisms and styles are the only saving grace of this worthless film. jyothika looks soo cute and fresh as ever, and all the rest are wasted.
so, u must have got the picture. there are some good moments, like vijay turning up in satyaraj attire to impress jyothika, and etc. but overall, tacky dialogue, non-existent story, fragile screenplay and vijay reigning supreme over everything else, this film has nothing thats of much interest. and of course, there are the usual vijay gimmicks like pulling cigarettes from under his collar, riding bikes as if they were choppers, which drive his fans crazy.
If u are a Vijay fan or if you dont know what he hell to do with 30 rupees-- This ones for you.
any1 else -- dont even go near the theater.
cheers!