There. I have done it.
I watched a Tamil movie yesterday - Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu (roughly translated as ‘To hunt To play’)
So the next time someone teases me “Have you seen a Tamil movieyet?”, I can say “Yes, I have.”. And i’m also planning to buy a camerato capture the look on their faces.
Did I understand the movie, you ask?
Yes, I did. Atleast most of it. It was a typical bollywood/hollywood masalaaction movie.And it starred one of the kings of southern cinema - Kamal Hassan.Youknow he rules when you hear the entire ciname hall erupt in whistlesand cat calls as soon as he makes an appearance and subsequentlyeverytime he delivers a cracking dialogue.(…..the last time I witnessedsuch a euphoria jubiliation was while watching Lagaan…ppl were literally dancing near the screen…..)
Anyways, the story revolves around a tough widower cop DCP Raghavan(KamalHassan) and his quest to find out the killers (two psychopaths) of hisgood friend and family.It takes him to various places including NewYork (which was a welcome relief to me since the dialogues were inenglish with tamil subtitles).
The motive of the psychos is not explained properly.They keepmumbling something about saving the world by killing people and suchcrap.But who cares as long as our superstar kicks their b#@$.
There is also the mandatory love angle in the form of Aradhana(Jyothika), a divorcee with a kid who falls in love with Raghavan in New York.Thefilm has a happy ending wherein Raghavan kills the two villains andsaves his love.
It’s a staight forward movie which follows a linear story and Icould very well get a good drift of the goings on almost 3/4 of thetime.Only some scenes heavy with dialogue went over my head.But forthose also, I had my friends to translate important tidbits for me.
Theperformances were fairly good.Kamal Hassan doesn’t get to emotemuch, hence could’nt display his acting prowess.Jyothika is just afill-in and does her job well.
Overall the movie was a time pass.
The End