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Villain is the much hyped Diwali release
of Ajith who appears in a dual role and is sure to please his fans
who can see him fight, and do some MTV style dance numbers with
two glamour girls who have tried to out beat each other. And for
lady audience there are enough sentiments and the storywriter Yugi
Sethu seems to be inspired by a few old classics like MGR’s
Enge Veetu Pillai on twin brothers.
The story is as old as the hills. It is not of
twins getting separated at birth, but twins’ running away from
home, as the parents does not care for one of the child who is
mildly retarded. The elder one Shiva, overhearing the parents plan
to kill Vishnu (?), runs away to another city with his brother
whom he adores. There he strives hard to look after Vishnu, till
one day a small time dreaded ‘dada’ Sundara Moorthy (Fefsi Vijayan)
who runs a beggar trade beats up Vishnu brutally and he becomes a
handicap. Later Shiva takes Vishnu to a home run by a social
worker (Sujatha) and leaves him there. Shiva is a conductor during
daytime and is a Robinhood who steals from the rich and corrupt
posing as the handicap Vishnu. He is never suspected as Vishnu
looks exactly like Shiva and with the stolen money, he takes care
of not only Vishnu but also 800 other institutions for physically
handicapped in the state! A gang including Meena, Ramesh Kanna and
two others assists him in the operations. A college student
Lavanya (Kiran) falls in love with Shiva and later Shiva comes to
know that she is the sister-in-law of the old villain who made
Vishnu a handicap. Matters become worse when Sundara Moorthy
becomes the chairman for the institute for physically handicapped
and in a gore spashed predictable climax, Shiva eliminates him.
The major drawback of the film is a predictable old story that we
have seen a dozen times before and the director K.S.Ravikumar
seems to be more interested to package Ajith as a male sex symbol
who provides glamour, glitz through stylishly choreographed song
sequences. However, the saving grace is Ajith’s performance as the
innocent and handicap Vishnu and the seven peppy songs tuned by
Vidyasagar. Is the theme song a clear lift from Ilayaraja’s
classic Nayakan? Meena and Kiran have nothing much to do,
but show oodles of glamour in the songs.
Verdict: Average |
