Vellithirai- a review

Watched the tamil movie Vellithirai yesterday. Another movie that chronicles the sufferings of cine artistes. The first half of the movie is extremely good. The director has really enjoyed shooting the movie. Prakashraj is d perfect foil for Kannappan alias DILEEPKANTH and a better role is M S Bhaskar as Ramgopalsharma. Though it is a bit cinematic,the tantrums of the stars are shown well. The problem with the movie is that the director seems to have tried to make the film both commercially and critically acclaimed. My opinion is that there is no scope for that in the tamil film industry. There is one dialogue which caught my fancy-

"Cinemala rendu paer thaan, onnu vaippu kedachavan

innonnu vaippu kedaikkathavan"

The perfect way to sum up an industry infested with artistes who think anything goes with ppl. but mind you once ppl get a taste of good cinema ur tenure ends. But ppl don't seem to want to get out. A special mention to "Thotta" a movie i saw recently. one of the worst movies i've seen in recent times. How stale the plot could get? Yet another gangster movie. Directors plz grow up. If u want commercial success u can as well direct erotic movies that are a different genre. Plz dont' dirty the mainstream.

Getting back to the review, Prithviraj is just wonderful but he reminds u of the karthik of Mozhi. Especially the scene where he comes to know that his story has been stolen. U can imagine the sorrow if ur intellectual property is stolen. Gopika is ok. Not much of work to do though.

Lakshmi Rai in a small but significant role. The climax is a bit contrived and lifted froma english movie but it really winds up the movie well. In a jist a movie which takes a dig at d cinema industry at the cost of commercial success. good work by the script writer.(hez a malayali. and with due credits to " udaynannu thaaram"). Watch the movie. It is worth the effort.