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First day First Show - Sivakasi
 
Sivakasi
Vijay
Vijay Asin


Tuesday, November 1 was a day of firsts for me.

The first day of November, which incidently, is 11.
The first day of the New year for most Indian businesses (Diwali: books of accounts are closed, and new ones begun)
The first day in theatres for Vijay starrer Sivakasi
The first time I see a Vijay film in a theatre
The first time I go to a first day, first show
The first time I watched a movie without looking too hard for some intellectual appeal

A friend asked me to describe the movie Sivakasi. Only half jokingly, I said "No technical merit. No story to talk of. No artistic merit. No acting merit. No songs worth the music director's fee. No nothing! But one of the best movie I've seen"

That I still feel is true. For the first time in my life, I came face to face with the kind of frenzy Rajni Kanth must have gotten bored of in the 80s. And I can see why he got to where he is, if he was all that Vijay is and more. And he is.

A movie such as Sivakasi needn't worry about reviewers revealing the plot for there's no plot to speak off. A few disparate story lines thrown in together, seasoned with a couple of songs and tossed with fast fight sequences (and can everybody please look beyond the matrix? Please!) served loud and hot on screens.

The movie is the perfect mix of loud, crass dialogues, spoken directly to the front benchers, a bit too fast paced music, tear inducing sentiment, saliva inducing glamour and blood inducing action.
And to hold it all together, a flashback.

Asin, the flavour of the month in Kollywood, encourages the hero to return to his home, right a wrong he purportedly committed, and unite his family. So off our hero goes, to his rural outpost. To find that things have gone from bad to worse and goes about rectifying it with the help of some friends and tongue in cheek & leg in the ass action.

If the three hours or so I spent in one of the seediest theatres in Madras was anything to go by, Vijay has a winner on his hand. Flowers showered on screen, loud whistles, pumped up adrenaline and dances on aisles. All this and more.

Friends tell me this is the perfect sequel to Vijay's Thirupaachi and Gilli. They tell me that the movie has been taken in the same mould as gilli and thirupachi and made better.

I can only wait for the next. With a bag full of firecrackers to celebrate it.

Courtesy:

Teakada.

www.teakada.com


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