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Aayudham Seivom Movie Review |
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Starring:
Sundar.C, Anjali, Vivek, Napoleon, Nazer, Vijayakumar,
Suganya, Manivannan
Direction: Udayan
Music: Srikanth Deva
Production:
Pyramid Saimira Production
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With
a whole bunch of movies, based out of Gandhian principles
particularly ahimsa, having been released and faded into oblivion
in Bollywood, Tamil cinema is just about taking up the Mahatma’s
name and principles in hand. While infusing the preaching
of Mahatma into the script without making it sound like a
sermon is a way of doing it, smearing it all over for the
sake of sticking to the rules of Tamil cinema bible that provides
much emphasis on melodrama and less on logical thinking seems
to be director Udayan’s method.
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Although
Aayudham Seivom only has the ingredients of a commercial
potboiler – fights, an item number, a little more
than below-average script, and a comedy track –
what makes it stand a little apart is the basic idea
of its plot. Not to mention, the essence is lost in
the packaging – after all Sundar C has a fan following
and has to maintain the decorum meant for his movies.
Sundar C plays the hit man who makes a living out of
hooliganism and other petty crimes. He can be hired
for any such deeds other than assassination because
he considers killing as an act even beneath his standards.
While he is hired to steal the documents that have crucial
evidence relating to Collector Suganya and her family’s
death from the old and good-hearted lawyer Vijayakumar,
the old man is accidentally killed and in his death-bed
wishes Sundar C to ‘live long’.
Sundar C, disturbed by this, is meanwhile directed by
a court, for another offence, to perform social service
in a Gandhi Museum in
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Madurai.
He wins the curator Nasser’s heart by employing novel
methods to increase the visitors to the museum – like
announcing prizes such as a handshake with Malavika. After
his brief stint at the museum, he embarks on a journey to
probe and discover who is guilty of Suganya’s death
and with the help of Gandhian principles brings the culprit
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The
role seems to be tailor-stitched to perfection for Sundar
C. He performs stunts like an insurmountable hero and
runs around trees with his lead pair Anjali on the other
hand. Above all, he sets Manivannan right of his monstrosity
with the help of a few patriotism-evoking dialogues
on TV.
Kattrathu Tamil Anjali has long shed her widely accepted
‘homely’ image and the makeover has deprived
her of her usual drapes leaving her with scanty outfits,
in exotic locales. Vivek’s comedy fuels the otherwise
dragging screenplay in many places and announces Vivek’s
regaining glory. Manivannan, Vijaykumar, Napoleon, and
Suganya are |
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a
few noteworthy members among the cast. Vindhya swings to the
Tamil version of ‘Khaike Paan Banaaraswala’ while
Malavika restricts herself to a few scenes devoid any gyration.
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‘Innum
Oru Vaanam’ sung by Girish and Chinmayi is the pick
of Srikanth Deva’s music and K.S Selvaraj’s camera
has done wonders to the song.
Verdict: Give it a miss, you can afford
to!
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