Review of Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu

Yes, Vettaiyadu Villaiyadu (VV) is released at last. It was a surprise when I came to know that VV is releasing on Friday. It had everything for a Kamal movie in it, except his usual experiments, which he is not doing in his last few movies. In VV he almost resembles the character he played in Soora Samhaaram a 1988 movie. But I just feel that there has been too much of a blood shed or violence in the movie, which is becoming a trend in Tamil movies of late. Now, to the review of the story. VV starts with a nice song and a fight sequence, which Kamal has done quite nicely. Then starts the story of the movie with the kidnapping of Prakashraj's daughter and Kamal going to Madurai, just to find out that the girl is dead. Prakashraj has done a nice role of a father, and we are missing quite a few Kamal regulars in his movies like Nasser, Santhanabarathi and Nagesh. Then the story then moves back to Chennai and it seems that Kamal has forgotten about the murder and one fine day he gets a call from his chief telling that Prakashraj and his wife are executed by someone in New York, oh, yes, they had gone to New York, the Big Apple. Then he wants to go there to investigate the crime and his chief lets him. He is joined there by a detective named Anderson and with him he investigates and he doesn't find any things. Then, things are starting to happen all of a sudden in Kamal's favor and an incident happens which is similar to what happened before Prakashraj's daughter's murder. Then they find out quite a few dead bodies and start to narrow down their investigation. And then at the end (oh, yeah, and this is in the first half of the movie before the interval) they killers are shown and there comes the intermission. When it starts all again Kamal and the detective narrows their list of 10 people and then what happens after the interval is the rest of the story, which I don't want to reveal here. Yeah, at the end, Kamal does it again, a cool and composed acting by him and somehow he manages to get a beautiful girl in his movie, not Jyothika, she is cute thought, I am talking about Kamalinee, even though she only does a cameo of a role, but she has done it well. Overall, a film that starts in Chennai goes to the Big Apple then comes back again to Chennai and a lovely camera by Ravi and superb acting performance by Kamal, Jo, and Prakashraj has done the trick for the movie. But, one real let down though in the movie has been the resemblance of the Director's Gautam Menon's previous police flick, Kakka Kakka, same psychopathic villains and the use of O*** word and F*** words in the movie, and the raping scenes which made a family who came with their teenage kids to be a bit embarrassed and uncomfortable. If he has reduced those things it would have been a nice one. A great work done by the team!!!!!