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Vaalu Movie Review
- 8/17/2015 9:18:27 PM
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Cast: Simbu, Hansika, Santhanam, Aditya, VTV Ganesh, Naren, Sriranjani, Mahadevan.Direction: Vijay Chander.Genre: Romance.Duration: 2 hours 34 minutes
Synopsis: Sharp (Simbu), a happy-go-lucky guy, loves Priya (Hansika), a college student, but later learns that she is enagaged to Anbu ( Aditya), a businessman-gangster. Priya wants them to remain friends and Sharp agrees, all the while scheming to make her fall in love with him.
Movie Review: The opening scene of Vaalu features a robbery with men wearing masks that have the faces of the superstars of Tamil cinema — Rajini, Kamal, Ajith and Vijay. Before we start thinking that this is some sophisticated heist, we are shown what they are stealing — a crate of beer! And we get the sight gag of 'Ajith' riding the bike with 'Vijay' on the pillion. This is the moment when debutant director Vijay Chander makes his intentions clear; we are in for an anything-goes movie whose only aim is to keep the fans entertained. This is not necessarily a bad thing and Vaalu ends up as a reasonably enjoyable film.
The plot is actually stitched together from the must-haves of romcoms and masala movies. We have the mandatory 'heroine doing a cutesy thing when the hero first sets sight on her' moment (here, she is seen petting a rabbit!), a plot device that brings them together (a fairly interesting one involving a lost mobile phone), a wisecracking friend ( Santhanam,
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