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Viraivil Isai Movie Review
- 11/5/2015 8:00:12 AM
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Cast: Mahendran, Dhilip Roger, Shruthi Ramakrishna, Sanjay Shankar, Delhi Ganesh, Shantharaj, Arppana.Direction: VS Praba.Genre: Drama.Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes
Synopsis: Susi and Ram are roommates who aspire to enter the film industry. Just when they find a producer and are about to start shoot, they become involved in murder!
Review: On paper, the story of Viraivil Isai might seem intriguing, but the film actually takes quite an effort to sit through. Throughout most of its running time, we are led to believe that what we are watching is a drama about the movie industry. For the two protagonists Susi (Mahendran) and Ram (Dhilip Roger), a career in films has been a dream since their childhood. The former wants to become a director and the latter, a music director like AR Rahman. He even shortens his actual name A Rangaraman and calls himself AR Ram. We are shown Susi's efforts at trying to get a producer, his failed romance (the girl feels he is chasing an unattainable dream) and Ram's flirting with Lekha (Shruthi Ramakrishna), a tele-marketing person. The dialogues revolve around films with characters comparing everything to something related to films.
We also get characters we usually find in movies on the film industry — a 40-something guy (played by the late Jaishankar's son Sanjay Shankar) who is still trying to become a hero (and acts as the film's comedian), an elderly father-
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