Sakthi

Viswasam has a big star cast - with Thala, Nayanthara, Robo shankar, vivek sir, kovai sarala and Thambi durai. With this cast, you would go into the theatres expecting a pakka family entertainer. Siva doesn't disappoint you here. Screenplay is good, no unwanted scenes ( This has always been Siva's plus point). Thala's screen presence is shown once again - such an elegant actor that fires up the crowd instantly. Especially during adchi thooku song where he gives it all to put up a good show with his dance. Confrontations with the villain, Jagapati Babu was also very well executed. As much as i enjoyed the movie, i have found a lot of flaws: The interval sequence is the most important part of a big commercial film. No matter how dull and routine the first half was, if the director manages to end it on a high-voltage note, it will revive the audiences’ faith in the filmmaker. It encourages them to return to their seats after a short break even as they know deep inside their heart that, usually, they will have to suffer another hour and a half of dull and routine moments. Director Siva couldn’t even conceive a decent interval sequence, promising a better second half. Siva has typecast every character in the film with a premise which the director has already milked to the maximum in Veeram and to some more in Vedalam. A happy-go-lucky guy living in a small village. He has a heart of gold and nerves of steel (such a cliché). He is loved by elders, children and all jobless men in his village except for some unscrupulous men. No, I am not talking about Vinayagam of Veeram. Now, he goes by the name of Thooku Durai. He meets a beautiful girl, who is rich, sensitive and well-educated. She visits his village for professional reasons. Again, her name is not Koppuram Devi. In this film, she is called Niranjana (Nayanthara). Niranjana is introduced to us as a doctor, who is touring villages providing medical services. A song and a few scenes later, she asks Durai to marry her. She even throws away an opportunity to study further at Stanford University, when she finds out that she is pregnant (so typical). Later, we never get to know what happened to her career. It never gets mentioned in the film again. In the second half, we know her as an ambitious and no-nonsense businesswoman. Continuity, go to hell. The director doesn’t care about anything as long as he somehow reaches the finish line. He hops from a song to family sentiment scene to a fight scene, and to a song. He repeats. Siva puts the audience on a seemingly never-ending loop of one-dimensional characters. Durai arrives in Mumbai, right on schedule, when his teenage daughter Shweta comes under an attack. He saves her life, obviously. Grows closer to her, again obviously. The main tension in the plot is whether Niranjana will have a change of heart after realising her husband’s love for his family. I wonder, what was the director thinking? Did he think that he could create tension out of something so obvious? Didn’t anyone tell him that whether or not Durai and Niranjana reunite does not really give the audience an emotional thread that they could hold onto until the end I really wish this is Thala's last movie with Director Siva for a while. They need of a break is evident.