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by Petrichor Fri Nov 23, 2012 12:29 pm
When she said she preferred the SRK love triangle to the tamil movie about "spitting" (LOL..thuppu = spitting), I just corrected her, got up and switched screens.
Vijay was always considered the poor man's Rajnikanth and did very well for himself in Tier B TN cities amongst half-saree girls that couldn't relate to the urbane chic-ness of Chennai and Coimbatore, let alone Mumbai. His initial movies were mostly forgettable except for indelible visual trauma induced by copying Telugu movies color schemes using primary colors that are designed to appeal to infants and infantile minds. Of course, all this was a while ago - the half-sarees have been en masse traded-in for churidhars and the desperate college girls of "mofussil" towns now consider themselves on par with equally desperate Naarthie college girls from towns like Jaipur. Back to Vijay....
The movie is, as all such movies are, a giant product placement for Vijay and not in any subliminal sense either. He appeals to the nameless Selvaraju's that toil tirelessly alongside Milka Singhs of the Indian Army in this movie. He is a DIA specialist and keeps his covert affairs secret from everyone who does not ask him explicitly. Vijay has graduated from running around verdant paddies of interior TN to landing a Naarthie heroine (Kajal Aggarwal) and cavorting around Mumbai hotspots. His primary objective seems to be cracking *.* sleeper cells by cutting off the head so they become "coma cells" (his words, not mine). All terrorists have appropriately Pakistani sounding names and there are politically correct Indian Muslims serving honorably alongwith Vijay. Kajal contributes to the vivaciousness of proceedings by pouting her lips and waiting endlessly for Vijay to "kiss" her. He helps out asking her to close her eyes and open her lips.
After 2+ plus hours of this nonsense and Vijay delivering one-liners in Hindi, Murugadoss (Director) brings it to a tame ending and the Indian Republic breathes again.
If you have not done Vijay movies and feel the need to have "been there, done that" this is as good a Vijay movie as any, I suppose.
Vijay was always considered the poor man's Rajnikanth and did very well for himself in Tier B TN cities amongst half-saree girls that couldn't relate to the urbane chic-ness of Chennai and Coimbatore, let alone Mumbai. His initial movies were mostly forgettable except for indelible visual trauma induced by copying Telugu movies color schemes using primary colors that are designed to appeal to infants and infantile minds. Of course, all this was a while ago - the half-sarees have been en masse traded-in for churidhars and the desperate college girls of "mofussil" towns now consider themselves on par with equally desperate Naarthie college girls from towns like Jaipur. Back to Vijay....
The movie is, as all such movies are, a giant product placement for Vijay and not in any subliminal sense either. He appeals to the nameless Selvaraju's that toil tirelessly alongside Milka Singhs of the Indian Army in this movie. He is a DIA specialist and keeps his covert affairs secret from everyone who does not ask him explicitly. Vijay has graduated from running around verdant paddies of interior TN to landing a Naarthie heroine (Kajal Aggarwal) and cavorting around Mumbai hotspots. His primary objective seems to be cracking *.* sleeper cells by cutting off the head so they become "coma cells" (his words, not mine). All terrorists have appropriately Pakistani sounding names and there are politically correct Indian Muslims serving honorably alongwith Vijay. Kajal contributes to the vivaciousness of proceedings by pouting her lips and waiting endlessly for Vijay to "kiss" her. He helps out asking her to close her eyes and open her lips.
After 2+ plus hours of this nonsense and Vijay delivering one-liners in Hindi, Murugadoss (Director) brings it to a tame ending and the Indian Republic breathes again.
If you have not done Vijay movies and feel the need to have "been there, done that" this is as good a Vijay movie as any, I suppose.
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