Vijay's Anna (Thalaivaa) Movie Review

Story:

The movie begins with 1988 background , where a south Indian community is attacked by Marathi community at Bandra/Darawi to quit Bombay/Mumbai. SatyaRaj turns ‘Anna’ (savior) to save people and handovers his son to Nasser who moves to Australia.

Vijay is a professional dancer in Australia , His entry as dance competitor under a dance group, Accidentally Amala Paul meets Vijay and joins his dance group and stages the competition to win the show ,which leads to their love. He travels to Mumbai to meet his father (Sathyaraj) along with Amala Paul and his Father In law (Suresh) to fix his marriage.

Vijaya understands that his father is in trouble and leaves a shock message to Suresh and Amala Paul. Satyaraj tries to meet Suresh & Amala Paul to lighten his son’s love interest, which makes a twist to interval. The Twist is Suresh and Amala Paul are Crime branch Police officers who map Sathyaraj through Vijay in the name of love and marriage.

Sathyaraj gets arrested and on his way back to Police station, he is torched inside the Vehicle, which leads Vijay to take his father position in course of time. He finally ends the Villain with a Twist(:D)

 Performance:

Vijay’s character in the film goes through two phases, one as typical lover; other as leader. He is good as lover with his usual charm, dance & romance. But he is brilliant as leader. Unlike his previous films Anna don’t have much action scenes. Less action and more acting. Amala Paul gives extra sheen. She gets a role to prove her talent and she more than lives up to the expectations. She is super confident and registered a strong impact. Her dancing skills and expressions are her added benefits. However her role is limited in the second half. Santhanam has once again proved that he is unbeatable in comedy zone. Satyaraj is truly outstanding in ANNA character. Ragini Nandwani is gorgeous in small role. Abhimanyu Singh is ok. Nasar is wasted.

 Technical:

Music by GV Prakash in the film is a letdown and the placement of songs are wrong, Action part is also not impressive, Cinematography is average , Nirav Shah’s camera failed to capture the content. Screenplay is good,editing is good.

Analysis:

Anna’s story may sound predictable resembles Kamal Hassan’s Nayakudu, Most of the scenes are copied from Nayakudu and Vijay tried to enact as Rajini in Basha. But film is filled with many twists and turns, Two great suspense, one just before the interval and one just at the right time, climax The run time of the film is almost 3 hours. First half is fast paced with romance, dance, funny scenes like Chemistry between Santhanam- Amalapaul is glorified better than Vijay-Amalapaul in the movie and second half is good with twits and revenge drama. Overall, Anna can be watched one time.

• Starts off in mumbai…Satyaraj and Najar into action
• Title cards being rolled showing great leaders of the history in the background …interesting
• Vijay as Viswa..stylishly shot entrance
• Tamil Pasanga song time..simple street dance steps by Vijay
• Scenes involving Vijay, Amala paul and Santanam are mildly funny…nothing much happening since past 20 mins
• Huge cheer for Sam Anderson from the audience..now yaar indha salai oram song..good one
• Vijay and Amala paul’s dance practice scene with fractured leg is just awesome
• Movies has taken an interesting turn…curiosity being build up for some twist I guess
• Scenes from the time Vijay lands in mumbai till he meets Satyaraj are very engrossing
• Ming boggling twist , totally unexpected…brilliant !!
• This Thalaivaa is moving towards becoming a classic….just keep going like this
• Almost every scene since past 20-30 mins has an epic moment….now comes the famous hand rising scene…Thalaivaa rocking !
• Violence created during Maharashtran wedding scene followed by some preaching dialogs are routine
• Screenplay in video tape searching scene is good
• Vijay’s dance in vanganna vanakkanganna song is full of grace
• Yet another twist..ok stuff..moving towards climax now
• Climax fight between Vijay and Abhimanyu singh is good, instance when Vijay chants villain’s name is the peak moment.

Movie Rating: 3.75/5