Vetrimaaran is one of the most famous and renowned Indian film-maker, writer and producer who works in Tamil Cinema. He's the recipient of 5 National Film Awards and 2 Filmfare South Awards. In this blog we're going to suggest some of the must watch & highly acclaimed movies of Vetrimaaran.
1. Visaranai(2015)
Cast : Attakathi Dinesh, Samuthirakani, Aanandi, Kishore ....
Run-Time : 1h 46m
IMdB Rating : 8.4/10
Music By : G.V.Prakash Kumar
Genre : Crime/Drama
Language : Tamil
Streaming : YouTube & Apple TV
Plot : Pandi(Dinesh), Murugan, Afzal and Kumar four Tamil labours who woks in Guntur, AP got framed in a robbery case and taken to the police station, tortured by the police as the case needs to close the case in a short time. They are forcefully confessed to the crime which they didn't do.
Muthuvel(Samuthirakani) comes along with his team for an undercover operation to AP. When these four members produced in court, they tell the magistrate that they are innocent and how the police molested them at police station.
Muthuvel helps them by translating their vouching as they aren't the native people. Court set them free and before they leave Muthuvel asks them to help in a high profile case. He asks their help to nab K.K(Kishore). What happened next is the remaining story.
Review : Visaranai is a well crafted film. Performances, screenplay, music, cinematography, action and editing everything is pitch-perfect. Visaranai has everything ...raw, emotional. terror, realistic, painful, gritty, rustic, innocence what not. Finally if you are a fan of hard hitting dramas don't miss this masterpiece.
2. Vada Chennai(2018)
Run-Time : 2h 44m
IMdB Rating : 8.4/10
Music By : Santosh Narayanan
Genre : Crime/Action
Language : Tamil
Streaming : Hotstar, SonyLiv & MX Player
Plot : Guna(Samuthirakani), Senthil(Kishore), Velu(pawan) and Jawa Pazhani kill a high-profile gangster Rajan(Ameer) in North Chennai, then they become the new rulers there. But they split after Senthil and Velu ditched Guna and Pazhani who are now in Jail. soon after they bailed out both the groups start fighting among themselves.
Anbu(Dhanush) taken to jail as he is accused in a case along with Siva who's the brother of Velu. Velu gang starts harassing Anbu and threatens him. When Anbu helps Raju, one of the henchmen of Senthil, he helps Anbu to enters in Senthil's ward. Anbu, who is a great Carroms player starts befriending with Senthil. Guna's people from another block are waiting to kill Senthil. When Anbu suggests Senthil to conduct a Carroms tournament, he agrees. When Senthil comes out of his block as he wants participate in the tournament, he got attacked by Guna's henchmen and there Anbu backstabbed him. Raju has seen this but tells no one as Anbu helped him earlier. Then Anbu tells Raju why he did so.
Anbu along with kannan(brother of Padma) kills Java Pazhani when he went to him not to harass Padma(Aishwarya), who's the love interest of him. Thambi(Balaji) brings Anbu to Guna to excuse him. Chandra(Andrea) suggest Guna to help Anbu as he may useful to kill Senthil. Guna helps Anbu and in return he asks Anbu to go to jail, join Senthil's gang and kill him. That's how Anbu landed in jail. After the attack he bails out by Guna.
A road contractor asks both Guna and Senthil for help as Hameed a local from Anbu's area petitioned against his project. Guna asks Anbu's help again then Anbu explain Rajan's story to Padma and Kannan.
Rajan(Ameer), who was a boss to all these four gangsters once. He was good person and help the locals always when they needed. Both Chandra and Rajan got married as they were in love. When Rajan opposed Muthu's plan of vacating the local's for project. then Muthu asks these four members to backstab Rajan and they did so. Guna married Chandra, who has lust for from the beginning.
At the meeting Anbu opposes Guna and stands for his livelihood. Furious Guna now reveal to Senthil brother-in-law that Anbu was the person who attacked Senthil. Chandra who loves Rajan madly decided to avenge Rajan's death and she forms a gang with few of the Rajan's trusted henchmen secretly. She offered her to anbu but he denied it and decided to fight his own. Anbu beats Senthil's brother-in-law and leaves him. Then he goes to Guna's home and warned him to leave him and his hood alone.
Review : Vada Chennai is the first installment from a planned trilogy by Vetrimaaran. It is undoubtedly one of the best gangster drama in Indian cinema. As the film has many characters, it takes time to characters introduction and settlement. It has multiple time-lines and goes on a non-linear screenplay. Every character in the film has it's special arc and every character was well written by Vetrimaaran. Entire cast delivered spectacular performances and the film is technically strong. Santosh Narayanan's score gives you adrenaline rush and the soundtrack was chartbuster. Cinematography, editing and productions values are great too. Vetrimaaran once said he stayed in North Chennai for a long time during the script work to understand the characters of the locals, so we can understand how much he was into this film. Finally the gripping multi layered story and brilliant performances will keep you engage till the climax for sure....
3. Aadukalam(2011)
Cast : Dhanush, Kishore, Jayaplan, Tapsee Pannu, Aadukalam Naren....
Run-Time : 2h 40m
IMdB Rating : 8.1/10
Music By : G.V. Prakash Kumar
Genre : Action/Drama/Sport
Language : Tamil
Plot : Pettaikaran(jayapalan) and Rathnasamy(Naren) are most famous persons in cockfights around Madhurai. Pettai wins everytime against Rathnasamy. Karuppu(Dhanush) and Durai(kishore) are two best men of pettai. after the police raid at a rooster tournament, pettai's roosters were abducted by some of the audience so pettai ordered his men to bring back his rooster and to kill if there is any doubt of they were mated with other roosters. karuppu went to Irene's(Tapsee) house in order to bring back the roosters but after seeing Irene, he fell for her.initially she disliked him but gradually she too fell for him.
After losing many fights with pettai, Rathnasamy wants to win atleast one fight with him to make her mother happy and he asks Pettai for a final fight but Pettai rejects the proposal as he thought Rathnasamy was the one who made that raid happened. Rathnasamy asks Ayub's help to make Pettai accept for the final fight but Ayub says no to him and insults him. That night Ayub got killed by an accident and Pettai suspects Rathnasamy. In order to rise a fund for Ayub's daughter marriage Pettai wants to conduct a rooster tournmanet and asks for police permission but Ratnasamy didn't approve and made him beat in the police station. After the humiliation Pettai agreed for the final tournament.
Pettai needs to win all the matches to win the bet. He won first 11 matches and for the final match they have to fight with a steroid injected rooster. Karuppu asks Pettai to allow his rooster for the final match but Pettai rejects his proposal. Although Pettai's refusal, Karuppu decided to participate in the final match as he needs to repay his debts. Knowing this Pettai announced that Karuppu was not from his team. After all these Karuppu wins three consecutive fights and gets the best coach award too. This made Pettai angry and jealous of Karuppu. What happened next is the remaining story.
Review : Aadukalam is one of the greatest film kollywood. The story has everything love, betrayal, ego, jealous and finally redemption. with brilliant writing and making Vetrimaaran took the film to next level. Great performances, soundtrack, score and other technical aspects everything was in top notch. If you are a fan of gripping stories along with the good messages this one is for you...
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