Must Watch Vijay Movies

Vijay, probably the second most famous hero in Tamil Nadu after Rajni is definetly a great hero to watch. Likely to take the position of Rajni once he leave the Industry. I like Vijay movies for action, fantasy and dance. According to me the best dancer-cum-hero in Tamil Industry. I liked most of the Vijay movies during a period in which Vijay acted Kaadhalukku Mariyaathai, Thulladha Mannum Thullum but then slowly he started taking audience for granted or he selected only masala movies. But now offlate I think he is coming back with some good set of movies like Thupakki.

Below are the Top 10 Vijay movies according to me who is neither a core Vijay fan or Vijay basher.

1. Thupakki

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A7NrebfeZ4

Year      : 2012
Direction : A.R. Murugadoss
Actors    : Kajal Agarwal, Sathyan, Vidyut Jamwal


One of the best action movies ever released in Tamil cinema

2. Kaadhalukku Mariyaadhai

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7LvYTMNkcg

Year      :1997
Direction : Fazil
Actors    : Shalini (Debut)
Music     : Illayaraja (Special mention :) )

Created a wave in 1997 with the songs and kind of love story.EVen today the songs are heard by music lovers

3. Kushi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Sb9NNTrNE

Year     : 2000
Direction: SJ Surya
Actor    : Jyothika

Simple love story showing ego between them. Superb Screenplay. I could say "Kushi" started a trend in Tamil cinema of using double meaning dialogues deliberately in movies.

4. Thulladha Manamum Thullum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjP-eOho8pI

Year      : 1999
Direction : Ezhil
Actors    : Simran



The best emotional climax in Vijay movies till date. Slow moving love story and good songs.



5. Gilli

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6IRRHiWrGk&list=PLC7363AE9544210AC

Year      : 2004
Direction: Dharani
Actor     : Thrisha, Prakash Raj



Fast paced action movie remade in Tamil from Telugu movie Okkudu. " Appadi Podu" song created a sensation not only in Tamil Nadu but also throughout India. Even today every DJ party in India gives 3 min for this song.

6. Pokkiri /Nanban :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZDvh_czsDI

Year       : 2007
Direction : Prabhu Deva
Actor      : Asin

I would recommend Pokiri for any movie lover across the globe. Originally from Telugu, this movie deserves a remake in Tamil and Vijay was right in grasping the opportunity as usual.

7. Poove Unakaaga

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E995KS9tAjI

Year     : 1996
Direction : Vikraman
Actor     : Sangeetha, Anju Aravind




Tamil cinema which was not ready to recognize Vijay even after 14 movies as hero, turned towards Vijay from this movie. Came 18 years back but still fresh

8. Priyamudan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xTE0j9AUBs

Year      : 1998
Direction : Vincent Selva
Actors    : Kausalya

Brave attempt by Vijay to do a negative role. When I recollect this movie , I think why Vijay dont have the guts to take risk nowadays when he had that much during late 90's

9. Kaavalan

http://www.einthusan.com/movies/watch.php?tamilmoviesonline=Kavalan&lang=tamil&id=31

Year      : 2011
Direction : Siddique
Actor     : Asin




Based on Bodyguard from Malayalam. I feel Vijay did a better job than the original hero. Also, Kaavalan gave Vijay a much needed Hit when 4-5 of his movies didnt do well at box office.

10.Nanban

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhG5ToCpNh4




Year       : 2012
Direction : Shankar
Acor        : Srikanth and Jeeva





Based on "3 Idiots" one of the best movies ever made in Indian cinema history, Nanban with a Tamil flavour is good to watch. But if you know Hindi, better watch " 3 idiots "

Jilla Movie Review

Year : 2014

Cast : Vijay, Mohanlal, Kajal Agarwal

Director : Jeevan

Yesterday Veeram and today Jilla. Both are mindless masala movies. In the process of giving overall entertainment both the movies become so much ordniary and nothing new. While the story is good and Director had good scope for a superb movie, Jilla's script was bit too long and very average. The story was set when we go for the Interval and from that point screen play become usual.

Shivan is a Big Don and Shakthi his adopted son. Unlike normal Don story who has a another Don in the same city, this story is different and good. But the screenplay is boring and did not keep you engaged. 

Positives :  Both Vijay and Mohanlal are postives to the movie who tried their level best to do justice to the script. Songs are better but the easily the director could have avoided one or two songs. Vijay's charismatic looks are getting better and better with his age, especially the dance performaces by both Vijay and Kajal are good. Unusual Don story. 

Negatives : Average or slightly bad screenplay. Though we know it is a masala movie, even there we expect some logical twists. I felt the twists should have had more logic. Very long second half.

Mindless Masala entertainer.

Rating : 6 out of 10. 



Veeram Movie review

Shirt white, Dhoti white, Hair white, dhaadi white...whito white !!! Good watchable masala movie for the weekend. Mostly saved by comedy and action sequences.

Year : 2014
Cast  : Ajith, Thamanna, Santhanam
Direction : Siva

Jilla or Veeram, Veeram or Jilla. Seems its the first time in 7 years Vijay and Ajith movies are getting released on same day. Somehow because of an Ajith Fan in our group we selected Veeram. Jilla may be tomorrow. Dont know who is the winner yet..

Positives :

There were lot of good surprises when compared to recent Ajith movies. Village subject itself is something new. Good comedy track by Santhanam and Thambi Ramaiah. I could not imagine any recent Ajith movie which had good comedy. Another surprise is about those 3 Action sequences. Really good action with the back ground music and camera shakings. Another good thing was Ajith had fewer punch dialogues :) which were good. Few scenes were class or mass. Lastly the moving script without any slowed parts. I liked the movie since it had an overall masala entertainment with a story.

Negatives :

If those 4 songs could have removed things would have been better. Those songs were just Ajith's tummy revealers and Tamanna exposers :P The well kept secret tummy inside loose white shirt and dhoti were unneccasarily revealed during songs. In few scenes Ajith had enough physical appearance to act as father/uncle for Tamanna.

Good village masala action movie

Rating : 6.5/10

The secret life of Walter Mitty

This flying Poster, trailers about this movie , Ben Stiller himself may give you an initial impression that it is a comedy movie, but I would say the movie is more of drama. I would have preferred a poster like the one at the bottom of this post which will reflect the exact genre of this movie.

Year : 2013
Cast  : Ben Stiller, Kirsten
Direction : Ben Stiller

Ben Stiller is a day dreamer and an average performer goes beyond his own imagination to complete his final responsibility. The management of the magazine decides to close its business and Ben Stiller gets an inspiration to go to any level to complete his final responsibility for the employer in which he served for 16 years.

The movie takes turns in a crazy way yet kept the audience attached. The imagination of the story goes beyond our imagination at one point and we start enjoying watever Ben Stiller does. Final twist was unexpected and emotional.

Not a comedy movie but a adventurous Drama. Good movie among the lot during this Christmas season

Rating : 7 out of 10.

47 Ronin review

Today we went to this movie in 2D without any expectations. Learnt from few of friends that 3D effects have come good. Its a good movie for someone who dont have much idea about this movie.

Year : 2013
Cast  : Keanu Reeves as Kai, Others I dont know :P All are Japanese actors I think
Direction : Carl Rinsch

Matrix fame Keanu Reeves is one of the reason we went to this movie but we all found the movie reasonably good. The courage and sacrifice of 47 samurai's to take revenge for the death of their King is the subject of this movie. Among this 47 is half Japanese and half British Kai ( Our Hero) who was trained by Demons. The movie is fast paced action movie with no twists in screen play as it is a real life story. We have seen many Indian movies with similar stories back in 1970's. This one is a modern version of our old stories.

Visual effects, superb action sequence and moving story are the major positives of this movie. The sacrifice of these 47 samurai could have been told with little more emotions during the movie. Its only before climax Director want to show everything about the sacrifice.

Nice movie to watch.

Rating : 3 out of 5.

Mynaa Movie Review

I just went into this movie on the day of deepavali night..."Good to see once"

Year : 2010
Cast : Vidharth, Amala Pal, Thambi Ramaiah
Direction : Prabhu Soloman

This movie different from the other Tamil movies is quite different from the way the screenplay is made. You will travel the mountain side of kerala in this movie with this director.

Hero (Churli) is an illeterate and madly in love with Mynaa. Their love story continues from their childhood. You can feel a slight sense of Paruthi Veeran during those scenes. Mynaa's mother who is quite indifferent from other mothers of tamil movies plans to get her daughter married with a wealthy person. Angry Hero hits the athai and he is jailed .The real story starts.

Churli escapes from jail on a Deepavalli to save Mynaa and the prison officials are in soup. Jailor and Constable travels to his village to bring Churli back. The comedy of the constable charecter is amazing and that was one of the few things which stays in heart when you come out.

Worth watching today even if you have missed it earlier

Rating : 3.5 out of 5

Biryani Movie Review

Its one of rare week ends when there are two Tamil movies got released and both are watchable and good. Both Biryani and Endrendum Punnagai are good.

Year : 2013
Cast : Karthik, Premji, Hansika
Direction : Venkat Prabhu

1st half is full of comedy and more comedy attempts :P. Premji again doing a role similar to his other roles in Saroja and Mankatha. Time for Premji to start doing some other kind of comedy. Hansika has lost some weight and looking better. Karthick has done a good job both as lover boy and action hero.

The movie leaves you to the break with a good twist and from that point movie gets its speed. Humour was sprinkled even in serious scenes and the movie had really good twists.

Saroja, Mankatha and now Biryani. I would say hatrick for Venkat Prabhu. I would certainly recommend this movie for someone looking weekend fun.

Rating : 3 out of 5.