Vizha is a rural story of love between a ‘thappu’ artist and an ‘oppari’ singer, two people who thrive on deaths for a living. They meet during one such death and their love blossoms. The rest of the movie is about the typical obstacles that they are faced with and how things resolve in the end.
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Language:
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Tamil
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Running Time:
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138 mins
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Rating:
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U
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Release date:
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27 December 2013
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Directed by:
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Barathi Balakumaran
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Produced by:
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Rama Narayanan
Sunir Kheterpal
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Written by:
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Barathi Balakumaran
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Starring:
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Mahendran
Malavika Menon
Theni Murugan
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Music by:
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James Vasanthan
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Shot by:
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UK Senthil Kumar
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Editing by:
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Praveen K. L
Srikanth N.B
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Distributed by:
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Sri Thenandal Films
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What’s Hot
- Lead hero Mahendran, who was a former child artist, shows real promise and comes across with a natural and earnest portrayal. He resembles a young Arun Vijay, so much. The pretty new heroine Malavika Menon looks innocent and emotes decently. The two make a good pair.
- Among the other actors, Yugendran and the actor who plays Mahendran’s ‘mama’ shine. We have the quintessential hero’s friends who come up with some funny moments and also throw up a few pivotal moments which shape the movie.
- The hero’s little back-story about how much he loves his instrument, though clichéd, is sentimental and features a very smart young boy putting up a sprightly show.
- James Vasanthan has come up with some pleasant numbers and there is a whole lot of ‘death music’ as celebration of death happens to be the core of the movie. Death has never been portrayed so lightheartedly and ‘matter-of-factly’ on screen before in Tamil cinema.
What’s Not
- We have characters such as Kadhal Dhandapani and a loud female antagonist who are irritating to the senses. They give a feeling of seeing a 80s Tamil movie with their overacting and old fashioned villainy.
- In spite of director Bharathi Balakumaran’s novel setting for the love story, the movie looks dated with the situations, treatment and the making reminiscent of yesteryear flicks.
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