Vasu and Saravanan have been friends for life and hold their bonding high above other relationships. When Vasu gets married, his wife cannot stand Saravanan’s attitude and the kind of pranks he keeps pulling on Vasu. She serves Vasu with an ultimatum to break off ties with Saravanan if they were to live together. Vasu derives that once Saravanan gets a girl on his own, the split will be easier and involves in devious means to get him hitched. The cat and mouse game between romance and friendship is the premise on offer for the rest of the movie.
Language:
Tamil
Running Time:
148 min
Rating:
U
Release date:
14 August 2015
Directed by:
 M. Rajesh
Produced by:
Arya
Prasad V Potluri
Written by:
 M. Rajesh
Starring:
Arya
Tamannaah
Santhanam
Vidyullekha Raman
Bhanu
Karunakaran
Sayaji Shinde
Pattimandram Raja
Venniradai Moorthy
Music by:
D. Imman
Shot by:
 Nirav Shah
Editing by:
 Vivek Harshan

What’s Hot

  • Santhanam lives up to his expectations and provides a good dose of funny counter-dialogues to ridicule everyone in his path. The screen writers take it to a new level and even feature a sequence where the lead pair and Santhanam set out to ridicule Vidyullekha and her family and take turns to measure who can go one better than the other. His acting is another highlight as pulls off with ease, the loads of references to Rajnikanth’s movies and persona.
  • As a stark contrast to the songs featured, the background score is quite good. Be it the vintage sad string-notes to suit the sense of helplessness that Santhanam often exudes or the peppy tone to introduce Vishaal’s guest appearance, a wide range of enjoyable sounds feature in the movie to absorb some of the boredom that drenches the audience.
  • The Arya–Tammannah pairing proves to be adorable with her typically ravishing looks and Arya’s trademark innocent characterization topped with his half-baked English diction and is greatly assisted by the costume design. Though there is not as much of desired chemistry between them, they still make up for it with quite a few hilarious sequences that solidify their relationship.

What’s Not

  • The songs in Rajesh’s movies usually work well with the audience. But, the law of averages seem to have caught up with him and barring the opening song “Evanda Friendu…”, the rest of the lot have to be endured much like most parts of the talkie portions of the movie. D. Imman’s recent run of hit songs come to a screeching halt as this is probably one of the forgettable albums from his stable after his post-Kumki resurgence.
  • The original Boss engira Baskaran spontaneity is missing big time in this re-union between Santhanam and Arya. The dialogues are too forced and artificial as opposed to the first time around where they literally set the screen afire with their unrestrained chemistry. The references to Nayanthara start off enjoyable, but over usage eventually leads to aversion.
  • The story and dialogues take women bashing to despicable lows. The entire plot is built on a demeaning take on how women are the reasons for all misfortunes of men and the usage of liquor varieties to prove the point towards the end of the movie goes overboard. Vidyullekha is subjected to constant ridicule simply for her looks which adds fuel to the fire.
  • The ending for the movie seemed abrupt and unconvincing as it did not provide closure or substantiate the path taken by the narration. The most inexplicable part was the wastage of a guest appearance from Vishal, which did not give the intended drive to deliver the purported message that the director was trying to send across.

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Verdict

Verdict Stamp

Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga is no better than any other commercially oriented comedy entertainers that Rajesh has made so far, only that the artificial dialogues, unenjoyable songs, an aversive plot and a ridiculous climax makes sure that the pretty good humour featured in the movie can only dilute the toxic experience!