Veyil-Heat-An Analysis
Veyil-A ray of hope in the dark tunnels of modern Tamil Cinema.
Veyil.
Director-Vasantha Balan.
Music-G.V. Prakash.
Producer-Shankar.
Cast-Pasupati, Bharat, Bhavana, Shreya Reddy and others.
Yesterday I saw Veyil at Santham theatre in the Sathyam multiplex. The movie has left a deep impact on me. The movie starts on a dark night when the rain is pouring incessantly. A man is trying to comfort the pigs that he is rearing, when there is a barrage of knocks on the wooden door. The man hesitates and then opens the door. A group of rowdies enter and inform their boss that a man attacked them when they had tried to kill Kathir, but they had wounded Kathir and he was bound to die.
The rain continues pouring and there is another loud knock on the door. A tall well built bearded man, Murugesan(Pasupathi) stands on the doorstep with a grinding stone in his hand and breaks open the skull of a guy, the next five minutes is just blood, blood and more blood as Murugesan goes on a slaughtering spree killing all the rowdies and finally he comes to the boss whom he tortures ro find out where Bose(another villain) is hiding. He learns his hiding-place and kills the boss.
He comes to an old temple, he prays for his brother and falls to the ground exhausted and bleeding from his injuries. Now the story moves in flashback and Murugesan narrates his story.
He recalls his childhood in a village near Virudhanagar. His father is a butcher who works hard to bring up his four children two boys and two girls and has a happy family.
Murugesan dotes on his younger brother Kathir and his weakness, like any other adolescent is love for movies (especially MGR films) that are screened in a local theatre. But one day life changes for him when his father catches him red-handed from the theatre after he bunks school. The child is severely punished and he runs away from home after taking money and jewels.
His journey is quiet exciting with its share of happiness and sorrows. He is taken under the wings of a theatre projectionist in a nearby town and slowly the theatre becomes his home. He falls in love with Thankam (Malavika, a TV actress from Malayalam) a beautiful girl who lives opposite the theatre but their love story does not have a happy ending. Murukesan is dejected after Thankam’s death and the theatre is demolished.
He decides to return home after 20 years. The rest of the film is all about Murukesan’s mental turmoil’s as he is caught between the deep love showered by his younger brother Kathir (Bharath) who runs a successful advertising agency and his guilt of not being a responsible son or elder brother. There is parallel love story between Meenakshi (Bhavana), an innocent girl and Kathir. Then there is Pandi (Shreya Reddy) who is Murugesan childhood sweetheart.
Kathir's blooming adverising business causes Bose another advertiser to get jealous and he starts targeting Kathir's hoardings and burns them. He decides to kill Kathir and hires goons to do the job. Kathir is stabbed and is rescued in the nick of time by Murugesan, who admits him to the hospital and goes on a revenge spree.
In the end Murugesan dies. The movie in true Shakespeaeran style of tragedy and pathos shows how a boy who leaves home branded as a thief returns to redeem himself and save his family. The initial parts of the movie draw inspiration from the Italian classic "Cinema Paradiso," the second half is revenge and subtle romance. The scenes between Bhavana and Bharat and Pasupathy and Shreya are captured beautifully on screen.
The songs are good and Prakash, who is A.R. Rahman's nephew has a bright future ahead of him. Veyilodu Vilayadi and Uruguthey are excellent. Pasupathy is sure to win an award and he proves he is an excellent character actor.
Go grab tickets and watch this movie. It would be a crime to miss this movie which has been made with so much passion and is not the usual masala type.
My rating 4/5.
posted by mahesh @ 1:22 PM
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