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Arindhum Ariyamalum -Review

By Vikram Sridhar

Location : Chennai

E-mail : vikram420mech@yahoo.co.in

Having missed the box office with Kurumbu, Director Vishnuvardhan has striked it now with Arinthum Ariyamalum.The backbone of the entire movie is Yuvan’s music and the acting of Arya and Prakash Raj. The story revolves around Satya (Navdeep), who travels to Chennai from Nagercoil to study engineering. Here he stays with Five Star Krishna. In the clichéd way he falls in love with his classmate Sandhya (Samiksha). Then during an episode Sandhya gets shot in her leg by Kutty (Arya), the son of Adhi Narayanan (Prakash Raj) a local tough guy. While Sandhya gets hospitalized, Satya helps the police to trace Kutty and gang. But this leads to Satya discovering that Adhi and Kutty are his father and brother. How Satya resists this new found bond and the further consequences is the rest of the story. The other main casts in the story are Thyagarajan (Adithya), Nayar Raman and Sangili Murugan.

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The neat screenplay and wonderful tunes keeps the audience gripping. Maybe Navdeep was chosen for the docile character of Satya. Other wise he doesn’t offer much. Samiksha is the usual Mumbai film girl. She comes in the sizzling songs and looks better in western dress than the others.

Though he did Ullam Ketkume, this is the first film to be released for Arya. With his striking and unusual looks he keeps the audience gripped. Any role nowadays for Prakash Raj seems to be a cakewalk. This one too, which he has done with élan provides variations in the character both as a don and as a father to Satya.

The scene where the softness in Adhi shows the father in him to Satya is very good. Producer Punnagai Poove Geetha makes an impressive cameo appearance as the collector out to rid the town of rowdies

Director Vishnuvardhan has woven a good screenplay which shifts from romance to action and to a tale of father-son bonding but laced with humour. There seems to a marked difference between his previous work Kurumbu and this. Hope he continues this

On the whole a don story mixed with music, humour and sentiment.