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| INDIRA
VIZHA MOVIE REVIEW |
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by : Behindwoods review board |
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Starring:
Srikanth, Namitha, Hema Malini,
Ragasiya, Radha Ravi, Nassar,
Vivek
Direction:K.
Rajeswar
Music:
Yadheesh
Production:
ANKK Movies |
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Just
when we thought that Tamil cinema
was getting consistent in providing
quality content we get a shocker
that threatens to undo all the
good work done by conscientious
film makers. Glamour has been
a regular ingredient in cinema
over the years, but glamour
can easily spill over into vulgarity
and that is exactly what has
happened in Indira Vizha.
A movie generally relies on
a script, glamour only spices
up things at certain points
in the script. But, here, the
movie seems to be constructed
exclusively around glamour (read
vulgarity). Srikanth is a man
of ideals. He wants to climb
up the ladder of life, but not
at the cost of his ideals or
moralities. Namitha is hook
or crook kind of person. She
will go to any extent to get
what she wants, ideals or moralities
hold no importance for her.
Srikanth works in a TV channel
and Namitha is a model who is
looking for good openings. Srikanth
helps her get those good offers
in his channel and love happens
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pair. But Namitha has very little belief
in true love and things like that. She decides
that she has to catch a bigger fish and
that’s how she hooks the head of the
TV channel (Nasser) and gets married to
him even though he is a many years elder
to her. Srikanth obviously feels cheated
and also finds himself in the queer position
of having his ex-girlfriend as his boss’
wife. That is when Namitha shows the depths
of deviousness of her character. One would
think that she has got what she wants in
life. But, having Srikanth as one of her
subordinates makes her think otherwise.
Srikanth refuses her advances and an infuriated
Namitha lays a scandalous accusation on
him. How Srikanth finds his way out of the
quagmire is Indira Vizha.
As said earlier, this movie has been made
with the sole intent of making full use
of Namitha’s oomph factor. The glamour
and intended titillation doesn’t end
with just Namitha or her costumes, there
are loads of explicit stuff in the name
of dialogues and double entendres appear
in every other frame. No surprises as to
why this film was given an A certificate,
one suspects that the censor board officials
would have contemplated a stronger rating
if it was permitted by the rule book. Also,
the habit of massacring old classics is
catching on. This time the casualty is the
evergreen ‘Oru Kinnathai Endhigiren’
song from Vasanthamaligai.
The storyline of Indira Vizha has been taken
straight from the 2004 Hindi film Aitraaz
which had featured Akshay Kumar, Kareena
Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra, directed by
Abbas Mustan. There, the same subject had
been treated with a bit more discretion
and respect for the audience.
Srikanth’s career will not benefit
in any way from this movie. Namitha is all
about glamour gone overboard and nothing
else. Also, her dancing skills have appeared
strangely stagnant since the time she entered
cinema, she should be doing something about
it. Hema Malini makes a brief appearance
as lawyer. Vivek joins the double entendre
team for a few scenes without much impact.
Ragasiya too does her part in furthering
the dialogue degeneracy of the movie. Nasser
and Radha Ravi play their parts, but one
feels that such a movie is simply not worth
their class.
Indira Vizha is a movie that might leave
one feeling despondent about the fact that
even while brave film makers are coming
out with neat and quality movies, such products
find their way into theaters. The character
of Namitha in Indira Vizha is of the outlook
that ‘one can succeed even at the
cost of one’s ideals’. Rajeshwar,
the director of Kovilpatti Veeralakshmi,
seems to have embraced this idea while making
this movie.
Verdict:
Glamour and double entendres only!
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