Vettaiyan Movie Review

In Jai Bhim, Prakash Raj, who plays a police officer, tells the story of a young girl who made an informal report against a harasser, and how Prakash Raj took action outside of the book. Surya, a devoted follower of the law, says little about it. Though this sequence is kept in a movie to maintain balance, the fact that the comment remains unanswered, implying that it is quietly justified, is a problem. Ideally, Surya should have spoken about how the law, process, and challenges of it is not a mere framework to impose punishments, but in fact to confirm if someone is guilty or not, as in that particular incident, the court takes a long time to confirm if the complaint is factual and not a false allegation -- Looking at this film, I believe the filmmaker saved such necessary dialogue scenes for this film(which is not a nice thing to do).

Except for the much-needed police brutality, Jai Bhim contains no additional fight or chase scenes. It was a well packed courtroom drama. Vettaiyan has a similar flavour, with the exception of a few action scenes that serve as fillers. Fortunately, they aren't particularly long. Apart than that, it was a good day for Rajini. Though he couldn't fight or perform stunts, his presence was welcome in the rest of the drama. Though his appearance and manner were more reminiscent of Jailer and Darbar, it was still superior to the combination of the two. It's nice to watch Rajini performing in a film where his main character, whom the film glorifies for half of the film, turns out to be wrong and he moves on graciously accepting it. I was worried that it would be cat and mouse between Amitabh Bachan and Rajini, who have very different ideas, but it wasn't. We usually bring someone from North India and use them badly, but this time everything went well with Amithab. Fahad Fazhil appeared to play a little sidekick role. This could be due to his performance or aura, but the film does not suffer from irritating-wingman syndrome, as many other films have recently. Not only that, Rajnini and Fahad had a better chemistry, without Fahad's persona, the film would have lost its humour completely. As Patrick (Fahad) used to be a thief before adopting Adhiyan's (Rajini) ways, Rajini and Amitabh appear to follow a similar path.

Though the theme is around how individual judgments might be incorrect and how fair trials are a manner of ensuring justice, the method of demonstrating this is through an example of an antagonist who runs an ed-tech business (essentially imitating Byjus) and utilizes illegal business practices. The film might have simply criticized those unethical business methods, but several dialogues and sequences portraying online classes and entrance exams in a negative light feel off since they are very debatable.

The hard disk is a significant entity in the film; if it had arrived to the hero sooner, the film would have become fully dependent, and many lives could have been saved. But no. The hard disk  had not reached the protogonist not as a result of enemy interference, but rather due to an uncommon address error that does not land properly. Also, why couldn't it have been communicated via email or WhatsApp instead?

It's been a long time since there was an entertaining Rajni film to watch. Overall, it's enjoyable to watch and not disappointing. There was a high quality rendering of Guns and bulltet during the title card don't miss that.