The leak of some introduction footages of Vijay starrer Villu, which is expected for a release on Pongal, in a website has sent shockwaves among the film fraternity.

Surya has been one such guy in tinsel town who promotes his film to the best getting associated with brands he advertises for. Recently, Sony BMG had organized Vaaranam Aayiram contest where contestants can sing any of the songs from the film. The best ones Sharmila and Sanjay were chosen for winners and Surya felicitated them by presenting a guitar autographed by him. Well, for the other participants everyone was gifted with Vaaranam Aayiram audio CDs.

Winners of this contest were awestruck as they were directly taken to the sets of Ayan where Surya was shooting. More equivalent to the style of Aamir Khan in Bollywood, Surya has been the only actor here who promotes to the extreme. Indeed, he’s got a good publicity tactics and indeed a good PR Manager.

One of the ace filmmakers in town, Suresh Krishna has been treading with his present project ‘Aarmugam’. The film has Bharath and Priyamani in lead roles with Ramya Krishnan performing a prominent character. What’s so special about the film is that it’s a joint venture of unsuccessful personalities in film industry. Earlier, Suresh Krishna had witnessed more flops in his previous directorials; Bharath and Priyamani haven’t been fetching successful cards. And now, they are on their speculative show.

Deva scores music for the film and according to Suresh Krishna, songs have been off a great style. Earlier, both of them had churned out a blockbuster ‘Baasha’ starring Superstar Rajnikanth in lead role. But it was so disappointing to see that Suresh Krishna himself partially remade in Tamil with Vijayakanth titled ‘Gajendra’.

‘It’s in poor and innocent faces, you see God’ states one of the lines from all Holy Books. Perhaps, Harris Jayaraj, being a great inspirer, the music director spent this occasion of Christmas celebration with poor children organized by VGP Parijaatham Trust, in Chennai, on 20th December, 2008. The celebration was held at famous church of Infant Jesus Shrine in Guindy, Chennai.

After spending sumptuous time with those children, he distributed new dresses to the children. Mr. Anwar, Cine Director, Mr.VGP Prasaddas, Director of VGP Group, Mr.Haris Jeyaraj, Music Director, Mr.Arun as Santa Claus, Mr.VGP Ravidas, Managing Trustee of VGP Parijatham Trust and Mr.VGP Rajadas, Sr.Director of VGP Group were present for the occasion.

What is this really happening down here in Tamil film industry? Why do Director Prabhu Deva and his team members want to promote their film ‘Villu’ so cheaply? If they’re looking for a good promo, better they could’ve released these scenes on TV Channels with a decent approach.

Couple of stunts sequences with duration of 14minutes from Villu has been uploaded in youtube.com… Below the clippings, you would watch clip timing on; it’s none other than editing screen. They unit members have leaked those sequences from editing table. How come such a thing can happen without the concern of director who continually sits around there in the process?

Did someone invisible go there and copy it? Something must have really doubted Vijay and Prabhu whether this film would be a hit or not. So in order to make a publicity stunts, this has happened now in town…Well, over there you get to find a comedic scene where Vijay jumps and gets introduced in the style of Ram Charan Teja of Telugu movie ‘Chirutha’. A woman utters ‘Is he a Superman or a Spiderman?’

Star-casts: Arjun, Pooja Gandhi, Karunaas, Sai Kumar, Sudha and many others
Banner: Kavithalaya Productions
Production: K. Balachandar, Pushpa Kandasamy
Direction: Perarasu
Music: Srikanth Deva

It’s a grand fiesta for all the fans of Perarasu and Action King Arjun. What else can you expect more from this combo other than lots of punch dialogues, Kuthu songs, comedy tracks, unlimited fight sequences, with cameras turning up and down and left and right? Sometimes, it may knockdown you causing nausea if you are seated at the front rows while watching this film. The film has nothing such called an impressive storyline with a kinky theme, but a clichéd commercial masala of hero fighting against baddie and winning the hearts of people.

The film opens with a big clash between Eeswaran (Arjun) and a local MLA (Sai Kumar). Later follows the film involving Eeswaran contesting for elections against the MLA and putting down their evil deeds. Unbearable to his son’s actions, Eeswaran’s mother takes him for a Thiruvannamalai where a Saadhu (Arjun himself) offers him blessings and advice. His statement is about settling down bad things with peaceful approach while Eeswaran has no idea about it. As a matter of fact, both of them agree to interchange their places to experience the different scenarios and rest of the film follows action packed Jyothi where everyone’s seat burn hot…

Arjun with his usual performance on dual roles as a Swamiji and a local cable TV operator. What a directorial by Perarasu? He is worthy bagging the most prestigious awards of ‘Golden Globe’, ‘Oscars’ and what not? Better he can make disclaims at beginning of the film that it’s a pure entertainer for cheap audiences and of towns and villages. It’s very funny with the introduction of Arjun on why he tears cloth where child is laid….

How long will the villains keep yelling at a loud voice like a half drunk gorillas are an unanswerable question. The motif was quite good when Saadhu and a lay man agree to shift their locations for different experiences. But finally, getting to watch Saadhu displaying his Kung Fu and stunning fights are ridiculous. What does he want to convey for the audiences? Is it only through bad force of action and evil that a person can put an end to evil forces?

Musical score by Srikanth Deva is again a great torture for the audiences. Can’t this man score music at least a song favorable for audiences? None of these songs in the recent venture including this one is really nice. Ditto to his background score where he uses ‘Danda Danda’ as the background music. Even for the most patriotic song like ‘Sare Jahan Se Accha’, this brainless musician blends them with a fast beat Kuthu rock while Arjun shows the pictures of Mahatma, MGR, and Rajnikanth to Pooja Gandhi.Cinematography by Padmesh doesn’t work more and of course you expect more than such work for a commercial film.

On the whole, it’s a ridiculous film to watch for miniscule audiences who are fond of watching avant-garde filmmakers. While for other centres, it’s a great commercial Panchamirutham…

Bottom – Line: Cold-cocking your brains

Verdict: Watch it if you can

The late famous devotional singer Veeramani’s son Krish is debuting as a hero in the film Anbulla Drogi. Varsha is pairing with him. Recently a song sequence featuring Krish and Varsha was shot in the mid sea. Varsha who was dancing in a boat accidentally slipped and fell into the sea, but Varsha ingeniously saved her by lifting her out of the water.

S Vennila is producing this film under the banner T S Sakthivel Film International. V Pazhani has written the story, screenplay, dialogues and lyrics. He is also directing this film.

Surya says that he will act in experimental roles in future. He said, “When Gowtham Menon narrated the roles of student, father, son and army officer in the film Vaaranam Aayiram, I was fascinated. I had to take a lot of efforts and strain to project myself as a student and army officer. But all these strains and difficulties vanished into thin air when laurels poured in.

In future I will be acting in experimental roles only. I will be acting in the role where I have to strain my physique. Only two songs are remaining to be shot for Ayan. The stunt scene with African Negros was a novel experience to me”.

Prabhu Deva who is currently directing Villu starring Vijay was supposed to do the lead role in Thankar Bachan’s film. The script of the film is also ready. The shooting of this film was to commence in January.

But now Prabhu Deva has opted out of the film. According to reliable sources it is a fact that Prabhu Deva has opted out of the film. He has decided to concentrate on direction for time being. The hero for Thankar’s film is not yet finalized.