The rustic Superhero

You know what to expect from Ilaiya Thalapathy Vijay who releases his movies around Pongal and Deepavali every year...add to it the fact that Family man M Raja helms this movie produced by Aascar Ravichandran, you start watching expecting a masala entertainer that has something for everyone.

That is precisely what you get from Velayudham- it has the age old sister sentiment, a female lead who's only purpose is to show ample skin during well choreographed and hummable song sequences, the hero's side kick who glorifies the hero while handling the comedy department, a coterie of villains who always roll their eyes and shout at the top of their voices, a pressing social issue thrown in for good measure and our hero's illogical ways of fighting the villains and the issue on hand...

In spite of all of this, you sit through Velayudham without realizing the downright silliness of the plot and the illogicality with which the sequences have been strung through...thanks to the charm and the effortlessness of Vijay who rises above everything else in the movie and never lets you take your eyes off him. M Raja very cleverly takes a backseat and lets his superstar carry the film on his shoulders. Vijay Antony's music has it all- the glorifying entry song, a hummable romantic song, the customary rustic village song with the heroine for the front benchers- and he scores it big especially with the Mulachu Moonu melody.

As for other departments, they all do their part in glorifying the hero and at the end of it all, actor Vijay's fans come out beaming. As for others, well, all of us need our share of meaningless masala entertainment, don't we?