The onboard flashback takes us through his first encounter with his wife, their days together, through to her kidnapping and murder. He hops a plane to Newark, and while he flies across continents, he has a flashback on his earlier career with Arokiraj, and we learn that Raghavan was once married. Not long after the discovery of the murdered girl, Raghavan finds out that both Arokiraj and wife, who were so griefstricken they moved to New York, have been executed. (By the way, what is the name for these things? I’ve asked everyone I know, all and sundry recognize that they are a talisman to ward off evil, but no one can give me a name.

His former partner in policing is horrified to open his front door one day and find his daughter’s severed finger hanging from one of these (see below), like a malevolent mistletoe of sorts. Raghavan gets involved in the investigation of the murder of the daughter of his mentor, Arokiraj (Prakash Raj).

Raghavan, a tough cop (is there ever a movie about a softie cop? moreover, would we watch one?) who has a hangdog look about him, likely owing to the tragic impact his work has had on the people closest to him. This movie’s only saving grace was its quintissentially typical Tamil movie’s raunchy, rump-shaking Asai Dosai number.īut after a somewhat favorable assessment of VV from a Madras-born girlfriend, and curiosity to see how it portrayed New York City, I’m glad I went.ĭirected by Gautham Menon (of Kaaka Kaaka fame), Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu ( Hunt and Play) is the story of S. You know you’re off to a bad start when, in the first minute of a film, you see a guy with an umbrella-type baby carriage about to apply a screwdriver to it, and you murmur to your companion “He’s making a bomb”, and you’re right. Paramasivam, also starring personal fave Prakash Raj, was too long, too boring and too obvious. In Priyasakhi, a kind of Thamizh Banarasi Babu, everything Vestern was bad, slapping the little woman a few times was ok, and, in this one, Maddie goes to court to order his soon-to-be-ex-wife to carry their baby to term, then he will take the little tyke and raise it himself, since his phoren-influenced wife is not good mother material. I’d been burned by the last few Tamil movies I handed over good money to see – first Priyasakhi and then Paramasivam – in spite of the fact that I liked the lead actors (Madhavan and Ajith, respectively). Yes, the premise of this exercise when I started back in May was solely Hindi movies, but having just seen Kamalhasan’s latest (Tamil) movie Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu, I’m making an exception.

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