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When you compare the statures of Vijay and Dhanush, it is obvious that Vijay is a mighty force to reckon with in Tamil Cinema and would easily breeze past Dhanush when it comes to the number of fans.

But then, can 'Villu' become more successful than 'Padikathavan'?….well….now…. here is something to think about? Let's take a look back at the immediate past to search for the answers. Vijay's previous release was the infamous 'Kuruvi' while Dhanush's 'Yaradi Nee Mohini' which released around the same time went on to become a huge blockbuster. Let's rewind a little further when Vijay's 'Azhagiya Tamil Magan' released. That was the period Dhanush's 'Polladhavan' also released. 'Polladhavan' went on to become a blockbuster while 'Azhagiya Tamil Magan' was a damp squib.

Going by this and also the fact that 'Padikathavan' is being promoted by the Sun Group, 'Villu' might find it hard to sustain its brilliant opening especially because mixed views have started pouring in about the film.

While Dhanush appears to have his priorities right and finds himself hoping for a hat trick of hits, Vijay has to come out of the shell he has got himself into, in order to get back to his winning ways. For all we know, 'Villu' might go on for a hundred days, but is Vijay winning more hearts by making out-and-out larger-than-life films with utmost disrespect to the art of screenplay?

Vijay is a natural crowd-puller with tremendous dancing and stunt abilities. But then somebody in Vijay's camp should be telling him this daily…. "Mr. Vijay, no matter how big a star you are, you have to bow down to the story and screenplay of your films for success. They should be the real heroes".

Probably when this realization dawns, Vijay will be back to his winning ways in style.

Getting back to the question, 'Can 'Villu' pierce 'Padikathavan'?' We'll know very soon….keep coming back for more analysis.

A whiff in the air suggests that Trisha would be teaming up with Dhanush for 'Polladhavan' director Vetri Maaran's second film. Although official confirmation is expected in the coming days, Trisha could be a possible option to play the role of an Anglo Indian girl in the film.

Trisha will soon be seen in the Vishnuvardhan directed 'Sarvam' that stars Arya and if it goes on to be successful, there could be another spurt in her career graph which has not been very impressive of late.

The yet-to-be-named Vetri Maaran film would be shot completely in Madurai and shooting is to begin on the 15th of February. A never-seen-before Dhanush (with mastery over the Madurai diction) is expected to be part of a riveting storyline that also involves a love affair with an Anglo Indian girl. The film however will be released later this year.

After Polladhavan's success, Dhanush has been keen to work with the same team hoping to recreate the success. Vetri Maaran is one among the few new-breed Tamil directors who believe in good content with slick narration. 'Polladhavan' was about the travails of a Chennai lad whose motorbike gets stolen. What would this new film be all about? Keep coming back for more.

To get himself along with sleek and stylish films, Ajith is in talks with producer Ashok Amritraj to remake the latest Bollywood blockbuster Race that had Saif Ali Khan, Akshay Khanna and Anil Kapoor in lead roles.

Tale about two brothers who set traps for each other is all this film about and Saif-Akshay played brother roles. However, Ajith has convinced Ashok Amritraj that he is ready to don dual roles. Everything has been kept confidential and official launch would be announced sooner.

Saran is the final choice for directing Ajith's next movie titled "Asal".

Ram Kumar and his younger brother Prabhu under the banner of Sivaji Productions will produce the film.

Saran is Ajith's favourite director with whom the 'ultimate star' has done three films _ "Khadal Mannan, "Amarkalam" and "Attagasam". All these films were hits.

"Asal" is the 49th film of Ajith and fourth under the direction of Saran who is Ajith's friend and favorite director. The project has been delayed because of dilly-dallying on the choice of the director. Originally Gautham Menon's name was doing the rounds the air has now been cleared by naming Saran as the director of "Asal" which will be a remake of a popular Telugu film.

Harris Jayaraj, selected to score music for "Asal" when Gautham Menon was in the news, has been retained. He has been signed by Sivaji Productions.


According to sources close to Harris Jayaraj, the music director, acclaimed for his puppy songs, is thrilled to work with Saran and Ajith.

The rest of the star cast and technicians are being finalized.

Saran will take up "Asal" after completing the shooting of "Modi Vilayadu".

VILLU- ONLY FOR VIJAY FANS.......................

Review : After Pokkiri, Prabhu Deva and Vijay are back with 'Villu' a 'Power pack Pongal' for Vijay Fans. Vijay Fans in USA are thrilled to taste the feast two days prior to release in India. After two not so good movies such as ATM and Kuruvi, Vijay is back in form. As a rigid formula everyone in the theatre expect only a Mass entertainer from 'Pugazh'-Vijay, and Prabhu Deva has done his best to maintain all the elements needed to give a complete Vijay movie - with super hero intro, romance ,comedy, several fights, item songs and finally hero wins over the baddies.

To describe this satanic piece of shit Villu as a movie is akin to considering nature’s freaks like Hitler, Prabhakaran and Stalin as humans.

Are Prabhu Deva, Vijay and Nayantara utterly bereft of shame that they stoop so low as to unleash bizarre rubbish on Tamil movie fans and dare call such stinking offal a movie.

Folks, unlike other Tamil movies there are no weak links in Villu because the entire beastly movie is one long weak link featuring the missing links in human evolution - Nayantara, Vijay and Vadivelu.

Villu belongs to the kuppa category of Tamil movies like Sathyam, Aegan and Kuruvi.

Compared to the blithering idiot Prabhu Deva (screenplay and direction), Gautam Menon and even that thieving swine Venkat Prabhu are master storytellers.

And if you are deluding yourself that Vijay is the new James Bond, let’s set the record straight - this bozo is not even anywhere close to being James Gaand. For the most part, the stunt scenes in Villu are hopelessly amateurish be it the ones involving the water scooter in the beginning, the many ridiculous fight scenes in the middle or the helicopter scene that comes later.

Monumental Folly
With a fatuous story that scales the Mount Everest of nonsense, Villu is a monumental act of hubris that presumes just because some moving images are flashed on a screen they morph into a movie.

Director Prabhu Deva and his ugly spawns in Villu, Vijay and Nayantara, wouldn’t recognize a movie - we mean a real movie - if it whacked them hard on the face.

Villu’s story is hopelessly silly and centers around the crude antics of a young fellow Pugal (Vijay) chasing around the bad guys in as cartoonish a manner as posssible.

As Pugal goes gallivanting around in India and Switzerland with his skimpily-clad lady love Janavi (Nayantara) in tow, the dazed moviegoers are left rubbing their eyes in sheer horror at the grotesque spectacle unfolding on the screen.

Prakash Raj, who delivers the most lethargic performance of his career in Villu, is cast as the baddie JD (drugs/arms smuggler and a traitor).

As if one Vijay is not torture enough, bizarre meets stupidity in Villu with a flashback revealing another Vijay!

Boy, who needs guns when a mother’s tortured wails to the gods can raise a dust-storm, opening up the very earth.

Mon dieu, are there no limits to Prabhu Deva’s nonsense.

And what’s with the repeated instances of multi-image photography. Awful.

Flop Thalapathy Vijay
For a guy who’s done 50 films, Vijay is a pretty pathetic actor with a grossly limited repertoire of expressions.

The fella can’t even deliver a punch dialog well and needs to get back to acting school. Pronto.

And while you’re there, Vijay, do learn some nice dance steps and the meaning of nuance as well.

To see this puny eli-kunji Vijay fight and pummel dozens into the dust is a Faustian bargain requiring us to endure a slow, agonizing journey through the hades.

No, Vijay is neither Bruce Lee nor Jet Li (as the villains in Villu refer to him in the beginning of the movie) but a Sundeli (mouse).

Ugly as Only Nayantara can be
Nayanthara is her usual hellishly ugly self, trying the utmost to look as slutty, crude and vulgar as humanly possible. Guess what, she succeeds wildly in that slutty mission.

Whether in the songs (wearing mini skirts that give you a liberal display of her thighs seemingly all the way up to the mons veneris and a bra masquerading as a top) as she sways her ample ass and shakes her bountiful bosom, or in the sophomoric comic scenes or in the crude parts such as the one near the well, Nayanthara makes you want to puke your guts out.

When Nayantara brags in her Dionysian stupor na pathinanji vaiyasale vaiyasakhu vandha ponnu, tears rolled down our cheeks.

Ah, the injustices man has to endure on earth.

This Nayantara thing is the dregs of the Kollywood dregs and that’s being charitable.

Vadivelu Drivel
The repeated insertion of juvenile drivel like the Vadivelu or Vivek comedy tracks without any connection to the main story in one Tamil movie after another can only mean that Kollywood film makers consider the Tamil film audience to be still perched on the lowest rung in the ladder of evolution.

These comedy tracks are not merely bad but offensively bad.

In Villu, this completely unnecessary comedy track with zero integration to the rest of the movie reaches its acme. With a weird hairdo, Vadivelu is made to look and act like a chimp in heat.

Starting from his introduction in a bullock cart headed to a marriage while listening to English songs to getting kicked in his cojones by a cow to his banshee-like screaming on a beach later, the so-called comic scenes in Villu are asinine beyond description and a gratuitous insult to the paying audience.

For instance, when Vadivelu lands at the airport, the Swiss police confer among themselves that an African Chimpanzee has escaped and upon discovering that this Chimpanzee is actually a human from India, they offer to let it go if it’ll do a Bollywood dance for them. And guess what - Vadivelu obliges by dancing on the table and the cops are soon dancing away too.

Such is the infernal nonsense that Tamil movies have descended to.

Other equally pathetic crap like having yellow paint flung in his face, hot water thrown on his body, a cow expelling dung on his face or cast into a well by a small kid or loudspeakers thrust into his body make Vadivelu an object of pity than a source of mirth in Villu.

Pedestrian Music
No great shakes in the music department too.

Whether it’s the absolutely disgusting Daddy Mummy with those fat-thighed girls or the boring Hey Rama Rama or the dragging Vaadaa Mapilley, music in Villu is no more than a synonym for cacophony.

Nee Kobapattal (reminiscent of Nee Mutham Ondru in Pokiri) inflicts the least damage.

Yes, all the songs are very badly picturized. No exceptions.

Overall, a Luciferian Nightmare
Paying $12 to watch this hellish nightmare is Prayaschit for the sins of seven lives.

Several members of the audience at MovieCity in Edison (NJ) were quite disengaged with the movie, playing with their phones, chatting and frequently walking out (our neighbors left and never returned).

If Vijay’s ATM was Asingamana Tamil Magan and Kuruvi was plain K**thi, then Villu is no better than P**lu.

Folks, do not consider seeing this piece of junk a.k.a. Villu even if you are paid $$ to watch it. Villu is not a movie but a sickening assault on the senses.