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Movie: Kaavalan
Director: Siddique
Cast: Vijay, Asin, Rajkiran, Roja, Vadivelu
Kaavalan would be an unforgettable experience in Vijay’s career, not for its cinematic achievements but for the hurdles he had to face for its release. Yet another remake, released for Pongal, Kaavalan is Siddique’s Malayalam movie Bodyguard tweaked for the Tamil audience. It follows the stencil Siddique uses for all his comedies and sticks loyal to the Malaylam version largely.
Although the movie has little scope for Vijay’s gallantry usually displayed in all his movies, he presents a subdued performance digressing from his one-hero-fights-all attitude. He also emerges fairly successful in the role that has its moments despite its reminiscence of Siddique’s previous movies, including the super hit Friends.
Bhoominathan (Vijay) is a rebellious youngster who is sent by his family to the businessman Muthuramalingam’s (Rajkiran) house for employment. After the initial misunderstanding, in which he gets to meet Asin and gets smitten by, he is assigned the job of a bodyguard to Asin when she goes to college. And then, as you would have rightfully guessed, love blossoms. (We could never make sense out of such done-to-death plot structures, but then you can always call it creative liberty.) But Asin does not reveal her love directly; instead she uses a different number to converse with Vijay. This makes Vijay think that he is totally in love with someone else.
Although the movie has little scope for Vijay’s gallantry usually displayed in all his movies, he presents a subdued performance digressing from his one-hero-fights-all attitude. He also emerges fairly successful in the role that has its moments despite its reminiscence of Siddique’s previous movies, including the super hit Friends.
Bhoominathan (Vijay) is a rebellious youngster who is sent by his family to the businessman Muthuramalingam’s (Rajkiran) house for employment. After the initial misunderstanding, in which he gets to meet Asin and gets smitten by, he is assigned the job of a bodyguard to Asin when she goes to college. And then, as you would have rightfully guessed, love blossoms. (We could never make sense out of such done-to-death plot structures, but then you can always call it creative liberty.) But Asin does not reveal her love directly; instead she uses a different number to converse with Vijay. This makes Vijay think that he is totally in love with someone else.
re hiding in this din. But then there is Vadivelu, who unsuccessfully tries his loud histrionics to your eyes and ears to create the Friends effect. Vijay, as said before, is very restrained. Yes there are fight sequences to probably pacify his fans but those are not too many. He tries his best and brings in an honest performance; either during his confusion in love or during the other emotional scenes. It’s a sin that Asin stayed away for long from Tamil movies. She is in her freshest form, shedding even more kilos, and looking like a Liril ad girl in full clothes.
Technically, the movie has nothing much to offer although whatever is on show scores average marks. Vidyasagar’s music is insipid and neither the songs, nor the background music help the movie.
What gets the movie its brownie points is the climax. It’s not earth-shaking different or unpredictable but only what one would expect out of a Siddique product. Yet, it manages to warm the viewer’s hearts and it’s not surprising to see people walk out of the movie halls wiping their eyes.
Technically, the movie has nothing much to offer although whatever is on show scores average marks. Vidyasagar’s music is insipid and neither the songs, nor the background music help the movie.
What gets the movie its brownie points is the climax. It’s not earth-shaking different or unpredictable but only what one would expect out of a Siddique product. Yet, it manages to warm the viewer’s hearts and it’s not surprising to see people walk out of the movie halls wiping their eyes.
Kaavalan is not a roll-on-the-floor comedy but it has its moments. It has its trademark Siddique brand humor, which is not indistinguishable from his other movies that we are so used to in the recent past..
