Yaanai Movie Review: Arun Vijay’s Yaanai is formulaic, but watchable

Yaanai Film Assessment: By now, after we step in to a Hari movie, we just about know what we’re signing up for. He has made a profession out of loud, fast-paced movies which are a hybrid of household drama and over-the-top motion. Struck with sequelitis in his earlier two movies – the awkwardly titled Si3 and Saamy² – the director gave the impression to be shedding his contact, selecting senseless hero-glorification and motion over melodrama, which was what was giving the emotional undercurrent to the motion.

With Yaanai, the director has fortunately gone again to his roots, particularly by way of storytelling. There’s a robust whiff of the early 2000s on this movie, with the narration leaping between the principle plot, and the industrial must-haves of these days – obligatory romantic observe and comedy – which really feel pointless and out of development as of late. That stated, the movie positively stays watchable, particularly should you can overlook the muddled politics of the movie.

The movie revolves across the PRV household of Ramanathapuram and their rivalry with the Samuthiram household of Rameswaram. The protagonist Ravichandran (Arun Vijay) is the youngest son of the PRV clan, and likewise their protector. He’s the one standing in the best way of Samuthiram (Jayabalan) and his son Lingam (Ramachandra Raju), who wish to take down the household for inflicting the loss of life of their member of the family. When Selvi (Ammu Abhirami), the daughter of the PRV family, elopes along with her Muslim boyfriend, it gives them the proper alternative because the Ravi is shunned by his half-brothers, particularly the elder one Ramachandran (Samuthirakani). Can Ravi make them realise that he had no function to play within the woman’s determination and forestall Lingam from destroying his household?

The hero defending his household from the villain is a trope that Hari typically resorts to and the director manages to current this with slight variations to make the story not turn out to be too predictable. He additionally eschews his trademark hyper-edited visuals and goes for lengthier pictures, which really assist us keep immersed within the proceedings. The one-shot stunt sequences, particularly, lend depth to what may need been common over-the-top motion scenes.

Among the characters are additionally fascinating. If not for Lingam, Samuthirakani’s Ramachandran, a casteist, self-centered wealthy man, would have been the antagonist of the movie, and Hari builds his character’s arc fairly nicely. Even Ravi is not good, along with his views consistently shifting, and Arun Vijay does a very good job in placing throughout this character as a flawed man who means good. We see that he’s a product of the casteist, patriarchal tradition that he is grown up in, however will all the time put being humane above all else. Priya Bhavani Shankar and Radikaa rating within the couple of scenes that they get whereas Yogi Babu impresses extra in a single emotionally charged scene in comparison with the quite a few makes an attempt at comedy.