Movie review: Kuruvi

Cast : Vijay ,Trisha ,Suman, Vivek.

Director : ‘masala’ Dharani

My Score : 2/10

Kuruvi is one movie (of many) which i accidentally happened to see on the big screen recently with a couple of my friends. So why not give a gist of the whole movie for those waiting to see , here it goes.. I’m not a hardcore fan of any specific actor or actress to tell u all honestly and so my words would be Credible I guess. First of all, the expectation that the movie had was way more than what it happened to deliver to the audience. Luck favored me on that day and i happened to just spend 60 bucks for the movie instead of some 100 bucks or so in some other theatre. For those who want to make a quick decision on whether to go for this movie or not my suggestion would be a big NO unless u have all the time in the world and few headache tablets with you. The Movie had an opening just like any other masala movie would have had with a comedy sequence by vivek and then the entry of our ‘Ilaya Thalapathi’ (Roughly translated as ‘Young Captain’) Vijay as a car racer who happened to enter the track just a minute before the race commences. The Car which the HERO drives is a modified Skoda which looked like it has never been used in 10 years (That look was given to make the audience feel that our hero can win any race irrespective of the car and its condition) .The most funny part of the whole movie comes now when the race starts and the competitor who has a fully equipped higher end model car loses the race and the twist in the race was when the rusty age old Skoda’s accelerator cable is cut and our hero takes the cable with his teeth (Don ask me how) and pulls it to VROOOOOMM… Oh my god i got the feeling of watching some cartoon series directed specially for kids below 5. I remember having seen Malavika in the whole sequence (only in that part though).

I believe this whole sequence was directed for some other movie cos nowhere in the movie was his racing ability shown on screen. The story of the movie goes like this — Vetrivel (Vijay) and Ops (vivek) are thick friends who are totally jobless and Vetrivel’s father Manivannan (Singamathu) was missing leaving behind the burden of a very big family to his son Vetrivel. The family seems to have not worried an ounce about the missing of the head man of family and all of a sudden a financier comes and empties the house informing that Singamuthu has mortgaged the house for a 50 grand or so and our hero requests (He Orders actually!) the financier to give some more time and that is when Vetrivel along with Ops Flies to Malaysia (Everyone accepts that it was shot in Malaysia but why the hell do they need to show PETRONAS tower in every frame) as Kuruvi’s ( Couriers- who transport local electronics and other similar goods).Vetrivel comes to know that a person named Kochha (Suman) owes more than fifty lakhs to his father and he clubs the trip to Vasool the money from Koccha who happens to be the DON of Malaysia. Vijay enters a club and fights every other bouncer there to gain entry to see Kochha in vain. He gains entry into the Don’s house and somehow of all gets caught by Devi (Trisha) who is the sister of the terrific Koccha. As we all can predict they fall in love in the later stage and Vetrivel Steals a precious diamond from the villain with such an ease that pick pocketing seems to be so tough. Since Devi has seen the person who saved her from death only with a mask she finds it hard to identify Vetrivel as her Dream Hero. They come to chennai and Vetrivel leaves his diamond in her bag and Vetrivel along with Ops tries to recover it before which the villain comes to town and the sequence goes on with such a drag that i found counting the number of rows in theatre exciting.

In the second half, Vetrivel comes to know that his father and a set of people are in captivity and are ill-treated in a Quarry, from which extremely expensive mineral is extracted (of course, government doesn’t give a damn) and the rest of the movie is about how he rescues them all single handedly and how he ends up marrying the heroine. The most interesting of all would be the scene where Vetrivel with all his strength blows down the villain and the villain’s wife being a very nice lady witnesses the event and reports to the doctor as hit by a train. I can accept heroism, cinematic stunts and anything of that sort but comparing Vijay’s hunk to that of a train is ridiculous. This movie was directed by Dharani who happens to be the king of ‘Masala movies’. It was produced by Udhaya Nidhi Stalin who’s the grandson of our Chief Minister Dr.Karunanidhi. I think he has no interest in politics and I pray to lord that he doesn’t make such movies ever after. Kuruvi – A FLOP SHOW. A better option to Kuruvi would be ‘Arasangam’ which at least spared me from the head ache. Please Leave your opinions and score in the comments section.