Saturday, May 26, 2007

Godfather - varalaaru

Ajith Kumar in a triple role with Asin, Sujatha, Kanika, Santhanam and Paandu come together in this K.S.Ravikumar flick.
Father Ajith (FA) is a millionnaire cripple, with an only son Ajith (SA). SA is frivolous and easy going and one such act, in a rural village, he wants to have fun with the ladies, after he and his friends were misinformed about the character of the village. But after hearing the heartwrenching story of Asin, he decides to marry her, but finds out everything was a hoax. He returns to the city.
FA seeing his son sad, decides to find the girl and get him married. After this point, things start going really crazy in the household. FA withdraws money from ABM at night and lies to his father. He gets excessively drunk and misbehaves in Asin's house. He tries to kill his father and ends up killing one of his servants. Although, the next moment, SA remembers nothing of the incident.
Everyone starts believing he is suffering from some disease, but when he is staying at the hospital, SA discovers there is another guy who looks exactly like him - twin Ajith (TA). When SA rushes home, he also finds out that FA is not crippled. He is shocked to find out his father was lying to him all along.
Flashback comes here. FA was a famous dancer, but dance was so absorbed into him that he could only walk and do actions gracefully. For this reason, people often thought something was wrong with him. Eventually, he got a match with his mother's friend's, Sujatha's, daughter, Kanika. Since his mother's friend was confident about her daughter, he accepted, yet, on the day of the marriage, Kanika walks out on the marriage and FA's mother dies.
In revenge, he rapes Kanika. He is repentant later and tries to reconcile, but Kanika refuses to admit him in her life. She tries her best to abort the pregnancy, but with Sujatha planning otherwise, she gives birth to a baby. Having the only blood relation in the world, FA takes the child away to bring it up. But since he didn't want his son to feel the ridicule, he did, he confines himself to a wheelchair, even though he is a dancer.
SA forgives his father and now they stay on the lookout for TA. Here comes TA's flashback (or might have been earlier). TA's mother is Kanika, who has lost her senses and she knows nothing other than her son. But she is not in the right mind to protect herself from the prying eyes of men or to survive. So since a young age, TA is the one taking care of his mother from bringing food to bathing her. He went through a lot of trouble and all along assumes that his father was a bad man, who deserted Kanika, after he impregnated her. And now he is out for revenge and he was the one who had cleverly planned to create the scene such that it seemed SA was doing it all along.
In the final scene, when the marriage is about to happen, TA comes in to disrupt the occasion. But Sujatha reaches right on time to explain the rest of the flashback. After FA left with the baby that day, a second twin was born, whom Sujatha and Kanika brought up. After a few years, Sujatha told Kanika the truth about having 2 babies. Kanika is remorseful and wants to reconcile with FA, but that day, she witnesses an accident that could have killed her baby and loses her senses. While getting Kanika and TA back to FA, Kanika runs away with TA and Sujatha had been hunting them ever since.
FA is killed in a misunderstanding in the end. TA is taken to a facility, while the rest live in FA's house.
The ending was really cheesy with literally, everybody, except the director, the cameraman and the light guy in a huge group, getting Kanika to eat with so many plates. What would they do with plates that Kanika would not have eaten from? If that was real food, that was really wasteful. they could have bowlfuls of coloured water, but even water is rare in Tamil Nadu!
The story seemed OK, although the initial scenes with a frivolous Ajith could have been avoided, as he is not really a frivolous guy. And some of the scenes with a mental Kanika and the little boy was a little annoying - cause a little kid could probably never pull that off. And, really how could have Sujatha slept through while a whole baby (which she was probably clutching tight) was being taken away from her, especially, when she sort of knew her daughter was mental. But anyway, the story was entertaining enough and music by A.R.Rahman was melodious, but not impressive.

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