Name the film directed by Bala which has 2 job­less dirty heroes, 1 with a strange get-up and another one with lots of sense of humour (!!), 2 neat hero­ines, a hill town, weak police/forest dept offi­cers, dirty com­edy, filler scenes, dif­fer­ent smug­gling, thiru­vizha song, aggres­sive dances, nerve-wracking fights and a gory climax ?

If you say Pitham­a­gan, you could be wrong because it is com­pletely applic­a­ble for Avan Ivan too. So how do we dif­fer­en­ti­ate ? By chang­ing the music direc­tor, dia­log writer and mainly artists – so that we for­get what­ever we have seen in Pitham­a­gan :). In my opin­ion, Pitham­a­gan was Bala’s best in terms of com­plete­ness [ char­ac­ters, songs, cli­max and the plot ]. Avan ivan is an utter effort­less prod­uct which Bala thinks very high of him­self. He has a rea­son too for the same since Mani­rath­nam said in Naan Kadavull audio launch that he came there as a fan of Bala.

Story

 Direc­tor decided not to bur­den the view­ers with story so it hap­pens on its own way. Let’s shoot and give sleep­less nights for Suresh urs.
 
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The only good thing came out of this film is Vishal’s per­for­mance and a fierce dance in his intro­duc­tion scene. It resem­bled the rhythms which I enjoy in the fes­ti­val pro­ces­sions of Ban­ga­lore, which engage the pos­si­ble types of drums.
 
The advan­tage of hav­ing 2 heroes sub­ject is one can have 2 intro­duc­tions, 2 dances, 2 hero­ine intro­duc­tions, 2 fam­ily or char­ac­ter descrip­tions, com­edy por­tions, a quick action sequence to plant a mys­tery and by the time show­ing the­ses scenes you’ll get the inter­val card. So an action sequence is very much-needed before that. It’s pathetic to see a group of policemen/ for­est offi­cers weakly por­trayed and severely beaten up by the main char­ac­ters.
 
So what hap­pens after inter­val. We need per­for­mance and the sad­dest part is vishal is asked to per­form navarasam in a stage – so every­one weeps out of his per­for­mance. It’s like ask­ing a com­edy actor to do stand-up com­edy and say the com­edy scene is excel­lent — even a fight has to hap­pen along with the story. Mean­while [ in this cycle gap ! ] ‘actor’ Surya does some Agaram mar­ket­ing  [ Sim­i­larly we can have Aids foun­da­tion, polio drops cam­paign when­ever we run out of scenes !! ].  As com­mit­ted, 2nd hero also has his per­for­mance sequence again. Some more romance and it’s dis­gust­ing to see Tamil hero­ine char­ac­ters fall eas­ily in love !!.

You must be think­ing of the vil­lain – not an issue. Bala intro­duces a quick and instant vil­lain who does some illicit trad­ing with a scar in his face and less dia­logues – why ? because he is the vil­lain !! Any com­mon man can’t accept a char­ac­ter com­ing at the end of the movie claim­ing he is the vil­lain — a basic thing ‘Vaad­hyaar’ says  in his Thi­raikad­hai book. The heroes group get a fric­tion with illicit trad­ing [ remem­ber they are thieves ! ] and we have a char­ac­ter artist roam­ing with them aim­lessly [ pathetic per­for­mance by GM Kumar ]. So Bala comes into pic­ture now.. we need vio­lence, shock­ing sequences so that view­ers bow down on what shown on-screen. He does his part and the gala cli­max hap­pens with an ulti­mate fight. I haven’t told the story because there’s no story in this nar­ra­tion. Every­thing just hap­pens.
 
The dia­logues are writ­ten by S.Ra. I’m damn sure that he’ll not write a sin­gle word about this movie and he’ll flow as usual with some Viet­namese or Tunisian movie which he’ll claim that’s the best in film indus­try. But when it comes to his con­tri­bu­tion he writes junk dia­logues in movies like album, sandai kozhi,Baba, avan-ivan etc.,
 
I can’t blame Yuvan because he can do won­ders if the film really needs his pres­ence [ Pud­hu­pet­tai, Aaranya kaan­dam ] and he does what he can for this film. Nei­ther the songs nor the BGM reaches you. It’s a light movie ad you need to take it light.
 
Bala needs to change every­thing what he does now and come up with another story which we never heard of. Severe eco­nom­i­cal failures/loss alone can teach lessons to cre­ators like Bala. The above photo is mean­ing ful. This film is one more Dhrishti for Bala :)

 -Toto.

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