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| Movie Name : |
Vada Chennai
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| Cinema Type : |
South Regional
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| Release Date : |
17-Oct-2018( 6 years, 69 days ago)
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| Directed By : |
Vetrimaaran |
| Production House : |
Dhanush,Vetrimaaran |
| Genre : |
Action |
| Lead Role : |
Dhanush, Aishwarya Rajesh, Andrea Jeremiah
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Rating:3.5/5
Vada Chennai opens with a murder, but we do not see the murder or the victim. Instead, we get a blood-stained sickle and a conversation between the murderers. These are Guna (Samuthirakani), Senthil (Kishore), Velu (Pavan) and Pazhani (Dheena). The guy they have killed is a big shot gangster and they discuss how they can now take his place. This is 1987. Cut to a year later, and we see that the four men have become rivals - Guna and Velu on one side and Senthil and Pazhani on the other.
The action then shifts to 2000, when we are introduced to Anbu (Dhanush), who is remanded to prison for a minor scuffle with Guna's henchman Siva (Pavel Navageethan). To save himself from Guna's gang, which controls one block of the prison, Anbu gets closer to Senthil's gang, and even earns the trust of Senthil.
Meanwhile, the narrative keeps shifting a few years back and forth - to 1991, when Anbu meets Padma (Aishwarya Rajesh), an intrepid local girl, who he falls in love with; to 1996, when Anbu accidentally commits a murder that makes him indebted to one of the gangsters; to 1987, when we get the story of Rajan (Ameer), a gangster and a do-gooder for his people, and Chandra (Andrea Jeremiah); and finally, to 2003, when Anbu is forced to stand up for his people and take on both Guna and Senthil.
This sprawling nature of the narrative and the various events that impact the lives of the numerous characters make Vada Chennai truly an epic (Santhosh Narayanan's score is suitably grand). A murder attempt set against the backdrop of a carrom tournament in the prison where the action happens beneath a shamiana, and the murder of major character that is a brilliant play of tension and black comedy are superbly staged and are the film’s highlights.