"VALIMAI" The one and only Ajith. Review by M. Siraj
Ajith's Valimai, the most awaited action thriller, tracks the story of an intelligent cop who unleash the knots, behind a series of crimes like chain snatching, Suicides, Drug trafficking by masked men etc by the cat-and-mouse game between Ajith and Kartikeya which excite the viewers from beginning to end. Of course, it is a foreseeable story, but the screen play fastened with brilliant action sequences, Director Vinoth keep the audience cemented to their seats, as he knew the pulse of Ajith Fans for whom, an Ajith film without Bike race and action is unimaginable.
An outlaw biker gang exploits the fecund jobless youths to organise theft, drugs, in which his brother also unintentionally involved and how Ajith bring out them in front of law, The story is simple but the segregating element is that, the film uses action to its strength and rides with rollercoaster screenplay, director H Vinoth has created a socially responsible cop who understands perfectly, the socio-economic motives behind the crimes where his investigation leads into a world of stolen bikes, the dark web, drugs, and hitmen.
Fans getting furious on seeing him again after a gap of nearly two and years of Nerkonda Parvai release, Ajith a major crowd puller keeps his fans happy with his stylish and undaunted screen presence who berms the entire movie. As a cop he is someone who doesn't believe in custodial violence or encounters, and strives to find out roots for reforming criminals. The emotional scenes were equally matching with his dance and action sequences to make Valimai a crowd-pleaser, who shares good messages of family values and his own personal, real-life views of life that makes you get up from the seats and clap for him.
The antagonist Kartikeya delivers a neat performance, making him the feared dreaded villain with excellent physique where as Huma Qureshi shines in a role to do some fight sequence who supports Ajith in the investigation without any typical duet songs.
Nirav Shah who won the best cinematography award for Dhoom 2, his cinematography is remarkable, especially the bike chase sequences which reminds Tom Cruise chasing sequences of Mission impossible, supported with another important aspect, BGM by Yuvan Shankar Raja who raises the tempo of the film, the song "Nanga Vera mathiri" catapults the viewers from the seat to the floor.
Dhilip Subbarayan's action, enriches the theatrical involvement for the audience by giving a visual treat as some of the action stretches really standout, it involves a lot of chase sequences and each scene will raise your BP, the long chase of bike-and-police-van sequence immediately after the interval is undisputedly hair raising, which is tastefully done and has a lot of twists, the entire stretch was very terrifying for the audience. One can confidently say other than Boney Kapoor nobody can invest this much for that scene cost wise. Director Vinoth carefully visualised whenever the audience feels little dull, he rejoices them with an action sequence as a salvage. Being Ajith a racer by himself, does power packed hardcore stunts involving bikes and cars in top notch, choreographed by Stunt Master Dhilip Subbu Rayan, which is beautifully filmed to keep the fans with cross fingered. Ajith completely steals the show with electrifying performance and Mission Impossible-style bike chase.
Valimai, the 3-hour run time movie is highly appealing and entertaining and its success is due to:
Karthikeya's brilliant physique with ominous appearance, Huma Qureshi's skill, Dhilip Subburayans stunt choreography, Nirav Shah's eye-catching cinematography, Yuvan Shankar Raja's thrilling BGM, Director Vinoth's clarity and sense of direction through his screen play, Boney Kapoor's determination even after two and years production process with so many impediments, and finally one and only Ajith's screen presence keep the audience to be happy while coming out from the theatre.
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