Simbhu fresh off
the success of Manmadhan desires to takes us back
to what he thinks is the same rarefied zone of
brilliance. This is the story of a twisted male
gadfly caught in a seductive but treacherous web
of a monstrous female spider.
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Simbhu playing gadfly
sets his directorial debut Vallavan in the formative
and vulnerable years between adolescence and adulthood.
But after the umpteen twists and when the only
predictable thing in the movie is its unpredictability
the air gets so rarefied that it left the audience
gasping for breath. From the thrill or mere exasperation
this reviewer could not quite tell.
Yuvan Shankar raja's score sheds on the movie
a loud sort of much needed brilliance. Vallava
enai vellava and loosu pennae is superbly composed.
The dialogue by Balakumaran, who appears in cameo
role of a psychiatrist, is sharp and to the point.
But there is no end to the double entendres, chauvinistic
macho dialogues, and philosophy in readymade jars.Nauantara
as teacher swapna, Sandhya as suchi is of a friend
in big bold capital letters who stands by Vallavan
through thick and thin and endearingly so.Reema
as the earlier affair in school with the sadistic
spinner of seductive webs Geetha.
Played in a student's uniform and sans makeup
by a pony tailed .Reema's verbal duels with simbhu
is a cinematic success but fails to say at from
where this sadism stems from in her character.Simbhu's
vallavan is a melodrama with three heroines.
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