Varalaru (2006)

Story : Ajith is an effeminate. Due to this, his wife insults him on their wedding day. Avenging that, Ajith rapes her and so she becomes pregnant and gives birth to twins. Ajith takes care of one while the other grows up under his mother. While one becomes a spoiled brat, the other becomes a psychopath as a result of the situations he faced in his childhood. He seeks to take revenge of his father. He plans to murder him twice. Now, what happens ?? will he succeed in doing so ?? What happens to the spoiled Ajith ?? forms the story.Performances : Ajith is the whole and sole of this movie. He is just excellent in all the three roles he portrayed. He is perfect when it comes to dancing scenes. It seems, he did a lot of homework to act like an effeminate and all his efforts paid off. This is easily one of his best performances. To put it simply, this is a one man show by Ajith. Heroines and other cast have nothing to do as I said earlier, the whole film has only 3 major actors - Ajith, Ajith and Ajith.Story-Screenplay-Direction : As it is evident, the story is an old- fashioned one. But the screenplay given to this makes difference. Direction is fine.Music : Music by Maestro A.R.Rahman is slightly a mixed bag. The soundtrack is partly superb and partly underwhelming. While Innisai (all three versions), Katril Oru Varthai & Theeyil Vizhundha are excellent compositions, Ilamai, Thottapuram & Kamma Karaiyil are below average songs strictly meant for Ajith fans. In a way, Rahman has failed to deliver a fully good album. But, as I mentioned earlier half of the songs are awesome. The soundtrack is worth listening for those alone. Background Score is again excellent. It elevates the film to a new level.Other Departments : Artwork, Cinematography and editing is fine.Final Piece : This film solely depends on one strength called - Ajith. His fan-base is huge. Acting wise, he is excellent in all the scenes. He just steals the show. If you admire Ajith, you would like this. Otherwise, you may just get irritated. You have to make a choice. I chose the first one and really enjoyed this film.

This movie went through a lot of trouble before it came out. I remember a group of Ajith fans saying that he had no luck at all. And when it released it some how managed to survive the monsoon. May be because Simbu's so called romantic thriller chased people away to this one or there was something about the movie which made you want to see it. Anyway this is Ajith's best performance in years. he makes you forget the many poor aspects of the movie.The songs grow on you. I think the sentiment scenes worked really well with the audience. both the heroines have decent screen time. there are probably a few unwanted jokes placed in the movie. And yes i do not know what the title was all about ? but i give it 10 because i have never seen a movie single handedly saved by an actor.

Varalaaru aka Godfather is an awful movie, with a thin story. The only reason for casting Asin in the movie is the songs. Kanika's role is even worse and she hardly has anything to do. (It's intriguing to see why a young girl would agree to act as the mother of a 35 year old actor!!!) Lousy story.. frivolous characters.. sudden duets.. all of these leave the viewer wondering when the movie is going to end, and not how. Considering that even A.R.Rehman's songs are bad, there really is nothing that could keep you in your seat till the end.The only thing tolerable in the movie is Ajit's performance - he has put in effort to portray different characters, and he has done it quite reasonably well.If you have the patience to sit through this movie, do listen carefully to the last dialogue in the movie. It is the only indicator to why the movie was named 'Godfather' in the first place.Verdict - it really is awful. Please don't try to watch it except if you are an Ajit fan.

Of all the movies that you could watch, if you choose to watch this movie....i should say that your very unfortunate....The story is crap, the acting nowhere near tolerable and the music not something we'd expect from A.R. Rehman..but its not fair to judge A r rehman with this movie because the music of a movie is to an extent influenced by the story and acting.......I wonder how someone like Ajith can ever be called an actor.....his dialogue delivery is pathetic and its better i don't mention his facial expressions......you'd do yourself a favour by not watching this movie...or rather watch it and educate others on how these kinda movies humiliate the once-enchanting Tamil film industry...Also....i beg the filmmakers not to cast people who are stone heads when it comes to dancing in roles that are supposed to highlight it.....For crying out loud, Ajith can't even dance to those funny dappankuthu songs...how can one tolerate him DANCING BHARATHANATYAM......the thought of him donning the role of a classical dancer would make good dancers of yesteryears turn in their graves.....And watch out for the scenes where Ajith is supposed to be projecting an effeminate side.....Its official ...he's the worst(or is there a worser term for that) thing that can happen to Tamil cinema.........