Vaitheeswaran Tamil Movie

Vaitheeshwaran is a film that treads the thin line between science, logic, faith and superstition. Though the film moves on predictable lines very familiar to regular film-goers, it does hold our interest and our attention to a great extent. Mar 16, 2008 By Thomas T

Produced under the banner of Annaamalai Films (P) Ltd, Vaitheeshwaran is a film that treads the thin line between science, logic, faith and superstition. Though the film moves on predictable lines very familiar to regular film-goers, it does hold our interest and our attention to a great extent.

The story begins from a little village where a young boy named Saravanan is killed by Dhanashekharan, who is a shrewd and villainous politician. Dhanashekharan had committed a murder and the young boy had been a witness to this. Dhanashekharan doesn't want to leave any trace behind and so kills the boy. Saravanan's heart-broken mother is comforted by Manishankar, a learned astrologer, who specializes in Nadijyothisham. Manishankar asks her to pray in the temple and wait for her son to come back thirty years later to take revenge on Dhanashekharan.

The story then shifts to a period thirty years later when we see Dr. Bala, a psychiatrist being brought face-to-face with Dhanashekharan, who had killed Bala's police officer friend and the latter's lady love too. Bala, who is a rational person and does not subscribe to any superstitious beliefs, seeks the help of his lover Rupa, a television VJ, to wage a war against Dhanashekharan. And when Saravanan's mother and Manishankar too make their entry into the scenario, things come a full circle.

Sharath Kumar looks younger and does the character of Dr. Bala creditably well. Once again, after Pachakili Muththucharam, he's doing a film where he doesn't play the usual larger-than-life kind of hero that he had been wont to play in many films. Meghna Naidu too is good. Vijayakumar as Manishankar is perfect. Sayaji Shinde, the immensely talented actor, is however under utilized in the role of Dhanashekharan. The rest of the cast are OK.

Cinematography is good, but the songs set to tune by Srikanth Deva are not likely to make much of an impact or stay in our memories for long. The highlight of the film however is the fact that director Vidyadharan, who handles the script too, has managed to stick to an impartial approach towards science and faith. Whether this goes in favour of the film's commercial success or against it is to be seen. In total however, the film seems to be one that could do well at the box office.