The sequences set in the cops and gangster milieu is awash with gore, violence and bleeped out expletives. Both Sathyadev the police officer and Victor the gangster operate without compromise until faced with the consequences of their actions. Arun’s Victor, who is offered a similar choice, has no qualms is staying beyond the periphery of the moral good. Both are faced with the similar dilemmas surrounding friendship and love, and bring out easily the best performances of their careers thus far.Ījith’s Sathyadev is a person who during a process of self-awakening chooses to stay within the ‘thin line’ that separates the good from the bad. It works mainly because of solid performances by the cast, especially the lead players Ajith Kumar and Arun Vijay, who play the opposites in the moral spectrum of the classic good versus evil tale. Yennai Arindhaal leaves you feeling like having gone back to a well-known play you have enjoyed a few times over. So the film ends up being highly predictable.īut despite those trappings, at the end of its nearly three-hour run time, Vettayadu Vilayadu, is a tough act to follow given the success of those films. Yennai Arindhaal, which the director has said is the concluding part of his ‘cop trilogy’ after You already know the characters, even if their names have changed, you know how they behave and, most of all, you begin to anticipate what would happen next. There is a certain familiarity to Gautham Vasudev Menon’s films.
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