VEPPAM

 Veepam Movie Overview

Casts: Nani, Karthik Kumar, Muthukumar, Nithya Menon, Bindu Madhavi
Direction: Anjana

Production: Gautham Menon, Madhan, Kumar, Jayaraman and Venkat
Music: Joshua Sridhar

Banner: Photon Kathaas and RS Infotainment

Storyline  

          The title of the movie is synonymous with the climate of the Chennai.  The story opens in North Chennai slums where two young boys are left lonely as their mother commits suicide as her husband Jothi (Shimmore) is a drunkard who doesn’t care for his family. A noble person Sekhar who resides besides their house takes care of both the brothers and they grow big in a decent way. Sekhar takes care of elder brother Balaji (Muthukumar) and his sibling Karthik (Nani) and makes them study.

Karthik spend most of his time with his close friend Vishnu (Karthik Kumar) who hails from the same locality and maintains a bike workshop. As years pass by Revathy who works at a Xerox shop and also the daughter of Sekhar falls in love with Karthik. Meanwhile Jothi turns as a pimp and works with drug  dealer Ammaji (Jennifer) in the same area.

          At one point Vishnu meets Viji (Bindu Madhavi) who is a call girl and falls in love with her. Knowing that Vishnu is in love with Viji, Jothi decides to use him for his drug dealings. He assigns him a task of transporting drugs to Pondicherry and Karthik also joins him in this dealing. Vishnu accepts to take up this deal as he wants to take Viji from that place. But at one point of time Vishnu comes across the truth that it was a plan by Jothi to bump him off and he returns to Chennai. It was on the same night Vishnu gets killed and the guilt falls on Karthik as he accompanied him. 

                                                                                                                                                                       

The movie takes its turn at the juncture by leaving so many questions to be answerd.
 

 Technicalities

          Anjana was determined in her decision to include all those commercial elements that will capture the audience. Joshua’s music is pacifying to hear. Anjana didn’t show much interested on Dialogues, where the frequent beep sound create some sort of uneasiness for the audience.  Visuals reveal the reality of the scene. Om Prakash did a great job. Antony’s editing if trimmed at place will keep the audience bonded with the scene.

Quick Take:   Nice Cinematography, Soothing Songs

Second Thought:  Boring First half, Lack of editing. Mute Dialogues

Final Word:    Could have been better

Rating: 2 / 5