Valimai Review: Performances and bike chase sequences are makes this lengthy complicated drama watchable
Valimai Movie Rating: 2 Stars
Just watched Valimai movie in Hindi on Zee5 Premium. So let’s focus on the cast, release date story, positive/negatives and at last my personal view on this movie.
Cast: Ajith Kumar, Huma Qureshi, Kartikeya Gummakonda, Pearle Maaney, VJ Bani & Achyuth Kumar
Director: H. Vinoth
Release Date: 24th February in Cinemas & Digital premiere on 25th March on Zee5 Premium
Story: Set in Chennai, an outlaw motorcycle gang known Satan’s Slave are involved in numerous incidents of drug rackets, snatch theft and murders. They steals the drugs from Colombia whenever it gets docked in Chennai. When they steal the drugs, they also commit murders and indulge in chain snatching incidents.
With cases rising steadily Arjun (Ajith Kumar) who is IPS from Madurai, who is known for his peculiar way of handling justice. He is asked to solve the case and soon able to join the dots and realise that the chain snatching, murder and drugs are all interconnected with the help of Narcotics officer Sophia (Huma Qureshi).
Arjun also able to use his intellect and find out that the leader of this biker gang Naren (Kartikeya Gummakonda) is using dark web to get his work done. He almost finds his location too. However, an alert Naren realizes that he’s about to get caught and escapes. Naren challenges Arjun and their war turns ugly especially after Naren drags Arjun’s family into the madness. How Arjun and his team exposes the mafia lord Naren forms the crux of the drama.
Positives
1. Performances
2. Action Sequences
3. Background Music
Negatives
1. Direction
2. Screenplay
3. Length
4. Climax
5. Story
Durgesh Tiwary’s View : When I watched the trailer of this film planned to watch this movie on its digital premiere as it is dubbed in Hindi and trailer of this films especially bike chase sequences looks good.
Police office Arjun comes from Madurai to Madras and is put in charge of weeding out the drug mafia but the problem is so deep-rooted that it seems impossible to understand the mafia’s modus operandi. The mafia is also into chain-snatching and murders and is being run by a large team of deadly bikers who operate under the name of Satan’s Slaves and use the internet to connect. How Arjun and his team exposes the mafia lord Naren forms the crux of the drama.
Valimai story lacks novelty as one has seen many dramas about the drug mafia. Screenplay is interesting as it has several twists and turns and intertwines a family drama into the action drama. But is also too long-drawn, and one reason for this is that the action scenes are extremely lengthy. The film lacks in romance, comedy and emotions. Action scenes have been wonderfully choreographed and that is major USP of this film.
The narrative is not simplified and it takes a while to understand what exactly is happening. The execution is shaky at several places. In such films, one should ideally not look for logic. Yet, in some scenes, there’s absolute lack of sense and it becomes difficult to digest certain developments. Hence, one doesn’t even empathize when the protagonist faces problems. Overall it suffers from long length, complicated narrative and lack of logic. My view on this movie Time Pass
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