Azhagiya Theeye - Tamil Movie

STARRING : PRASANNA, NAVYA NAIR, PRAKASH RAJ
Directed by: Radha Mohan
Produced by: Prakash Raj
Music: Ramesh Vinayagam

Change is inevitable. Yeah but this philosophy doesn't seem to work with Kollywood now. We can only pray that this commercial action masalas with loads of heroism gets over soon and something else takes over the minds of young directors. In the mean time Kollywood does indeed dish out some interesting light hearted movies like Azhagiya Theeye. Produced by Prakash Raj and directed by his friend Radha Mohan, this refreshing movie is being hailed by all kinds of magazines and people. Is it really that good to be appreciated by one and all ? Read on folks.

The storyline is pretty thin but the presentation is very fresh and strong. Four friends who have dreams to make it big in the cine field. Prasanna is one among them. The other three have done a fabulous job, and thanks to the director each one of them gets ample screen time. Thanks to a strike in Kollywood all these budding assistant directors become jobless and they look for some other jobs. One day Prasanna is approached by his friend to help out Navvya Nair who is being tortured by her father Pyramid Natarajan to marry someone from the U.S. of A. and that someone is none other than Prakashraj. Prasanna thinks of a good story and informs Prakash Raj that he and Navvya have been in love for a long time in order to stop him marrying her. But to Prasanna's surprise and ours too, Prakash Raj does the impossible! Instead of dishum dishum he gets Prasanna and Navvya register married and even gifts them his own flat and returns to U.S.of A.

At first Prasanna and Navvya are at locker heads with each other and the fight at the drop of a hat. Fortunately due to some interesting twists they start to live together and slowly Prasanna starts to love her for real. Meanwhile one of the four friends who aspires to become an actor one day dies of an accident and finally after some more interesting twists and the usual emotional scenes Navvya reciprocates Prasanna's love and the pair unites for real this time. The story when told is not that great but the screenplay and the dialogues make this movie an interesting experience. One more redeeming factor is the very good use of reality in almost all places except a few sequences.

The four friends have done their job and Prasanna shows a lot of scope to become a fine actor. The comedy is also very good and not crude. No item numbers but Rambha and Abbas do indeed dance for one number at the start. Navvya Nair is ok, she acts well but when it comes to songs or romance she fails a bit. Music is a big plus. Music director Ramesh Vinayagam does a fabulous job. Prasanna's solo song is the best. The excellent dialogues and the way the actors deliver them adds up to the list of the movie's plus points. Camera is good and the sets are also good. Prakash Raj and other supporting cast make sure we don't get bored at all.

On the whole the director Radha Mohan and the producer Prakash Raj have made sure that they dish out one clean entertainer with some logical twists and kudos to them for that. Very clean and good movie for quiet some time. So we agree with all those out there that this movie is indeed refreshing and entertaining. Good luck to this entire unit to produce one more good movie like this one. In this comedy season, Azhagiya Theeye does deliver better comedy and enjoys much better box office success than Kamal Hasan's Vasool Raja M.B.B.S.