𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗮𝗺𝘂𝘆𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱)

Vidaamuyarchi has been watched. An adaptation of the Breakdown 1997 that's sufficiently entertaining and settles as a decent to good watch when it had all the capabilities to become so much more.

Ajith's movie choices and his sincerity has been questioned often. Vidaamuyarchi is a response to those criticisms that he still values the profession. In a trend where the big stars need to do bare minimum and rack up crores and crores in collection, AK's Vidaamuyarchi takes the road not taken, sets AK in the character and takes us for a ride through the deserts of Azerbaijan.

AK as Arjun is another righteous and honest role that Ajith has portrayed. AK doesn't get to loosen up which is one of my grouse but the past portions where he stars in a black beard and black hair was a real charmer, Kadhal Mannan for real. However, he does struggle a bit to emote in the crying scenes, it was awkward. For someone who melted the audience with his eyes in KKK climax to this, it has been a hard fall.

Among the ensemble of supporting cast, it's Regina who scores the most. A baddie role that's never been written in tamil cinema probably. With Andrea's voice and the antics of Regina, the psychopathic role was played to perfection. Arjun, Aarav and Trisha get decent roles to play and they do it adequately.

Magizh Thirumeni's work is partly good and partly bad. While his attempt to stay true to the original material is applaudable, the writing choices he added newly in the films are a mixture of misses and hits. The dialogues are fine yet the romantic portions were generic and cliched thus there's no emotional connect with the characters. However, Magizh Thirumeni should do another movie with Ajith in future in original script. The output will definitely be a banger.

Technically, the movie is top notch. The cinematography of Om Prakash captures the deserts of Azerbaijan superbly with frames that would be worth of Wallpapers. Anirudh is in fine form and yet again proves why he's preferred for biggies. He single handedly imposed the non existent tension in the movie with his score. A special mention to the car fight scene in the second half, the camera work was just too incredible.

On the shortcomings, the movie gets tedious at places as the scenes are flat in the first half. The devoid of any high moments can be a patience tester as the drama as well is not strong. The climax and the third act as a whole was a disappointment.

Overall, a solid film that should have been so much better yet settles being just decent to good.

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