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Vasantha Maligai
- 3/11/2013 12:22:15 PM
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Cast: Sivaji Ganesan, Vanisri, Santhakumari, K Balaji, Nagesh, Srikanth, Major Sundarrajan, Pandari BaiDirection: K S Prakash RaoGenre: RomanceDuration: 2 hours 50 minutes
Synopsis: Anand (Sivaji), a rich playboy, meets a Latha ( Vanisri), a good-natured airhostess looking for a job. He takes her to Azhagapuri, his estate, as his personal secretary, starts mending his ways and even falls in love with her. When his brother Vijayakumar (Balaji) and his status-conscious mother ( Santhakumari) come to know of this, they decide to nip this romance in the bud.
Movie Review: Whenever someone talks about the greatness of Vasantha Maligai (or many of our older films for that matter), the immediate reaction from a segment of audience who are not of that period would be to casually dismiss this claim as nostalgia and label the film as over-the-top melodrama. After all, how can one expect subtlety in a film whose very mention immediately brings to mind the exaggerated visual of Sivaji Ganesan coughing blood and singing Yarukkaga Idhu Yarukkaga...?
To be frank, the opening 20 minutes are as choppy a ride as that experienced by the characters in the introductory scene. We are driven home the point that the hero Anand is a drunkard and a playboy not once but twice through two different songs (O Maanida Jaathiye... and Oru Kinnathai Yendhugiren...). And by the time the other item number, Kudimagane..., appears, a few minutes later, you begin to wonder if it is t
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