RJ Balaji’s Veetla Vishesham is a competently made remake of Badhaai Ho
The plot revolves round an strange middle-class household: Unnikrishnan (Sathyara), a railways worker, his house maker spouse Krishnaveni (Urvashi), their two sons — Ilango (RJ Balaji), a 20-something biology instructor, and Anirudh (Visvesh), who’s in highschool, and his aged mom Ammulu (KPAC Lalitha). Regardless of their modest means, Unni and Krishnaveni are a loving couple, and following one intimate evening, realise that latter has gotten pregnant. Krishnaveni decides to have the newborn, nonetheless, they’re extra about how the society round them goes to react to this information, particularly their two sons. Will Ilango and Anirudh have the ability to come to phrases with this reality and embrace their dad and mom’ determination?
Provided that Badhaai Ho was backed by sturdy writing, RJ Balaji and crew right here keep near the unique, making solely minor modifications to the fabric that add an area flavour to this common story. Among the modifications, like making Ilango’s occupation, work. {That a} seemingly progressive biology instructor, who’s eager to on his college students getting intercourse schooling, is not in a position to deal with the truth that his dad and mom may be having an lively intercourse life, places throughout the irony of his state of affairs and the double-standards within the society higher. Even the addition of an angle about ladies having the suitable to decide on between a standard and a cesarean supply appears well-intentioned, although the makers right here select a considerably over-the-top humourous tone (over a heartfelt second) to ship this ‘message’. The movie additionally wins us over with its real progressive outlook.
The truth is, your entire movie has a barely louder tone in comparison with the unique’s. Whereas this does not detract its effectiveness or the factors it desires to make, it nonetheless leaves us with a could-have-been-better feeling in some locations. The performances, too, do not rank as excessive as what we obtained in Badhaai Ho. Whereas Urvashi pulls her position off with elan, a few of the humour with Sathyaraj, like his interest of doing brief movies, have a sure affectedness. The late KPAC Lalitha delivers a powerful efficiency, too. However RJ Balaji, whereas efficient within the humorous scenes — a scene by which he makes his girlfriend Sowmya (Aparna Balamurali) get in secretly into his flat is kind of hilarious — falls brief within the emotional moments, like within the scene by which he confronts Sowmya’s mom and stands up for his dad and mom. He delivers this speech even a he sways a bit this fashion and that, and this physique language is distracting and lessens the emotional affect of the scene.
However to Balaji and Saravanan’s credit score, these shortcomings are reasonably minor. And the duo manages to smoothen out these wrinkles with assist from Girishh Gopalakrishnan’s emotive rating that elevates the feelings within the dramatic scenes.
