Movie Review: Sura
Banner: Sun Pictures, Sangli Murugan Pictures
Production: Kalanidhi Maaran, Sangli Murugan
Direction: S.P. Rajkumar
Star-casts: Vijay, Thamannah, Vadivelu, Dev Gill, Yuvarani and others
Music: Mani Sharma
Cinematography: Ekambaram

Sura is a racked collection of Vijay’s yesteryear films including ‘Kuruvi’, ‘Villu’ and ‘Vettaikaran’. The film lacks solidity on all aspects of narration and technical aspects. Right from the beginning till the final credits, everything movies on predictable parts as even Vijay’s fans may get restless over the hackneyed narration.
For 20mins, there’s a song sequence, punch dialogues, characters singing praises of hero, fighting shots with baddies and comedy tracks by Vadivelu.
In simple terms, ‘Sura’ can be better avoided as it fails to engross the universal audiences and for those, who’re ready to praise Vijay for anything can opt for this show.
Set in backdrops of seashore, the film focalizes on an honest-and-good hearted Sura (Vijay), a fisher, who has one perfect dream for his fellow community peoples: to raise houses for them as they’re leading a deprived life. There enters a bad politician (Dev Gill), whose only notion is to vacate the same land and erect a water theme park. Just followed by his cloak-and-dagger plans of setting fires to the hut and attempting to kill Sura, our hero survives the speculative situations and indeed challenges him.
With both the good and bad set to lock horns with each other, Sura tricks the politician on all arenas and finally wins over his aspirational dreams. Amidst of such challenges fallen ahead, there’s a rich girl (Thamannah) falling in love with him after watching his goodwill deeds and Vadivelu to add to the comedy quotients.
Firstly, it remains as a big letdown as the screenplay is so amateurish and so old that we have already seen more than 50films of this same genre, in which the innocent heroes take a new avatar of challenging bad politicians for the sake of well being of innocuous people.
Vijay keeps on uttering punch dialogues and social messages on his every line, which includes his advice for the present-age house wives addicted to mega-serials. His body languages of various gestures are again ludicrous as he loses his real identity. Thamannah is good for nothing as role is so flimsy and the entire film can be done even deleting her portions. Vadivelu remains as the only convincing part as he keeps making you laugh with stunning comedy tracks. ‘Magadheera’ fame Dev Gill does justice to his role despite his characterization not being so powerful.
Since all the songs are already famous in Telugu, none of them tend to win our applause. Apparently couple of songs ‘Naan Nadanthal’ and ‘Thanjavur Jilla’ has fantabulous dance sequences by Vijay. Cinematography by Ekambaram is good and editing is okay.
Maybe, Vijay has plans to hop-skip into politics, but this is not the platform to keep the audiences posted with his messages. An actor is supposed to entertain the universal audiences and help producers attain the greatest level of profits.
It looks like director S.P. Rajkumar hasn’t got anything to convey his work as most of the sequences remains as Vijay’s tactics. Sun Pictures must now stop promoting each and every film with such an intense depth or else will lose it existing identity.

Verdict: Fails to impress…
Rating: 2/5

Richard Mahesh