Villali Veeran

Coming after his recent hits like 'Sringaravelan' and ‘Nadodimannan’ is another 'Villaliveeran' from Janapriyanayakan Dileep. A movie that take inspiration from every Dileep movies of the recent past, ‘Villaliveeran’ but fails to excite even fans of Dileep mostly due to a non-cohesive script and average direction.

'Villaliveeran' features Dileep as Siddharthan or Siddhu who lives running a vegetable shop and also as a money lender. A young man who gives you a feel that he is a happy go lucky lad, Siddhu is taking every chances to make some money to manage with the lives of  a few more families who depend on him. When in financial turmoil, he even comes up as a scandalous ‘paid’ groom taking false identities of non-existing rich men, for a marriage bureau run by Damodharji(Nedumudi Venu), which can pay him a 25000 rupees per visit. He thus get in touch with Narmadha, an ad ad maker whom he has met in some frivolous situations earlier, which had made her misinterpret him as a thief and a goonda. Narmadha’s father but develops high opinion for Siddhu, believing in all snobberies about him to be an immensely rich guy who but follows Lord Buddha’s principles of simplicity. He immediately fix him as his future son-in law and tries to announce it in a public function, where the truth about  Siddhu is revealed. With a weighty past of business rivalry, which resulted in  his father thrown behind bars, Siddhu is actually now in need of much as even his life is in stake.

The problem with the movie is its scripts by Dinesh Pallath that hardly offers anything fresh apart from a few mockeries like the mock drills by state police, which comes in decisive moments of the hero’s life. The movie is filled with characters that lacks life with nothing much to do. The story lines goes unending with a poor second half which introduce a lot of fresher clichéd characters   and unexpected twists, which but hardly excite and add up to your confusions.

Dileep is in his usual role and mannerisms, trying to make comedies in every unwanted situations. His sidekicks Sugunan played by Kalabhavan Shajon is also poorly etched while Sidhique, Mydhili and Seetha manages well with their roles. Namitha Pramod once again excites with her screen presence and free flowing acting styles. The director who comes from mini screen couldn’t rightly handle the scale of a Dileep movie and many of its melodramatic moments just reminds of the television soaps. Sudheesh Shankar’s average direction is supplemented  by the cameraman Anil Nair and editor Jaishankar. Now at two hours and 43 minutes, the movie makes you look at your watch many a times and appear too lengthy. The songs by S A Rajkumar are rhythmic and in Telugu style , but comes up in every unwanted situations. The songs visualisations are also in regular mode .

Coming after the recent ‘Avatharram’ which didn’t make much good for Dileep camp, ‘Vilaali Veeran’ with its present content is sure to follow suit without making no big fortunes for its producer R B Chowdhary. Recommended only for Dileep fans and family audiences, who doesn’t mind seeing once again a regular typical Dileep stuff.

Rating-5.5/10