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Direction: A. M Baskar

RATING: 2.5/5

‘Vanjagan‘ looks like it has been filmed in a hurry and with the conviction that a youthful hero and heroine, some action and a few titillating sequences are all that are required to make a film run.

The film has been produced for Veera Film by S.V. Jeyaprakash and directed by A.M. Bhaskar.

The story is very simple. The life of a happy family is rudely disrupted by a fake financial firm. The family, which had invested a large sum with the company, is sadly disappointed. The fake financier packs up and leaves one night. The easy flow of family life staggers to a halt.

They are overwhelmed with despair because all the money saved for the daughter’s wedding had been invested with the firm. At the very edge of despair, they take a terrible decision.

The family commits suicide en masse. The only one to escape is a small boy, who becomes a mental patient. He searches for the financiers who destroyed his entire family to wreak vengeance.

This story is formed mainly by guesswork though. The screenplay is far more confusing. The viewer is tormented in between with unconnected item numbers and gruesome violent sequences. Probably made under the vague belief of this being an action film, the end product turns out to be quite different from the intended one.

It looks like someone told the producer that a hero only has to act ‘psycho’ in keeping with the tradition established by Dhanush, Jeeva and Surya for a hit film. Unfortunately, the hero is still very much an innocent boy. The scenes where he believes himself to be taking serious revenge turn out to be quite funny.

The presence of senior artistes like Suman does precious little to redeem the film.

‘Vanjagan’ truly only wreaks vengeance on the audience who dared to enter the theatre unprepared.