ELI - Hardly Squeaks!

ELI - Hardly Squeaks!

Cast: Eli- Vadiveu, Sada, Pradeep Rawat,Kitty, Adithya, Mahanadi Shankar, Santhana Bharathy, Muthu Kalai, & others

& Crew: Director - Yuvraj Dhayaalan, Music - Vidyasagar,

Producers: Sathish Kumar G  & Amarnath S

About the film:

Another disaster for Vadivelu! The actor whose comic timing was once upon a time a treat to watch to Tamil cinema viewers is now turning into a damp squibs film after film.  What a come down for this comedian! All blame falls on the director Yuvraj for a mismatched script he has chosen to showcase this talented comedian. Very few Tamil comedians like Thai Nagesh and to a certain extent Chandra Babu can move a complete film on their own. Vadivelu who did succeed in '23 aam Pulikesi' has failed miserably in all his later films including 'Thenaliraman' by the same director. Why didn't this actor learn from his not so recent mistakes; probably due to sheer desperation or want of takers to produce films with him in the lead. But this film is one big fiasco and disaster. From the very start of Vadivelu reading the lines in English 'cigarette smoking is injurious...... & Consumption of alcohol etc etc ......'  supposedly to stamp the premise as brand Vadivelu comedy; was so crass and cheaply done and clearly one could predict what was coming in the next 2 hour 45 mins. What followed was sheer nonsense and rubbish. The whole film is set as a period film in the 60's or 70's or whatever felt mostly like ranting and raving of a director gone berserk! The director characterises Vadivelu as a conman aspiring to be a police man but fails the physical test ; and finally is recruited by the police to act as a spy to bust a gang headed by the typical (north Indian looking) villain running  a cigarette smuggling racket with the help of a corrupt policeman owing to a ban on smoking! Other than the novelty of this thread the director had nothing to offer except for a few laughs generated by reminiscence of the Vadivelu of old. I for one simply cannot fathom why such films are even being made time and again wasting huge amounts of money, effort and time. For god sake's I hope that day is not far of when the viewers wake up and protest against the screening of disaster and stupid films like this one instead of protesting for right films for wrong and frivolous reasons!

And the climax:

I shall refrain from reviewing this film any further as I simply do not want to waste my time writing about films such as these which angers me beyond words!

Bottomline: Supposed to be comedy ends up as tragedy for the viewers!

Finally a quote: 'Films like these should be screened free!'

My Rating: 0.5/5

Until Next Time,

Director Haricharan

22/6/2015