Varisu review: Vijay lends life to this otherwise cliched storyline
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By PS Arjun
January 11, 2023
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Telugu director Vamshi Paidipally is debuting in Tamil with Thalapathy Vijay-starrer Varisu (Varasudu in Telugu) today, 11 January.
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To make sure that he has the right successor for the family business, Rajendran (Sarathkumar) pits his sons against each other.
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It has many problems: Right from the TV serial kind of makeup and drama in the first half to the dreamy Bollywood/Karan Johar kind of massive sets.
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And, of course, the exhausting runtime (2 hours 50 minutes)! The film is predictable in every frame. It is neither self-contained nor original.
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But, guess what? Even with all these issues, Varisu still works. Vijay as Vijay Rajendran lends life to the otherwise cliched storyline.
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Two more things work in favour of Varisu: Music composer Thaman S and comedian Yogi Babu.
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Srikanth as Jai, Shaam as Ajay and Sarathkumar as Rajendran are good. Jayasudha is also good.
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Rashmika Mandanna does not have much to do but is good at whatever she got. She doesn’t go overboard. Others are okayish.
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Director Vamshi Paidipally does what he knows well: Bringing grandeur into everything.
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The cinematography is really good. The computer graphics works could have been better.
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Varisu is silly, crazy, and entertaining, too, because the marvellous Vijay makes it work!
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