Thimiru Tamil Movie

'Thimiru' is loaded with all the ingredients that make a perfect mass entertainer: family sentiments, baddies, sensuous girls, item number, oodles of comedy and muscular and romantic action.

Tarun Gope, the director has done his homework well and it seems that he has sculpted a film around the personality of Vishal and in the process has churned out a perfect pot boiler. He has proved his directorial slight of hand.

Vishal has delivered a performance of the same caliber of his recent movies: Sandai Kozhi and Chellame. Thimiru is bound to catapult Vishal as a perfect action hero having mass appeal.

On the down side, the movie, which swings into action from the beginning and maintains its pace in top gear till the first half, becomes sluggish in the second half and meets a tame end. Plagued by predictability, the movie losses its glitter in the post-interval.

However, the movie promises wholesome entertainment and is worth for what you pay.

Here goes the story...

The film begins with a group of gangsters searching for Ganesh (Vishal), to revenge him. Ganesh, a final year medical student in a Chennai medical college is a reticent and sullen guy. Police and college authorities protect him from the gangsters, who are on his trail to kill him. He shares room with hostel warden (Vadivelu). No one knows who Ganesh is, his back ground and his motives.

Srimathy (Reema Sen), a student of Psychology and the daughter of a professor does research on the young men and the way they behave when they meet girls. After an incident, Srimathy comes to know about Ganesh's controlled attitude about girls and finds ways to meet him. Finally when they meet, she learns Ganesh is none other than the man who saved her from the clutches of some goons in Madurai.

Post-interval, Ganesh reminisces his depressing past. On a fateful day in Madurai, Ganesh bumps into Easwari (Shreya Reddy), a termagant, shrewish ill-tempered woman, when she is collecting money from Srimathy's sister and her husband.

Ganesh beats Easwari's men and asks her to behave as a woman. Easwari though humiliated in the public, seeing Ganesh's manliness, vows to marry Ganesh. On the day of the marriage fixed by her, Easwari holds Ganesh's parents in her custody and waits for Ganesh.

Ganesh beats up her men, saves his parents and refuses to marry her. When Easwari is totally incapacitated to achieve her malicious intentions, she goes hysterical and gets electrocuted. In the death bed, she summons her brothers- Periya Karuppu (Manoj K.Jayan) and Chinna Karuppu (I.M.Vijayan) - the dreaded local goondas and money swindlers and tells her death wish: Ganesh should not complete his medicine and no other girl should marry him.

In spite of all the hurdles, how Ganesh achieves his goal and punishes the brothers forms the remaining part of the story.

Vishal, Reema Sen and Shreya Reddy provide lot of energy and verve that keeps the pace with aplomb. Vishal in his third seems to hit a perfect cord with his audience and delivered what is expected out of him. Reema Sen is gritty and adds lot of glamour and vitality. However, the surprise element is Shreya Reddy an ex-SS Channel DJ, is the scene stealer. As a jealous, possessive and overbearing woman, Shreya has given a class performance that holds audience spell bound.

An ensemble of support cast Manoj K. Jayan, I.M. Vijayam, Vinayagan, Banuchander, Nizhalgal Ravi, Manickavinayagam, Meera Krishnan have lent their bit to the well told movie.

Kanal Kannan's astute action choreography is engaging. Music Director Yuvan Shankar Raja has inserted few tasty numbers that is well aligned to the mood and the situation.

Though the movie may not linger in you mind for a long time, you will be hard pushed not to enjoy the ride while it lasts.