Official Trailer:

Vaarisu is as cliched as it can get. There is nothing wrong in making a cliched movie. Formulaic movie can be made interesting with a fresh approach and angle. All it takes is spend some energy in writing. Love stories have been there from the time images started moving on the screen. Still, we get engaging love stories like Alai Payuthe, VTV, Thiruchittrambalam, La La Land. Guess the director thought Vijay is enough to redeem a lazy movie like Vaarisu. Now it has become customary to leave the brain at home when you go to watch a Rajini, Vijay, or Ajith movie. While Darbar, Beast and Valimai tested our patience, you get tired with Vaarisu. So annoyingly predictable. You should Never Underestimate the Predictability of Stupidity as the dialogue goes from the movie Snatch.

• Mother in the patriarchal joint family doesn’t speak up – only smiles or cries. Why? Because it is all about family and family comes first
• Hero, one of the three sons, leaves the home due to fallout with his father
• Other two elder brothers have a brain the size of a peanut
• There are multiple villains who think like villains from earlier movies
• Preferred disease is cancer. But we need to give it to the writers for their creativity…instead of blood cancer this time it is pancreatic. A round of applause, please
• Father realizes his two elder sons have put the family business in danger, which we as audience predicted five minutes into the movie
• Now our hero has to save the family mining business
• Hero has to bring the family together and rescue the family business from the villains
• They all keep talking about mining, 1000s of crores, and we are shown mining fields but till the end I couldn’t figure out what are they mining for. Maybe the story?
• No role for the heroine other than being a love candy for the hero
• We do get a surprise in Vaarisu where our hero tells his sister-in-law to do what she feels right. Brother dude has an affair, and she wants a divorce. For a short duration we wonder, seriously, our hero not putting her in place with family values and culture? But it is short lived. Only change is the sermon is polished here
• Just rescuing the business and getting the family together is not enough for Vijay and a 3-hour movie. On the way, he busts the human trafficking racket, solves labor problem, and comes up with food delivery app for poor people
• While we struggle to get our monthly pay cheque, our hero gets a cool 250Cr for his app
• How does he fix the villains? Similar to earlier movies …. kick the &*^% out of them

Vijay is fun to watch but without the story even he can’t help it. I liked the boardroom scene with his kutti stories. Scenes between Vijay and Jayasudha are moving (mainly because we could connect) but they could have been written much better. Prakash Raj, Sarath Kumar, and Prabhu sleepwalk in their role – they are not to be blamed, their characters don’t have any meat. Now I decided to skip Thunivu. Why can’t they just watch and learn a few things from a movie like Nanpagal Nerathu Mayakkam that gives you so much with a minimalistic and layered approach.