Sivakasi - fireworks?

Sivakasi.. is Std (not the fireworks) Vijay fare..

Vijay is poor guy, an orphan, running a welding shop.. very violent, but good-at-heart.. after some atercations.. rich girl (thats Asin) falls in love with him (some real goofy logix used here).. he in turn loves her after trying to steer her away from him as every poor but good hero must.. and after another completely irrational sequence.. it turns out Vijay has a family whom he ran away from 15 yrs back.. and the girl tells him he must win back his family to win her back.. and so he goes back to his hometown..

All that is the first half.. and the entire half goes thru' with nothing really happening in terms of the story.. there are a lot of "hero-worship" scenes.. unfortunately Vijay is not yet upto the Rajni level.. so unless u r a fan, most of this will fall flat!! also, the director has included audience response (whistles, applause, etc) in the background score.. so even if no one is appriciating the scenes, u will feel that the theatre is enjoying watching it..

Anyways.. when vijay goes to his homeplace, he finds that his brother (PrakashRaj) is ill-treating his mother and sister and also that he was responsible for the death of his father. Then, project vendatta starts. The film, very literally, picks up pace from here. how he overcomes all odds forms the rest of the engaging second half.

Really, the movie is quite entertaining if you are willing to overlook a number of glaring logic failures.. scenes have been strung together because they look good.. but how did the story move from Point A to Point B? Thats upto your own creativity.
Performances.. are more or less ok.. Asin plays the lively girl to the hilt.. PrakashRaj is impressive as the villain.. Vijay too plays his role well.. but it really pains me to see him playing this sort of role again and again.. he seems talented enough to do much more varied roles.. only time will tell this.. music is really loud.. and all the songs have the "that-tune-I-know-from-somewhere-else" feel..

Overall, normal Vijay masala, and really njoyable if u r a Vijay rasigar..

Score : 56