Avan-Ivan

I never watched Bala's movies with  expectations since i can not predict the story line,same thing for this movie.Started the movie with open mind and i enjoyed it.

Story is very simple , step brothers Walter Vanangamudi and Kumbideran Samy always fight each other for  every thing but one thing they share together is their love and affection for defunct  zamindar who has lost everything and he is dearly called as "Highness".He too treat them like his own sons.He always encourages them to leave the criminal activities which they are known for.

And there are two heroines whom fall in love with these two step brothers.Life is going well until they found villain RK who is doing illegal selling and butchering of cows.The Zamindar calls police and they arrests RK.The rest is the story of revenge.

Undoubtedly two characters stood out- G.M Kumar as Zamindar and Vishal as Squint eyed Walter. They set the screen on fire whenever the comes.Simply awesome, specially G.M Kumar when he was hit by the villain, his expressions were realistic.Hats off to Vishal ,he had done his role to perfection.We can see his hard work on the screen.Arya as Kumbideran Samy ,typical  Araya character, carefree and done justice to his role.

Rest of the casts including Ambika, the boy who is a friend of Kumbideran Samy, the old man who rings bell whenever police enters to their place,villain RK and the wannabee DSP are all done their role well.The two heroines are not bad, not much scope.

Background score by Yuan Shankar Raja is amazing.I think one his best background score.I felt sad as the song "Rasthi" was not in the movie.Cinematography by Arthur A Wilson is simply awesome.He captures the hills of Theni beautifully.Theni never looks beautiful before.Editing by Suresh urs is also excellent.Art director Muthuraj had brought the Zamin alive with his work.Another highlight is the costume of the lead characters, kudos to costume designer vasugi and Selvam.

Director Bala

Technically a good film ably supported by music and a power packed performance by everyone.But Bala missed the golden opportunity with his screen play which loosened specially at second half.So many questions arises in second half.Hope he will bounce back in the next film,eagerly waiting.