Vazhakku En 18/9 Review

Vazhakku En 18/9 

    Vazhakku En 18/9 is another impressive presentation by director Balaji Saktivel sir. He as the director and writer of the film, gives more important to the story running and the characteristic of the film. S.D. Vijay Milton handled camera for this film and the visualization was superb but still got some sequence and scene was blurring and out of focus on the screen. Maybe they did it with purpose. Editing was done by Gopi Krishna, screenplay running very interestingly after interval of the movie and it shows the advantages of the editor very well. The main roles of the film is played by Sri as Velu, Mithun Murali as Dinesh, Urmila Mahanta as Jothi, Manisha Yadav as Aarthi and Muthuraman as Inspector Kumaravel, they showed out each characters very well. Eventhought, they are new faces but their performance like matured actors especially Velu and Inspector Kumaravel.  R. Prasanna has scored music for this film, he has done a good job but never utilize this opportunity very well because the music is not that much impressive and some bgm’s are not suitable for some scenes but still his scores for some scenes really bringing the audience into the story. Hope he will improve in his next film to make sure to get a bright future soon. The film is produced by UTV Motion Pictures and Director N. Lingusamy’s Thiruppathi Brothers.

Vazhakku En 18/9 has delivered very important news as message of the film to the audience especially teenagers who get trouble via opposite sex attraction. The film explores the current higher education teenager’s mentality which is very possessive to sexual mentality and what that can cause over the innocent people. The film also showed the irresponsible and selfish characters that willing to do anything just for their own benefits especially people in higher position in the society. Other than that, Balaji sir have put some effort to create some awareness about the child working abuse; the country are huge in self-fish people. This message can see when the Sneak Factory owner refused the call for hero which bringing the news that his parents are passed away. This scene are so emotional because the innocent guy can’t even see his parents for last time, seems he suffering at Mumbai just for his parents to settle their debt.

Vazhakku En 18/9 is a low budget film obviously but still the director proved that the content and subject are more important than the film luxury. The main location of the film is road side, the mobile stall, the apartment and the hut; it was so simple, nice and needed by the script. But still the lighting of the film is a bit poor which provided noise in some shots for certain scene. Such as, the police station scene is seems a bit under expose but still that’s the one director needed maybe. The post production was done very well because the screenplay was very interesting and very minimum boring sequences. The scenes that explore Velu’s love over Jothi in until Aarthi’s flashback is so nice, humor and realistic. At the same time, Jothi’s reaction over Velu really adds points to the scenes.

 At last, Vazhakku En 18/9 is very realistic film and exposing a very important message to the audience especially teenager. Seems this film were produced with very basic things and low budget; the film can be a very good tutorial to the upcoming film makers like film students, short film makers and so. Director Balaji Saktivel sir is really creating his own style and trend and he keep on moving in the same track. Vazhakku En 18/9 is an awareness movie.

This is my own review and I done this just improve my knowledge in film and production industry. Please forgive me if you feel I have written something wrong. Thank You.