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7aam Arivu Review

A.R.Murugadoss directorial, Suriya starrer flick, 7aam Arivu hits screens on Diwali day with grand opening. The expectations are on high peak because of Murugadoss-Suriya combo who gave a master hit like Ghajini. But the super combo can't repeat the history with this epic movie.
7aam Arivu bags an interesting stuff and exciting thread, but the dull screenplay makes the movie down. One of the main higlight is it shot wonderfully than usual tamil films. Also the concept is fresh to Kollywood,but the screenplay makes audience dull.
The film commenced with in the backdrops of 1600years back. Suriya appears as a prince Bodhidharman of Pallava region Kanchipuram. And he journey to China and changed as a priest for helping the poor people there from ailing diseases and teaches them martial arts. Bodhidharman dies and buried in China. This flashback sequence brings alot action packed scenes which can termed as one of the best in Kollywood.
From next sequence Suriya potrayed as Aravind,a circus performer. Shruthi Hassan will joins with this sequence as Shuba Srinivasan, who works in a DNA Recombinant Technology centre and her aim is to reback Boddhidharman through Aravind. Romantic scenes and songs between Aravind and Subha marks negative to the film, it looks like an attached one to show some masala is there! Songs and romance clips have been inserted in places where they are unwarranted.
On that time the script enters the villain Dong Lee (Johnny Tri Nguyen) who is appointed by Chinese government to start off Operation Red. His main motto is to destroy India through bio war. The game between main three; Aravind, Subha, Dong Lee depicts the flick '7arivu'.
7aam Arivu rides on Suriya's star power,but even his hardcore fans will feel some missing. As a side, Suriya excels as Bodhidharman. But as Aravind, the makers utilize him more to show six packed body and a romantic one. He breathed some life into the film through the action sequences. But what can he do if the script is lacklustre? Johnny Tri Nguyen rocks as tremedous villain. He is a perfect choice for the role of Dong Lee. Shruthi Hassan is quite ok.
The technical team has done a superb job, but the main fault of the film lies in its hackneyed and boneless script. Ravi Varman's camera work at core excellent, but unluckily tunes by Harris Jayaraj is below average. The action sequences are well orchestrated by Peter Hayne and Martials Arts turns one of the positive to the film.
Very little of 7aam Arivu makes sense but the lack of logic isn't the problem here. Boredom is. When the movie goes on and on and on, emphasising on unfulfilled promises, seething anger , love and frankly, you are least bothered by now and will lose interest in the proceedings.
Overall 7aam Arivu is a major disappointment for all the hype it generated, but its not an avoidable one. Go without any expectations,so only you could feel its 'worth watching once'.
Verdict: Average.