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Adithya Varma







Adithya Varma Movie Synopsis: The life of a brilliant doctor with anger management issues goes on a downward spiral after the love of his life gets married to another man. Can he redeem himself before it's too late?

Adithya Varma Movie Review: In the opening scene of Adithya Varma, we see an old woman (Leela Samson) talking about the obsessive nature of her grandson with pride to her friends. This scene gives an inkling into why Adithya Varma (Dhruv Vikram) is the man he is. His grandmother is just one among the people in his inner circle who have enabled his arrogant behaviour since childhood and turned him into the angry, rebellious, possessive and abusive young man who cannot take rejections.

In his introduction scene, we see Adithya getting frisky with a young woman. But before they can have sex, the woman's fiance knocks on the door. While the woman, who had been a wilful participant until then, stops him, in a momentary fit, the enraged Adithya threatens her to undress at knife point. Director Gireesaaya stages this scene in such a way that the power that has gone off in the house acts as a visual metaphor. It's almost as if the switch inside Adithya's
head has gone off, bringing the darkness inside him to the surface. But then, the power comes back, and Adithya comes back to his senses. What follows next establishes his mental state. He desperately wants to get physical with a woman, but when he realises that might not be possible, he cools himself off by putting ice in his groin.

Adithya Varma is the remake of the Telugu film Arjun Reddy (which was recently remade in Hindi as well — Kabir Singh) and this opening stretch — which glorifies the acts of the protagonist and tries to project them as badass and cool ("unconventional mindset" and "free-spirited" are some of the terms that characters in the film use to describe him) — makes you realise that the criticism that the films have invited are valid. But thankfully, this Tamil version also sets right, or at least, softens, some of the problematic aspects of the original.

The narrative switches between these episodes of Adithya's self-destructive behaviour and the past, where, he, as a house surgeon, falls in love at first sight when he sees Meera (Banita Sandhu), a demure fresher who has joined his college in Mangalore. But unlike in Arjun Reddy, here, Meera's intentions are clear to us right from the start. While Adithya came across as someone imposing himself on a hapless girl in the original, here, we see that Meera is as interested in him as he is in her. Unlike Shalini Pandey, whose sad eyes made the character's acquiescence ambiguous, Banita plays Meera with a shy smile, clearly conveying that Meera is interested in this relationship as much as Adithya. There is real chemistry between her and Dhruv, and the two young actors make us buy into the madness in their characters and in this strange romance.

Meanwhile, Adithya's life keeps spiralling out of control in the present as he obsesses over the failure of his romance, which has led to Meera being forcefully married to another man by her caste-conscious father (Achyuth Kumar). Even as he immerses himself into alcohol and drugs, his family (his elder brother) and friends (his college friend, superbly played by Anbu Thasan) rally around him and try to bring him back to normalcy, but will there be light at the end of this personal suffering?

Given its troubled production, there were doubts if the film might be any good, but Gireesaaya delivers a well-made, if overly faithful, remake with Adithya Varma. The film is as intense as the original, with a lead performance that suggests that we might be witnessing the birth of a star. Dhruv Vikram comes up with a performance that captures Vijay Deverakonda's intense and raw act from the original note for note, but there is an assuredness and honesty here that makes us appreciate it rather than dismiss it just as mimicry.


சென்னை: கிரிசாயா இயக்கத்தில் த்ருவ் விக்ரம், பானிடா சந்து, பிரியா ஆனந்த் நடிப்பில் உருவாகியுள்ள ஆதித்ய வர்மா இன்று திரைக்கு வந்துள்ளது. தெலுங்கில் வெளியான அர்ஜுன் ரெட்டி மற்றும் அதன் ஹிந்தி ரீமேக்கான கபீர் சிங் படங்கள் வெற்றியை பதிவு செய்த நிலையில், த்ருவ் விக்ரம் நடிப்பில் உருவாகியுள்ள ஆதித்ய வர்மா எப்படி இருக்கிறது என்பது குறித்து படத்தை பார்த்தவர்கள் ட்விட்டரில் கொடுத்திருக்கும் விமர்சனங்களை பார்க்கலாம்.

வேற லெவல் அவுட்புட் சியான் விக்ரமின் நடிப்பை கண்டு அசந்து போகாதவர்களே இந்திய சினிமாவில் இருக்க மாட்டார்கள். புலிக்கு பிறந்தது பூனையாகுமா என்ன, ஆக்டிங்கில் வேற லெவல் அவுட்புட்டை த்ருவ் விக்ரம் தனது முதல் படத்திலே கொடுத்துள்ளார் என படத்தை பார்த்த மக்கள் கருத்து தெரிவித்துள்ளனர்.

கனவு கண்ணன் ஆதித்ய வர்மா படம் ஒரு பக்காவான ரீமேக் படம் என்றும், கோலிவுட்டில் கனவு கண்ணனுக்கு இருந்த வெற்றிடத்தை ஆதித்ய வர்மா அசால்ட்டாக நிரப்பியுள்ளார் என்றும் இந்த நெட்டிசன் கருத்து தெரிவித்துள்ளார். த்ருவ் விக்ரமின் சார்மிங் பெர்ஃபார்மன்ஸ் மற்றும் கமாண்டிங்கான குரல் அவருடைய பலமாக அமைந்துள்ளதாம்.

ஸ்டார் இஸ் பார்ன் விமர்சகர் ஸ்ரீதர் பிள்ளை, ஆதித்ய வர்மா ஒரு நேர்மையான ரீமேக் என்றும், தமிழில் சில மாறுதல்கள் மற்றும் க்ரிஸ்ப்பாக கொடுத்துள்ளனர் என்றும் கூறியுள்ளார். ஸ்டார் இஸ் பார்ன் என த்ருவ் விக்ரமின் நடிப்பு குறித்தும் பாராட்டியுள்ளார்.
முதல் படம் மாதிரி தெரியல த்ருவ் விக்ரமின் நடிப்பு ஆதித்ய வர்மா படத்தில் அபாரமாக உள்ளதாக பார்ப்பவர்கள் புகழ்ந்து தள்ளி வருகின்றனர். இது அவருக்கு முதல் படம் மாதிரியே தெரியல, சியான் விக்ரமின் தயாரிப்பு ஆச்சே எப்படி வீண் போகும் என இந்த நெட்டிசன் தனது கருத்தை பதிவு செய்துள்ளார்.

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