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Movie Review : Vedaa

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Abhimanyu ( John Abraham) gets court martialled by the army and has to leave service after he kills the terrorist wanted alive by his superiors. He  has actually taken vengeance for the murder of his wife ( Tammannah in a brief appearance). He then goes to his father-in-law's home in Barmer where he gets a job as a PT assistant coach. His task involves taking boxing lessons for the boys. In the same town lives a young college student Vedaa ( Sharvari Wagh) whose dream is to become a boxer and get a job. But the village bigwig's relative and his goons put a stop to her plans by ragging her and beating her up as they consider it infradig to mingle with her as she comes from a lower social community. But the beating only makes her more determined to learn boxing. In this she is helped by Abhimanyu who sees the injustice against certain communities in the village. But soon their world goes haywire when her brother is targetted in a honor killing after he falls in love with an upper...

Movie Review: Thangalaan

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 The story revolves around a group of village folk living a farmers life,  in Veppur village in North Arcot district in 1850. One day Thangalaan ( Chiyaan Vikram) and his wife (ParvathyThiruvothu) and kids are  taken as bonded labour by the local mirasdar after their village land is burnt down and are put under a heavy fine and debt. Thangalaan often has violent dreams of a mountain filled with gold which his ancestors are  fighting to get at.   One day, when a British Officer, Clement (Daniel Caltagirone) comes to the village to recruit labour to search for gold, Thangalaan and a few men join the group in order to earn money which they have to pay to the mirasdar. As they make their way to search for the gold, Thangalaan has intuitions based on his dreams and guides the party to the gold filled mount.  But the task of digging is not easy. There are sudden dangers that emerge in the form of deadly animals and fighters. Surviving them all, Thangalaan go...