varisu movie review

varisu movie review – is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language action drama film directed by Vamshi Paidipally who co-wrote it with Hari and Ashishor Solomon. Produced collectively by Dil Raju and Sirish underneath Sri Venkateswara Creations and PVP Cinema, the movie stars Vijay and Rashmika Mandanna. The music consists by Thaman S, cinematography is dealt with by Karthik Palani and enhancing by Praveen K. L..

The movie was introduced in September 2021 underneath the tentative title Thalapathy 66, as it’s Vijay’s 66th movie in a number one position. Principal pictures started in April 2022 and concluded in December. The movie was shot principally in Chennai and Hyderabad, with sporadic schedules in Visakhapatnam, Bellary and Ladakh.

Varisu was launched in theatres worldwide on 11 January 2023, coinciding with the Pongal competition, and acquired constructive evaluations from critics and viewers.

varisu movie Cast

Vijay as Vijay Rajendran, Rajendran’s youngest son
Rashmika Mandanna as Divya
R. Sarathkumar as Rajendran Palanisamy, Vijay’s father
Prabhu as Vijay’s family doctor and Rajendran’s best friend
Prakash Raj as Jayaprakash
Shaam as Ajay Rajendran, Rajendran’s second son and Vijay’s elder brother
Srikanth as Jay Rajendran, Rajendran’s eldest son and Vijay’s eldest brother
Khushbu
S. J. Suryah as Adithya Mittal
Yogi Babu as Kicha
Jayasudha as Sudha Rajendran, Vijay’s mother
Sangeetha Krish as Aarthi
Samyuktha Shanmughanathan as Ajay’s wife
Nandini Rai
Ganesh Venkatraman as Mukesh
Sriman as Thangadurai
VTV Ganesh as Velraj
John Vijay
Bharath Reddy
Sanjana Sarathy
Sathish as Vijay’s friend
Suman as Gautham
Matthew Varghese
Harshitha
Advaith
Jani Master in a cameo appearance in “Thee Thalapathy” song

varisu movie trailer

varisu movie Music

In his first collaboration with Vijay, the music consists by Thaman S. The album consists of six songs. The first single “Ranjithame” was launched on 5 November 2022, the second single “Thee Thalapathy” on 4 December, and the third single “Soul of Varisu” on 20 December.

The audio launch was held on 24 December. On 28 December, Billboard launched a listing of songs that bought featured within the record of ‘Hot Trending Songs’ chart and claimed that “Soul of Varisu” reached the ‘Top 1’ place adopted by worldwide releases like Stray Kids; this can be a uncommon feat for any South Indian music.

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	“Ranjithame”	Vijay, M. M. Manasi	4:48
2.	“Thee Thalapathy”	Silambarasan	4:15
3.	“Soul of Varisu”	K. S. Chithra	2:09
4.	“Jimikki Ponnu”	Anirudh Ravichander, Jonita Gandhi	3:55
5.	“Vaa Thalaivaa”	Shankar Mahadevan, Karthik, Deepak Blue, Thaman S, Aravindh Srinivasan	4:30
Total length:	19:26

All lyrics are written by Vivek.

Varisu
Soundtrack album by Thaman S
Released	24 December 2022
Recorded	2021–2022
Studio	Prasad Studios, HyderabadV Studio, ChennaiUno Records StudioStudio28, BangkokPanchathan Record Inn and AM Studios, ChennaiKrimson Avenue Studios, ChennaiStrings 7 Studio, ChennaiAbbey Road Studios, London
Genre	Film soundtrack
Length	19:26
Language	Tamil
Label	T-Series
Producer	Thaman S
Thaman S chronology
Prince (2022)Varisu (2022)Veera Simha Reddy (2023)
External audio Official Audio Jukebox on YouTube
Singles from Varisu
“Ranjithame” Released: 5 November 2022″Thee Thalapathy” Released: 4 December 2022″Soul of Varisu” Released: 20 December 2022

Plot

Vijay Rajendran, the youngest son of an eminent business magnate, Rajendran Palanisamy, is disowned and thrown out of the home as he refused to hitch the household enterprise, deciding to launch a meals supply startup as a substitute. 7 years later, Rajendran is recognized with advanced-stage pancreatic cancer and has only some extra months to stay. He decides to disclose his terminal situation and make one in all his two elder sons, Jai Rajendran or Ajay Rajendran, the CEO of the corporate, earlier than his impending dying.

With this in thoughts, Rajendran plans to have a good time his 65^th birthday in a grand method, with the intention of saying each issues through the celebration. Vijay can also be invited on the behest of his mom, Sudha, who nonetheless considers him as her son. Vijay arrives solely to search out his home in disarray. Jai is dishonest on his spouse, Aarthi, with one other lady and is neglecting his household, together with his teenage daughter, Ria. Ajay is secretly working for Jayaprakash “JP”, Rajendran’s enterprise rival, for financial achieve. The two elder brothers themselves don’t communicate with one another and consistently battle for being their father’s successor.

Meanwhile, Vijay meets Divya, Jai’s sister-in-law, who has a crush on Vijay since her childhood. After a couple of incidents, the duo fall for one another. During Rajendran’s birthday celebration, Jayaprakash and his affiliate, Mukesh, reveal the duplicity of Jai and Ajay, which distraughts your complete household, notably Aarthi, who decides to file for divorce, and Rajendran, who has misplaced a enterprise deal on account of Ajay’s duplicity. Realising that he cannot depend on his elder sons to run his enterprise empire, Rajendran reaches out to Vijay, who initially refuses, however agrees to take over the enterprise and firm after studying about Rajendran’s sickness.

Jai and Ajay, in jealousy and dismay, go away the home and as a substitute, plot with JP to do away with Vijay because the CEO, however Vijay manages to cross the hurdles and neatly handles the household enterprise. After an incident involving Ria’s kidnapping, Jai realizes his errors and reconciles with Vijay and his household. Rajendran’s situation worsens, the place Vijay stops Ajay from handing over firm shares to JP, and makes him understand his errors. Jai and Ajay additionally reconcile and the household have a complete hearted meal collectively. Rajendran additionally dies peacefully, the place Vijay and his brothers performes the funeral and scatter their ashes at Varanasi.

varisu movie Release

Theatrical

Varisu was launched on 11 January 2023, within the week of Pongal, clashing with Thunivu. The movie is deliberate to have dubbed variations in Telugu (titled Vaarasudu) and in Hindi. The Telugu model’s launch was initially in threat of being moved to an earlier date than the Tamil model because the Telugu Film Producers Council urged theatre homeowners to offer first desire to launch solely direct Telugu movies releasing within the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in the course of the week of Sankranti competition.

Nandamuri Balakrishna’s Veera Simha Reddy and Chiranjeevi’s Waltair Veerayya had been scheduled for the discharge on the competition on 12 and 13 January 2023 respectively. Despite this, the Tamil Nadu Film Producers Association introduced that the Telugu model would launch as deliberate after talks with the Telugu Film Producers Council. However, the Telugu model was later pushed to 14 January 2023 on account of Raju selecting to let Veera Simha Reddy and Waltair Veerayya launch first.

Distribution

In November, it was introduced that Seven Screen Studios had acquired the Tamil Nadu theatrical rights for the movie. They will additional distribute the movie via their sub-distributors: Shri Sai Combines (Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari), Five Star Films (Madurai), Radhu Infotainment (Tiruchirappalli and Tanjore) and distributor Senthil (Salem).

Red Giant Movies will distribute the movie in North Arcot, South Arcot, Chennai, Coimbatore and Chengalpet. Ahimsa Entertainment shall be releasing the movie in Tamil and Telugu within the United Kingdom. 4 Seasons Creations acquired the rights for distributing the movie in European international locations corresponding to France, Norway and Netherlands. Shloka Entertainment acquired the North American theatrical rights. DMY Creations purchased the distribution rights for Malaysia.

Pre-release enterprise

The movie’s non-theatrical rights had been offered for ₹150 crore (US$19 million) together with satellite tv for pc, digital, audio and dubbing rights. The movie’s theatrical rights had been offered to over ₹139 crore (US$17 million), with Seven Screen Studios buying the Tamil Nadu theatrical rights for ₹70 crore (US$8.8 million) in minimum-guarantee foundation.

The Andhra Pradesh and Telangana theatrical rights had been offered to ₹20 crore (US$2.5 million) and the Karnataka and Kerala rights had been offered to ₹7.5 crore (US$940,000) and ₹6.5 crore (US$810,000), respectively. Overseas theatrical rights had been offered to ₹35 crore (US$4.4 million). The Hindi-dubbing rights of the movie had been offered for over ₹34 crore (US$4.3 million) crores.

Home media

The digital streaming rights had been acquired by Amazon Prime Video, and the satellite tv for pc rights had been offered to Sun TV.

Directed by	Vamshi Paidipally
Written by	Vamshi PaidipallyHariAshishor Solomon
Produced by	Dil RajuSirish
Starring	VijayRashmika Mandanna
Cinematography	Karthik Palani
Edited by	Praveen K. L.
Music by	Thaman S
Production companies	Sri Venkateswara CreationsPVP Cinema
Distributed by	Seven Screen Studio Red Giant Movies
Release date	11 January 2023
Running time	167 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	est. ₹280 crore
Box office	est. ₹35 crore

External links

Varisu at IMDb

Reception

Varisu received positive reviews from critics and audience.

M Suganth of The Times of India gave the film 3.5 out of 5 and wrote “Vijay is in terrific form, cracking one-liners that have us break out into a smile, make self-referential punches and show earnestness in the sentimental moments”. Prem Udayabhanu of Onmanorama narrated Varisu as “A throwback to the formula era – a mix of traditional family values a prodigal heir and a fortune awaiting business inheritance”.

Latha Srinivasan of India Today gave the film 3 out of 5 and wrote “Though the film is reminiscent of some Telugu films, Vijay keeps us engaged with his comedy and action”. Srinivasa Ramanujam of The Hindu wrote “Beyond Varisu’s staid plot and saccharine emotional beats, that’s what stays in your mind in this Vamshi Paidipally directorial”.Priyanka Thirumurthy of The News Minute gave the film 3.5 out of 5 stars and wrote “In short, Varisu is a predictable but enjoyable family drama.

After all, the fact that ‘family is difficult’ is a universal emotion”. Haricharan Pudipeddi of Hindustan Times wrote “As a viewer if you had walked in with your expectations in place after watching the trailer, you won’t be disappointed”. Kirubhakar Purushothaman of The Indian Express gave the film 3 out of 5 and wrote “There’s no novelty to the experience. We wait for one mass moment after the other or one joke after the other. That makes Varisu more of a product than a film”.

Navneet Vyasan of News18 gave the film 3 out of 5 stars and wrote “The screenplay has enough elements of a family entertainer. It has enough twists and turns too. In all this drama, Vijay excels in a perfect popcorn film that will see theatres come alive again”. Priyanka Sundar of Firstpost wrote “Not that they aren’t valid, but they are so used to the subliminal messaging of women treated as nothing but trophies, and belonging in the kitchen that they don’t see a point is calling it out”.

Lakshmi Subramanian of The Week gave the film’s rating 1.5 out of 5 and wrote “Although the music is sufficiently peppy and there are some emotional scenes, the movie has nothing new to offer and may disappoint even hardcore Vijay fans”. Behindwoods gave the film’s rating 2.75 out of 5 and wrote “Vijay’s Varisu is a pucca family entertainer for this Pongal festival”. Navein Darshan of Cinema Express gave the film 3.5 out of 5 stars and wrote “The best among them is Vijay casually taking a dig at family dramas while making a confident statement”.

Vivek MV of Deccan Herald gave the film’s rating 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote “Beast from Nelson’s was a misfire, yes, but it was at least encouraging to see Vijay collaborating with a youngster. He took that path with Master first, where he responded to the sensibility and style of a new-gen filmmaker. With ‘Varisu’, it seems that the actor has played it safe