Starring: Vijay, Tamannah, Vadivelu, Dev Gill and others
Direction: SP Rajkumar
Music: Mani Sharma
Production: Sun Pictures
Banner: Murugan Cine Arts


Vijay’s previous films had drenched us down with the biggest disappointments and ‘Sura’ doesn’t seem to be an elision. Vijay wears the same old hat of becoming people’s savior and tries delivering his political ideologies. Oops! There’s one or other deep-seated social-message, punch dialogues, heroism bounded lines on every 5th minute.
‘Sura’ carries a typical formula of Telugu movies with every half an hour going inclusive of a song, fight sequences, dozens of punch dialogues, comedy tracks and song. Every time, we tend to notice the characters praising the hero, it turns to be so much ludicrous. Sorry to say! Vijay must opt for different genres and script with innovatively rhetoric plotline in his forthcoming films.
The film is about Sura (Vijay) striving hard for the betterment of his fishermen community. His only dream is to build houses for all of them. But sooner, there arrives a deadly politician (Dev Gill of ‘Magadheera’ fame) with his evil intentions of clearing up their lands and raising a water park. When Sura stands by the side of these innocuous people, it’s time to lock horns with politician and finally ensures peace and harmony for the community.
Each and every character keeps singing praises of Vijay as their savior (the very opening lines of this film makes you laugh as you’ll hear the saying – Sura is stronger than 10 Elephants and is kind-hearted than 10 mothers). Couldn’t the filmmaker Rajkumar think about other ideas on the dialogues? It’s a billion dollar question indeed. Thamannah’s delineation as a clichéd girl falling in love with a larger than life hero after experiencing his good-heartedness is a rip-roaring annoyance. She’s overactive throughout the film and there isn’t even a single sequence, in which she scores brownie points. Dev Gille has failed to impress the audiences as he faintly reminiscences the yesteryear baddies yelling at high-pitched tone. For those, who had watched his ‘Magadheera’, this can be the biggest disappointment.
Vadivelu tickles your funny bones with his comedy tracks, especially with the parallel track sequence between him and Venniradai Ramamoorthy.
Musical score by Mani Sharma is disappointing as the songs are nothing but a copycat of his Telugu compositions. We tend to hear the signature theme of his Telugu ‘Billa’ during second half (the word ‘Billa’ in Telugu has been replaced by ‘Sura’ over here). Cinematography by Ekambaram is top-notching.
Dialogues are so amateurish and screenplay fails to keep even the Vijay fans from an impressive watch.
To make the verdicts simpler, ‘Sura’ has no probabilities of surviving at box office more than a week, even if Sun Pictures strives to promote it continuously round the clock. Maybe, this should be the last piece of show from both Vijay and Sun Pictures. Precisely, this is the right time to change their course of direction over choosing the best projects and not fool the audiences beating the same bush.


Verdict : Kindly Skip it..