Vaathi

Vaathi/SIR starring Dhanush in the lead is an upcoming Tamil-Telugu bilingual that is all set for a release in theaters on February 17, 2023. While in.

[#Vaathi] [#Sir]- An emotional tale expertly presented by the duo of [@dhanushkraja]and [#VenkyAtluri]. While in Tamil Nadu, Vaathi premieres with a press screening this evening at Chennai, SIR, its Telugu version has had its early premiere shows among select film circles already. Vaathi/SIR starring Dhanush in the lead is an upcoming Tamil-Telugu bilingual that is all set for a release in theaters on February 17, 2023.

Dhanush's upcoming film 'Vaathi' is all set to release in theatres on February 17. Directed by Venky Atluri, the Tamil – Telugu bilingual film is a pe.

The director also speaks about how Dhanush's creative inputs helped him and how they ensured the social drama doesn't get preachy in its commentary on the ...

Many say that the role of an artist, be it a journalist or a director making a social film, ends with putting it out to the public. For Vaathi, Venky also had to ensure that the story was told in an entertaining manner, to avoid coming across as preachy. Having watched only about ten films of Dhanush, Venky needed to be sure that he isn’t repeating anything; the actor was happy to help. Parents did question the management but the answers they got were very demeaning, and then the government had to intervene.” Having done most of his schooling in the Nineties — when most junior colleges started having coaching for engineering and medicine entrances — Venky thought of telling a story about how the education sector has been commercialised. But the filmmaker says that the pressure hasn’t affected him. So when Venky Atluri talks to us days before the release of his Tamil-Telugu film with Dhanush,

Dhanush, who will be making his second directorial debut this year, is now gearing up for the release of Vaathi which is hitting the screens on February 18.

The distributors have decided to screen a special show a day before its theatrical release to the media in Chennai and Hyderabad. Dhanush, who will be making his second directorial debut this year, is now gearing up for the release of Vaathi which is hitting the screens on February 18. The project bankrolled by Sithara Entertainments and Fortune Four Cinemas also features Samuthirakani, Saikumar, Aadukalam Naren and Tanikella Bharani in key roles.

At the pre-release event of Vaathi which took place yesterday, the film's director Venky Atluri brought out loads of confidence on the film.

Vijay and Lokesh Kanagaraj's film, which has been tentatively titled 'Thalapathy 67' during the launch, has been titled 'Leo' and the film's title was.

Dhanush starrer bilingual film SIR/ Vaathi is all set for a grand theatrical release this Friday. Venky Atluri of Tholiprema fame is the director of this ...

The director extended his thanks to the whole team. The young director said that Mani Ratnam and Trivikram inspired him a lot regarding filmmaking. At the event, director Venky Atluri said that people who will watch the premieres tomorrow would again watch the film on Friday. The director said that the film would have a substantial long run in Telugu states and Tamilnadu. Venky thanked his music director G.V. Venky Atluri of Tholiprema fame is the director of this biggie.

Vijay and Lokesh Kanagaraj's film, which has been tentatively titled 'Thalapathy 67' during the launch, has been titled 'Leo' and the film's title was.

Vaathi movie review: The film allows Dhanush to play to the gallery, but the story never glorifies his character. It also stars Samuthirakani, Samyuktha and ...

The film does allow Dhanush to play to the gallery in a few instances but the story never glorifies his character. The film’s finale is smart writing as the story takes a very familiar trope and turns it on its head to send audiences home on a high. The film does commercialise quite a lot of things in a way to appeal to the masses, but the point it tries to drive home, which is about making good education accessible to everyone, connects on an emotional level. After a lot of struggles, when Bala finally manages to convince the parents as well as the students to return to school, he’s faced with a different set of challenges. It doesn’t do anything pathbreaking in terms of storytelling, but it definitely manages to strike a chord or two in the fashion it chooses to narrate this story of one man’s dream to make good education accessible to all. Venky Atluri’s Vaathi, which is set in the late 1990s, is a straightforward film about one man’s fight against the privatisation of the education system.

Vaathi Movie Review: Critics Rating: 3.0 stars, click to give your rating/review,Vaathi is a film that's mounted on no-nonsense writing though it could have ...

Technically the film is sound and GV Prakash's music adds value to the film. The protagonist could have handled those situations in a bit more effective and intelligent way creating a larger impact. Samuthurakani, though not very menacing, plays a typical villain and has only few sequences to show his evilness. The USP of Vaathi is Dhanush and his effortless performance and screen presence. Though this template of fall and rise of a social reformer is a universal success formula, it completely depends on how it is handled. The chemistry between Samyuktha and Dhanush works. Vaathi starts in the present, tracing back to a mysterious person who is unraveled by a group of three students through an old VCD cassette. The sequences in which he comes up with innovative ideas to educate the students are both enjoyable and thoughtful. Ken Karunas has done an impressive job and other students deserve a mention as well. Dhanush's Vaathi, though seems to be loosely inspired by Hrithik Roshan's Super 30, is fairly acceptable as the central theme of the film is quite powerful and stands tall for a cause. Director Venky Atluri manages to tick most of the boxes to present a commercially empowering film. Samyuktha Menon, who plays Dhanush's pair and a biology teacher, looks refreshing and has done her part decently.

Directed by Venky Atluri, Telugu-Tamil bilingual 'Vaathi' - 'Sir' stars Dhanush and Samyuktha Menon in the lead roles.

However, the film has released today with the original title and there is no change to it as of now. Ahead of the film's release, the Puducherry State Teacher Federation filed a petition to change the title from ‘Vaathi’ to ‘Vaathiyar’ stating the word ‘Vaathi’ is demeaning to teachers. At the pre-release event, Dhanush recalled his first Telugu film and said, “When my first film was released in 2002, I was nervous and now in 2023 for my first Telugu film release, I am more nervous.

Vaathi movie review: Despite having a stellar plot that could have helped director Venky Atluri create a good entertainer, this Dhanush-starrer proves that ...

In these sequences, Atluri also shows a cinema hall transforming into a school, highlighting the power of motion pictures. While he falls in love with her at first sight (as is customary), Meenakshi develops feelings for Balamurugan after hearing him give a (completely uninspiring) speech to the villagers about how Dr APJ Abdul Kalam became “The Missile Man”, making their bond appear childish. The scene in which Bala Sir teaches his students about caste discrimination as a social ill thus becomes meaningful, even with the tepid dialogues. It is only towards the end when he appears looking like Raavanan and Bharathiyar (in different scenes), that the film provides some kind of goosebumps in its entire running time of about 140 minutes. This happens after Srinivasa Thirupathi (Samuthirakani), the head of Thirupathi Educational Institutions and president of the private schools’ association, offers a ‘helping hand’ to the failing government schools by agreeing to send some teachers from private schools to their state-owned counterparts. Their search for the teacher takes them to a District Collector who, upon seeing the cassettes, beams with pride and says that he was the teacher’s student.

It is when the film goes a little easier on itself that we get portions where it's most inventive. Especially, there is a lightness when it transforms into ...

It is a highly melodramatic sequence that is meant to show the pain Bala goes through in his efforts to keep teaching. In this, not only does it speak about the cinema hall becoming a temple of learning, but it also creates the space for Bala to keep appearing in different costumes (including that of Subramania Bharathi) without the effect feeling too contrived. But it is the manner in which we arrive at foreseeable plot points that makes it hard to keep engaging with Vaathi. The main antagonist here (played by Samuthirakani) is a man who is not just the pioneer of private education in Tamil Nadu but he is also Balamurugan’s ( Be it a film like Saattai (2012), the more recent [Master](https://www.filmcompanion.in/reviews/master-movie-review-tamil-vijay-thalapathy-flaws-and-all-lokesh-kanagaraj-delivers-a-classy-mass-movie-vijay-sethupathi-baradwaj-rangan) (2021), or [Nammavar](https://www.filmcompanion.in/features/super-30-kamal-haasans-nammavar-and-the-inspirational-teacher-trope-in-cinema) (1994) which inspired the Lokesh film, it’s as though it is only a matter of time before we get another montage of a campus cleanup featuring annoyingly gleeful students. [teacher as a saviour](https://www.filmcompanion.in/fc-lists/10-teachers-from-tamil-cinema-we-love-master-nammavar-saattai-pasanga) has been a part of our movies for so long that it has become easy to predict the ebbs and flows of the subgenre.

Dhanush starrer 'Vaathi' has hit the big screens today (Feb 17) and the Tamil-Telugu bilingual drama is released along with the Telugu version titled.

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