Vellore Maavattam (2011)

Cop movies generally follow the same template. A honest, upright police officer who comes up the hard way and a villain, generally a politician who has the entire place under his control through his corrupt network.

This movie also follows the same template. Set in Vellore, the corrupt politician in the movie looks like Kalanithi Maran. The hero Muthukumar IPS (Nandha), succeeds in putting him behind bars after a major struggle. He also has to deal with the middleman Gurumurthy who helps the minister with his deals. Muthu almost gives up at the half way point but, lives to fight on.

We have a comedian (Santhanam) who doubles up as the driver for Muthukumar. Santhanam succeeds in giving us some laughs as he deals with his perverted father. The ravishing Poorna is the wife of the IPS officer who falls for his charms and stands beside him through thick and thin. Their initial love track is a bit interesting. We also have the hero's father who wants his son to rise in life through education and hard work.

The songs are lackluster though the BG score is decent. The major weakness with the movie is the absolute lack of the 'imposing' element with the villains. Nanda puts in his earnest efforts but looks sad in the scene when he cries. His screen presence is good.

VERDICT: Average at best. A predictable police story. 

Drohi (2010)

Whats it about
The story of 2 friends turning foes turning friends again. Karuna and Saamy are thick friends from childhood. Saamy is an Iyer while Karuna is a local. Their friendship gets separated when Saamy testifies that Karuna is the accused in the murder case of their teacher's killer. Saamy is tortured by Karuna's friends
         Saamy joins Narayanan the local gangster, for refuge & power and Karuna studies with the ambition to become an IPS and becomes one. As part of his assignment, Karuna infiltrates the rival gang lead by Nanaji and eliminates him, Narayanan's son and finally Narayanan too. Karuna also gets the better of Saamy and proves to him that he was being used by Narayanan and finally the friends join hands again.

                                                                            
Hits

• 2 dashing heroes. Srikanth as Saamy gives his best ever show. He looks awesome and spews villainy. Vishnu looks like a typical Tamil action hero and does well too.
• Poorna as Srikanth's intense lover looks seducing and acts ok too. 
• Quite an interesting screenplay. 
• The 2 kids as the young Saamy and Karuna are very good. 
• The shots of Srikanth blindfolded on the railway track are thrilling
• The comical climax of Saamy being sent by Karuna to the tutorials is nice. 

Misses

• Poonam Bajwa in dual roles is equally bad in both the roles. That too as the elder Brahmin women, she is pathetic. The characterization of a Brahmin woman is in very low taste. 
• Both the love tracks are needless and purely commercial in nature. That too the Vishnu-Poonam love track is nonsensical. 
• Bad songs with equally bad placement. 
• BGM is loud most of the times
• Pooja in a cameo as the teacher evokes sympathy but such a small, insignificant role for the Nan Kadavul actress
• Unclear dialogue delivery by all the lead actors.

VERDICT

Mostly watchable but, for the songs and the 2 love tracks.