18 Vayasu Movie Online – Review

Thanks to the success of Renigunta, director Pannerselvam has carved the niche for himself as someone who treads the unchartered territories. First it was young criminals and their lives and now it’s the tale of a mentally unstable teenager – with a bizarre mental condition – and his love story. He brings Johnny back from Renigunta but otherwise the tale depends upon some lesser known actors who've kind of pulled it off without many glitches.

Rather than the performances, which might be largely unobjectionable, it’s the tale that makes one squirm of their seats. The logical loopholes are only too many and the tale slips into the depths of unconvincing drivel soon after it commences leaving no single character within the movie to root for. Thus, despite Johnny’s earnest performance and Gayathri’s endearing smile remain the one remnants of this psycho-romance film.

Pannerselvam imagines the film’s result in have a peculiar mental condition; the young man seems to radically change into any animal that may be in his proximity and exhibits the respective animal’s behavior. And he acquired the condition after a dismal childhood that saw his loving father committing suicide on account of his disloyal mother. The disloyal mother goes directly to marry the similar man with whom she was cheating on her husband. Appalled by her behavior her son slaughters her and her paramour.

He falls in love simultaneously and despite his condition, desires to elope with the woman to the jungle as some way of fleeing the repressing conditions. Parts of the movie are harking back to the Kamal heavyweight psychological romance Guna. Only that the tale and the performances don't seem to be as persuasive, way to the slipshod research by the director.

Johnny, who plays the mentally disturbed lead of the film, has improved miles from his previous performance in Renigunta. Although he has done exertions to convince you that he's a sick teenager short of psychiatric help, he runs the danger of being typecast if he continues to make a choice movies that put him at an edge.

Gayathri, the film’s lead, is a petite young girl who seems to be able to act. She mostly has to slide into the surface of a damsel in distress and to that extent she has done an excellent job. The opposite characters within the plot, performed by debut actors, have all filled of their shoes well with whatever was thrust upon them. Another actor who stands proud is Rohini, as a psychiatrist, although the writing of her character is sketchy and leaves many unanswered questions.

But Yuvarani, because the evil, lusty and disloyal mother who doesn’t give two hoots for responsibilities, takes the cake. Her malevolence runs as a root inside the movie and engenders hatred so huge that it’s hard to miss. Perhaps that’s the success of her characterization and the director has achieved a well rounded character while writing it. That’s to not say the role Isn't without its flaws, they're just ignored when Yuvarani acts them out. Remainder of the technical aspects of the movie, including camera, music and editing rank above average.

If you don't mind watching an odd little love story, 18 Vayasu is your thing. But when you’re not up for a gloomy love story, give this one a miss.Verdict: Psycho-romance love story!