Saroja

Story Venkat Prabhu
Screenplay Venkat Prabhu
Direction Venkat Prabhu
Camera Sakthi Pawan
Editing
Music Yuvan Shankar Raja
Dialogs Shasank Vennelakanti
Art Videsh
Action Stun Siva
Presenter
Producer
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Release Sep-05-2008
Reviewed on Sep-24-2008
*ing: Srihari, PrakashRaj, Vaibhav, Cheran, Kajal Agarwal, Nikita, Brahmanandam

Saroja is the daughter of industrialist Viswanath (Prakashraj). One day, she is kidnapped and the kidnapper demands 20 crores ransom. Ravi (Srihari) is the cop appointed to solve this kidnap mystery. Meanwhile, 4 friends - Ganesh, Swami, Gopichand and Ajay - are on their way to Hyderabad but get themselves involved into strange situations including a murder. They try to escape and come across something that shocks them. What is it? What happened to Saroja? Who kidnapped her? Watch the plot on the screen.

Vaibhav as Gopi, Cheran as Swamy are impressive in their roles. So are the guys who played Ajay and Ganesh in the film. Prakash Raj lived in his role, as usual. Srihari is impressive as cop. Kajal Agarwal is limited to just one song and Nikita plays a vamp. Brahmanandam is successful in getting a few laughs.

The entire film runs in the span of one night. Even though the film starts at an average pace, it gets really thrilling when the 4 friends start their journey. Director is successful in maintaining the tempo with tight narration. However, the revealation in the plot might leave the audience wondering on why some one had to resort to kidnapping for doing good to the society. Biggest drawbacks for the film are loop holes and glitches in the story. Screenplay is pretty tight, though.

Yuvan Shankar Raja's music is content. Choreography in the song.. Maa Mitrudiki is impressive. All Tamil TV Artists appear in that song.

Overall, if you are up for variety and novel movies, give this a shot. Screenplay is pretty tight but the loop holes in the story are a turn down.