

Produced by RK Suresh, the film has music by Yuvan Shankar Raja. Actor Srushti Dange is tipped to play an important role in the film.

Tamannaah has been paired opposite Vijay Sethupathi for the first time. The director Seenu joins hands with Vijay Sethupathy for the third time. Their first film Thenmerku Paruva Kaatru (2010) bagged two National Awards. Dharma Durai aka Dharmadurai is a Tamil upcoming movie direction by Seenu Ramasamy. Seenu Ramasamy is known for his critically acclaimed film and Dharmadurai marks the second coalition of the director with Vijay Sethupathi. Set in the rural backdrop of Tamil Nadu, the trailer offers nothing new but the usual formula that is apparent in all the village-based films and one has to wait and see if the film leaves any impact. In the trailer, Vijay Sethupathi is seen playing the role of a doctor with actor Tamannaah and Srushti Dange playing his love interest in the film. There are quite a few moments (like the entire segment involving Anbuselvi) that convey what this director is capable of, but the synthetic sub-plots pull the film down and prevent it from becoming the emotional roller coaster that it should have been.With director Bala releasing the audio of the film today (August 3), the makers have unveiled the trailer of the film.ĪLSO READ: Dharmadurai teaser- Vijay Sethupathi shines in this Seenu Ramasamy's action dramaĪLSO READ: Confirmed: Vijay Sethupathi plays an extended cameo in Vada Chennai Dharma Durai is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language coming-of-age drama film directed by Seenu Ramasamy.The film stars Vijay Sethupathi with Tamannaah, Aishwarya Rajesh, Srushti Dange, Raadhika Sarathkumar, Ganja Karuppu and Rajesh in supporting roles. The repeated stressing of the need for altruism gets tiring at times, but in these cynical times, it does leave you with a warm feeling. The director fills the remaining time with a less involving sub-plot centred around Dharma and Subha, and brings in the matter of the money again through developments that do not feel organic.īut the film does have genuinely affecting moments, and actors like Aishwarya Rajesh (once again typecast as a poor woman), Radikaa (confident), MS Bhaskar (subtle) and Rajesh (fantastic) enhance the ordinary writing in many of the scenes. And the redemption angle is resolved midway into the second half, and we do not have anything else to care for after that. This adds some tension to the initial scenes, but soon, it is side-lined for the campus scenes, which come across as artificial. The director takes too long to get into the story, and uses a framing device about a bag of cash that Dharmadurai mistakenly takes along with him when he leaves home, which gets his family into trouble. We are introduced to Anbuselvi (Aishwarya Rajesh), a worker, whom Dharma falls in love with, and we learn how, despite his do-gooder nature, the romance ends in tragedy because of the greed and regressive attitude of his brothers.ĭharmadurai has a great central conflict - how even a person with good intentions can become a liability for someone else because of those around him - but Seenuramasamy’s resolution of this conflict feels unsatisfactory. His antics are a constant source of embarrassment for his brothers and brother-in-law, who run a chit-fund business.One day, fed up of his antics, the brothers plot to kill him. And finally, we get the reason for Dharma’s need to seek solace in alcohol. Dharmadurai (Vijay Sethupathi) is the village drunkard. The film features Vijay Sethupathi and Tamannaah in the lead. Dharma Durai is a tamil film directed by Seenu Ramasamy. Then, there is their saintly professor Dr Kamaraj (Rajesh), who keeps urging them to treat the profession as a service and work in the villages. Check out Dharmadurai (2016) movie review, rating & box Office. We see his gang of friends, which includes Stella (Srushti Dange) and Subhashini (Tamannaah, who does a commendable job dubbing for herself), and the two pine for him, the former openly, and the latter in silence.

His mother, Pandiyammal (Radikaa), is the only one who stands up for him, and we get the sense that there is some reason behind Dharmadurai’s alcoholism.īut the director holds on to that for quite a while, instead choosing to narrate the college days of Dharma. The first time we see Dharmadurai (Vijay Sethupathi, solid), he is at a local bar, and the director shows us how his oafish behaviour is a constant source of embarrassment to his brothers (each one named after the Pandavas of the Mahabharata), who even plot to harm him grievously to stop him from maligning them further. Like the hero of that film, the protagonist of this one, too, is an alcoholic. Review: The opening minutes of Dharmadurai bring to mind Seenuramasamy’s previous released film Neerparavai (the film that he shot after that, Idam Porul Yeval, is still lying in the cans and even gets referenced here). What caused this descent, and can he redeem himself? Synopsis: A doctor turns into an alcoholic, and becomes an embarrassment for his brothers.
