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Artist: Vishal,Nayantara
Director: Raja Sekhar

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Satyam (Tamil)

Artist: Vishal,Nayantara
Director: Raja Sekhar

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Satyam (Tamil)

Artist: Vishal,Nayantara
Director: Raja Sekhar

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Featured Sathyam Movie Review Vishal And Nayan:

Actor Vishal’s debut as a top cop is finally here! With a complete make over in Vishal’s appearance, Rajasekhar’s Sathyam is the latest action flick in the Tamil film industry. The movie is produced by Vikram Krishna and the music score is given by Harris Jayaraj.



The movie is a regular cop story with the law-abiding, honest police officer Vishal trying to take on the corrupt forces in politics. Vishal plays a tough cop with a dark and disturbing past. He decides to become a cop after his earlier experiences with corrupt politicians. His investigations on serial killings in the city lead him to a shocking revelation, linking him to his past. He also uncovers a political conspiracy, several accounts of corruption and crime. Willing to take up these challenges, he falls into the centre to a dangerous maze. How he extricates himself and brings the criminals to the forefront form the crux of the story.



The movie has all the elements attached to it. Good against evil, honesty and courage against power and wickedness. There is a lot of action, so much so that action eclipses the investigation part of the movie as the story moves to its climax. Curtness of the script has been compromised with an overdose of action. There is little suspense in the movie except for very few scenes.



Vishal has completely toned up and flaunts his six abs showing his taut muscles. But unfortunately, his stunt sequences are uninteresting and old fashioned. Batches of thugs keep reappearing in stunt scenes, and the originality that one associates with Vishal’s stunts is lacking. Nevertheless, few chase sequences have made up for the same. There is little about the story other than action to mention in the movie. The climax has been unnecessarily stretched with a long sermon making the movie seem drab.



Sathyam has smart casting keeping in mind that it is a bilingual. The casting also has a Telugu touch to it. While Vishal is made to look serious and show his performance in fight sequences, Kota Srinivasa Rao and Ravi Kaalai play their negative roles with ease. Upendra, his debut in Tamil, has also carried out his grey role well. Nayanthara, as a journalist, falls in acting skills when compared to her earlier performance in Billa. However, she has retained her glamour doll image. Senthil and Brahmanandam (Telugu comedian) bring some comic relief now and then. The music is just passable with very few songs retaining its lingering effect.



But for redundant action, subdued tempo of the movie and excess focus on Vishal, it is completely a Vishal’s show and the movie makes for a typical action masala.


Not upto the expectation Vishal:

Satyam - a much hyped movie of Vishal and Nayanthara not upto the mark as expected. Police officer Sathyam chasing two politicians



Donning the role of an honest cop is indeed a dream of most of the actors in Kollywood. Vishal has fulfilled it in 'Sathyam', a usual cat and rat story, however with interesting twists and turns from beginning to end.

Director Rajasekar, who has come out with a tight subject in the first film itself has weaved his day to day experiences during his tenure as a journalist as a racy script, which may be liked by the audience in Andhra Pradesh, than those in Tamilnadu.

Interestingly, this film marks the direct entry of Vishal in Tollywood, as 'Sathyam' is his first to be simultaneously made in Telugu, since all his previous flicks were just dubbed to speak the language of the neighbouring State.

Coming to the story, Sathyam (Vishal), an Assistant Commissioner of Police is asked to investigate the motive behind the murders of Ministers. In the process, he finds the culprit (Upendra), only to receive a rude shock to know his identity.

For, the murderer is none other than a former police officer, who inspired Sathyam to take the cop job. Revealing the reason behind his change of mind, the ex-cop says that he is on a killing spree as he failed to set right things in khakhi uniform.

Sathyam, who throws a challenge at his mentor that he would use the power of law to put the wrongdoers behind the bars, vows to throw light on the illegal activities of a Minister (Kota Srinivasa Rao), who aims at the Chief Minister post.

During his attempts to establish truth, Sathyam faces various troubles. However, he proves that truth alone will triumph always. In the meantime, the protagonist also has a romantic episode with Deivanayaki (Nayantara), a TV journalist.

Thanks to the training he got under the guidance of a senior police officer, Vishal fits well to the shoes of a cop. His physique cooperates well with the body language, thus giving him a rigid look.

Nayantara, as a chirpy and vivacious journalist, helps the film whenever it needs the dose of glamour and comedy. Though some of her hilarious sequences fail to evoke laughter, she presents a beautiful chemistry with Vishal in songs. Standing testimony to this is Chellamay Chellamay.

Harris Jayaraj's music is not up to the mark while R D Rajasekar's camera work sizzles. Coming to the performance part again, Upendra and Kota Srinivasa Rao make their flags fly high in this Tamil flick, which has traces of Telugu in many a scene. Had the director avoided this Andhra flavour, one can salute Sathyam for many reasons.