Seeru Review: A neat commercial entertainer with some cinematic moments

Jiiva has been looking for a comeback for quite long.

His recent movies only helped him little with that and Gypsy is pending for quite a long time now.

Did Seeru help Jiiva? Let’s see.

Seeru is a proper commercial entertainer with its own “cinematic” moments.

Throughout the movie, Jiiva shines. His role in Seeru is something he can pull off quite easily.

Manimaran (Jiiva) do gooder with a good heart and lots of sentiment. He gets his own build up scenes.

He helps people in his locality. He runs a cable TV channel and also uses it to expose the political wrongs that happen in the surroundings.

Mani will give you his life if you are his friend. And he has great love for his sister.

He gets into a rift with a politician and the politician hires a local gangster Malli (Varun) to kill him.

We get a sequence of cat and mouse game between Mani and Malli. And their rift ends off well when they both become friends in a strange encounter.

While we were all looking up to Malli as the antagonist, he joins Mani as a friend.

Now we get to see the real villain Ashok Mithran (Navdeep), whose role is very poorly written. He is a lawyer who protects big shots.

We get a flashback where we get to see a group of school students exposing the wrong doings of Ashok. He is associated with the killing of a school student.

The flashback portion is solid and carries a good message – though we feel at times things get preachy.

Now, Mani and Malli join hands against Ashok and the rest is predictable.

Jiiva has done a great job in carrying the role along. He easily fits into the character and performs seamlessly.

Varun has given his best and his performance is convincing. He could improve on his expressions though.

Navdeep doesn’t have much scope to perform and mostly appears as a straight-faced, base-throat villain.

Riya plays the love interest of Jiiva and she is merely there for a few moments of romance and the songs.

She doesn’t get much of screen time, or a strong role and hence there is no scope for performance too.

In fact the sister character of Jiiva has a better screen time and is written with more depth compared to that of Riya’s.

In the flashback, we have Chandini playing the school girl and her role as well as her performance are meaty.

Seeru has a run time of just 2 hrs and it is a big plus. It is easy to hold on to some cinematic moments through this run time.

The fight sequences are indeed over the top and don’t sit well with the audience. We also have some forceful “mass” moments that test our patience.

Apart from that, Seeru is sound with entertaining moments, commercial aspects and a good-enough message.

You can watch it once and be entertained.