Director Vamsi Paidipally did movies with NTR, Prabhas, Nagarjuna, Mahesh Babu and Ram Charan till date. Despite the complaints about his routine stories and lengthy narrations, he has a very high success rate. Barring his first film ‘Munna’, all his other flicks are good hits at the box office.
His last outing ‘Maharshi’ with Mahesh is also a very big hit and he was supposed to do another movie with the superstar. But they had some differences regarding the story and the project got cancelled. Another star hero might have said yes to Vamsi but the latter decided to go to Tamil Nadu and make a movie with Thalapathy Vijay. His close friend and producer Dil Raju bankrolled it. It is ‘Varisu’/ ‘Varasudu’. Telugu audience have been a bit negative towards this film right from the beginning and the trailer increased the trills on the movie.
We might have seen such movies many times and get a routine feel but the Tamil audience loved the movie which came out during the Sankranti season. Vamsi perfectly used Vijay’s image and included all the elements that one would expect from a Vijay film. Fans of Thalapathy are praising Vamsi a lot and claiming that he elevated Vijay in such a way that even star Kollywood directors did not do. They say that Vamsi made full use of Vijay’s image, timing and presence perfectly.
Mainly, they are liking the scene where the hero brings the board of directors on his brother’s side to his side. The way he used references from Vijay’s hit movies like ‘Kaththi’, ‘Bigil’, ‘Master’ and others made the fans completely floored. This entertaining scene is bringing huge cheers in theatres. As a matter of truth, this scene is heavily inspired from the board meeting scene in Allu Arjun’s ‘Ala Vaikunthapuramlo’ scene. But presenting it for the Tamil audience keeping in mind Vijay’s image proved to be very successful. There are many good elevation scenes in the film and fans are loving Vamsi Paidipally for it.