Vaazha tells the tale of Five friends — Ajo, Vishnu, Moosa, Kalam and Vivek. They grow close during their schooling, and they do not study well and always end up creating small or big ruckus with their behavior. Their parents or elders or other near people do not like them. Furthermore, they get the taste of what it takes to fight in life to get settled or go on with situations as they come when they enter adulthood. The rest of the story is how the boys find the essence of life and the required love from their families.
All the actors in the lead roles have done their job well while Azees Nedumangad, Jagadish, Kottayam Nazeer, and Noby Marcose show their experience as seniors and take the crucial moments in the latter half to the next level.
As said above, Vaazha focuses on the lives of five friends, Ajo, Vishnu, Moosa, Kalaam and Vivek who form a close bonding from their schooldays. The narration shows all the things by the lead characters in an elaborated way. While the initial half has more fun parts, the latter half gets into serious mode and tries to address the everlasting problems in the society such as parental issues, societal pressures etc. Director Anand Menen could show the friendship of the lead characters strongly, and he further successfully inserted his take on how certain things continue to be a part of society and nothing can be changed until one gets the self realization. However, he could have concentrated on building the emotional quotient more effectively and likewise the inconsistency in the narration and random handling of some characters also should have been taken care of.
The performances of all the lead roles were perfect and the actors who played the father roles also did an excellent job and raised the graph of their characters along with the movie. The initial establishment of the five friends’ characters was good, and some fun episodes came useful for the film. All the scenes which deal with realization of parents and the kids understanding their fathers worked well for the film. Moreover, Basil Joseph made an entertaining cameo which further emphasizes about the parenting cycling in the ending scene was a sweet surprise.
Though the film starts on a pleasant note, soon it gets into a dragging zone and the repetitive parts further take down the impact. The director somehow could not close some important characters as they should have been. The romance track of Ajo was left in between and did not have a closure. Furthermore, the lead scenes to the episodes were parents realize about their children’s worth could have been stronger.
