Films can broadly be divided into two. While some films fall under the commercial entertainer category, others try to send across a strong message to the audience — leave alone as to how successful they have been in convincingly conveying the message.

But, Vel introduces you to a different category, where a cliched and simple story is presented with a complex mix of songs, fights, sentiments and obviously bad editing that fails to smoothly weave the elements.

Surya plays a dual role in Vel. Unlike Azhagiya Tamizh Magan, Vel presents both the Suryas as heroes, having the qualities conceived of a re(e)al hero.

The plot is simple: Twins born to couple (Saran Raj and Saranya) are separated as one child is kidnapped and taken away from the family. Both the children grow up in different environments.

The kidnapped child becomes Vetri Vel (Surya), and the other Vasudevan (Surya).

Vasu works in a private detective agency in Chennai and Vel is a rustic hero, who is always ready with a hatchet to save people from the villain (Kalabhavan Mani). Swathi (Asin), a journalist and fiancee of Vasu, sees Velu during one of her assignments and informs Vasu about it. Vasu goes in search of his brother and finds out that he is in trouble. He takes the place of Velu, to save his twin brother. The film shoots a barrage of songs (and fights) at you, which appears and disappears at the blink of an eye, even before you can contemplate its relevance.

Even the charm and performance of Surya and Asin fail to save the movie. Yuvan Shankar Raja could have done a better job.

If you are jobless and want to experience boredom, watch it. Otherwise, you know what to do!
A waste of talents.