Kuruvi
Tags: good versus evil, violence, revenge, murder, sadist

Plot synopsis:
Vetrivel alias Velu (Vijay) is a car racer who lives with his large family in Chennai. His father, Singamuthu (Manivannan), had gone to Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh to work at a colliery and never returned, prompting Velu and his family to think that he is dead. Velu comes to know that a Malaysia-based don named Koccha (Suman) owes his father a huge sum of money. Velu and his friend Ops (Vivek) travel to Malaysia as Kuruvi, the trade jargon for low-level contraband carriers. They come to Malaysia at a time when internal rivalry and problems are surfacing in Koccha's family. Koccha's younger sister Devi (Trisha Krishnan) has refused to marry Soori (Pawan), the brother of Konda Reddy (Ashish Vidyarthi), Koccha's Kadapa-based business associate, as per Koccha's wishes. Irritated and preoccupied, neither Koccha nor his henchmen want to devote any time or attention to resolve Velu's problem. Velu is ill-treated and thrown out of Koccha's place without any help rendered. Determined to return to India only after his father's issue is solved to his satisfaction, Velu conceals himself in Koccha's palace-like residence. He soon finds out about a large diamond owned by Koccha and steals it, feeling that it would pay off his father's debt, and returns to India with Ops. Devi also follows Velu to India, having fallen in love with him.
Knowing that Velu has stolen his diamond, Koccha and his gang visit Velu's house and threaten his family with dire consequences unless Velu returns the diamond. After confronting Koccha, Velu comes to know that his father isn't dead, but is being held as bonded labour along with many innocent people at Kadapa. Singamuthu had discovered diamonds at the colliery, but refused to allow Koccha and Konda Reddy to illegally mine the diamonds for their own benefit. He had been held prisoner in Kadapa since.
Velu immediately leaves for Kadapa, where he encounters Koccha again. He throws him onto a moving train, paralysing him. He soon discovers a slave camp run by Koccha and Konda Reddy at the colliery, where a womanising rowdy named Kadapa Raja (G. V. Sudhakar Naidu) is torturing the inmates, including Singamuthu. He single-handedly takes on Konda Reddy, Kadapa Raja and their henchmen, killing them all. He drags Konda Reddy's dead body to Koccha's mansion. The wheelchair-bound Koccha, on seeing the dead body of his associate, recovers and attempts to shoot Velu, only to be arrested at that moment by a special task force led by Raj (Nassar). Singamuthu and the others who were imprisoned in the slave camp are finally freed and reunited with their families.

Review: probably the worst movie of 2008.
initially i went in with a lot of expectations cause these are the people who gave us Gilli but this movie gave me a headache which lasted for 3 hours.I don't know why they made this movie?
no story seriously guys just borrowing scenes from old movies and stitching them together doesn't make a new movie.
i m really sad that they think the Tamil audience are fools and will buy anything just because a superstar is in it.And of course the plus points :some of the songs were OK and Vj's dance was good as usual apart from that nothing else....well i hope he changes the heroine next time because he is basically playing the same character again and again and his movies have nothing else to offer..
A repeated Vijay movie.
well,i cannot say much about this movie.its another Vijay movie.
Vijay is playing as Kuruvi,little did he know whats the exact meaning of Kuruvi,he chases after Trisha for a diamond.and like every movie there's a head villain and followed by other small villains.
Trisha is coming as a Malaysian girl,there isn't anything for her to act in this movie!!The hero tries to save the poor kids and people from the big villain whom tries to slave the people.(i wonder whether such places with slaves exists in 2008!) Another thing which made me watch the movie is Vivek's comedy.
if not for that , i would have slept.
Kuruvi ?what is the meaning of that in this movie?!!.
All Vijay movies have same story with different titles.
hello guys,Vijay movies are fully commercial such that the stories are same in his all films.Songs are good to watch in this movie and usual Vijay dance and vivek comedy is there.So the movie kuruvi is not that much worth to watch.The title of the movie does not suit the story and there is no logic in this movie.I had good sleep at the theater.All his movies,Vijay used same tactics and style and not so different.You can watch the movie hardly once in theater.The movie lacks logic in all sense.So you can watch kuruvi only for songs and his dance.The important thing to notice is that Vijay used same dance steps in all songs.He is also not at his best in acting sentiment roles.He do comedy,action very well but lacks in doing sentiment scenes in this movie kuruvi.
Height of non-sense.
I couldn't imagine a movie which is worse than kuruvi.
The acting, direction, dialogues(was closing my ears in the theater), songs..etc., everything was pathetic..the same old tamil cinema formula..
4 0r 5 annoying songs, some irritating punch dialogues, stunt scenes, few romance scenes, unbearable comedy scenes,and finally our hero defeats villain..cant anyone save the audiences who are watching this pile of rubbish.
seriously vijay has to look in to his stories at least once before he acts..
the movie is utter garbage for his image..pleases don't waste your time watching this..my rating is 2 on 10....
Has the potential to be a good movie...
This movie "Kuruvi" is not a bad movie as there is actually a story in this movie but they did not know how to explain/express the story out to the audience..the movie's screenplay could be improved..the comedy was quite good/entertaining at certain parts..I like the way that the director put a comedy scene after every fight/emotional scene..the movie was quite entertaining itself but could have been improved.
Not bad.
Today i watch this movie,story is decent but screenplay was not good.
Vijay performance and style always same like his previous movie thirumalai,athi, pokkiri.
Many scene is no need in this film thats make this film boring..
Nothing is good in the movie.
An Illogical movie.
Marana mokka padam..
A Backward step by Vijay !!!.
I saw the movie Kuruvi and to be honest there were too many mistakes in this movie.
Vijay as usual was very good in the dance sequences,comedy sequences as well as the emotional sequences but why did he agree to do this movie in first place is a question I was left asking after watching this movie.
So many errors and lack of logic surprises everyone since this was the same team which gave the very intelligent movie'Ghilli'.The many mistakes are as follows:1.
Vijay uses an old worn out car to win a car-race where there were many other new and better cars.
Surely, then no one will spend so much money for research in making better cars.
2. This movie is set in present times.
Surely, there cannot be a place like that shown in movie where people are held prisoners and asked to dig for diamonds.
3.Gotcha selects his right-hand man as a groom for his daughter Trisha.
That guy must have fired around 50 shots on vijay but not even one hit the target.
So many misses for a right-hand man.Other than all this, the fight sequences have been very badly executed.
Since vijay has a skinny physique by showing him bashing very bulky and huge villains is just irritating.
At least they should have made use of props like Sticks, Rods etc like in 'Pokiri'.
All in all, this is a bad movie and vijay should be more careful in future..
Kuruvi !!!!!!!!
Kuruvi !!!!!!!!
Vijay's Image is Soon Gonna Disappear.
First Let me start of by telling that Dharani was one of my favourite Directors in the Tamil Industry.
I saw Dhool, Dhill, And Gillie.
Everything was so different and so good in everyway that I expected so much for Kuruvi.
I was really disappointed.
I mean, the same Gillie team was gonna work together and how can you NOT expect it to be Excellent?
I bought the songs CD before the film and I liked some of them.
(I wouldn't say LOVED them).I would say that the comedy was very good.
Every second in the first half was something hilarious.
The film went on a litte smooth.
BUT after the intermission, the film serious;y started sucking.
It also sucked a few minutes before the Intermission.And one more thing about the film.
IT IS UNBELIEVABLE.....every part where Vijay shows his action is terrible.
Its like he is escaping the villains and is jumpin on roof tops.
He is better than Batman.
now the villains are really close to him so has to do something out of the blue to escape (even though he smashed these people in Malaysia and almost killed everyone of them).
So then he spots a train running about like 100 metres from him.
He leaps from the roof top and lands on the track.
and as soon as the train gets close he jumps on it and escapes.
Suddenly he becomes superman strong and fast enough to jump (although not fly) 100 metres distant and still get on the train.
More rubbish like this is in the film.If your a DIE HARD Vijay fan then you might like it.
But other than that its just plain crap..
A Back Step for Vijay.
Whats is Good About the Movie?
The movie is a taken from Telugu Flick - Chatrapathi.
Even the Telugu Mixture was done badly compared to the Original.
Aleast now Vijay have to re think about doing movies like Sivakasi, Aathi, and Kuruvi.
With Movies like Gilli, Thirupaatchi, and Pokkiri even though they were just another mixture of Masala, it also contains Good songs, Comedy and a Fast Screenplay.
The Plus Points of the movie (Kuruvi) is some good and cool Dance (first Song, Pallanadu etc..).
Vivek is overacting as usual.
The Expectation was high because of the combination Dharani - Vijay - Trisha, its a big Disappointment.