Vaathi (2023) Hindi Dubbed

An assistant maths teacher takes Vaathi up a tedious task of transforming underprivileged students despite the politics around education in the 90s. Sir is a 2023 Indian action drama film written and directed by Venky Atluri. The film was shot in Telugu and Tamil (as Vaathi), and produced by Sithara Entertainments and Fortune Four Cinemas.[2][3] The film features Dhanush and Samyuktha Menon in primary roles along with P. Sai Kumar, Tanikella Bharani, Samuthirakani and Hyper Aadi. Bala Gangadar Thilak (Telugu) / Balamurugan (Tamil) is a third-grade junior lecturer at Tripathi Educational Institutes, where he stands against the institutes, who provide education to children in exchange for business profits.

Vaathi might be the most trending word in the nation’s Tamil vocabulary for the past year. Thanks to Thalapathy Vijay’s Master and the widely popular song. With Dhanush coming to the big screens with a film with the same word, it was surely an intriguing factor. Unlike how the project is being promoted, the movie is otherwise. It is simple, the story is relatable and there is too much of emotions riding on it. But does the film stand true to what it promises?

Written by Venky Atluri, Vaathi is a film that at large wants to take down the privatisation of the education system. The film wants to educate people about the importance of education, and make them believe that only academics can make people think better and away from the orthodox system that we are conditioned to live in. The writing manages to address it all as the story progresses. One must appreciate the fact that how Venky makes sure that all the weight doesn’t overburden his product. The filmmakers manages to pay an homage to the craze of the star he has in his movie and also make him do what he intends to.

The filmmaker skillfully writes his story as Vaathi the simplest blueprint. While setting most of it in the flashback, he doesn’t risk jumping timelines often. He stays in the past for a very big chunk without coming back to the present at all. This kind of levels the film. There is a message, serious conversation, and some brutal truth coming right at you. But at no point, the film turns preachy or stop entertaining. Atluri adds enough of Dhanush USP panache to his recipe and time and again gives the actor sequences that fans crave. He balances out the seriousness and drama of the subject pretty well.

But one cannot ignore the fact that writing while focusing on the past, forgets the present completely. The story that the writer sets out to tell about the present and how a boy is not that great at studies stumbles upon a box of footages from the past. The film completely forgets to address this and gives him a conclusion.