Like Virumbukiren, Udhaya is another movie that has had a long and torturous journey from production to release. Launched way back when Vijay and Simran were a hot pair, the movie was stalled for various reasons. Its director Azhagamperumal has since made two reasonably successful movies Dum Dum Dum and Joot and its producer 'Pyramid' Natrajan recently had to go to court to get a married Simran to finish up the song sequences required to complete and release the film. Not surprisingly, the movie has aged considerably and has continuity issues but unfortunately, those are not its only problems.

Udhayakumar(Vijay), who has rejected a scholarship at the prestigious Princeton University in order to serve his country, joins as a substitute teacher at the same college he studied in. In one of his experiments, he successfully...         [ More ]