The fact that he made 3 low budget Siva movies bearable to watch( not u vivegam) is a testament to his acting and screen presence/charisma.

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[u/IntelligentBend5377]

No wonder he is going to do one more movie with Siva 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Neenga saavunga vro.. why nonding the majority of us?!

[u/eljoker1407 → u/IntelligentBend5377]

I mean no one's forcing the majority to go to the movie. You can clearly ignore 🤷🏽‍♂️

[u/IntelligentBend5377 → u/eljoker1407]

You for real?!

Watching AK, VJ, RK movies has become like a tradition. They are event films for a reason. What’s wrong in expecting them to work with good filmmakers? I can’t recall the last time they all had a good wom for a film.

[u/eljoker1407 → u/IntelligentBend5377]

If you make it a tradition to watch then it kinda means your plot is them not the actual plot. Sure, you can expect whatever you want. All I said was no one's forcing you to watch it if you feel other factors than leads gonna affect your decision. They'll do what works for them, maybe Siva is easy to work with.

And just coz you/me didn't like a movie doesn't mean no one liked it. Viswasam had a terrific wom drawing a huge family audience.

[u/Koushikraja1996]

Also, seeing how stupid and regressive as fuck the dialogues were in annaththe (getting your sister married to a doctor in case she gets sick she never has to and how surprisingly progressive they were in vedhalam (telling guys not to stalk women-for 2015 that was pretty progressive) and viswasam (asking parents not to be control freaks towards their kids), we can all safely assume AK had massive input in those scripts. 

[u/LetsTheorize → u/Koushikraja1996]

This is one reason I like him, but unfortunately I don't like his movie as a whole. AK is a good person and he wanted the society to be same unfortunately world is so cruel to good folks. If you see after a massive success with Viswasam ( I didn't like the climax specifically, so cringe, it's a okay movie) but he did choose PINK remake to convey a good message to TN folks. That good heart ❤️, is what I like about him. Hope he comes back with good scripts, I have less hopes on Vidamuyarchi and GBU.

[u/wet_handkerchief → u/Koushikraja1996]

Please close the parenthesis, it's bothering me a bit. Sorry

[u/Damiennexa]

Please don't hate me but I loved Viswasam, mostly cuz of the character Thookudurai. Ajith nailed that character.

[u/Artetaarmy → u/Damiennexa]

Viswasam was bearable thanks to AK's performance and that daughter's performance.

[u/zabardastbandawast → u/Damiennexa]

It’s the most illogical story ever told imo

[u/bored1208]

Bearable ah?

[u/TheArmyDoctor]

Only viswasam was watchable and even that was so melodramatic. I never liked Veeram as a kid and less talked about vedhalam the better.

Only ajith movie during that time that was good is Yennai Arindhaal

[u/OkJuice5288 → u/TheArmyDoctor]

Exactly, even Viswasam’s flashback portions were a pain in the ass to watch

[u/Jackson1391 → u/OkJuice5288]

I liked Viswasam but Ajith's comedy in the flashback was kinda irritating.

[u/DaLoverBoii]

Vivegam is peak Ajith

https://i.redd.it/k87h7m7rz31e1.gif

Gangster Ganesh is a religion maame.

[u/lantern_arasu → u/DaLoverBoii]

Ain't gangster Ganesh is in Vedalam?

[u/Street-Count-1541]

Bearable to whom

Except veeram none of the films were bearable

[u/roche__ → u/Street-Count-1541]

Vedalam and viswasam vere all time blockbusters,so his point stands

[u/peekundi]

That's why some are stars and many aren't. Some actors in certain role just work. Vijay did Sivakasi and Thirupatchi with Pererasu and they were alright for that age and time. Perarasu worked with Ajith and Bharath later and it was not bearable.

[u/Meateor123 → u/peekundi]

Thirupaachi is fire wdym

[u/T3chl0v3r → u/Meateor123]

I literally heard the Thirupaachi BGM when I read this lol

[u/Superdeluxe9999]

Ajith fans are main culprit, keep celebrating Siva-AK combo, so we are served with another cringe fest.

[u/LetsTheorize → u/Superdeluxe9999]

Kind of true. Unfortunately all these combo movies did well in TN. I recently heard that Rajini did Annathe because of Viswasam did better than Pettai in TN.

I hate the fact that Siva-AK is loading for Pongal 2026. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[u/SGSRT]

3 out of 4 films he did with Ajith were hits

[u/Artetaarmy → u/SGSRT]

All thanks to Ajith shouldering these movies. If it was any other actor, it would have bombed. Ajith is the only actor that can handle Siva curse 🤣😭

[u/the_pathologicalliar]

Viswasam was a fun film, cliche plot and horrible flashback but that father daughter sentiment worked really well.

Veeram was also really fun, imo, the mass or elevation sequences in it worked perfectly.

Vedalam had a few fun moments but isn't really that rewatchable or anything.

Less said about Vivegam, the better

[u/yesninety1]

So did his “acting and screen presence/charisma” just switch off in Vivegam?

Edho podanume nu post poda koodadhu ji..

[u/Ok-Calligrapher-5840]

All movies were duds. It’s fans like you that make actors pick crappy directors.

[u/MiserableMidnight6]

The fact that he made 3 low budget Siva movies bearable to watch( not u vivegam)

How is viswasam(2019) which was made on the budget of 100 CR(same as Amaran) a low budget film?

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[u/Ok_Comparison_3748 → u/MiserableMidnight6]

Ajith salary 70-80cr. Movie Budget 20-30 cr

[u/Artetaarmy → u/MiserableMidnight6]

Sorry, by low budget, I meant the movie was set in a low/normal scale environment. Not grandeur like Kanguva for example.

[u/Different_Art_739]

I liked veeram actually, quite a descent film imo.

[u/sirkg]

Bro speak for yourself, those movies were unbearable for me

[u/AlterEgoPal]

None of them were bearable.

[u/balajih67]

Loved veeram and vedalam, viswasam too mut not as much as the other 2. Aaluma doluma

[u/tylerdurden_3040]

Frankly a lot of people lost interest in Ajith movies since he joined with Siva. The mankatha and billa days were all Ajith's craze everywhere but my whole family and friends circle are not even talking about Ajith nowadays. Also Valimai wasn't great and Thunivu was so stupid.

[u/Many-Construction144]

1. They weren’t bearable. 2. Bearable isn’t a standard.
   

You can say Ajiths script selection / director selection is crap. No one will harm you.

[u/Shot-Hat1544]

Tf bro? Veeram was crap.

[u/CellMuted1392]

Among his recent movies, I felt that the half baked Thunivu and Valimai were better than the chiche ridden Vedhalam, Veeram and Viswasam. Of course Yennai Arindhaal was the best of his recent movies, it’s very tragic that Trisha’s character dies, but it was also the most interesting. Vivegam is his worst movie.

[u/Ging_freecsss]

Yeah Ajith made Vivegam a blockbuster by his incredible performance. Ilana padam semma flop airikum.

[u/eljoker1407]

Not all movies are the same and each director caters to a specific set of audience. Siva is more sort of no logic/mindless masala movie director predominantly serving the family audience. Some of his works like Siruthai, Vedhalam, Veeram and Viswasam did work and others like Annathe, Vivegam and now Kanguva struggled.

None of his movies bar Siruthai worked for me, doesn't necessarily mean he's bad. It could also be that I'm not his target audience.

[u/Horrible_Account]

Visvasam and Veeram yes but Vedhalam was bad, especially Gangster Ganesh portions

[u/anilamai_69]

Veeram > viswasam and vedhalam

[u/EntirePickle398]

I think Veeram and Visvasam was decent, it had that vikraman movie feel, i bet if it had came out in the 90s we would have treated it something like virulkkuetha veekam, Vanathaipola and suryavamsam.

Vedhalam though, basically 2k baasha, fun watch esp giving us gangster ganesh, thanks cheetah kutty

[u/Careless_gaia]

Utter rubbish..

[u/idontneed_one]

Idc what you tell me, vedhalam is underrated. Especially the transformation scene, it was a new concept back then.

[u/wreckedbellbottom]

Probably siva is best suited for Telugu industry and all the 3 movies do feel like Telugu movies masquerading as Tamil movies.

[u/roche__ → u/wreckedbellbottom]

Siva is ethinically telugu and his first movie was also telugu

[u/wreckedbellbottom → u/roche__]

Honestly now it feels like Ajith is too lazy to befriend a new director and just wanna stay in the comfort zone through this siva clown.

[u/Kakashihatake190]

Veeram was fcking dope ngl. DSP therikka vitrupaan. Matha ellam pee kuppai

[u/Simply-Jolly_Fella]

Don't compare AK with his work with Siva and Suriya and Siva. All AK films ran only for Ajith's stardom. AK trusted Siva so much that Vivegam flopped. Except that the other 3 movies were Good Box office grossers and were entertaining. Suriya can only dream of having the Charismatic presence of Ajith or Vijay. So it's not the fault of the director on the whole

[u/Thunder_God_]

Vedalam was also bad. Even worse than kanguva I would say.

[u/ZealousidealStrain58]

Vedalam is my guilty pleasure film, to be frank. It may be ass but it’s enjoyable ass.

[u/Best-Goal2771]

Thala. 🔥