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Audio Release Function Exclusive Stills Mega Posters Stills		Home > Telugu Movie Reviews > Aaru Violence At Its Peak Rating: *** (***** Very Good, **** Good, *** Fair, ** Average, * Bad) Cast: Suriya, Trisha, Kalabhavan Mani, Ashish Vidyarthi, Jayaprakash Reddy, Vadivelu and Others. Action: Rocky. Cinematography: Priyan. Dialogue: Shashank Vennelakanti. Editing: VT Vijayan. Music: Devi Sri Prasad. Story, Screenplay & Direction: Hari. Presenter: Sapphire Media & Infrastructure Ltd. Producer: Gemini Film Circuit. Banner: Gemini Film Circuit. Release Date: 9th December, 2005. It is 'Nath family' in focus, because all the four brothers are ruthless. The eldest is Viswanath, the Don of a Mafia gang, played by Ashish Vidyarthi. Then there is another gang led by Adi (Jayaprakash Reddy) also a Don. Both groups operate in settling things for their customers for money. Viswanath's strength is this young man curiously named as 'Aaru'. It means number 'Six'. He is found orphan and is brought up by Viswanath. The latter's wife brought him up almost like his mother. All these sentimental elements make him so glued to the family that he does whatever his boss Viswanath orders. He slowly grew to be the right hand man of the Don. Added to that he is fearless. He does not even wink even when a bolder is falling on his head. Of the four Nath Brothers, the youngest is a womanizer. And the other two are just followers of Viswanath. Aaru's main job is to put Adi's men under check. There are skirmishes between the two gangs now and then. But there is a kind of understanding too between them in adhering certain principles as sharing the soils. There is a comedy track too featuring Vadivelu with Brahmanandam's voice. Different episodes are woven as titbits for him to entertain us. It is time for the introduction of the heroine, played by Trisha. Maha is her name. She is the salesgirl of a cell phone company. She is studying MA (psychology). The killings are like treating humans as insects. The first rupture between the two gangs arises when Aaru discovers that Adi is in girl's trade. On one such occasion, he captures Maha and chains her. On knowing this Aaru runs to the spot, and declares she is his wife and drops a gold chain into her neck. He also corners her and ties her to a pillar. Aaru comes to her rescue. Maha thinks he loves her, because he went to her rescue on two occasions. She treats this chain as 'mangalasutram'. But that happiness is short living for he withdraws from her, after taking back that chain, declaring he did that only to save her skin. But she looses her heart for him. The major turn in the story comes at this time. State's Revenue Minister loses his ministry and to get him restored to that position he schemes a drama to be implemented by Viswanath, who in turn asks Aaru to take it up. Self-immolation is a part of this protest demanding the CM to re-instate the minister. But the immolation drama leads to the death of all the five who accepted to play the drama at the instance of Aaru, as one of the Nath brothers, throws a match stick after they pour petrol mixed kerosene. This disturbs the psyche of Aaru who for the first time learns that his Godfather was working against his interests and treating him like a watchdog. The rest shows how Aaru avenges this and takes the lives of the men who are involved in turning the self-immolation drama, into a tragedy. The narration also puts to view how Maha becomes part of Aaru's life and works to save him. There is a police officer role played by Kalabhavan Mani, who is hand in glove with Viswanath. Suriya is, obviously, major draw of audience who practically thronged the theatres. The name of the character he plays - Aaru - is strange. But it appears that its original name is Arumugam in Tamil. His performance in Ghajini, still running to good houses made all the difference. In this film too he performs with the same ease and polish, except when he resorts to cold murders towards the end. Trisha too impresses in the last parts of the drama, sharing a good part of the screenplay in these scenes. Jayaprakash Reddy and Ashish Vidyarthi, who donned the role of Viswanath are simply brilliant. The film is musically strong too. Photography and editing are meticulous.