Vijay(Arun Vijay) thinks the world of his younger brother Madan(Jerovardhan) and would do anything for him. When Madan is threatened by one of his collegemates for contesting the election for college chairman, Vijay thrashes the collegemate. Turns out he is the brother of Satya(Satyaprakash), a dreaded dada. Meanwhile, Vijay and and Vedha(Sheela) fall in love but their romance isn't given a chance to proceed smoothly either.

Every single cliche in Tamil cinema finds a place in Vedha. From its central plot point to less important plot developments to stock characters, the movie abounds in cliches well past their expiry dates. The director even manages to dig up cliches(a couple takes shelter from the rain in a lonely house that pops out of nowhere, has food that is conveniently cooked for them and works as an aphrodisiac, launches into a dream song in a semi-conscious state and ... you can take it from there) that I thought were killed in the 80s. And the director's MO is really surprising. While directors usually try to take the story along a familiar path and then surprise us, Nityakumar points the story in a different direction and then surprises us by falling back on a familar cliche!

Vedha's way of showing us Arun Vijay's love for his brother is to show Jerovardhan winning a race and then tell us that Arun paid off all the other racers just so his brother could win. What that tells us though is that the characters in the film are not going to be realistic or believable. And our guess is proved true, in no unclear terms, as the movie proceeds since the characters consistently act in a dumb fashion and take wrong decisions. So their trials and tribulations have no effect on us. There are a few clever scenes, like Arun's first encounter with Satyaprakash in his house, but these are mere drops in a sea of stupidity.

The only aspect in which the movie offers something different is in the villain's MO. Satyaprakash is still a regular dada who seems to have unlimited power but the way he treats his enemies is somewhat different. So what Arun goes through after he is nabbed by him is pretty painful and earns him our sympathy. Arun goes through a lot of emotional heartbreak before this too but the fact that this is the first time we actually feel for him is proof of how predictable and ineffective those other emotions were.

One thing in favor of the director is that he has chosen a serious theme and stuck to it, without chickening out and adding, say, a comedy track. There are a lot of emotions and sentiments in the film, especially in the second half, and the characters go through a lot, both physically and mentally. The problem is that these sentiments are so predictable and handled so shoddily that they never have any kind of impact. Characters do behave practically without descending to melodrama(like the reactions of Jerovardhan and Seetha when they come to know the truth) but the number of times they behave in moronic ways just to move the screenplay forward far outnumbers those.

One can't really find fault with Arun Vijay since he competently does what's expected of a hero and also endures a few things our heroes usually don't. Sheela, who was impressive in Ilavattam , is solid here too. She is pretty liberal in the song sequences and seems to be one of the few actresses on whom a blonde wig sits well too. Satyaprakash's accent seems funny most of the time while Bose, who seems to have been already stereotyped, appears in another policeman role.