Saroja’ is Venkat Prabhu’s second film. Saroja is a fable of friendship, a story of emotions between pals and a tale of twists and turns. Saroja takes us back to the cricket story while taking Tamil cinema front in terms of film making and story telling.

Four friends with diverse natures but similar interests decide to travel to Hyderabad from Chennai to watch a cricket match. A huge tanker lorry heads towards South India from the North and a vicious gang has kidnapped a rich girl and holds her for ransom. All these events are narrated sequentially with the backdrop of the Chaos Theory.

The tanker lorry capsizes creating a complete traffic jam that has the makings of an all night stand-still. Our protagonists stuck in traffic decide to get to Hyderabad through a short cut and eventually get lost. They end up in the den of the vicious gang who hold the daughter of the millionaire captive.

The capsizing of the tanker lorry and the vibrant adventurous nature of the young protagonists make all these three events that should have been isolated amalgamate with each other. The butterfly effect is at work here.

Ajay (Shiva), an actor in television serials, Ganesh Kumar (Premji Amaran) as a funny good-for-nothing who falls in love with every passing girl, Jagapathi Babu (SPB Charan) as the senior of the team, married and has a young daughter and Ram Babu (Vaibhav Reddy) as Jagapathi Babu’s brother fit into their roles with ease. Their interactions during all the events stay true with doses of humor never running out….no matter what situation they are in.

Prakash Raj and ACP Saroja Movie Review Ravichandran (played by Jayaram) go in search of Saroja. But the four manage to save Saroja but only to land in yet another difficult situation. What happens to the four and Saroja is told in the climax.

Vega seems to have understood her character (Saroja) in the film very well as she pulls it off with perfect ease. Prakash Raj has been at his usual best.

How this whole issue get sorted out forms the rest of the story.

Major strengths for ‘Saroja’ are in the form of some breathtaking and spectacular background score from Yuvan Shankar Raja, slick editing from Praveen K. L and Srikanth N. B and excellent cinematography by Sakthi Saravanan.