‘Vishwanath and Sons’ movie review: A charming Suriya and Mamitha Baiju carry Venky Atluri’s wholesome entertainer

Now and then, life tends to find ways to break those big walls you build around your heart, the mental enclosures trauma puts you in, and the walls you build around your beliefs. In Venky Atluri’s charming family entertainer, Vishwanath & Sons (VAS), Suriya plays a middle-aged man who lives within a self-built cocoon, even when everything around him is as lavish and grand as in a materialistic man’s wet dream. Among the things Sanjay Vishwanath (Suriya), a business tycoon and an Olympic-medallist shooter, inherits from his father, Vijay Vishwanath (Rajiv Menon), are a business empire, a mantra to fight till the end, and deep insecurity about marital relationships. With this complicated father-son relationship at its core, director Venky Atluri’s family drama ends up as a well-written, larger-than-life entertainer that not only feels wholesome, but also bats for the right progressive registers.