Vaathi is a 2023 Indian period action drama film written and directed by Venky Atluri. The film was shot simultaneously in Tamil and Telugu with the latter titled as Sir and produced by Tollywood studios Sithara Entertainments and Fortune Four Cinemas.[2][3] The film features Dhanush, who is making his Telugu debut, alongside Samyuktha Menon, P. Sai Kumar, Tanikella Bharani, Samuthirakani and Hyper Aadi.[4]The pattern that runs throughout Venky Atluri's Vaathi (or SIR in Telugu) becomes apparent minutes into the movie. In a casual, sombre manner, Venky opens the tale. Three brothers unearth a box of video cassettes in the year 2022. When the footage is played, we can see a teacher writing some trigonometry sums on a chalkboard from behind. It's Dhanush (of course), and he even makes a short half-second turn towards the camera. The highly anticipated group introduction photo fails. Does a half-second matter? The boys visit a District Collector's office to investigate the riddle of the cassettes, where Venky appears once more.Unfortunately, Vaathi is filled of singular concepts that instantly find their evil twin; this is only half of the pattern. This is,But Balamurugan naturally has a noble mission, which begins by ensuring the students attend classes, then bringing them together, and ganging up against ThirupathiVaathi is a film in which the hero finds small means to win big, but the undemanding screenplay offers only a few pay-offs even when some moments are set up well. Similarly, the screenplay needs more scenes like the one where Bala explains the futility of caste and the classroom becomes a miniature of society; more of this, and we could have gotten something akin to the 2007 American film Freedom Writers. The film is also full of unidimensional characters that showed potential initially. The characters played by Tanikella Bharani and Hareesh Peradi find no value in the story. While Ken Karunas’s Muthu finds himself in some interesting areas in the screenplay, Samyuktha’s Meenakshi is rendered deadweight. Coming to the star at the centre of it all, you only feel bad for Dhanush because he does try to single-handedly support the film even in its middling portions. Unfortunately, there isn't enough on paper to help him.At one moment, director Venky goes meta to say that even a cinema theatre can impart education if needed, and his noble message in the film is loud and clear. You only wish the screenplay was as shar