CHATTAMBINAADU

CHATTAMBINAADU

Theatre : TVM Anjali
Status : 100
Showtime & Date : 6.30pm, 24th Dec 2009

After the lukewarm response of Shafi-Benny P Nayarambalam team's LOLLIPOP, they are back with a Mammootty starrer one which has nothing new to offer but an entertaining one with never a dull moment.

Story
Veerendra Mallayya(Mammootty) comes to ChembattuNaadu aka ChattambiNaadu. He comes there to buy the properties of Manoj.K.Jayan's character who is the son of Vijayaraghavan's character. Nagendran(Siddhique) is the rival team. The rest of the story is the acton-reaction play of Mammootty and Siddhique & a flashback episode.

Performances
Mammootty as Veerendra Mallayya is good in his Kannada Malayalam slang. Siddhique reminds us his role in Maadambi & Prakash Raj's role in Ghillli in two scenes. Vinu Mohan repeats his Kunchacko Boban-Jayasurya play again. All the thrre female characters Lakshmi Rai, Maidhili & Meenakshi has nothing to do. Maidhili has only one dialogue. Janardhanan, Vijayaraghavan, Saikumar all are apt for the role.

As Benny's previous Mammootty flick AnnanThambi, here too Suraj Venjaarammood & Salimkumar are the big plus points of the movie. Salimkumar reminds us of his role in Mayavi. But his dialogues are good. Suraj was good in certain scenes but went overboard on certain scenes. His Bheeman Raghu act was entertaining.

Technical
Action by Anal Arasu was good. Rest all were usual only.

Songs
Below Average.

Script & Direction
Script by Benny P Nayarambalam is  mix of Rajamanikyam & Annan Thampi. An entertaining one till the preclimax episode, a misunderstanding, then truth reveals, film over. Direction  by Shafi is racy, but nothing new.

Verdict : Tad above Average Mass Entertainer
B.O Verdict : Above average

When I came out after watching the movie, I saw a flex ALL KERALA VINUMOHAN FANS ASSOCIATION, CHENGALCHOOLA UNIT. Not a single comedy scene in the movie will come anywhere near this COMEDY.

GULUMAAL THE ESCAPE

Gulumaal the Escape

Theatre : TVM Kripa

Status : 100%

Showtime : 6.15pm

After a series of flops, V.K.Prakash has finally come up with a movie which entertains the audience. This time VKP has come with a comedy genre one.

Story

Ravi Varma(Kunchacko Boban) needs some money to release his father(Nedumudi Venu) from jail. After trying all possible ways, he decides to do Tharikida to get money. He joins Jerry Mathews(Jayasuriya) who is a hardcore conman. They decides to sell a copy of a rare painting to an NRI Emir(Devan). In between Shambhu(Suraj Venjarammood) & assistant(Bijukkuttan) is in search of these two. Also Jerry's sister Saira(Mithra Kurian) works in the same hotel where Emir stays. The rest of the story is how they are selling the painting to NRI and some surprising twists.

Performances

Kunchacko Boban as Ravi Varma has come up with a good performance in his new look, especially in jail sequence with Nedumudi Venu. This one will be a good comeback for him. Jayasuriya as Jerry did his conman role with ease. His hospital sequence in second half was good.Though Suraj and Bijukkuttan track was totally out of the storyline, it was enjoyable, though nothing special. Mithra as Saira has nothing much to do. Devan, Manianpilla Raju, Nedumudi Venu had done their roles well in limited scenes, especially Devan in climax scene was good. APPY BIJU played by Kottayam Nazeer needs a special mention as he rocks in his single scene he got.

Songs

Manu Ramesh has come with songs which stays true to the genre of the movie. Kilukilukkum is my pick with 80's orchestration. Voice modulation by Sithara Balakrishnan was superb.

Technical

Camera Woman Fouziya Fathima has done a great job. Editing was good. As 2 cameras were used, assistants need special mention.

Script and Direction

Script by debutant Y.V.Rajesh is a straight lift from Argentenian movie Nueve Reinas. But he succeeded in making it an enjoyable one with changes for malayalee audience. It is the energy level of the lead stars which makes the movie enjoyable with beautiful sequences. Sequences in which Ravi and Jerry cheating each other was superb. Dialogues were not that powerful in certain scenes. Length of certain scenes should have been reduced. Also climax should have been made in a better way, atleast as in the original which was much more effective and superb. VKP, as usual was able to show something different on screen, this time audience too liked it. On the whole, it is a watchable mass entertainer.

Verdict : Above average

BO Verdict : Already a hit, may become a big hit because of low production cost

 As 98% of the audience were families, claps and koovals were not there much. Only for three scenes the whole theatre applauded.

1. Suraj's Chirappunji & Sadashivan Maaman dialogues.

2. Jayasuriya's dialogue "Hey man, come and THORA"

3. Kunchacko Boban's expression when Devan says 3 lakh, DOLLARS, 1.5 crore

VETTAIKAARAN

VETTAIKAARAN

Theatre : TVM Parthas

Showtime : 6.15pm

Date : 18th Dec 2009

Status : 100% with extra chairs

Debutant director BabuSivan suceeded in making a fast mass masala entertainer with Ilayathalapathy Vijay, who badly needs a hit after three consecutive not so successful films. Here there are not many overdose of heroism scenes.

Story

Devaraj IPS(Telugu actor Real Star Sreehari) is an encounter specialist in Chennai. In Tuticorn(Thoothukkudi), Ravi(Vijay), also known as Police Ravi is an ardent fan of Devaraj and is dreaming of becoming an officer like him though he didn't pass plus two four times. Finally he pass the exam and decided to go to the college where Devaraj studied and like him, he decided to do part-time job as an Auto-rikshaw driver. On the way to Chennai, Ravi meets Susheela(Anushka) and falls in love. In Chennai, he had a clash towards the interval with Chella(Ravishankar), a womaniser. Police arrests Ravi & officer Kattabbomman(Shayaji Shinde) plans to do an encounter. Though Susheela seeks help of Devaraj, he didn't. Then Vijay escapes from encounter and meets Devaraj, who is a blind man now because of Chella & his father Vedanayakam(Salim Ghose). From then onwards Ravi starts his hunting.

Performances

Vijay as Ravi is the main attraction and backbone of the movie. His immense screen presence makes his counter with baddies a visual extravaganza. He was superb in comic sequences with Sukumari & Anushka.  Anushka, after Rendu is back in Tamil, as Susheela, Ravi's love interest mainly for songs and romantic sequences. The only scene she had got to perform was his scene with Sreehari, where she asks his help to save Ravi. Sreehari has done his part well. Cochin Haneefa & Sukumari were good with limited scenes and superb dialogues. Sathyan has nothing much to do. Salim Ghose and Ravishankar were apt as villains. Shayaji Shinde was good as comic villain especially scenes with Manobala who plays press reporter.

Songs

Vijay Antony was able to make all the songs different genres where "Naan Adicha.." is the pick. BGM with Naan Adicha music was superb.

Technical

Gopinath's camera work was superb towards the interval especially chase sequences. Kanal Kannan's action has nothing special to do in second half, but rocked in first half. Art direction remains usual. Editing was good, but needs trimming in second half.

Script & Direction

Debutant BabuSivan was able to make the first half superb with correct mixture of comedy, action, songs as the viewer won't thinks of anything else at that time. But the second half becomes a predictable one which could have been made a bit tricky one.

Second half needs trimming. Though songs "Oru Chinnathaamarai" & "En Uchimandele" are good to hear, both are misplaced ones in the movie. Also the dialogues of Salim Ghose after a time becomes so lengthy which makes irritating. Also Sreehari's flashback episode makes us remember Sundar.C's Thee(Another Sun Pictures outing, remake of telugu movie Operation Duryodhana). Vijay's meeting with Salim Ghose at Vedanayakam Tea Stall sequence was excellent. BabuSivan proved that he's a good dialogue writer in Kuruvi itself. In this one too dialogues are good with non-repeating punch dialogues.

Altogether the movie has got a superb first half and a tad above average second half.

Verdict : Above Average Mass Entertainer

BO Verdict : Hit

100 times better than Kuruvi & Villu

NAAN AVANILLAI 2

NAAN AVANILLAI 2 

 



Theatre : Thiyagaraja
Status : 40%
Showtime : Started at 11.25(FDFS)

Director Selva is back with "Mirattal Nayakan" Jeevan in NAAN AVAN ILLAI 2, a sequel to the same team's first one. In this one too, director handles the role of Jeevan as a man who cheats women in various identities and various getups. What makes the movie more interesting is the awesome performance by Rasika(Sangeetha).

Story
The movie begins with scenes from the first part. Then in titles shows a lady saint(Rachana Maurya) comes to her place and giving interview to press people. The whole story happens in European countries. She shows the photograph of Jeevan sleeping and tells them that he is her God. The newspaper article with Jeevan's photo make him identified by several women who were affected by him.

Sakhi(Hema Malini) with her mother comes to meet the saint. Sakhitells her story. Sakhi knows him as Software Engineer Mahesh. She wants his husband as an obedient servant and gets impressed by Jeevan's acts.

Next is Shwetha Menon's episode. She was a fraud who attracts married men and invites for party in her home and make them give her diamonds as present as she had a fascination for it. After she gets diamonds, she calls those men's wife and makes their life GOVINDA. Jeevan fools her in the role of Aravind, a married millionare.

Next is Deepa(Lakshmi Rai), an actress who wants to buy land in all countries. Jeevan plays a Bharath-Sharath double act and cheats her.

By the time Lakshmi Rai's brother Raj Kapoor, the very same police officer in the first part enters and all of them asks her how that fraud became God to her. She tells her story. She was a thief and drug smuggler. He enters her life as Vaali, a poet.  She was not aware of Tamil language. Jeevan translates poet Vaali's film songs & poems to English, which made her leave that life and choose such a good path.

In between each of the episodes shows Jeevan remembering Rasika's episode. She meets her first time when he gives her a lift in car. And second time in a restaurant which lead to an accident and she admits him in a hospital. Then from her friends, he comes to know that she is a widow and now a case is going on about the ownership of the child. Her husband's relatives were first reluctant to her marriage as she is a Srilankan Tamil and then agreed. When her cousin comes and shows about the sufferings of Srilankan Tamils, they decided to go to Srilanka with her doctor husband and to start a trust for their welfare. For that they borrowed money from husband's relatives. But in Srilanka, her husband was killed in an explosion. They clearly told that she will get her child only when she pay their money. What Jeevan does is next.

Performances
Jeevan does his role once again, a tad above what he did in first. All the lady characters did theis part, mainly glamour show. Mayilsami who helps Jeevan in first part as the guy who telephones has got a throughout role as his assistant.

But Sangeetha alias Rasika walks away with all applause in her non glamourous role. She plays a character having stammering and difficulty in walking after the accident mentioned above. Also her SriLankan Tamil accent Tamil with stammering accent was superb. She was the most convincing role in the whole movie and the role was well developed.

Technical
Cinematography was good, editing too. Art direction has nothing special to mention as the whole movie happens in Europe, every frame shows richnesss.

Songs
Music is by D.Imman. First two songs are above average, the others are not upto the mark.

Director Selva's screenplay is fast and much better than the first one. Dialogues by Pattukkottai Prabhakaran is good. In climax, he tells why he did so to each one of them. The reasons are much more convincing and reasonable ones compared to Aasai-Peraasai in first one. As in first one, director doen not shows how he did each as everyone knows how. Also director is successful in linking the recent happening in SriLanka.

Director has come with a predictible, yet entertaining movie.

Verdict : Watchable Entertainer

There is a scene in which Dhoni's name is said to Lakshmi Rai, it was good.

ADHEY NERAM ADHEY IDAM : PATHETIC

 ADHEY NERAM ADHEY IDAM

Theatre : Adyar GanapathyRam
Status : FC 30%, Balcony 90% (60% after 40 minutes of the movie)
Showtime : 11.30am(FDFS)

Debutant director M.Prabhu had committed a crime, ATTEMPT TO MURDER those who were watching the movie. I think this guy was not watching any Tamil movies for last 2-3 decades.

Story 

Karthik(Jai) is a lazy tad who loves to raom with his friends. His father is a friend too for him played by Nizhalgal Ravi(Kakka Ravi). One day he meets Janani and falls in love(LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT). Then till minutes before interval their love 2 songs and all. Nizhalgal Ravi asks his son to get a job once he came to know about his love affair. He arranges him a job in Australia and asks him not to keep any contacts with Janani for 1 year. After one year, he'll make arrangements for their marriage. After 10 months, Janani's father comes with a rich man's proposal. She agrees to that and tell her friend that she loved Karthik, but for life, she needs money and so a rich man as husband. Marriage occurs and there comes INTERVAL. After Interval, Karthik meets Janani's husband at flight and they became good friends without knowing that he married his lover. Karthik comes to know about her marriage and asks her and she clarifies that she did it to make her life happy. Her husband, his friend now tells him not to allow that girl to live her life happily after spoiling yours without knowing that girl is his wife. In climax, she agrees to be Karthik's wife for one day. When Karthik tell this matter to his friend, he arranges a guest house for him for that day. There Karthik kills Janani. Her husband comes there after sometime and realises that she's the girl who spoiled Karthik's life.

Performances
Jai does his VIJAY play again in songs and scenes. Vijayalakshmi, after homely look in Chennai 600028 and Anjathey, she becomes glamourous in this. Both Ja and Vijayalakshmi should be given an admission in acting institute, dancing school WHAT else.........Debutant Rahul plays Vijayalakshmi's husband role which is a notable one to an extent. All the friend character roles of Jai are pure waste, especially Lollusabha Jeeva(Lollusabha : A pgm in VijayTV thrru which Santhanam get into cinemas). There is not a single dialogue makes us laugh

Technical
Nothing to mention, everythings bad. Everything is in 80's style

Songs
Premji Amaren(actor) scores the music and is above average for Lalithanand's lyrics

There was an average plot to make the movie engaging. But the screenplay, SORRY there is nothing like that here. Dialogues by lyricist Lalithanand is horrible. Director, Is there a guy like that in the sets of this movie????? The director should be given a life imprisonment so that he won't make movies again.

Box Office Verdict : Washout

Verdict : Most Pathetic Tamil Movie I have ever seen. Torture at its maximum level.

Friends gangumaayi theatre-il enjoy cheyyaan, padathekkurichu comment adikkuka aanu udheshamenkil Go with ur friends that too at your own risk

MAGADHEERA : Racy Entertainer : Old wine in new bottle

MAGADHEERA

After the debut flop Chirutha, Chiranjeevi's son Ram Charan Teja is back with another movie which is written and directed by S.S.Rajamouli.

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STORY
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The storyline of the movie is not a great one. The very old commercial formula one only. Hero and heroine who were seperated by the villain rebirths after years and this time villain is killed and lovers unite.

The story begins in 1609 in which Kaala Bhairava(Ram Charan) was shown in a situation after a war scene and princess Mithra(Kajal Agarwal) asks him to touch her hand if he loves her. She falls down from a cliff of  great height followed by Kaala Bhairava to catch her hand. But fails. Then story begins at 2009. Harsha(Ram Charan) gets the images of his previous birth once his hand gets in touch with Indu(Kajal Agarwal) accidently. This makes him meet that girl once again. As he's telling Indu(without knowing she's the girl whose hand had touched) that he and that girl were in love, Indu decides to fool him. She tells him that she knows that girl very well and helps him to meet her. By the time Raghuveer(Dev Gill), the villain comes to kill Indu's father as he had filed a case to get his ancestral properties which is now with Raghuveer's father. Raghuveer falls in love with Indu at first sight itself. He kills his father and becomes Indu's family friend. By the time Raghuveer also gets some previous birth images of Kaala Bhairava(Ram Charan)  when he enters Indu's room. He meets an aghori who tells him the whole past. Now Raghuveer is in search of reborn Kaala Bhairava and finds him but unable to kill him. By the time Harsha realises that Indu is the girl he was looking for. Now Raghuveer kills Indu's father and tells her that Harsha did that. Raghuveer takes her in a helicopter and Harsha follows her to tell the truth. Her hand again touches his hand and he falls from a great height. He fells into a small lake. From there the story in 1609 unfolds. Kaala Bhairava is the chief gaurd of Udayagar kingdom. Mithra is the only princess and she's in love with Kaalabhairava. But Randhev Billa(Dev Gill) wants to become king by marrying Mithra. So one competition was held and Randhev fails. Randhev joins with SherKhan(Sreehari) who wants to conquer kingdoms. When KaalaBhairava and Mithra goes to Bhairava Kona to do some yagas for the welfare of the kingdom, Randhev and SherKhan comes along with their army. There a war between Kaalabhairava and the army happens and kills evryone. Randhev kills Mithra and gets killed by Kaalabhairava. Then the opening scene again shown as both falls from the cliff. Sher Khan was very much impressed by their love then. Then in 2009, Harsha is rescued by Solomon(Sher Khan). The rest of the story is how he makes her believe and how he kills Raghuveer.


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PERFORMANCES
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Ram Charan Teja was good as Kaalabhairava and OK as Harsha. There is no special scenes for him to perform as an actor rather than fighting and dancing and normal lover boy stuffs. Kajal Agarwal never looked so beautiful in any of the movies before. She was so convincing as Princess Mithra and Indu. She has got immense screen presence. Dialogue delivery and expressions in first half too was good especially the dialogue "Thana peru Rani kaathe.....Indu". This movie is going to be a milestone and turning point in her career.  Dev Gill as villain was not upto the mark as he's not having that much screen presence to make the audience feel like a dangerous one. Sreehari was good as Sher Khan and Solomon. Especially as Solomon, his dialogue delivery was good. Sharath Babu as King looks convinving. Rest of the cast includes Bhramandam and Sunil who did their part well.

Interestingly Chiranjeevi makes a cameo appearance after Bangaru Kodi Petta song and repeats the very same dance steps(effects only).


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TECHNICAL
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Here comes the real hero of the movie, the Visual effects team. This is the best animation and Visual effects I have seen till date in Indian cinema9especially South Indian). The kingdom in 1609 was beautifully recreated by the special effects team. Cinematography and Editing was superb. Art direction too, but many are effects only.


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SONGS
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Keeravani has given superb music for this. Chiranjeevi's Gharana Mogudu movie song "Bangaram Kodi Petta" is remixed well. An item song Jorsey was the only one which I felt like not upto the mark. Rest all was superb. My pick is "Dheera Dheera...." which was superbly picturised and superb instrumentation. Don't miss this album.


Altogether S S Rajamouli has come with a cliched subject with interesting screenplay and superb special effects which makes it a largely entertaining one.


Verdict
An average movie in every sense with same 80-90's bollywood formula, but the 1609 episode with visual effects takes it somewhere above an Above Average rating. As a movie it's a racy entertainer.


Chila Dialogues onnum valuthaayittu manasilaayilla, but most were some kind of Tamil + Malayalam mix.

Thiru Thiru Thuru Thuru : Just Average

Thiru Thiru Thuru Thuru (T4)

Theatre : Theyagaraja
Showtime : 2.45pm
Status   : 20%

Another director woman, J.S.Nandhini enters the tinsel town with the movie Thiru Thiru Thuru Thuru (T4) produced by Sathyam cinemas and Real Image.

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Story
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Arjun(Ajmal), a lazy, crazy easy going guy & Archana(debutant Roopa Manjari) a strict, serious, punctual girl are working in an ad agency run by Srinivasan(Mouli) who is having problem in remembering the names of persons. Ad agency is running in loss as no big projects are there.  Finally they get one project which will help them to survive from all financial problems, a baby product. The company was not able to get the child model in time. Arjun finally got one child in a particular situation. Arjun and Archana takes care of the child in Arjun's flat and they are in search of the parents of the child and also they want that child to be the model of their ad and they need parents' NOC. Towards the interval, they come to know that the so called mother of the child whom Arjun saw was a fraud who kidnaps kids from hospital. The second half is how they trace the so called mother to get the details of the child and whether they were able to find child's real parents and get NOC from them and whether the lead characters identify themselves that they are in love.


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Performances
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Ajmal & Roopa Manjari was supposed to play characters with great onscreen chemistry, sadly its missing. Ajmal was OK as Arjun, other than some comic expressions, he does the same what we have seen in his other movies. Debutant Roopa was good as Archana, but her make-up makes her look different in different parts of the film. The biggest plus point of the movie is Mouli's character. He did it with such an ease. He's the perfect cast in the movie. Rest of the characters has nothing much to do other than routine stuffs.


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Songs
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Music by ManiSharma is a big letdown. Melody number "Jillenu Veesum." is the pick of the lot. A disappointing album from ManiSharma. BGM was OK only except "Thiru Thiru Thuru Thuru" one.

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Technical
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Cinematography in song Jillenu Veesum was good, nothing special, editing too. Art direction was good.

Script is by director debutant J.S.Nandhini. She miserably failed in creating the chemistry between characters. She seems to be inspired from Priya.V's Kanda Naal Muthal and a set of English movies. Dialogues are good at parts, especially Mouli's. Some sequences end as CHALUS. Director tries hard to make us laugh but sadly fails though the basic plot and scenes had the element for that. Lead characters also makes the attempt fail at  times. Director tried to make an interesting fast movie which has humour in every scene, but.........Then too movie is watchable for its plot and Mouli.


Verdict : JUST Average

Nandhini, director Venkat Prabhu(Chennai 600028, SA-RO-JA fame) aakaan nokkiyathaa. Pakshe Venkat Prabhuvine pole Venkat Prabhu maathram.

Loud Speaker : A Jayaraj movie

LOUD SPEAKER 


Theatre : TVM Dhanya(October 2nd)
Showtime : 6.00pm(film started at 6.10 only)
Status : Balcony Full, First Class Oru 50 per

Jayaraj, the man behind a set of good movies and almost same number of bad movies, could make his latest offering "LOUD SPEAKER" an engaging movie. After a set of bad movies(except Aanandabhairavi), Jayaraj is finally back in track. 

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STORY
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Sasikumar plays the role of a kidney patient who is in wait for a person to donate him a kidney. Agents played by Cochin Haneefa & Salimkumar brings Mike(Mammootty) for this purpose. Mike agrees to this as he wants some money to get back his land which is now with Appachan(Johny) who is a money lender. Sasikumar brings Mike to his flat. Though the activities of Mike are not accepted by people there in the beginning, slowly they become friends of Mike. Sasikumar tells him his tragic teenage lovestory too. Mike takes him to his village and to his relatives. Then comes operation day and what next is the story.

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PERFORMANCES
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Mike played by Mammootty and Sasikumar are the lead characters in the story. Mammootty played his role of Mike who talks very loudly and tells whoever he meets the stroy of his father's adventure and listens to RADIO very well. His dialogue modulation needs special mention. Sasikumar was apt for his role as the person on screen gave some freshness. Jagathy's role as Flat Secretary was a big letdown. Suraj was just OK. Bheeman Raghu, Kalpana, KPAC Lalitha, Vavachan were there in the movie in not much developed characters and in limited screen time. Annie, a nurse played by Gracy Singh also joins the above said league. Valsala Menon's character reminded Sheela of Manasinakkare. Janardhanan's character was good. His small sound modulations in the scene during fever time after having a cup of tea needs to be mentioned. Srijith Ravi and friends appeared to be a cliched one which we have scene in several movies. Augustine played his flat security role well. Baby Nayanthara was OK only.Anoop Menon was again wasted in a role of a doctor which he played in Kayyoppu. Harisree Ashokan was good in his 2 scenes.Undapakru(Ajayan) was good.

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Technically the film excels by using SYNC SOUND Technology. Recordist Harikumar did his job well. Cinematography was impressive in many shots like opening scene, in the village boat scenes...Art direction was OK only. Music by Bijipal was good. Kaattarinu was the one which suits to the mood of the movie with Jayachandran's voice. Editing was good.

The film's story is a wafer thin one, friendship between a patient and an organ donor. Story by P.Y.Jose and Jayaraj together has been developed into a full 2hr 1 min movie by Jayaraj. Jayaraj's screenplay was above average, but a predictable one only. First half has got a scenes of problems created by Mike. Interval sequence was not upto the mark. Jayaraj spoiled the first half with unwanted set of comedy scenes to make it more commercial. Many characters and incidents were introduced into the small world of this story. All the child characters were unwanted and a big minus to the realitic mood of the movie. Though the Christmas song was OK, the first song was an unwanted one which resembled Kazhcha song in picturisation. Post Interval makes the movie more interesting with good village visuals and dialogues. Though the screenplay of the movie by Jayaraj has got a great plot to make it a movie with a big heart, the director Jayaraj miserably fails in delivering what he wrote to the screen with full essence. The film seems to be made in a hurry. Even the climax scenes were not that good which lacks something like a sentimental feel like in "Kadha Parayumbol" climax. Still the movie works because of the basic plot & scenes in second half. Hats off to Jayaraj who produced this movie.

Verdict : A tad below GOOD

Once in a while box-office-il accept cheyyappedunna type of movie aanu ithu. Keralathilum Multiplex audience / Sadharana audience ennathu varikayaanu ennu thonnunnu. Too poor FC attendance in a public holiday weekend.  Also the current trend of movies  greatly affected this. Hope they will watch this movie in theatres itself.

EERAM : A SUPERNATURAL THRILLER : Above Average

EERAM : A SUPERNATURAL THRILLER

Don't read the text inside the [spoiler] & [/spoiler] tag if u don't want to know the suspense elements

Theatre : Thiyagaraja
Status : 75%
Showtime : 11.15am(FDFS)

After watching the first half, I was really in a confused state about how I can write the review of this movie without losing its suspense to the viewers. But the second half made me to write this in the way as follows.

Story begins in an apartment from which water comes out from E6 flat where no response was there even after calling many times by the security gaurd. Police found Ramya Balakrishnan(Sindhu Menon) dead in bathtub. One policeman asks Vasu(Aadhi) to come and confirm as the dead one is Ramya as he knows that they were in love few years ago. A suicide note was found in her body covered in a plastic cover saying like she herself is committing suicide. Vasu investigates the case and collects details from the near apartment people. All were saying like she was having relationship with some other guy and committed suicide when her husband discovered that. Vasu remembers his college days and his love life in between these. They didn't unite because her father didn't want a police officer(police officer in future) to marry her. Two more murders happens who were staying in that apartment. Vasu finds WATER as the source of medium used to kill in all the murders. Vasu starts investigation


[spoiler] Towards the interval, Police chases and finds the so said secret lover of Ramya there in Udhayam theatre. Aadhi reaches there and finds that guy hitting his head himself to the mirror in gent's toilet. Vasu realises then its none other than Ramya's ghost who uses water as a medium to kill. The la HOLLOW MAN effect used then was good. Second half is Vasu's meeting with a doctor who talks to ghosts. He asks Vasu to believe in ghosts. By the time Ramya's sister played by Saranya Mohan comes to city for her father's operation. Vasu shifts to the apartment where murders happened along with his mother. Saranya too comes there. Spirit of Ramya enters Saranya's body and tells him what happened in her life and what lead to her murder and why she had killed the other people too. From the first 30 minutes itself we are known to the original villain none other than her husband Balakrishnan played by Nandha because of his doubt on his wife. How she takes revenge is the rest of the story [end of spoiler]

Vasu played by Aadhi of Mrugam fame(Mrugam : the movie in which director Sami slapped Padmapriya) had played the role of a college guy and a police officer very well. If the physique of the police officer role was some more good, then it could have been much more tougher look. Nandha as Balakrishnan has nothing much to do as an irritating character which we have seen Raghuvaran as psychic in some movies. Saranya has nothing much to do, again a sister character and two scenes. And finally Ramya played by Sindhu Menon walks away with all applause. She was too good as a homely college girl, as a lover girl and as a loyal wife[spoiler], even as a ghost though she is not shown as such. [/spoiler]

Among technical side, Art direction needs to be specially mentioned as it was superb in every frame(Don't know the name of the guy). Camera by Manoj Paramahamsa was superb. Also editing in first half, second half needs trimming and it needs to be as tight as first half. Music by Taran.S is good, especially "Mazhaye" song and the BGM which adds to the mood of the scene. The cloudy sky colour tone given to the whole movie is superb.

Director/Script Writer Arivazhagan was able to make the movie interesting in the first half as it was a package with murders, mystery, investigation, college life, love and even one song "Mazhaye.." which was picturised beautifully. Second Half was just average with no interesting twists, a predictable one only. WATER plays a key role in the movie as it is there in each and every scene in the movie. Director seems to have given much more importance to visuals than the screenplay. The storyline appears a cliched one. [spoiler]A ghost who kills one by one those who were reason for her murder.[/spoiler] If director had done some more home work on the second half script it could have been an edge to seat thriller. Dialogues are good. Director Shankar should be appreciated again for presenting another promising director through his 'S' Pictures.

SUPERB FIRST HALF, AVERAGE SECOND HALF

Verdict : Above Average


[spoiler]Nagarathil irangiya vellathil mungiya, vellam use cheyyunna Aakashaganga[/spoiler]

PUTHIYA MUGHAM : AVERAGE

PUTHIYA MUGHAM

Theatre : TVM Sree Padmanabha
Status : Around 50 persons in first class
Showtime : 2.30pm


A movie which was released on the label like it'll be similar to mass masala entertainers in Tamil/Telugu Cinema, but sad to say except in introducing action sequences and placing song sequences, it is no where near the other south Indian language movies.

Story of the movie is a half baked one for a mass entertainer. Krishnakumar/Kichu from Palakkad goes to college in Kochi to do his B.Tech. There he impresses everyone with his musical skills which helps him to get a lot of friends including Priyamani. Bala who is the tyounger brother of Saikumar and Shammi Thilakan, the land mafia criminals there. He's in love with Priyamani. Because of pressure from parents, Priyamani agrees to marry Bala after her studies. But certain incidents made Bala think that Prithviraj & Priyamani are in love which forces him to react to Prithvi. As a result of that Prithvi gets hospitalised because of the mental shock that happened in the childhood haunted again. Again he comes back to college and this time Prithvi with high voltage reacts as predictable. The second half only shows how Prithvi manages to win over the three brothers in three action sequences.

Prithvi was good as Kichu in Palakkad episodes(except the first scene mrudangam look). He was good in acting while his hand was shaking when tries to play mrudangam when he comes back from hospital. He looks perfect as mentally challenged boy in the wheel chair in the hospital episode. But from pre interval episode, the actor in Prithvi comes only in two sequences when Meera was taken back to her home from Jagadeesh's house. As a hero, Prithvi was good in doing action sequences. Meera Nandan & Priyamani has nothing to do. Bala got a powerful character and was good though lip sync problem was there in sequences. Saikumar & Shammi Thilakan has got usual roles and in this movie, they are wasted with limited scenes and not so powerful chaaracters. Jagathy, Jaffer Idukky, Nedumudi Venu, Kalashaala Babu, Anil Murali, Jagadeesh, Sona Nair, Vijayaraghavan all are wasted with insignificant roles. Undapakru(Ajayan) was notable in limited scenes, especially intro. Sudheesh was good with his oneliners. Necomer Venky was ok only.

Among technical side, the real winner is action director Anal Arasu. The action choreography is neatly done but badly directed. Every action sequence is repeated 5-6 times in each action episode which makes the viewers boring & irritating. This happens in all episodes. Especially in the final action sequences, the goons were simply moving left and right which became a pure comic scene. Also when Priyamani moves to next floor in constructon site, I don't know why director didn't ask people working there in the frame to move away from the frame. I still don't know why Saikumar didn't fight when Prithvi was fighting with goons with him. Also in the police station episode Vijayaraghavan was simply standing when Prithvi was beating other policemen. Keralapolicente kayyil oru gun polumille??? atleat to threaten him. BGM was ok only. The intro bgm of Undapakru was later used for action sequences. Diphan was able to make the movie engaging. Deepak Dev's song "Picha Vecha.." was the main calling card of the movie.

People who watch only Malayalam movies or movies once in a while will like this one as the action sequences in the movie will appear great or stylish to them because of the visual treatment given. But for others it'll be another mass masala which lacks a proper script to make it an edge-to-seat thriller which is the key component in Tamil/Telugu movies in addition to visual treatment.

Premam moolam Priyamani moolam Prithvirajnum Balakkum Kalaham OREvidham Puthiyamughathil sulabham.

KANTHASAMY : BELOW AVERAGE

KANTHASAMY

Theatre : TVM Anjali
Status : 98%
Showtime : 6.30pm(Film started at 6.00)

Finally I decided to watch the much hyped movie after a series of release date shifting and lots of negative reviews from audience and positive reviews from medias like SIFY, INDIAGLITZ.....

CBI officer Kanthasamy wants to reduce the difference between the rich and the poor, a la Sivaji approach. So he distributes the black money ceased from rich ones to the needy who writes their needs in a paper placed in the temple tree. For this, he himself become a superhero with the help of his team. A CBI officer played by Prabhu is investigating the case of Kanthasamy which he believes is a fake one. When Vikram ceases money from Aashish Vidhyarthi, he acts as if his half of his body is dead. His daughter Shreya wants to take revenge on Vikram. After a series of incidents, they comes to know that Vikram is the superhero. Aashish Vidyarthi makes a 50-50 deal for the amount he ceases in future. Vikram & Shreya goes to Mexico to get money from a don Pichumani. How he handles the case there and the villain played by Mukesh Tiwari is the rest of the movie. In between unwanted bad comedy sequences from Vadivelu.


The opening scene of Vikram with Mansoor Ali Khan itself is a big failure in which the superhero mannerisms are repeated. Shreya is just for glamour and is a big minus in the movie as the character is unwanted. CBI head played by Krishna(father of Mahesh Babu) is good. Prabhu repeats his Billa role. Mukesh Tiwari was not upto the mark while Aashish Vidyarthi was OK. The Mexican villain Alex was a failure. Overall the film is a Vikram show but his role as a woman and all were good in make-up, but the screenplay for which the characters are introduced made those bore and irritating. I saw the trimmed version of the movie where except two scenes all other Vadivelu scenes were removed. Those scenes too were irritating. As IB officer, director Susi Ganesan as actor also is a failure.

All the song sequences of the movie are misplaced and the songs repeated some old Tamil songs' tunes. Dialogues were not good except the Vikram-Shreya first scene and later Poda-Podi ones. Other dialogues like Alex telling Vikram in Mexico like "Mexicovile Pichumaniye theriyaatha aale illai" were pure comic ones. Colour grading only helps to get headache especially the brown tone in Mexicon episode. Screenplay was not there in the whole movie other than a show of luxury in every scene.

On the whole watch the movie in a DVD if you have no other DVDs with you then.

Producers spent 40crores for the movie. Among that 1.25crores were for Shreyas dress alone. But ellaam keeriyathaayirunnu. Keeratha orennam first Vikram-Shreya scenil aval thanne keeri kalayukayum cheyyyunnu. Dressinodu ithrayum allergy ulla mattoru nadi Tamil cinemayil vere undo ennariyilla.

DADDY COOL : Good Entertainer

DADDY COOL : GOOD ENTERTAINER

First of all I would like to thank all who had written negative reviews for this movie all over internet blogs,websites,forums...

Theater : Mini Rakki(Ambattur Rakki Complex)
Showtime : 6.30 pm
Theater Status : 30%
Theater Respone : Many were saying like a good entertainer in recent times. They were saying like the first half was far better than the slapstick ones in 2HHN

Story
Crime Branch CI Antony Simon(Mammootty) is a lazy officer. He is more interested to spent his time with his son Aadi(Dhananjay). Richa plays Antony's wife's character. The first half revolves around the attempt to arrest Bheem Bhai(Aashish Vidhyarthi) because of Antony's irresponsibility and a suspension following that leading to some minor family problems and how Antony gets back his job by saving cricketer Srikanth(Govind Padmasurya). In the second half, Antony arrests Bheem Bhai. Antony was forced to shoot a person because of Aadi & later Aadi's kidnap & how Antony rescues his son is the rest of the story.


Performances
Atlast Mammootty got a tailor-made character in which not the actor Mammootty, but the character Antony Simon makes us laugh through the situations in the story. Mammootty was excellent in the role. Dhananjay needs special mention because after some two decades I had seen a child actor on screen without heavy dialogues for his age and overacting. BijuMenon was good in his role. Richa was good but the problem is the dubbing artist in her first scenes. Later it was OK. Adv. Baburaj also needs a special mention. His character as a crime branch officer mainly interested in watching adult content in his mobile was played well throughout the movie. Especially his reactions after watching TV show of Antony was superb.Suraj did his part well. Also Richa's & Radhika's father played by Sreekumar did a good job. Though only limited scope for Govind Padmasurya as cricketer Srikanth, he did his part well. Many actors like Aashish Vidyarthi, Daniel Balaji, Radhika, Saikumar, Vijayaraghavan, Anoop Chandran, Vinayakan.... were wasted in the movie with not much developed characters.

Songs
Picturisation of all songs were good. Among songs, "Daddy My Daddy" & "Kadhayoraavarthanam" was good. "Samba Salsa" was not up to the mark, the final song too.


Ofcourse movie has got negatives too. The first half does not have much twists or incidents. But it was made entertaining by the director. Second half failed at the point Antony shoots the unknown person. There should be some valid twists for that. If climax was done with twists something like Daniel's team vs Aashish's team, then it would have been much more entertaining. The TV show scene was a good attempt but the length of the dialogues could have been trimmed. Also during the climax fight, I think the bgm was from the child's point of view showing atlast I saw my father as a real hero. But the way it is taken is like an action movie makes the music unsuitable. Balaji's close up shots in his eccentric mood repeated was boring.There were some technical flaws too in the climax.

Despite these negatives, what makes the movie entertaining is Aashiq Abu, who was able to make the audience engaged in the world of Antony & Aadi with his stylish new takings. I find Aashiq Abu as the very first debut in atleast last one decade who was able to bring a new movie watching experience. Dialogues were good. Camera Work was excellent, especially when Daniel Balaji walking from the sea with a wireless & gun on the shore was superb. Art direction was stylish & good. BGM Score during emotional scenes with slow music of "Daddy My Daddy" was good. BGM in Mammootty-Richa-Dhananjay combo scene was good. Also an impressive title cards animated by Rajeev Gopal

GO FOR IT if u people are looking for a new movie watching experience in Malayalam Cinema.

Don't know about the box office verdict of the movie as many good movies bombed at kerala box office before. If this one was made in Tamil, many will question like why can't we make such a different style movie in Malayalam. Muttathe mullakku appozhum ippozhum eppozhum manamilla ennu parayaruthennu abhyarthikkunnu.

NADODIGAL : GOOD MOVIE

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~~~~~NADODIGAL~~~~~GOOD MOVIE

Theatre : Shanthi
Showtime : 11.30am
Status : Housefull

Story: 3 suhruthukkal, Sasikumar, Bharani & Vijay. Sasikumar as Karunakaran is a B.A.History gold medalist in search of a government job as it is the necessary condition of his ammaavan to marry his murappennu. Bharani has a stepmother. So his father shouts at him in her presence and loves him other times. Vijay is working in a computer institute and is trying to get a loan to start own institute. His father, an ex-serviceman is a friend to him. His father only give him ideas to tell his love to Sasikumar's sister. Though Sasikumar know this, ariyaatha mattil irikkum. 3 perum happyayi kazhiyunnu. Then comes a friend of Sasikumar. He tries to commit suicide. When he tells his problem that his mother, an ex-MLA is planning to arrange his marriage with another and not with his lady-love, a powerful business man in Namakkal area. Friends are going there and unites both. In that mission, Sasikumar got injured in his eye, Bharani loses his hearing ability & Vijay loses his right leg. After that a series of events happens in their life and then too they were happy as they had united the lovebirds. Then they come to know that the couples are splitted and are going to marry somebody else. This makes them angry and they plans to kill them.


Performances
Except the kaamukan friend of Sasikumar, everyone in the movie was perfect. There is a character in the movie who helps them at Namakkal and in the climax who doesn't have a single dialogue, he also scores.

Songs
Music by Sundar.C.Babu is good. "Shambo Shiva Shambo" is the pick of the lot because it's the song which shows how friends unites lovebirds and the climax sequence.


Technical
Cinematography is superb and Editing was crisp.

Direction by Samuthirakkani was top class and the screenplay is fast and entertaing. Everyone watching the movie will get involve to the scene. Bharanide cheviyil adi kollumbol sherikkum prekshakar njettunnundu.

The film's biggest plus point is DIALOGUES which are excellent. The dialogues which mentions about friendship and love are too good and "to the point" dialogues. Friends kamithakkale onnippikkunnathu pala filmslum kandittundu. Pakshe onnippicha shesham how's their life, how friends' lives are affected enna angle-il kandathaanu padathinte puthuma


Nothing more to say, GO FOR IT.

Vaalkashanam : As a movie, this one is good. But olichottam, athippol friendsnte sahayathode aayaalum allelum anukoolikkan pattumo??? Enthayaalum ee padam kandukkazhinjaal friendsnte adukkal help chodichal avar theerchayaayum chodikkum, dey kurachu kazhinju adichu piriyumo njangal veruthe risk edukkano ennu!!!!!!!!!

MUTHTHIRAI : AVERAGE MOVIE

~~~~~MUTHTHIRAI~~~~~AVERAGE MOVIE

Theatre : Anna
Showtime : 1.00pm
Status : 40%

Story: Story is somewhat similar to Vaamanan's. Aadyam Ponvannan, Anand, Riyaz Khan iverallaam ulla oru rashtreeya meeting. Pinne ellavarum vediyettu kidakkunnu. Pinne Titlesil Daniel Balajide intro as a thief. Pinne Gramathil ninnum aalukal including his own mother Nithin Sathyaye odikkunnu, temple-le kaanikkavanchi moshtichathinu. Nithin city-il ethunnu. Pinne Rakhi Sawant's song in a bar. Nithin Danielne rakshikkunnu. Nithin joins Daniel. Pinne a song of LakshmiRai. She's a bar dancer. Her father is Cochin Haneefa, a good for nothing guy. Kishore plays Commissioner who comes to investigate the case. Nithin Sathya ayalude purse adikkan nokkunnu. Pakshe nadakkunnilla. Pidikkappedathe 2 perum escape aakunnu. Danielnte roomnte aduthulla roomle aal aa casene sambhandicha rekha thante kayyil undennu parayunnu. Police is after him.Nithin Sathyade nayika Manjaride intro. Oru song. Pinne Daniel Nithinodu flashback parayunnu. Kaashinu vendi enthum cheyyunna kaalayhu, oru 5-6 yearsnu munpu kaashinu vendi oru samooha vivahathil Lakshmi Raiye vivaham kazhichathaanu ennu. Annu vittittu poyi. Innu kuttabodham, Aval thrike venam ennu. So Manjaride birthday ennu paranju Lakshmi Raide bithdayde annu they get together at Daniel's flat. Appol Police thottadutha roomile aale thurathunnu. Ivar thangale pidikkaan varunnu ennu karuthi odunnu. Pirake adutha roomile aalum. Ivar oru car-il kayarunnu. Ayal caril oru laptop vekkunnu. Ayal kayarunnathinu munpu vediyelkkunnu. INETRVAL

Athinu avar oru kaattu brand areayil ethi thaamasikkunnathum, ivar ee laptop video kandittu thirichu kodukkaan pokumbol undaakunna prashnangalum pinne avar moshanamellam nirthi sukhamaayi jeevikkaan panam blackmail cheyyunnathum aanu kadha.


Performances
Daniel with tattoos and all is bad. Nithin Sathya steals the show with one liners. Lakshmi Rai pichakkaari dressnte karyathil in songs, Manjari too. Lakshmi Rai Vikram Bhatt produce cheythathu kondu kurachu glamorous aayittu abhinayichu Bollywood-il kayaraanaavum plan. Kishore & Ponvannan is OK. Riyaz Khan is wasted.

Songs
Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja is OK only. Azhagaana Neeyum... song is good.


Technical
Cinematography is avergae and Editing was ok only.

Though Srinath is director, Anees Tanveer did story, screenplay & creative direction of this Vikram Bhatt produced movie. The film's biggest plus point is its climax sequence which is superb with lots of twists. If this climax was made into the some 30 minutes, then movie would have been much more entertaining.



First half is racy. Second Half needs some cuts. All songs are to be avoided. Watch it for climax in DVD

VAAMANAN : AVERAGE ONLY

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Theatre : Saidapet Raj
Showtime : 11.30am
Day : 11-07-2009
Theatre Status : 30%


Storyline
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Padathinte opening shot thanne Lakshmi Rai 2 pieceil kadalil ninnum karakku kayari varunnathaanu. She's a model. Oru ad film shooting aanu. Director toy helicopter-il camera fix cheythu baakki shots edukkunnu, which is controlled by a remote control. Ee remote control kedayi ee copter camerayumaayi engotto parannu pokunnu. Mattoridathu oru manthri thante padavi mattoraalkku kodukkaan orungunnu. Sampath avide vannu thante peru nominate cheyyan parayunnu. Ayal ethirkkunnu. Ayaale kollunnu. Ithu aa copter camera which is struck in a cocnut tree shoot cheyyunnu.

Pinne titles, athil paraspara bandhamillaathe orupaadu karyangal kaanikkunnu.

Pinne "Lucky Boy" song with Jai. Aa paattil oru nalla intro polum Jaikku illa. Cinema nadan aakaan vendi Chennaiyilekku pokunnu. Avide friend Santhanathinte koode thaamasikkunnu. Santhanam rocks with his oneliners. Jai nadanaakaan chance chodikkunnidathu Vijaye imitate cheyyunnu. Oru railway station , Nayikaye kaanunnu. Ee samayam aa camera kittiya ad film maker and model Lakshmi Rai kolapathakam kaanunnu. Avar AC Thalaivasal Vijaye vilikkunnu. Ayaal Sampathinte aal. Gundakal veedu valayunnu. Lakshmi Rai aadyame escape. Ad fim maker cassettumaayi odi odi Jai and Nayika ulla metro trainil kayarunnu. Cassette ayal enthu cheyyunnu ennu appol kaanikkunnilla. Ayaale trainil vechu kollunnu. Nayikayude bag thirakkil nashtappedunnu. Nayikayude Amma Urvashi reminds her role in Achuvinte Amma in the beginning, later it changed. Nayakan bag thante kayyilundennu vilichu parayunnu. Next day Nayakane Urvashi meet cheyyunnu, Nayikayeyum. Some good omedy sequences. In between Rahman's intro. His character is totally a mysterious one in the beginning. Pinne song Oh Devathaye which is good. Then again Rahman+Jai scenes and comedy. Pinne interval aduppichu Jai Lakshmi Raide veettil chellumbol aval bodham kettu kidakkunnu interval. In second half Lakshmi Rai kollappedunnu. Jai aanu konnathennu Police parayunnu. Konnathaaru? Aa tape evide? ennathaanu baakki. Ithinidayil first halfil oru mayakku marunnu sanghathinte scene kaanikkunnundu which is beautifully mixed with the climax sequence.

Performance
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Jai as Anand is good. Ithil heroism onnum illa. Gundakale adikkuka parakkuka nothing like that, infact climaxil ettavum adi vaangunnathum Jai aanu. Santhanam simply rocks. Naayika Priya Anand is Ok. Lakshmi Rai just for glamour, sherikkum dressnte karyathil pichakkaari. Urvashi is good in her comic role. Thalaivasal Vijay & Rahman is OK only. But Sampath is wasted.


Songs
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Yuvan Shankar Raja's BGM is good at certain places. Among Songs "Etho seykiraar" is the pick of the lot. Oh Devathaye is also good. Picturisation of these two is also good. Lucky Boy & Money Money is not upto the mark. Picturisation makes us remember some previous Hindi/Tamil movies.

Movie has an entertaining first half but karyamaayittu kadhayil vazhithirivukalilla. Second halfil oru nalla thriller aakkan directorkku kazhinjilla
Director I.Ahemd tried to give a thriller mixed with some comedy, but the thrilling part is absolutely missing except in the climax sequence. Action sequence in the climax is poor with some Graphics works. On the whole the movie is just average only.
I don't think that this will be a success in BO.

Verdict : Poster kandu orupaadonnum pratheekshikkaruthu. Orupaadalla onnum pratheekshikkaruthu. Enkil kollaam. DVD will be the best option for this

Vaalkashanam : Jai told in an interview that 2 of his upcoming movies will flop, but Vaamanan will be a hit. I think Jai is thoroughly mistaken. I think "Aval per Thamizharasi" from moserbaer will be a hit since their previous flicks Raman Thediya Seethai & Poo were so good movies

MAASILAMANI : ENTERTAINER

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Theatre : Thyagaraja, Chennai
Showtime : 2.30 pm
Theater Status : 70%
Date : 27th June

Padam release aayi ithrayum divasangalkku sheshavum ee crowd njan pratheekshichilla. Ladies and children aayirunnu kooduthal. SUN PICTURESnte distribution impact avar theliyichirikkunnu.

Director/Script Writer : R N R Manohar, a previous assistant to many directors including I V Sasi

Producer : AGS Entertainment, Kalpathi S Aghoram after the super success of Santhosh Subramaniyam

Actors : Nakulan, Sunaina, Santhanam, M S Bhaskar, Karunaas....

Story : Simple story aanu. Rani Anna Nagaril thaamasikkunna nayakan Maasilamani. Avidathe janangalude ethu prashnangalkkum munpanthiyil nilkkunna kannilunni. Joli Cool drinks supply, real estate broker...As usual oru heroism, pinne oru intro song "Chik CHik Boom Boom". Next, nayika Divyaye kaanunnu. Love at first sight. Adutha song "Oh Divya.."Pakshe Nayika oru prathyeka sahacharyathil nayakane oru gundayaayi thettidharikkunnu. Nayakan Nayika ariyaathe avalude veettukaarude kannilunniyaakunnu. Next Song. Pakshe Nayakan eppozhokke action nadathunnuvo appozhokke Nayika frameil undaakum thettidharikkaan. Intervalil angane thettidharichu nilkkumbol nayakan love thurannu parayunnu. Nayika mukhathadichittu pokunnu. Ithinidayil M S Bhaskarnte comedy sequences kadhayumaayi bandhamillaathe. M S Bhaskar mattoru Rajanikanth aavan Chennayil vannu thettidharikkappedunnu. First Halfil Sivaji Rajni, Aalavandhan Kamal, ATM Vijay, Dum Simbhu ennivare anukarikkunnu. Athil Simbhu sequence is good. Vijay aakunna samayath ATMle Ellaappugazhum song kaanikkunnundu, theatre ulsavapparambaayi oru nimishathekku. First half avidavide bore adichu, oppam oru skit level thonni, ee M S Bhaskar-Karunas scenes okke kadhayumaayi bandhamillaathe vannappol. Athumalla speedum kuravu.

Coming to second half, Divya ithuvare Mani enna thante veettukaarude kannilunniye kandittilla. Oru divasam kaanunnu. Divya choodaakunnu. Nayakan thaan Mani aanennum Divya kandathu Maasi enna thante mughachaayayulla gunda aanennum parayunnu. Ee play climax vare valare speedil entertaining aayi nalla thamaashayode Director paranjirikkunnu. Sherikkum second half aanu padathinte vijayam. Ithinidayil varunna 2 songs "Dora Dora" & "Super..." kollaam. Villain pariveshathode varunna Police muracherukkanum nannaayi. On the whole kidilan second half.

Nakulan thante dialogue delivery chilayidathum choodakunna samayathulla expressionum kurachu kolamaayi thonnichu ennathozhichal baakkiyellam, comedy seq okke kollaam. Nayika Divya aayi vanna Sunaina kidilam. Chumma Nayakante pirake paattu paadi nadakkunna nayika allaathe oru vyakthithvam ulla character aanu ithil. She performed well. Senti scenesil avalude mukham oru chiricha effect aanenkilum OK aanu. Paattukalil kuttyuduppittenkilum vrithikedu feel cheythilla. Karunas is wasted. M S Bhaskar nannaayi. Santhanam and pinne perariyilla, Unnale Unnale, Dhaam Dhoomil okke vanna comedy star, they also did well. Villain aayi vanna pullyum nannaayi. Mattella actorsum avaravarude roles bhangiyaakki

Songs D.Imman-te music-il OK aanu. Titlesilum varunna "Oh Divya" aanu kelkkaan sukhamulla song. Paattukal onnum bore aakkiyilla. First paattinte picturisation oralpam koodi nannaakkamaayirunnu.

Director thante aadya samrambham kalakki. Action Sequencesil camera angles puthumayullathaayi thonni. On the whole, familykkoppam poyi kaanan pattiya nalla oru entertainer.

THORANAI : WASTE MOVIE

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*ing "Puratchithalapathi" Vishal, Shreya, PrakashRaj, Kishore, Geetha, Santhanam, Paravai Muniyamma........

Theatre status
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Balcony : 30%
First class : 30 %

SIFY reviewil Below average review kandittum ee padathinu poyathu Malaikkottaikkum ee verdict aanu annu avar koduthathu, but Malaikkottai was a good entertainer.

Story : 80's-le kadha pole cheriya prayathil nenjil oru penkuttyude per pachchakuthiyathinu penkuttyude veettukarude paraathi kaaranam amma(Geetha) adikkunnu, nenjile pachakuthiya peril choodu vechu pollikkunnu.
Aa kutty veedu vittu pokunnu, payyante peru Ganesan. Varshangalku shesham aniyan Murugan(Vishal)odu chettane last time Chennaiyil vechu kandavarundu, kandupidichondu varaan parayunnu. Nayakan irangi purappedunnu. Chennai 2 gundakalude kayyil-Thamizharasu(PrakashRaj) & Guru(Kishore). Ivarude gang wars, idayil nayakan. Ithinidayil Vishal thaamasikkaan varunnathu Santhanam thaamasikkunna flatil.

First halfil naayikaye kaanunnu, love, 3 songs comedy enna peril kollaakkola. Interval aduppichu chettan aarennu thirichariyunnu. songs romance action ingane paraspara bandhamillathe sequences.

Actors & Others
Vishal Malaikkottaiyilum Thaamirabharaniyilum kaanichathu repeat cheyyan sramikkunnenkilum nadakkunnilla. Punch dialogues okke VIJAY filmsil ninnu moshanam Eg:- Nee adicha panam, Naan adicha ponam.

Prakash Raj enthu kandittu ithil abhinayichu ennullathu enikku manasilaayilla. Avidavide oru Sivakasi character Udayappa feel cheythu

Kishore was OK, pakshe compared to wht he did in Jeyam Kondean and Vennila Kabadikuzhu he's wasted.

Geetha's mother character resembles what she did in Sivakasi and ATM and Sharanya's character in VEL

Shreya paattukalkkum chumma comedy enna perilulla bahalangalkkum. Songsil thuniyodu ithrayum alergy ulla nadi vere undo ennu doubt aanu.

Santhanathinte intro was OK, pinneedangottu comedyonnum ettilla

Shayaji Shinde was wasted, Ayaale virattiyittu Vishal nadakkunnathu kandal nammal parayum Mimicrykkar ithilum nannaayi Vijay nadakkunnathu kaanikkum ennaanu.

Malayali LALne 4 shotsil kondu vannu waste cheythu.

Vishalnte introyil action vekkaathe ozhivaakkiyathu maathram puthuma.

Director is debutant Saba Iyappan, 5 paattu 4 adi formula filmukal kure kanda parichayam maathram vechu direct cheythathaanennu kandaal ariyaam. Athupoleyulla vijayachithrangalkku pinnil shakthamaaya screenplay undenna karyam pulli manasilaakkiyilla ennathaanu parajaya kaaranam.

Songsil "Vedi Vedi" "Vaa Vaa chellam" "Manjal Selai" was OK, but compared to what Manisharma did in Pokkiri, Malaikkottai, Padikkathavan......, it's below average. Song picturisation is just OK only. Manjal Selai enna songinu munpulla scene ATMne ormappeduthum.

Vishalil ninnum nalla Action sequence pratheekshikkunnavarkkum nirasha maathrame ee film nalkukayulloo. Too bad action sequences. Film thudangunnathinu munpu Kuttykal ee action veettil try cheyyaruthu, thse are performed by trained professionals ennu paranjappol njan air-il nilkunna nayakanaanenkilum nalla action pratheekshichu

Aake nalla scenes ennu parayavunnathu 2 thavana Vishal-PrakashRaj counter scenes in second half aanu. Padathinte peru THORANAI ennaayathu kondu idakkide Thoranai Thoranai ennu parayunnathu asahaneeyam, audience okke chirikkukayaayirunnu. Climaxil pandu pachakuthiya penkuttye kaanikkumbol kooval. Car chase seq mosham, it was better in Sathyam.

On the whole, theatril poyi kandal kaashu keeri pokum, oru DVDkku ullathu polum illa ee padathil. SATHYAM was far better compared to this.

Ee film Keralathil distributionu edukkunnavante kaashu pokum ennurappu

NEWTONIN 3am VIDHI : THRILLER

Newtonin 3am Vidhi

Story : 2 manikkoorinullil 1 varsham munpu athe date-il timeil villain naayikaye rape cheythu konnathinu revenge

Presentation : Nayakan semithryil poo vekkan varunnu flashback thudangunnu Athu pakuthiyakumbol Villaine vilichu parayunnu ippol 10 mani, 12 manikku ayal kollappedum ennu. Pinne oru cat & mouse game aanu. Saada Tamil filmile pole gundakal adi vaangan maathramallathe ithil budhiyum use cheyyunnundu main villainekkaalum. Villainum Nayakanum oru pole score cheyyunnu. 2perum adi kodukkukayum kollukayum cheyyunnu. Oru pakshe heroyekkaalum performance cheyyanullathu villainaanu. 1st halfile flashback kazhinju interval vare entertaining aanu. Second halfil flashback baakki pakuthiyum pinne athupole cat & mouse gamemum. Paranjaal thrill pokum. Climaxil 12 manikku 2 minute ullappol muthal time kaanikkum. Athu thanne nalla thrill srishtikkunnundu.

Performance : S.J. Suryakku orupaadu bhavabhinayathinu scope illa. Pakshe situatuions kayyadi nedikkodukkunnuVillainaayi vanna " Aaha" enna tamil filmile nayakan, perariyathilla, ayaalum kollaam. Nayika Sayali Bhagath was OK only. Pedikkunnathaayi abhinayikkenda rangagalillellaam over and kolam aanu.

4 paattum anavashyam, veruthe samayam kalayaan

Etho 2 English moviesnte mix aanennu kelkkunnu, Irreversible & sme other movie.

But Overall, edit cheythu flashback neelam kurachirunnel kurekkoodi entertaining aayirunnene

PASANGA : GOOD MOVIE

PASANGA

Subramaniapurathinu shesham M.Sasikumar produce cheyyunna padam

Script/Direction : Pandiraj
Pulli kasari

Kandathu Chennai Shanthi theatril 3rd day 3.00 show
90% FULL

Kadha simple aanu, pakshe paranju rasam kalayunnilla

Performances : Ithil oru characterineppolum kuttam parayanamennu vicharichal polum pattilla. Athrakku perfect casting. Ella kuttykalum kalakki

Songs : 4 songsum kollaam
James Vasanthan kalakki
Ithil Oru Vetkam varuma varuma enna song, Kangal Irandal Subramaniapurathinu boost aayirunnapole Ithinu nalla boost aanu

Otta variyil paranjaal ellaavarkkum familyode enjoy cheyyan pattunna, parentsnu nalla message ulla cinema

Ithu miss cheythal, SURE athoru nashtam thanneyaanu