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.