ROWTHIRAM (ROUDRAM)

ROWTHIRAM (ROUDRAM)

Theatre : TVM Anjali
Showtime & Date : 6.18pm, 12-08-2011
Status : Balcony No Idea, FC 45-50%

After the success of KO, Jiiva is back with his new movie Rowthiram, produce by his father R.B.Choudhary, scripted & directed by debutant Gokul easily enters the list of worst movies in Tamil Cinema & worst movie of Jiiva.

Story
Genuinely speaking, there was nothing like that in the movie. Movie starts at Azhagiya Pandipuram in Kanyakumari district where PrakashRaj is a Kalari expert who saves a man from a set of goons which impresses the child Jiiva. He too trains under him. Then after 20 years, in Chennai run by a set of goons played by Gauri(the hairy baddie in Naan Mahan Alla) &  Kittu(bollywood choreographer Ganesh Acharya), enters hero Shiva(Jiiva) who reacts to bad things around him. As usual impressed by his heroism heroine Shreya, daughter of assistant Commissioner played by Babu Antony falls in love. Once Jiiva fights with a goon in his intro scene & till climax goons ae after him.

Performances
Jiiva as Shiva had just to look serious, fights & romance with seriousness. Nothing else to do. At times his seriousness seems over forced. Shreya had nothing much to, but much better compared to her similar roles in previous movies. Jayaprakash was cool & convincing as Jiiva's father, the best among the cast. Sathyaraj with comic scenes fails to evoke laughter. Babu Antony had just 6-8 dialogues. The crying father emoted by him in climax ended up as comedy. Malayalam actor Santhosh as commissioner had nothing to do. Rest of the cast including baddies could not make any impact.

PrakashRaj in his cameo had just one action sequence & three line dialogues.

Music
Music by debutant Prakash Nikki was a big flop. None of the songs impresses. All are misplaced ones in the movie. Also the treatment of the movie & songs differs a lot(Heard that the songs were reshooted after the success of KO). Bad picturisation too. BGM by Raja was okay at parts. BGM was missing in lots of places.

Technical
Cinematography by debutant N Shanmugham was just OK. Editing was bad. Action scenes were endlessly going. Art direction was OK. Action sequences lacked freshness. Infact the first & final action choreography looked similar.

Script & Direction
What happens when a first time director decides to make a commercial movie with a routine formula happened to watch NAAN MAHAAN ALLA & a week before shooting, he is getting DVD of a Mysskin movie & happened to watch a Shaji Kailas & Amal Neerad movie on a malayalam TV channel & at the end he wants wants a commercial product of proven formula? Exactly that happend I think. There was nothing called story or screenplay in the whole product. First half was better compared to second half as first half sticks to the proved formula. Second half was a big bore & too lenghty. The whole movie runs two & a half hour plus. Lack of familiar star cast also makes the movie boring. The screenplay was so bad that Nothing more to say!!!

On the whole, a watchable first half & a bad boring second half.

Verdict : Escape
BO Verdict : Flop, chances for a disaster.

In a scene, where Naan Mahaan Alla baddie threatens Shreya, Babu Antony comes there. Comment from audience was "ടാ പയലേ അവന്‍  ഒന്ന് ചാടി ചവിട്ടിയാല്‍ നീ പിന്നെ എണീക്കൂലാ"

Though the title of the movie is ROWTHIRAM, its treated as SHANTHAM.
For producer this movie will end as BHAYANAKAM
For those who watched the movie, its VEERAM as they have taken a big risk
Those who are waiting for next show, those who have seen will say KARUNAM as they are coming with SHOKAM

Audience were not even having the strength to boo at the screen as they were crying in their mind twice or thrice the level Jiiva cries at the final shot.