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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TECHNICAL
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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.