Tenali Raman by Yuvaraj Dhayalan (Review)

Story:A revolutionary story with fictional history of Tenali Raman and his smart moves. Fairly good story with a lot of good messages. But it was slightly a cliche of 23am Pulikesi. In terms of Tenali Raman's brain games it was well scripted but subsequent to turning point it was a bit not in order. The director tried to related the movie with current political situation in India. Good comedy, fair adaptation of indian epic tale and revolution as a core subject.

Cast: Vaigaipuyal Vadivelu played the lead as Tenali Raman and the King. A not bad comeback for vadivelu. He did a very good job on Tenali Raman character. Calm and Intelligent well portrayed. Maybe the king was too similar to Pulikesi character. He did his comedy quite well. good to see him back on screen. Good thing about vadivelu in this movie he managed to distinguished between the 2 characters well by different voice modulation and speech. Meenakshi Dixit played Madhulai, Tenali Raman's lady love and the king's daughter. She was hot and sexy but she was bad in acting. Her lip sync was very poor. Maybe she was just there to add some glamour. Radha Ravi as main baddie. He wont appear much in the movie but he will some how take the lead among other baddies. A lot of supporting character played by Manobala, GM Kumar, Bala Singh, Shanmugarajan,Bose Venkat and many more.

Screenplay: The movie had a good start and first half, but it get's a bit irrelevant in between. The way the director portrayed Tenali Raman's intelligent were just aligned with epic tale. You will feel like reading ambuli mama stories. Unnecessary romance and climax. It didn't wrap up well. Yet the movie has good dialogues which is an added value. It has a few cliche scenes with Pulikesi. But most of his comedy in the movie will definitely make you laugh. The movie even became draggy at a point.

Music: The music composed by D.Imman, the songs were terrible and had a bad idea of adapting olden days style songs.

Plus Point: Cast, Comedy, Moral Value and Dialogues

Minus Point: Cliche, bad climax, draggy, average CG

Verdict: An average comeback for Vadivelu, nothing much to hype. If you liked Imsai Arasan 23am Pulikesi then you might love this movie.