Velaiyilla Pattathaari by Velraj (Review)

Story:An inspirational story of an unemployed youth and his achievements. Good mixture of drama, comedy, romance and action. It has a good plot and an excellent turning point which transforms the protagonist's life. A lot of good moral values instilled and some emotional scenes will definitely give goosebumps and brings tear to your eyes. A dedication to Engineering graduates of course.

Cast: Dhanush as Raghuvaran, an unemployed Civil Engineering graduate. Incredible acting skill. He was simply superb. He can shift from one emotion to another just like that. But I don't agree with his climax fight scene which had unnecessary element. Amala Paul as Shalini, Raghuvaran's lady love. Just a girl next door character too boost romance with hero. Nothing much to say. was supportive here and there. Samuthirakani as Raghu's dad. Superb performance. He fits the character very well, a persistent father as well as supportive. I can sense a lot paternal elements in his acting. well done. Saranya Ponvanan as Raghu's mother. She is the best mother in silver screen. Unbeatable. Awesome acting and mother sentiment is one of the highlight of the movie. There were a few supporting character played by Surabhi, Vivek and others.

Screenplay: The director has R.S. Durai Senthilkumar touch in his screenplay. I guess he included a lot reality of an unemployed youngsters routine. The fight scenes were quite realistic. I loved all the scenes involving Saranya Ponavanan and Dhanush. Awesome mother sentiment. Great dialogues. Comedy scenes were mostly involving  Dhanush and Vivek only shows up in second half. Good humour. The beauty of the movie is a lot of valuable messages were included about Family value and Career progress. Good inspirational scenes. But the climax was kind of lame. It was more like to show Dhanush Mass effect for the movie. Song clips were kind of stereotyped. But the choreography was good. But just like most Tamil movies it had too many songs cramped in short time. The best choreography was "what a karavad". Cinematography was average which was an irony since the director is a cinematographer.

Music: The music composed by Anirudh Ravichander, regardless of being chartbuster the BGM was kind of cliche'. I think he should try experimenting more. But soothing though. Amma Amma song will bring tears for sure.

Plus Point: Story, Screenplay, Music, Dialogue and Acting

Minus Point: Climax and BGM cliche.

Verdict: A wholesome entertainer to be watched in cinema.

Maan Karate by Thirukumaran (Review)

***********Spoiler Alert****************************

Story:A story with half utopia and half masala. How fantasy was related to sports event, all well narrated in this movie. A.R.Murugadoss has creative mind when it comes to story. Filled with Comedy, Romance, Drama, Fantasy and Adrenaline Rush. The movie had a solid script with good dialogues as well. But the director could not deliver what exactly in the story.

Cast: Sivakarthikeyan as Royapuram or Maan Karate Peter. He improved a lot as an actor. Good sense of humour and he really improved in dance. But I personally feel he could have worked harder to prepare himself as an instant boxer and make some homework on it. He was unbeatable when it comes to comedy but the boxing setting was not compatible with him. Hansika as Yaazhini, Peter's love. She was just another girl next door and didn't do much anyway but bringing the song . I don't know when tamil cinema going to skip doing that, putting song in every heroine scene. There was 5 core character in this movie which was driving the story. One among the 5 was Satish as Sandy. He is a better comedian compared to many. Vamsi Krishna played Peter the killer. He really has that badass look. He did his  role very well with his boxer body language. Soori did a guest appearance as Tiger Tyson. And a few supporting characters played by Sayaji Shinde and many new artist.

Screenplay: The movie started well with some supernatural features. And it was brought up good up to first half then it started to get draggy. Surprisingly, Siva was given an Intro song like big stars and it was quite well choreographed. But when it comes to song transitions it was a bit not aligned. The songs simply comes when Hansika and Siva is together. And the boxing setting could have done with more momentum. It was an entertaining movie until the boxing ignited. Could have shown a lot more on boxing rather than Siva and Hansika's love. And Siva's boxing match was poorly choreographed, it was more like Tom and Jerry jokes between Siva and Soori. And Siva's transformation could have been done like Ethir Neechal. Lot more visuals on training could have been added. Final fight scene was ok but less logic, because a non boxer fighting a professional boxer and he was sustaining the hit like a boxer. Title fits good with the movie but could have shown more of Siva's agility. But good thing about the  movie it will definitely make you laugh with Siva and Satish instant comedies. And scenes involving Hansika's supportive nature was touching anyway.

Music: The songs by Anirudh are already chartbuster and it was well choreographed especially un vizhigalil song.

Plus Point: Story, Cast and Comedy.


Minus Point: Second half, Boxing Setup,Song transitions and Lengthy


Verdict: A very creative story done in average manner. Could have pumped in more adrenalin rush. Can be watched in Cinema

Irandam Ulagam by Selvaraghavan (Review)

Story:A fantasy love story of  different dimensions. The movie has a lot of hidden messages for the audience. first half of the story will be a sweet and romantic love story while second half will be and adventurous journey in new world. The theme is about spreading love beyond boundaries. It's about changing the world just by spreading love. Having parallel universe subject is a new thing in Tamil cinema. Therefore hats off to Selvaraghavan for breaking the norm. The story is rich and full of fictional elements.  

Cast:Both protagonist has 2 characters in this movie. Arya plays Madhubalakrishnan and Maruvan. He plays a social activist for unfortunate people and a brave warrior in a parallel universe. In first half of the movie, Arya's romance skills were absolutely superb. A lot more sweeter side of him and wild character on the other side. One of his best achievement in this movie were his lean muscular body with mild six pack abs. It really brought up the warrior character. And then Anushka as Ramya and Varna. Ramya is a doctor while Varna is a lady warrior who doesn't want to be enslaved. I personally think she is a good actress. She can portray wild lady character very well. Her sword fighting stunts were not bad. Other key characters were played by foreigners.

Screenplay: Good thing about the screenplay is about making white guys speak tamil. In the second world, besides Arya and Anushka, all other characters were played by white guys and girls. And it's so amusing to see them speak in layman Tamil. Second of all how Selva manage to instill the value of love which can change the whole world. It was simply superb. The CGI were not bad except for the climax scene. seriously the CGI can be said an added value. But the war setting was not that good. Can be seen not many junior artists used for battles, seems a bit empty there. The BGM was mood booster. But had some cliche with Moonu BGM. Maybe it's due to Anirudh's touch. The songs were well visualized. I started to love the songs after watching the movie. The first half will definitely be peoples favourite because it's all about romantic scenes between Arya and Anushka. Second half will be draggy moment with a very simple conclusion. That might  be a drawback for the movie. The art direction for the movie was superb.

Music: Songs composed by Harris Jeyaraj were averagely good. The BGM and songs by Anirudh was excellent.

Plus Point: Story, Cast, BGM, Screenplay and Cinematography.

Minus Point: Draggy, and climax too simple.

Verdict: Don't put too much of expectation. Just enjoy it as fantasy product. Don't try to find logic. Can be watched at cinema once.

Vanakkam Chennai by Kiruthiga Udayanidhi (Review)

Story:A romantic comedy with usual story of fights of differences becomes love. The story is just like some bollywood love movie with good feel of romance, comedy, drama and sentiments. Similar to May Madham but with some additional story line to make it look meatier. A feel good story to make you feel loved.

Cast: Mirchi Shiva as Ajay@Madasamy, A rural boy who moves to Chennai for profession. Unlike his usual mokka performance there are some improvement. But still there are a lot of space for improvement. He really needs to go to acting school to pour some emotions in screen. Priya Anand played Anjali, a NRI from London and a professional Photographer. She was so hot and well represented her role. She maintains the accent in order to convince the audience she is from London. And of course her grooming was good to show her as an urban girl. This was her best movie to date. Santhanam handled the comedy as Narayanan@Billa. He was not the main attention in terms of comedy surprisingly since his role starts only in second half. Rahul Ravindran as Deepak, Anjali's fiance from London. He was just a touch and go character and also the turning point of the movie. And there are some supporting characters like Nizhalgal Ravi as Priya Anand's Father, Renuka as Shiva's mother, Nassar as Colonel  Balasubramaniam, Oorvasi, Manobala and many others

Screenplay: Kudos to Kiruthiga for an excellent screenplay.She did very well for a first timer. You can hardly find flaws in terms of screenplay. the Location in thenni was superb. she just fit in all very important elements that needed for a romantic movie like good location, good music and the dialogues. The dialogues were good but just that some were not well presented by shiva. The song clips were awesome especially oh penne penne song. Good BGM's to keep the feel of love going. Hats off to Director of Photography, he had done well done job on showing the rural beauty and urban shades. The climax was a bit of cliche but that was not a trade off for the whole movie. Overall well done job for the team.

Music: Composed by Anirudh, and all were chartbusters especially oh penne and osaka.

Plus Point: Screenplay, Cast, BGM, Cinematography, Dialogues and Story

Minus Point:Shiva's acting

Verdict: Watch this at cinema and feel good.

Ethir Neechal by RS Durai Senthil Kumar (Review)

Story:The film has a very simple and nice story with good comedy, romance and sports inspiration elements.This movie will definitely be a break for sivakarthikeyan. The director instilled quite a lot of moral values in the movie and definitely this is he best comedy movie of Sivakarthikeyan. There is no lag in the plotting, it was very well planned story. Good turning point and climax. First half was something new, but second half you may have come accross similar storyline with other sports inspirational movie. Totally commercial. Enjoy it to max!!

Cast: The movie has a good casting. Sivakarthikeyan was seen as full fledge commercial hero in this movie except that there are no ridiculous action scenes. I'm not going to reveal the name of the character since it is the highlight of the movie. But very well done job by Sivakarthikeyan. He is starting to outperform himself as a good actor. Of course he is best in humour and that worked well in this movie. Priya anand played Geetha Miss the teacher. She is the lead lady. She is simply gorgeous. the chemistry between siva and Priya anand was superb. Then there is a very prominent role by the name valli done by nandita (Attakathi fame). An inspiring character who only had scope in second half. but totally worth it. Satish was incharge of comedy most of the time. he played Siva's bestfriend named Peter. Supporting roles done by Jayaprakaash, Ravi Prakaash, suza kumar and manobala.

Screenplay: It has an awesome screenplay. the way the movie brought up was good. It has a good ups and downs to gain audience attention. Especially romance on how sivakarthikeyan tries to flirt Priya anand. It was really good. The comedy was instant that's what made it special. Starting with a minor issue (The name) till achieving something major. but the marathon scene was pretty usual. But yet special. Good cinematography especially Velicham poove song. There were no draggy feeling except Valli's flashback. But fully it was taken in a very commercial manner. only first half and hour the song transition was poor. but other than that it was good.

Music: Composed by Anirudh, an added value to the movie. all the songs were a boost for the movie

Plus Point: Good story, screenplay, music, cinematography, moral message and casting

Minus Point: Draggy at some part.

Verdict: Worth watching at cinema. Will make your day with its essence.