Masss Engira Masilamani by Venkat Prabhu (Review)

                                       

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Story: A horror comedy story with elements of commercialism. A mixture of Ghost whisperer and Kanchana. Lack of originality and some cliched narration. Yet loved the way how it relates to humanity, family and revolution. Especially how ghost haunting and exorcism shown from a con-man perspective.

Cast: Suriya as Mass and Shakti. Very well played. One reason why you should watch this movie is Suriya. Excellent performance. Awesome dialogue deliverance especially as eelam tamilan. Expression priceless. Nayanthara as Manini, Hero's lady love. Touch and go character. But her presence was pleasant. Pranitha as second lead lady. Also minor role but strong one. Turning point of the movie. Premji as Jet Li. Well he is the same venkat prabhu product. This movie can be said a multistarrer too. Parthipan made a great cameo role. And Samuthirakanni as never seen before role named RK. And of course all the ghost characters which should not be revealed due to spoiler effect. Everyone had an important role in the movie.

Screenplay: The thing about Venkat Prabhu is he would not have strong story but definitely a great screenplay. The presence of ghost was shown in different dimension. The twists in his movies were great except one which is the main one was cliched. Loved the scenes on family value and humanity portrayed in the movie. Comedy as usual VP's cup of tea. He did awesome. The first half was rushing and couldnt see much of it but during second half, it gets better and more engaging. Well camera work was inconsistent but not that obvious. Of course you cant expect that much of a logic in horror comedy movies. Song sequence were great but first 3 songs were near to each other. Some action sequence was great and some were overdone. A great masala treat it is.

Music: Composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. Superb music and BGM

Plus Point: Screenplay, Cast, Suriya's acting, Comedy

Minus Point: Lack of originality in story, draggy at one point.

Verdict: An enjoyable masala movie. 

Anjaan by Lingusamy (Review)

Story: A story on vengeance. Common within Kollywood movies. Had a good introduction and twists. But this is not something new for Tamil cinema. A mixture of action, romance and vendetta with the mix of common kollywood masala. Awesome portrayal of friendship but very typical lingusamy movie.

Cast: Suriya as Raju Bhai and Krishna. He plays an anti-hero. Cool make over, manage to catch many eyes for sure. His usual anger gesture is shown at many places. Great actor and worth appreciated. He did his stunts well. Vidyut Jamwal as Chandru, Raju Bhai best buddy. Only problem was his lip sync, felt like watching dubbing film. But other than that, he did very well with his action sequences. Samantha as Jeeva, Raju Bhai's lady love. Usual girl next door character. Nothing much and only appears most of the time in flashbacks. Manoj Bajpai played Imran Bhai, the main villain. He had that bad ass look but bad lip sync. Again I felt like watching a dubbing movie. Supporting characters played by Soori, Brahmanandam and many others

Screenplay: Not so good screenplay. Unnecessary and draggy flashbacks. The movie was dragged for 3 hours when it can end in 2 hours. The songs were a spoiler, comes at unnecessary scenes and lengthen the movie. And too many slow motion made it look boring. Good cinematography, had almost the same projection of colours as thuppaki since it had the touch of Santosh Sivan. But I felt there is a over use of slow motion in the movie. And the romance scene were not that good as well. Some of the fight scenes were superb especially Vidyut's stunts. But there were one or two exaggerated action. I sense too many cliche and were just another masala movie. But I liked the Suriya-Vidyut combo, it was kind of cool.

Music: The music composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, songs were average, but the BGM was superb. In one word MASS!!

Plus Point: Story, Stunts, Suriya's acting, Cinematography

Minus Point: Screenplay, Songs, Draggy

Verdict: A good commercial story with bad screenplay. worth watching once in cinema