Maan Karate by Thirukumaran (Review)

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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

Vennira Iravugal by R.Perakas

Story:A feel good romance movie with a very well planed plot. It has good raise and drops which will be an added advantage for the movie. Something new for a Malaysian Tamil movie. Out of mainstream. Ample of romance,drama,comedy and message. Nicely written twists and climax. Kudos to the story.

Cast: Vikadakavi Magen played Ramesh@Senior Jagat, a happy go lucky guy with a hidden black background. He was good at instant comedy deliverance but had a lot of weak spot when it comes to speech in general. But good choice of cast to resemble an irritating senior of course. Sangeetha Krishnasamy played Megala the lead lady. I really find her good in acting among other actresses in Malaysia. The way she deliver her dialogues seems quite good and spontaneous. But her junior makeover were overdone. The big glasses quite mainstream. Maybe less make-up, normal glasses and some body language for the junior role would be just perfect. But seriously her expressions and search for truth deserve appreciation. Both of them were the game player. Others were just supporting character such as Psychomantra, Kanchana Devi, Aruna, Logan, David Anthony and many others.

Screenplay: The screenplay was something out of norm for Malaysian Tamil movie. Loved the parallel narration throughout the movie especially second half and the wrap up. well done. The director's victory is making dual narration in line and doesn't overlap to each other.The dialogues were good at most scenes but minor glitches in dialogues in uni scenes. But it doesn't matter, overall it was good. Loved the way director used blogging as a key tool of romance in this movie.One of the drawback in the movie is the performance of the other than center characters. They should be given rehearsal because most of the Malaysian movie has that problem.The side characters were giggling, smiling, over-act and react opposite to mode of the scene. Eventhough the cinematography was basic but the angles of shot were done very well. The best is the climax scene, which answers how,what and why. Hats off R.Perakas for you and your team effort.


Plus Point: Story, Screenplay, Twists and Climax.


Minus Point: Side casts


Verdict: A well done feel good Malaysian Tamil movie. Watch it in cinema.

Thegidi by P.Ramesh (Review)

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Story:A crime solving thriller, a rare subject in Tamil Cinema. It has a very good plot and ample of twists to maintain the suspense elements. Using Insurance Scam is a good idea to rationalize the story. It has a good mixture of suspense,thriller, action and romance. But giving too much space for a common man to contribute in police investigation seems a bit illogical. But overall it was racy and had enough feel good elements.

Cast: Ashok Selvan played Vetri, a newbie detective who works for a detective agency. He is quite good in acting but the characterization in this movie could have been made more bold. The confidence level in solving crime was lacking. But his romance play was good. Not forgetting his speech deliverance was natural. Janani Iyer played Madhushree, the lady love of vetri. Not the best choice of heroine for this movie. I think this story needs more of a homely look girl which this Janani doesn't fit 100% with her overdone makeup. One thing good about her is that she was good in speaking Tamil so the lip sync matches. Some of the romantic scenes was ok with her in it. Jayaprakaash played a cop role. He was good as usual. It's just that the dubbing was not done by him, it was someone else's voice. would have been better with his original voice. Other supporting roles were done by many new faces.

Screenplay: Actually this is a film with good story but average screenplay. The drawback was crime solving  seems like easy in this movie. Many scenes were made as if the protagonist got the answer in a very simple process. Attempts like opening a car door or a house window, entering a police guarded house, fraudster using real names and newspaper publishing the pictures of deceased  same as the one the detectives has. Director could have paid attention to this small details. Certain scenes were escalating too quickly for an unknown reason and jumping from one scene to another. The director could have slow down the pace of such scenes and justify it accordingly. Another drawback was the dialogues and monologues, seriously needs a lot of fine tuning. It wasn't so impressive. even most comedy dialogues were not funny. If you want to make a crime solving thriller, "vettaiyaadu vilayaadu" must be the benchmark. The Cinematography was good, had good shade of colours. The BGM was awesome. The movie had a lot of racy scenes and adrenaline rush in second half. But the climax was predictable. The song sequence made the romance more colourful. Since it is the first movie for the director I think it is quite a good product for a newbie. 

Music: Songs composed by Nivas K Prasanna. A very feel good music, soothing and mood booster.

Plus Point: Story, Cast, Cinematography and Music.

Minus Point: Screenplay.

Verdict: A not bad crime-thriller. Can be watched once in cinema.

Veeram by Shiva (Review)

Story:A village based story of 5 brothers. It's a masala movie with enough comedy,action,romance and drama. It has the common telegu movie influence with "expected unexpected" twists. There are contradiction between first half of the movie and second half. A very simple story yet a very usual story of family love based theme. Again to many telegu cliche in this movie.

Cast: Thala Ajith Kumar played Vinayagam, the big brother. He used a different accent in the first half of the movie. He really did great in terms of dialogue deliverance using that accent. Other than that it's usual Thala slow-mo and theme music. Maybe it's good to see thala back in dhothi but major mess up makeover in song sequences. Vidhart of myna fame, Bala of Kathal kisu kisu, Munish and Suhail Chandhok played the 4 brothers. They were the entertainment part. They handled major part of the comedy together with santhanam. Tamanah played Kopurendevi, as Vinayagam's pair. She over acted in this movie as usual. But she was the turning point for the movie. Abhinaya (Eesan) and Suza Kumar played the brothers pair. Pradeep Rawat was the villain in first half while Atul Kulkarni took over the second half. Just some village aruva villains with vengeance. The supporting characters done by Ramesh Khana, Devadharshini, Vidyulekha Raman, Nassar, Appukutty, Thambhi Ramaiyah and many others.

Screenplay: I think there were too many slow motions, I don't know it's just to show the "mass" effect of Ajith or what. but having it too frequent was a drawback. The comedy sequences was good. It was all four 4 brothers with santhanam and their :Looty". Thambhi Ramaiyah joined in second half of the "looty". The song sequences were a major drawback for the movie. It was not attractive at all. Some good moral value instilled in this movie. Cinematography was not that good. The shades were like film roll. The fight scenes are crap of course. Even the movie was kind of draggy.

Music: Songs composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The songs were crap but the the Veeram theme did gave Ajith's entrance goosebumps.

Plus Point: Good cast, good comedy, good family value

Minus Point: bad stunts, bad song sequence, usual telegu movie story, bad cinematography, draggy.

Verdict: You can watch it once in cinema for the comedy. 

Jilla by R.T.Neason (Review)

Story:A typical Vijay commercial entertainer. Nothing complex about the story. In line with Vettaikaran and Velayutham. There'll be first half Vijay and Second half Vijay like most of his movies. Ample of Exaggerated Action, Nice Family Sentiments, Good Comedy and not so Good Romance. Can't say much about the story since there's nothing unique to tell.

Cast: ilayathalapathy Vijay as Shakthi, the main cast. Seriously I think he really need to change his style of acting. I really hope to see Thuppakki magic soon. The same "I'm too good" type of dialogue deliverance like Pokkiri is too common for him. Mohanlal played Shiva, another main cast with Anti-Hero nature. We know he is a good actor as he's got 3 National Award in hand. But giving him too many punch dialogue totally not so Lal-Ettan style. Ok he had the hard man look but still I think the movie was not 2 man army movie, it was more concentrating on Vijay. Kajal Agrawal played Shanthi, Shakti's lady love. Just a passing cloud heroine who comes once in a while and mostly for songs. Soori played Gopal and he was at the humour part. averagely good, will make you laugh with his dialogues. Sampath is the main surprise antagonist. He was good and can say a good replacement for Prakaash Raj. He really did that evil guy with good humour character very well. A lot of misleading villains as well like RK, Ravi Mariya and Pradeep Rawat. Supporting character was played by Mahat Raghavendra, Niveda Thomas, Poornima Bhagyaraj, Thambi Ramaiyah and many others

Screenplay: Too many cliche in screenplay. Sister sentiments, Death of an important person, a havoc that change the hero's life and many more. The Cinematography was poor. There were variation in the tonal quality between the scenes. The comedy scenes were good especially Vijay does it himself. Song scenes were not bad. Kandangi could have been done better. But the BGM boosted some of the scenes.

Music: Songs composed by D.Imman. It was great plus point for the movie. especially the BGM. 

Plus Point: Heavy Cast, Music

Minus Point: Story, Screenplay

Verdict: If you like Velayutham and Vettaikaran, you'll like this movie. If you don't then please don't watch this movie in cinema.

Endrendrum Punagai by I. Mueenuddin Ahmed (Review)

Story: A story of friendship, bromance between 3 guys. Unlike Nanban@3idiots, it was more on egoism and domination. Not an adaptation of dil chahtha hai either. The characters were centralized towards hero character but how the characters around him brings enlightenment. Beautifully portrayed. Good input of friendship,family and love. A lot of good values were instilled and so much of entertaining elements were included like how guys acts among their friends which was hilarious. The story might be a very general story which happens around us. But making it as realistic masterpiece is the directors achievement. Though I find minor glitch which I find illogical in the story, it doesn't affect the movie as a whole.

Cast:Jiiva played Gautham. A very egoistic and serious character. Not so dynamic and very firm. This is one of his best performance. seriously, jiiva brought life to the character. We can see the rage and how he controls the environment around him very well in the movie. Superb acting. Vinay played Shri, one of the bro of gautham. He was equally good. He had a lot of scope to perform eventhough he was not the main character. He contributed a lot for humour in the movie. Santhanam as Baby, the third and final bro. Of course he suppose to be the joker of the group. But some of his one liner doesn't work this time. But of course combination of these three idiots will make you laugh your A** out. Trisha was the lead lady named Priya. Good to see her after so long. She was beautiful and dashing as usual. And she was an added value for the romance since she really had good chemistry with jiiva. Nasser played Jiiva's father. A very loving and silent father. We dont need to teach that guy to act. He was excellent. There were few supporting characters played by Andrea, Abhinay, Varsha Ashwathi and many others.

Screenplay: The director's first achievement was signing a good cast. Good portrayal of guys friendship. It was spontaneous and realistic. Good romantic scenes, thanks to location selection. shooting love scenes at cold countries always works. Good portrayal of fatherly love. Song sequence were well choreographed. The screenplay was not draggy, which makes the movie not so lengthy. There are very valuable messages instilled in the movie. only last two songs the gap was small which looks a bit of a spoiler.

Music: Songs composed by Harris Jeyaraj and was good but typical. Yet it was a mood booster. good BGM.

Plus Point: Story, Cast, BGM, Screenplay and Moral Values.

Minus Point: Minor glitches in story.

Verdict: Awesome entertainer. Will be youngsters preference. Worth watching in cinema.

Biriyani by Venkatprabhu Review

Story:Venkatprabhu is back with his great masala work mixture of good comedy, romance, thriller, action, sentiments and fun. A full package. The movie is just another product of chaos theory. How one small thing can lead to bigger events. Well narrated, awesome turning point and epic climax. Just Like every venkatprabhu movie there is always surprise antagonist. Keep yourself tuned. If you are a venkatprabhu trend follower you will eventually make a right guess. A very enjoyable movie.

Cast: Karthi played the hero sugan. A more of a naughty boy character. I must admit, it was good makeover for him. He had the casanova look in this film. After constant flops i think this movie is a great comeback for him. He did his role very well be it as a playboy,a loving brother, a vigilant youngster and a friend with benefit of course. Quite impressed with his dance moves in the first song but other songs he was just jumping i guess. Hansika played priyanka, sugan's girlfriend. She had a significant role but she really has to improve on lipsync and emotions. I mean she did average work for a supportive and jealous girlfriend. Overall acceptable performance. As usual VP's favourite cast premji amaren played parasu, sugan's buddy or security for his problems. Pityful character, always gets tricked by sugan but with his usual comical role sure to make you laugh. But nothing new about his role, just the usual clown of venkatprabhu's movie. But in one scene he'll do mission impossible stunt. Please watch it and laugh. Nasser played Varadarajan, top ten rich guy with a lot of influence. Nasser is always an epic performer. Besides he was the turning point of the movie. Ramki made a comeback in this movie as Vijay Krishna, Varadarajan's son in law. He was a misleading character with a very important scope for the movie. Sampath played CBI officer Riyaz, he is really a versatile actor. He fits the role very well. He had that stylish look and body language. There is one epic role played by Uma Riaz Khan. Lady assasin which we hardly see in tamil cinema. It was one well played character and added value for the movie. There were a lot of supporting characters played by Jayaprakaash, Subbu Panchu, Madhumitha, mandy thakkar, sam anderson and many others.

Screenplay: One good thing about venkatprabhu is his screenplay. He'll never make you think that scenes are unnecessary in the movie. But it's just that this movie song transitions were in short gap for first half of the movie. But it was not that obvious. The way he starts up the movie brings it as narration for first half and then continue as current situation for second half quite impressive. Seriously you won't feel bored of the movie at all unless you are watching it for the third time onwards. The scenes were well organized. Even the action sequence was quite decent. Not overly done like alex pandian. The BGM made the movie to have adrenalin pump. Good thing about the movie eventhough it was an action comedy film, there were a lot scenes emphasizing on love, family and friendship value. And he made sure all the characters got purpose in the story. Everyone had a crucial role to play even the cameos. The best was the climax, he ended the movie and gave some space for sequel. He can come up with biriyaani 2. 

Music: Composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. Their combo always a success. And this time they did it again.

Plus Point: Screenplay, Cast, BGM, Story 

Minus Point: Minor venkatprabhu stereotype

Verdict: Another awesome product of venkatprabhu. Definitely a good watch