Kochadaiyaan by Soundarya Rajinikanth (Review)

Story:Fictional epic fantasy. Revolves around 2 ancient kingdom but centralized in one character. Full of vengeance, drama, inspiration and political message. Just a usual Indian warrior story with some mass effect of course due to Rajinikanth. Good plotting and climax.

Cast: (Since it is a motion capture characters I cant say much about their acting) Superstar Rajinikanth as Rana, Sena and Kochadaiyaan. His voice and gestures will be treat for his fans. I really loved the Kochadaiyaan character. Seems very principled. Deepika Padukone as Rana's lover Vadhana. And then we have all the supporting characters played by Aadhi, Jackie Shroff, Nassar, Shobana, Sarath Kumar and many others.

Screenplay: The movie will have all the entertainment that needed for a commercial movie. Since it is fictional fantasy and more of an animation (eventhough they deny it is an animation) therefore cant expect much of logic in the movie. Good thing about the movie it had good dialogues. Certain dialogues will give you goosebumps. The fighting scenes were quite good especially the climax war scene. It seems like finally our Superstar gets into real action. Songs were good but the transitions were quite poor. Songs will be cramped in short time. One of the disappointment for me is this is not the best intro for our superstar. He had better opening in his earlier movies. And last but not least the graphics. regardless of being new attempt which should be appreciated, the face details were quite poor. The eyes especially, certain scenes seems like the character having squint eye. Even though it is a motion capture work, It is seems like usual ramayana and mahabaratha 3D animation. But overall it will be quite entertaining to watch, just like watching pixar and dreamworks movies. Good effort anyway.

Music: The music composed by A.R.Rahman, no compromise an added advantage. The BGM will definitely give you goosebumps.

Plus Point: Story, Screenplay, Music and Fight Sequence and Dialogue

Minus Point: Graphics and song transitions

Verdict: A family entertainer to be watched by all.

Vaayai Moodi Pesavum By Balaji Mohan (Review)

Story:Fictional and imaginary story. A very creative way to convey message to people. The beauty of the movie is every character in the movie has strong role to keep the movie going. Very good romance, family value, friendship and humanity instilled. First class comedy and a very feel good story.

Cast: Dulquer Salman as Aravind. Son of Mamootty made his debut in Kollywood through this movie. Good looking and talented. Has a lot of potential. He did very well with his chocolate boy role. A very optimistic character well played. Nazriya Nazim as Anjana. She was cute and amazing in this movie. A very meaty performance I would say. She builds up the character very well. Madhubala as Vidya. She made a comeback after so long and totally worth it. Because she played an excellent housewife character. A lot of supporting character with meaty role played by Pandiarajan, Vinu Chakravarthy, John Vijay, Robo Shankar, Ramesh Thilak and many others.

Screenplay: An awesome screenplay, something different for a commercial Tamil movie. In midst of times where punch dialogues are well utilized in movies, Balaji Mohan made 40% of the movie into a silent film. Good thing about it is, this digs good acting performance from each one of them since they had to portray everything without dialogues. And his comedy sense is so good. Eventhough it was not as intense as Kathalil Sothapuvathu Epidi, but it will definitely make you burst out of laughter. And a lot of good messages instilled in the movie and very well written dialogues. Creating a imaginary disease and life around it was simply superb. But it was slightly draggy at a point but not that obvious. I love the cinematography and location choice.

Music: The music composed by Sean Roldan. Average music

Plus Point: Story, Screenplay and Acting.

Minus Point: Slight buffer in scenes.

Verdict: A flu which will keep you healthy. Worth watching in cinema with your family.

Enammo Edho by Ravi Thyagarajan

Story:Remake of  Ala Modalaindi, a romantic-comedy movie. Same story not much of originality. so many twist due to so many marriages. Just some normal family entertainment movie.

Cast: Gautham Karthik as Gautham. After Kadal's performance he came up with such a drawback. He over-acted to the max in this movie. It's quite shocking to see an actor who did exceptionally good in his debut but performed like a newcomer in second movie. Certain scenes he did well especially emotional parts. But his comedy acts and normal speech deliverance had some flaws. Rakul Preet Singh as Nithya. She did couple of Tamil film before. Regardless of being Non-Tamil girl her lip sync was decent. She didn't blabber like shriya or the meenakshi dixit. She did exactly what nithya menen did in the original version, but a little less bubbly of course. Prabhu as Chakravarthy, an important supporting character. He had a lot of scope in second half and he rocked it. He will definitely make you laugh with his act. Anupama Kumar as Lakshmi, Gautham's mother. An awesome actor I would say. Eventhough her best mother role was in Mupozhudhum un karpanaigal, this one will be a good one too. Supporting character done by Nikesha Patel and many others.

Screenplay: The movie was not as good as it's original version. First of all the song transitions, it was poor. Songs keep on appearing in first half an hour. And the dialogue was kind of lame at most part. It meant to be funny but end up as epic fail jokes. But the second half of the movie is watchable. I think mostly because of a lot more emotions in second half and more scope for Prabhu. And the twists in the movie all caused by marriage, which a bit annoying. The song visuals were average

Music: The music composed by D.Imman, was awesome. The puthiya ulagai song is the best.

Plus Point: Second half and Prabhu's comedy, Anupama Kumar's Role.

Minus Point: Main leads acting, song transition and lame comedy.

Verdict: Not so good remake after all.

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.

Naan Sigapu Manithan by Thiru (Review)

Story:A very well planned plot. Good story based on Narcolepsy, a sleeping disorder. The story was well blended with good romance, drama, action and thriller. Turning point was remarkable for a commercial movie. The narration involves mix of present and flashbacks. First half will be a warm and feel good part and second half gets rough with thriller and action. The way director comes up with solutions to cope up with narcolepsy was kind of creative eventhough not proven medically. It is good blend of science and masala together.

Cast: Vishal as Indiran, a man with Narcolepsy who struggles to live normal daily life. Vishal is a one of the very few actors who can bring life to the character. He really did a great job in this movie. His body language and gestures were just perfect for this role. And when he turns badass, he becomes badass for good. Yes there were a few resemblance with his character in Pandianaadu but not that significant. Laksmi Menon as Meera, Indiran's lady love. She is just an average looking girl but she can really bring up the character well. Moreover her chemistry with Vishal was great. Her supportive nature and judgmental insight in the movie worth watching. Jagan handled the comedy as Satish. No doubt that he is as good as Soori and Santhanam when comes to spontaneous humour. Sunder Ramu as Karuna. He is earlier well known for his character in Mayakkam Enna and Moonu. But this movie is his best performance till now. Other supporting characters played by Saranya Ponvanan, Jayaprakaash, Iniya and many others.

Screenplay: Well the plot doesn't have any significant flaws. Not much buffer between one peak to another. The song transition was good. But yet the movie was quite long. The sequences were organized and can be understood easily. The romance scenes were beautifully canned. The cinematography was good, the colour shades were awesome. The climax was a bit of a spoiler since it seems like the Narcolepsy disappears just like that for a moment. Regardless of having some illogical elements, the director was creative in showing how Vishal copes up with his disorder. The climax fight scene was nice. And the movie instills a lot of moral values to be followed. But the movie got draggy due to second flashback scene. The dialogues were superb.

Music: The music composed by G.V. Prakaash and it was good and soothing. Well visualized as well.

Plus Point: Story, Cast and Screen Play.

Minus Point: Lengthy, some illogical scenes.

Verdict: A good movie to be watched with some mature acceptance.

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.