Oh Kadhal Kanmani by Mani Ratnam (Review)

Story: A contemporary love story with heavy Mani's touch. Again a trend setting movie. A great way to distinguish perception of current generation and olden days love. A very creative way to show the importance of Marriage. Each and every characters were well developed. The narration was simple and impactful. A little bit of Mani Ratnam stereotype here and there but that's what special about it. Good Romance, Drama and Comedy.

Cast: Dulquer Salman played Aadi. A very happy-go-lucky character. A mixture of Arjun(Ayitha Ezhuthu) & Kathik(Alaipayuthey) character. Very well played. Charming and expressive. He managed to show how a common guy react to most circumstances. He is the next big thing in Mollywood and Kollywood. Nithye Menen as Tara. Very cute and bubbly character. One of the best acting I've seen after so long. Why I say so, because with a mild expression she managed to portray so many reactions to circumstances. She flirts without flirting, she loves without loving, she cares without caring and the best part is the climax sequence whereby she bursts without she realizing. So realistic. You cant see her flirting in the introductory scene but she does in a way that how a common girl does without showing it. Prakaash Raj as Ganapathy Uncle. An interesting old man character. A bit old school but loving. Of course well played. No doubt in that. Leela Samson as Bavani aunty. She was an angel. She is one important driving factor of the movie. I cant imagine the movie without that character. There were a few supporting characters played by Ramya Subramaniam and others.

Screenplay: The team didn't get old at all. Eventhough it was nostalgic to watch the lense work but P.C Sreeram sir nailed it by creating the perfect shades for the perfect mood. The beauty of the movie is the screenplay. The scenes were so soothing be it songs or romance. The scenes were well planned whereby the transition will keep you waiting for the next scene. But there were couple of scenes kind of touch and go. But yet it was immaterial. Bavani aunty scenes were so sweet and lovely. Rahman's music added flavour to the movie. The movie had good mixture of colours throughout the journey. First half was a fairy tale love and then gets realistic in second half. At the end of the day it's about why marriage is important and Mani sir managed to deliver it perfectly. You'll be in OK Kanmani fever for a few days after watching the movie.

Music: Composed by A.R.Rahman, Chart buster.

Plus Point: Story, Screenplay, Cast, Music and Cinematography

Minus Point: Small buffers in sequences.

Verdict: Love story of the era. Watch it and fall in love again.

Komban by M.Muthaiah (Review)

Story: A rural subject in lines with Paruthi Veeran, Kizhakku Chemaiyile and Pasumpon. A story centered on the protagonist, a typical village brave-heart. A lot of family value instilled. But too many cliche.Felt like watching 90's Napoleon movie. Full of village violence, romance, family drama and comedy here and there. An outskirt fight for injustice with a very good message on family value and respect.

Cast: Karthi played Kombaiyapandian@Komban. A very rough and tough village character similar to his Paruthi Veeran character. But the difference was this character is more concern on village justice. Well played since it is not something new for him. He carried out the character very well. Lakshmi Menon played Pazhani, Karthi's lady love. Her presence was pleasant. A sweet village girl and lovely daughter. Had an important role for the flow of the movie. Rajkiran as Muthaiya, he was the man of the match. His performance was superb. He manage to carry out a lot of scene with impact. He played a caring father as well as bad ass man. A lot of supporting characters played by Kovai Sarala, Thambi Ramaiyah, Karunas and others.

Screenplay: The movie had good intro and flow for first half, but it starts getting draggy in second half. It's just that the subject was kind of old school relating to many of 90's village based movies like Seevalaperi Pandi. The scenes involving Rajkiran and Karthi was soothing to watch, but the climax spoiled it. Loved the dialogues. The analogies and accents in the movie was realistic. Fight scenes were average and exaggerated at many scenes. But too many unnecessary fight scenes.

Music: Composed by G.V. Prakaash, was just average. Not his best work

Plus Point: The acting, moral message and dialogues

Minus Point: Draggy first half, lack of originality and unnecessary fight scenes

Verdict: Can be watched once

Valiyavan by M.Saravan (Review)

Story: A commercial entertainer with element of romance, family drama and action. A mixture of a few movie stories together as one. Pleasant and inspiring. The narration is based on flashback mode. Lack of originality but still it is slightly different for a commercial movie. Mild inconsistencies in the story, butiIt will grip audience to their sit to know what's next. A very good message instilled during climax.

Cast: Jai as Vinod, he plays a marketing manager for a mall. First half was not much of a performance, just his usual self. But second half is impressive, he transforms into a hunk. Body language was quite good to show as a street boxer. Different from his usual comical films. Andrea played the lead lady Subiksha. Pretty and bold. had ample of scope to perform. He good look was the main attention I suppose. Aaron Chaudary as Ashwin the antagonist. Played an International Boxer. His character was just a stereotype of an arrogant international sports hero. A few supporting character played by Azhagam Perumal, Anupama Kumar, Bala Saravanan and many more.

Screenplay: The movie first half was draggy but second half gets racy. Enjoyed the second half a lot since it shows more realistic practice of boxing. Way better than Maan Karate climax. First half was sweet but lengthy. Camera work was good for certain scenes especially angles for intro scenes, but songs was overloaded. If only Tamil cinema reduces the sing sequence in a movie. But BGM was awesome. The stunt choreography worth appreciated. 

Music: Composed by D.Imman. Not best of his work but BGM worked well.

Plus Point: Screenplay, Narration, Stunt Choreography and Jai's transformation.

Minus Point: Draggy first half, lack of originality and song sequences.

Verdict: A movie worth watching to chill yourself.

Enakkul Oruvan by Prasad Ramar (Review)

Story: A remake of Lucia. Exact same story in different language. A very powerful concept with parallel narration. A little bit of science fiction and emotion. Beautiful message which should be instilled by everyone. The twist is simply superb and great way to wrap it up.

Cast: Siddarth as Vignesh. He plays the role of superstar and also a torch man at cinema. Well played, there was a good benchmark between the 2 characters. Being that his 25th film he really made his mark well. Deepa Sanidhi as Divya. She played as a newcomer heroine and a pizza shop waitress. Since she was new there were a few inconsistency in her lip sync. But she gave an average performance for a newcomer. Aadukalam Naren as Durai. He played owner of a cinema and Vignesh's manager in parallel world. I really find him a good supporting artist. He always creates signature with his characters. There were a few supporting characters played John Vijay, Ajay Ratnam and many others

Screenplay: The movie has a different screenplay and editing. Many people will say that it was copied from Memento but not actually. Memento had reverse narration but this was parallel. Excellently done. Thanks to the original version as well. The scenes were very well planned, not much of wastage. It had a good transition. Song clips were simple and nice. Overall, great meal from a newcomer.

Music: Composed by Santosh Narayanan. He nailed it. A man with different sense of music. Every song worth enjoying

Plus Point: Story, Screenplay, Acting and Music

Minus Point: Slight inconsistencies. But nothing much

Verdict: A great meal for film lovers after Jigarthanda. Enjoy it.

Irumbu Kuthirai by Yuvaraj Bose (Review)

Story: A racy suspense thriller. The story was superbike oriented which explained in title itself. A very good plot with ample of action,romance and sentiment. But lack of importance on dialogues and illustration. Lack of originality, manage to find a few Hollywood movie narration in it.

Cast: Atharva Murali as Prithviraj. He plays a youth trying to go through his dark past. His performance was similar to MUK. But he improved on romantic part. Priya Anand as Samyuktha, sweet and charming as usual. I felt she did her excellently. The accent and her dressing shows she is apt to the role.  Johny Tri-Nguyen played villain Don Stony. Same bad ass features and kicking ass stunts as 7am arivu. A few supporting character played by Lakhsmi Rai, Jagan, Thevadarshini and others.

Screenplay: The movie had a boring screenplay. It is suppose to be an action packed movie but most scenes the director used slow-motion especially staring scenes which was very draggy. And the dialogues was just average. Only good thing was the romantic scene in the movie. Well visualized. But the there were scenes where the director rushed which was kind of a spoiler. And the stunts were also not as expected. Lack of adrenalin rush. And finally the movie made mistake which every kollywood movie makes, poor song transitions. Song visuals comes unnecesarrily and not parallel. Even the camera work was average

Music: Composed by GV Prakaash. The BGM was good. But the songs were not that attractive. Only good song was Ange ippo enna seigirai.

Plus Point: Story, Location, Romantic scenes.

Minus Point: Screenplay, Stunts, Songs

Verdict: Not worth watching in cinema. Just an average twisted story with a reasonable cliché.

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

Jigarthanda by Karthik Subbaraj (Review)

Story: A neo-noir film with an interesting plot. A very well planned script. It was a multi-dimensional narration centered in two characters indirectly connected in first half towards getting directly connected in second half. Unexpected multiple twists and the movie had an awesome fluctuation of pace. Good drama, comedy, action and thriller. A lot of resemblance of common real life incidents. The turning point of the story was epic. And as usual Karthik Subbaraj is a good player when it comes to climax. So stay tuned.

Cast: Siddharth as Karthik. An ambitious director. Good choice of cast. His expressions and gestures to explore were simply superb. Can't say much or it'll be a spoiler in the movie. Lakshmi Menon as Kayal. She is the lead lady in the movie. Regardless of having very limited presence in the movie, she became main contributor for the turning point. Simha of Soodhu Kavvum fame as Assault Sethu. He is the man of the match of the movie. Excellent performance. A very meaty role which becomes the key to the story. One of the best a rural don character I've ever seen. Karunagaran of Soodhu Kavvum fame as Oorni. A comical character who handles major part of the humour in the movie. And many other supporting characters played by Nassar, Ramachandran Durairaj, Guru Somasundram and many more.

Screenplay: First thing to notice in the film is the cinematography. Excellent. The definition and angles were very good. Slow motions were used at the right place. All the sequences were captured in a very realistic manner. No exaggerations. The intro was amazing, they initiated with a follow camera and starts with a cut and short dialogues with shocking opening. And the second pace was slightly slow pace since it was more on explanation of the subject. Good thing about the movie, the director had a lot of surprises. Just when you start predicting the movie, he will prove you wrong. Simple and superb dialogues. I enjoyed every single scenes involving Simha. regardless of being serious subject, the movie had an awesome comedy and sentimental scenes. And the continuity of the scenes and its transitions were smooth. Editing well done. But the movie was lengthy. yet still worth it. And the good thing about the movie, a little bit of movie making and acting inputs were disclosed. Overall all the scenes in the movie simple and impactful.

Music: The music composed by Santosh Narayanan. The BGM is one of the highlight in the movie. But the songs were a bit different from usual

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

Minus Point: Lengthy

Verdict: A major treat for movie lovers.