Raavanan - Movie review

First the good things in the movie Raavanan:

1. Beautiful locations!!! Its a wonder, how our film makers missed these places for all these years. The chillness all around the movie, does give a wonderful feeling.

2. The cameraman - Santhosh Sivan. No doubt that Santhosh Sivan is a great cinematographer in our times and this is yet another powerful feather for his cap. His work for Raavanan/Raavan will surely be remembered for a very long time.

3. The actors, especially Vikram and Aishwarya Rai Bachan. Though it looks a bit animated at few places, Vikram is at his best in this movie. Even other actors like Priyamani, Prabhu, Prithviraj have given good performances.

4. Music for the songs. This needs no mention as the songs are already a big hit even before the movie release. This is quite normal for the Manirathnam - ARR combination and I am happy that it worked out even in Raavanan.

and now the bad or the not so good things about Raavanan, to me:

1. Dragging screenplay - As everyone knows the plot is from Raamayanam. The team could have worked a bit more to make the screenplay little more interesting. Except for very few scenes, the first half was rally boring.

2. Missing the tamil nativity - I don't know if I am the only person feeling like this. The location (which they call it as Tirunelveli), the people, the functions they show in the movie everything appeared like an dubbed movie.

3. Childish dialogues!!! You can feel the absence of Sujatha here.

4. Climax - many people might like this climax in the movie. Personally I feel, the scene that comes before the last 10 minutes, would have been the best climax for this movie. (may be Manirathnam wanted to avoid unnecessary controversies)

Overall - a good movie to watch once, if you want to admire the making of the movie.

Aayirathil Oruvan

I had huge expectations for this Selvaragavan's movie. 1000s and 1000s of people had worked very hard for nearly 2+ years. Songs are already a big hit. Trailer was awesome, but unfortunately the movie doesn't match all these hype that were created. To put it in short - Aayirathil Oruvan fails miserably in the the second half and too much of blood shed all over the film.

The base knot of the movie is really very interesting. Its about the Chozhas who escape to a remote island after they get defeated by the Pandians in a war and live in that remote island for thousands of years, expecting a good message from their homeland - Thanjai (Tanjore).

Everything in the movie was fascinating and entertaining till the three - Karthi, Reema Sen and Andrea reach that remote land. But after that, the movie starts dragging in all possible ways with unnecessary turns and twists.

Its really unfortunate that all the hard work that were put in the second half had gone almost in vain.

Many say Reema Sen and Parthiban were the best in the movie, but my choice was Karthi. This movie is not based on his role and also his role is almost like a comedian, but still he had given his best for the movie. His performance will surely entertain the audience. (He needs to work a little more to avoid the resemblance with Surya in emotional scenes)

I liked Reema Sen's performance in the first half than the latter part and She looked beautiful in those ancient costumes. Andrea doesn't have much to do in the movie, except for cracking the solutions for traps on their way and give a sad expression in the second half. For Parthipan, Yes this is surely one of his best. His expressions were excellent, when he gets happy about all his people returning to their homeland.

The cameraman and the art director seem to have worked more passionately than the director. Their hard work is reflected in each frame. Songs are good - especially the "Thaai thindra mannae" song. "Un melae aasa thaan" is already a big hit. I felt like missing the Yuvan-Selva combo for the background music.

Director Selvaragavan can be appreciated for such a bold attempt and for the different plot but he would have deserved more if they had worked a little more in screenplay for the second half.. Its also another sad sign that his movies are becoming more and more unsuitable for kids and soft hearted people.

TN-07-AL-4777 @ தநா-07-அல-4777

TN 07 AL 4777 is the remake of the hindi hit movie Taxi No. 9211. Kudos to the Director for presenting a Hindi movie in its best form and suiting the Tamil movie audiences.

If you like racy narration of story, then you will like this movie. The story is very simple and its the presentation of the movie that makes this a special one.

The story is about two persons - whose characteristics and life style are straight opposite each other and the incidents that follow when they meet each other, one day.

Pasupathy and Ajmal have done justice to their roles. Ajmal looks very smart in this movie and perfectly fit that rich man character. Simran comes as Pasupathy's pair and gives a good performance in the climax. All the three have performed damn well in the climax.

Meenakshi, who had earlier acted in Karupanasaamy Kuthagaikarar, comes as Ajmal's pair in this movie. I think after that homely girl character in her previous movie, she didn't get many movies to act, so she tries a glamour role in this movie.

The music in the movie could have been a little better- or may be I was hearing the songs for the first time. I personally feel a small and racy movie like this doesn't need any song.

Overall it was a good movie to watch and worth the ticket money.