I don’t watch random movies unless i’m terribly bored. I was terribly bored. I didn’t complain much when my friend suggested this movie, the trailer was seemingly nice, so we said "why not". One good thing about tamil movies is that you can tell if the movie will be any good from the first few minutes. Here, I didn’t need in minutes, only seconds and I knew agony was ahead.
A huge portion of the movie is what prithiviraj reflects during his flight journey. Yes, this is also a flash-back movie, only there are too many flash-backs that you lose track of reality. But, don’t you worry, that’s least of the painful things that the movie will offer. If there’s one thing actors look for, besides fame and money, that is variety in roles.
Here, prithiviraj, after almost establishing a poetic-excessively-good-natured-composed-lover-boy image in the industry, comes off as a muscle-man type that beats up people with the loudest blows ever possible. Though, that happens only in the first half of the movie, after figuring that that really doesn’t suit him, he tries to re-establish his former image in the second half and beats vadivelu in doing so. There’s no vadivelu in this movie to salvage it. There’s bakyaraj though, but why, I don’t know.
Shakthi comes and goes, here and there. Karthik goes and never comes, ’relief’ you think and he comes. Shakthi plays a pointless role and he’s done total justice, I felt. Karthik also plays a pointless role. In fact, the whole movie was pointless, so that wasn’t worth mentioning, forget it. Like I said, there are numerous flash-backs, one of those is what karthik narates to bakyaraj. What jarred me there was, bakyaraj was there in that for the most part. For a second, I was excited thinking, maybe bakyaraj suffered from amnesia, a twist, but that wasn’t to be. But twist, there’s ample, you’d be begging "no more, please" toward the end. The director made sure there were no loose ends, at the end, I guess he failed to notice that loose ends would go unnoticed in this deluge of dung.
One good thing about this movie, it wasn’t predictable. Not even predictors dared to predict, because every time they were about to predict, a new set of characters rolled in, to further the convolution. Predictors wept. The songs, the movie could have done just as well without the songs, it’s a flash-back for god’s sake. But the songs were passable, only their entries were a little too sudden and they made the movie long.
In this movie, there’s love, romance, friendship, fight, comedy, college, crap, priya mani, death, tragedy, sorrow, more crap, football, revenge and a happy ending. No, you will not be literally happy at the end, maybe a bit, because the movie ended, yet this movies qualifies for a happy ending. The bottom line is, the movie was terrible, unwatchable, boring, vapid and what not. If someone tells you they liked the movie, it’s a ruse, don’t fall. But, i’m still going to recommend this movie to anyone that comes to me in this regard, because watching this movie, brings a new perspective to tamil cinema. This will tone you, so that, you will enjoy any remotely enjoyable tamil flick. Hurry now, or the movie will be gone.