Watched I last night at Santham. Watching a movie in Sathyam Cinemas after a very long time.
There was a lots of expectations on the movie with Shankar, AR Rahman, PC Sreeram and Vikram.
The cast includes Vikram who is a body builder, Amy Jackson who is a model, Upen Patel who is also a model, Suresh Gopi who is a family doctor for Amy Jackson, Santhanam who plays a friend of Vikram.
Story is very simple - Vikram goal is to become Mr India and he also has a crush on Amy Jackson who is a super model. He gets to meet her once and things move along till they fall in love. Vikram becomes a model and replaces Upen who is a also a model. Upen also has a crush on Amy. Vikram rejects a cola ad for obvious reason which irks Ramkumar (Sivaji's son) who plays a rich businessman. Upen, Ramkumar, Osma (who is a TG stylist) and Suresh Gopi join together to take revenge on Vikram - Osma has a crush on Vikram and Suresh Gopi on Amy. The super model Vikram becomes the hunchback and the rest of the story is about how he seeks revenge.
The story keeps going back and forth between the revenge part and the flashback.
The movie runs more than 3 hours. And with a simple revenge story - you really feel that the movie runs.
You get what you expect from a Shankar movie - grandeur and beautiful background. Other than that nothing that makes it a Shankar movie. We have seen commercials - but aila aila song is filled with commercials. That should be a first.
Songs - Except Merisalayittaen and Aila nothing much to talk about. Not sure why that the third look of whatever it is (other than the hunchback and normal) is required in one of the songs.
You need a strong villain to make the hero look good - you don't get that with Upen, Ramkumar and surprisingly with Suresh Gopi also. Vikram has taken lots of effort to play the body builder or the hunchback. Amy looks beautiful but surprisingly in many scenes there is no lip sync also. Santhanam can be said as a saving grace with his comedy - He has had two good movies - Lingaa and I in the last month. Vikram's age shows especially in close up scenes.
This is a simple revenge story - which could have been made in a small budget without going to China or spending a lot of money and definitely in a lot shorter time (both running time and the time for filming this movie which took more than 2 years)
All in all I could be termed as a let down from Shankar.
There was a lots of expectations on the movie with Shankar, AR Rahman, PC Sreeram and Vikram.
The cast includes Vikram who is a body builder, Amy Jackson who is a model, Upen Patel who is also a model, Suresh Gopi who is a family doctor for Amy Jackson, Santhanam who plays a friend of Vikram.
Story is very simple - Vikram goal is to become Mr India and he also has a crush on Amy Jackson who is a super model. He gets to meet her once and things move along till they fall in love. Vikram becomes a model and replaces Upen who is a also a model. Upen also has a crush on Amy. Vikram rejects a cola ad for obvious reason which irks Ramkumar (Sivaji's son) who plays a rich businessman. Upen, Ramkumar, Osma (who is a TG stylist) and Suresh Gopi join together to take revenge on Vikram - Osma has a crush on Vikram and Suresh Gopi on Amy. The super model Vikram becomes the hunchback and the rest of the story is about how he seeks revenge.
The story keeps going back and forth between the revenge part and the flashback.
The movie runs more than 3 hours. And with a simple revenge story - you really feel that the movie runs.
You get what you expect from a Shankar movie - grandeur and beautiful background. Other than that nothing that makes it a Shankar movie. We have seen commercials - but aila aila song is filled with commercials. That should be a first.
Songs - Except Merisalayittaen and Aila nothing much to talk about. Not sure why that the third look of whatever it is (other than the hunchback and normal) is required in one of the songs.
You need a strong villain to make the hero look good - you don't get that with Upen, Ramkumar and surprisingly with Suresh Gopi also. Vikram has taken lots of effort to play the body builder or the hunchback. Amy looks beautiful but surprisingly in many scenes there is no lip sync also. Santhanam can be said as a saving grace with his comedy - He has had two good movies - Lingaa and I in the last month. Vikram's age shows especially in close up scenes.
This is a simple revenge story - which could have been made in a small budget without going to China or spending a lot of money and definitely in a lot shorter time (both running time and the time for filming this movie which took more than 2 years)
All in all I could be termed as a let down from Shankar.
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