A movie with no message from Shankar that does not live up to a Robot (Enthriran) or Sivaji. A 3 hour entertainment from start to end. Phenomenal physical effort from Vikram. Awesome locations. Well choreographed songs and stunts. All this make the movie passable.
Single line story of vengeance. But for Shankar's treatment, the movie would have been a box office disaster. The first half of the movie resembles an ad film end to end. Shankar teaches how to make a "commercial" fare. Branding at it's best.
Vikram as the bodybuilder and as the model excels in his body language and his madras tamil is excellent and supplements his role to a large extent. Amy Jackson as Dia has done a good job.
Ramkumar in his first outing does a neat job. Ojas Rajani as the transgender stylist makes an impression. Suresh Gopi as Dr. Vasudevan does a usual good job.
As for the story a rags to riches story for Lingesan the local gym owner who dreams of a Mr. India title and to that end wins Mr. TamilNadu and adores Dia the model. He makes 4 known enemies as he becomes a reluctant model alongside Dia and makes it big. John, Dia's x partner, Osma the transgender stylist, Ravi the body builder who loses to Lingesan in Mr. Tamilnadu and Indra Kumar, the industrialist. While all these are known, Vasudevan remains the unknown element, or Shankar thinks. The fact that Dr. Vasudevan pines for Dia is a no brainer from the first scene. That could have been avoided by Shankar. How all of them torture Lingesan because he has hurt each in one way or the other. And how Lingesan exacts his vengeance on all of them forms the crux of the story.
Screenplay is awesome. Somewhat lengthy stunt sequence, in the first instance, but otherwise good ones. Songs are well choreographed and picturised. Locations, as said earlier, needs a second mention. Virgin locations from China make for interesting viewing.
Overall, not a message drive Shankar movie like Anniyan, India, Gentleman. More on the lines of Kaadhalan, Sivaji etc. Not a science fiction like Robot. Nevertheless, makes for gripping viewing.
"Cinema" viewers might not accept that this is good movie. But entertainment value is great.
Single line story of vengeance. But for Shankar's treatment, the movie would have been a box office disaster. The first half of the movie resembles an ad film end to end. Shankar teaches how to make a "commercial" fare. Branding at it's best.
Vikram as the bodybuilder and as the model excels in his body language and his madras tamil is excellent and supplements his role to a large extent. Amy Jackson as Dia has done a good job.
Ramkumar in his first outing does a neat job. Ojas Rajani as the transgender stylist makes an impression. Suresh Gopi as Dr. Vasudevan does a usual good job.
As for the story a rags to riches story for Lingesan the local gym owner who dreams of a Mr. India title and to that end wins Mr. TamilNadu and adores Dia the model. He makes 4 known enemies as he becomes a reluctant model alongside Dia and makes it big. John, Dia's x partner, Osma the transgender stylist, Ravi the body builder who loses to Lingesan in Mr. Tamilnadu and Indra Kumar, the industrialist. While all these are known, Vasudevan remains the unknown element, or Shankar thinks. The fact that Dr. Vasudevan pines for Dia is a no brainer from the first scene. That could have been avoided by Shankar. How all of them torture Lingesan because he has hurt each in one way or the other. And how Lingesan exacts his vengeance on all of them forms the crux of the story.
Screenplay is awesome. Somewhat lengthy stunt sequence, in the first instance, but otherwise good ones. Songs are well choreographed and picturised. Locations, as said earlier, needs a second mention. Virgin locations from China make for interesting viewing.
Overall, not a message drive Shankar movie like Anniyan, India, Gentleman. More on the lines of Kaadhalan, Sivaji etc. Not a science fiction like Robot. Nevertheless, makes for gripping viewing.
"Cinema" viewers might not accept that this is good movie. But entertainment value is great.
