As we entered the dump yard, there were whispers about the duration of the movie which I chose to ignore. When I was groping in the dark to find a good location to enjoy the movie, the audience were cheering loud with whistles and applauds. Even before I realised the movie had started and the hero, Rooster Vikram was introduced in a fighting sequence. It was a real pain watching the fight..too lengthy....instead of getting people serious and focused the fight was turning out to be a comedy. I wonder if the director deliberately chose to make the stunt sequences funny as the comedian, Vadivel had sincerely let him down. On a lighter note the fights were definitely funnier than Vadivel's efforts.
The story line is neither great nor impressive. An ordinary plot flicked from Shankar's Shivaji and Anniyan which the half baked director with his expert manipulation has turned to a rummage. It was a very bland screenplay with no gripping act though they have tried hard to make it look very grand.
Vikram's acting seemed effortless and he has done his part fine. His make up was very good. He was perfect as the Rooster/lady/old man and no flaws from his side. But digesting the fact that Vikram had waited 2 long years for such an ordinary script is a lil thorny. I still don't understand which part in this movie was so complicated that took up the star's 2 precious years from the industry.
Looks like Vikram has spent quite an effort on shedding his weight and trimming himself. The star could have considered investing the same time and effort in choosing a better script/director. Didn't expect such a lousy output from Susi Ganesan after seeing his last movie (Thiruttupayale) which I loved a lot.
The heroine was the next disaster in the movie. Shriya was a sheer disgrace. Even the dumbest of all would know that a CBI officer's room will be loaded with camera's. Every damn workplace including coffee shops and hang out centres, these days have camera's packed everywhere as a security measure. How will an educated lady miss this detail??? Logic less.
Her body language was an ignominy. Not sure what the director tried to showcase her as. In my opinion she would do a lot good to thy self and poor us if she tries her hands on belly dancing and quit acting. The only best part about her was her voice which obviously was not her own. Whoever had dubbed for her did a great job. The husky touch was mesmerizing.
There was absolutely no onscreen chemistry between the 2 of them. The movie didn't need a heroine in the first place. The director could as well have left it that way. People would have at least appreciated that difference in the movie. If Shriya contributes to 30% of the torture another 30% is the music directors share and the rest is His Highness Engineer turned Journalist turned Director, Susi Ganesan.
DSP can excuse himself from the industry and retire to a field where he is comfortable. The songs were excruciating. Most of the songs were not required on screen at all. Susi could have saved some money for the producer if he had chosen not to picturise those songs. Not sure if it were the songs themselves or the pathetic theatre in which I watched the movie, all I could hear was only a jarring resonance which left me with a ear ache over the weekend.
But the director deserves a pat on back for opening up silver screen avenues to many of the mega serial star cast. I could see a lot of familiar faces from Radhika Sharathkumar's serials!! In fact all of them did a good job compared to the actors themselves. Unfortunate that these stars appeared only for a very short duration in trivial roles.
Heights of insanity was the director's choice of actors for the lead roles. The specimen who played the inspector in Vijay's Pokiri was the main challenge to the hero and he was a complete misfit for the role. How did Susi expect people to accept this petite thing as the guy opposite to Vikram when we have seen him against stalwarts like Prakash raj, Pasupathy in the past? At least the director could have been sensible enough to swap Ashish Vidhyarthi and this Pokiri specimen's roles which would have sold better.
Shifting locations to foreign lands used to be a trend only for songs until a couple of years back. These days directors have started incorporating this insane pattern to a part of the movie itself. Our crackerjack has also taken the movie to Mexico where the hero interacts with the underworld dons. The master has chosen a handful of clowns and conveniently called them dons who failed miserably in scaring even a 2 year old toddler,leave alone justifying their roles.
I never got the logic behind the Mexico sequence. I was scratching my head trying to figure out what was going on with a Mexican Don Pichumani/his tie in India with drugs who appeared on screen for a flash of a second/Ashish Vidyaarthi...what was the link between all of these guys? what were they trying to do? All these questions are still unanswered.
The police department, however efficient they claim themselves as, will always end up putting the pieces together only towards the climax of the movie when the whole world would have picked up on the most evident clue and cracked it in no time. This movie is no exception to this inane formula which is being diligently followed in all the Indian movies.
Prabhu(DGP) Vs Ashish Vidyarthi(Villain)'s time taken to solve the mystery is a light year difference. While the former is hunting around the entire 3+ hrs for the Rooster, the latter is done with extracting the truth from the Rooster soon after the intermission!! Why do "interesting" ideas strike only to the villains and not to the police???
Anyways....people who still wish to see the movie can take a chance....
I would recommend it as a DVD movie and not worth spending $16 on a Friday night amidst severe thunder storm warnings dragging the whole family with little ones screaming and messing around in one of the lousiest theatres on earth....
