Too many good cooks spoil the broth and i cant think of a better proof to this than the movie itself. I was obviously excited to watch thalaivar's movie and more to watch Sankar's work. I like Sankar for the screenplay and the way he charaterizes his hero and heroine, they are portrayed educated and beautiful. It makes you forget the non idealistic world for a couple of hours and watch the hero change the city.
For a start the theatre experience, i mean the crowd was so disappointing. Given the fact that i went to the movie almost a month later after it was released, i expected a little decent audience that would clap for good efforts on the screen. But i guess i shud defy those logics when it is Rajni. There was whistle and applause for even sneezing on screen. And the scene where Ash kisses the hero, there were lewd jokes and loud comments.
Now coming to the movie as such, i wasnt too impressed by the shabby, patchy work. I particularly hated the scenes where Rajni tries to romance Ash, they look so made up. She is just awesome in her moves to the music and our hero as usual does his robotic dance (which he is used to doing in all movies). I found that a lot of characters have been immensely wasted like Danny Denzongpa, Hanifa, Revathy Sankaran, Santhanam, Kalabavan Mani etc. These are some very good artists who havent been used to their fullest. I would have preferred if the romatic scenes of Ash(warya)-(Raj)ni had been cut down to let in these characters play for a while.If you parse the movie scene by scene probably it was shot well, but together they sucked.
In short if i were to describe the movie i wud say, first half was dedicated to romance, second to graphics and Rajni. There was very little for Ash to act while Rajni justified his role as the villanous Robot. What was ultimate kollywoodism was the Robot detailing about the first Robot-human (humanoid) child to Ash. The series of graphics near the climax was what probably took Sankar 2 years to complete. They were good but too much to take in a single stretch. He cud have used such heavy graphic for the pathetic first half too.
I found Ash leading the movie, managed to find Rajni in the second half but sadly couldnt find the good director Sankar who always neatly presents his work. Perhaps Sankar was confused whether to satisfy the lead pair by adding unnecessary romantic scenes, or to satisfy the hype created by including too many special effects, or to satisfy the mass by adding too much stunts by Rajni (that can be counted as special effects too ;)), or to satisfy the producer by making a masala story, or to satisfy his good self by coining an out of the box sci-fi movie.
For a start the theatre experience, i mean the crowd was so disappointing. Given the fact that i went to the movie almost a month later after it was released, i expected a little decent audience that would clap for good efforts on the screen. But i guess i shud defy those logics when it is Rajni. There was whistle and applause for even sneezing on screen. And the scene where Ash kisses the hero, there were lewd jokes and loud comments.
Now coming to the movie as such, i wasnt too impressed by the shabby, patchy work. I particularly hated the scenes where Rajni tries to romance Ash, they look so made up. She is just awesome in her moves to the music and our hero as usual does his robotic dance (which he is used to doing in all movies). I found that a lot of characters have been immensely wasted like Danny Denzongpa, Hanifa, Revathy Sankaran, Santhanam, Kalabavan Mani etc. These are some very good artists who havent been used to their fullest. I would have preferred if the romatic scenes of Ash(warya)-(Raj)ni had been cut down to let in these characters play for a while.If you parse the movie scene by scene probably it was shot well, but together they sucked.
In short if i were to describe the movie i wud say, first half was dedicated to romance, second to graphics and Rajni. There was very little for Ash to act while Rajni justified his role as the villanous Robot. What was ultimate kollywoodism was the Robot detailing about the first Robot-human (humanoid) child to Ash. The series of graphics near the climax was what probably took Sankar 2 years to complete. They were good but too much to take in a single stretch. He cud have used such heavy graphic for the pathetic first half too.
I found Ash leading the movie, managed to find Rajni in the second half but sadly couldnt find the good director Sankar who always neatly presents his work. Perhaps Sankar was confused whether to satisfy the lead pair by adding unnecessary romantic scenes, or to satisfy the hype created by including too many special effects, or to satisfy the mass by adding too much stunts by Rajni (that can be counted as special effects too ;)), or to satisfy the producer by making a masala story, or to satisfy his good self by coining an out of the box sci-fi movie.
