ALEX PANDIAN

I was told by a friend that the director was the one who did Marudamalai & Padikkadhavan. So, with Santhanam being a part of this movie, I thought there’d be atleast something to laugh & booked for today’s show. Another friend’s short and simple feedback was “Soora Mokka”! Having already booked, I just hoped that atleast Santhanam would do some justice.

Milind Soman, a NRI, brings a ship full of medicines banned in the US to sell in Tamilnadu and needs CM’s approval. When it gets rejected, he, along with Suman, a doctor and a Godman, plans to kidnap the CM’s daughter. Karthi who does anything for money, agrees to kidnap the CM (Visu)’s daughter Anushka for 10 lacs and as a hero, he does it easily. When he comes to know about the banned medicines and the 1000 crore business aligned with it, has a change of thought, kills the baddies and saves the world… sorry Tamil nadu. Btw, Prathap Pothen is a bad guy too.

All of the story I had said above happens in the second half. So, what does the first half contain? Absolute JUNK… and they call it Comedy! Santhanam is good only in parts and some of the comedy scenes are GOUNDER Style. Remember the Ramarajan-Gounder comedy wherein he eats on a large banana leaf? He’s the brother of 3 sisters and Karthi is content at playing with the 3 girls when Anushka is undergoing treatment. Saravanan plays an useless cameo. I think it’s time to stop those Rajini jokes. Here’s a man who misses a train while fighting and after few minutes is found waiting on the bridge to jump on the same train!

Like the Tamil Cinema of eons, though the hero is surrounded by 30-40 of baddies and have a gun (with bullets)  they do want to kill him, they only hit on his head with the gun. Wait, its not over. The villains start hitting the handcuffed hero in front of his lover – Anushka – and when she dares them to release him and fight, the villains oblige and as expected get beaten to death. And ya, they also follow the Theorem – Love is Blind. A CM’s daughter falling in love with a carefree thug is not new to our cinema either.

To sum it up, this is easily one of the WORST films that I have ever seen. It stands right up there with the likes of Red, Villu & Sura! (Those are the other films that I watched on the big screen and regretted!) It will not be incorrect if I say this is the first TELUGU movie I have seen with Tamil Dialogues! The movie starts and ends with a fight and in between there are some so-called comedy scenes, songs and punch dialogues.

Why am I writing an exhaustive review for such a stupid movie? It’s for you to save your money and precious time!! Please DO NOT watch this crap. Please avoid such craps in future too. A friendly suggestion – Do not try to watch a movie during the first week of its release. Better to be safe than sorry!

A suggestion to Suraaj, Karthi et al., – A Book Fair is going on. There are lacs of good books. Try if you can make a story out of them. Get some life.