Madharasapattinam Review

Starring: Arya, Amy Jackson, Nasser, VMC.Haneefa, M. S. Bhaskar, Cochin Haneefa.
Direction: A L Vijay
Music: G V Prakash Kumar

Production: Kalapathi S. Aghoram

Release Date: 09-07-2010

Plot: The story starts with the death of an old english ladies husband at london, she becomes unconscious after his funeral. Doctors recommends her to undergo a surgery to her brain within a span of a week but, the chances are half to save her. That was due  a major injury at her head in the past. She demands her grand children to take her to India to visit Madharasapattinam. Here the story starts with a flashback in 1945. Why she wanted to go to Madharasapattinam and What has happend in the past makes rest of the story.

Performances: Arya's performance is too good as a typical Madras youth whose job is to wash the clothes and is a very good "kushthi" player.

Nasser acted well as the father of Arya. 

Amy Jackson makes a debut with her outstanding performance, she is cute, beautiful and also suits well her role.

Cochin Haneefa rocked his performance as a translator for British people.

Technical Departments: Director Vijay has done his job perfectly and he is  successful in showing Chennai at Britishers time and also taking couple of very good love scenes which are  not coming in movies these days. Even though there are some shades of Titanic and Lagaan are there Vijay took care to make this a unique flick. Photography and VFX are like Visual Treat. Music and Background Score By G.V.Prakash Kumar is outstanding. My Favorite Tracks in the movie are "Vamma Dorai Amma", "Pookal" and "Meghame".

Favorite Scenes: 

1. Old Madras Scenes are too good.

2. Hero's Reaction when British People Announces Independence Day.

3. Death of Villain falling from the Clock Tower.

4. Heroine leaves Hero in-order to save him under a bridge.

5. Climax The old lady founds Hero.

My Rating: 3.75/5

Veera

Raavan Review

Raavan is not Modern Ramayana

Film: Raavan (Hindi)
Banner: Madras Talkies
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Vikram, Aishwarya, Priyamani, Govinda, Ravi Kishan, Nikhil Dwivedi, Tejaswini Kolhapure and others
Music: A R Rahman
Dialogues: Vijay Krishna Acharya
Editing: Sreekar Prasad
Cinematography: Santosh Sivan, Manikandan
Story, screenplay, direction: Mani Ratnam
Producers: Mani Ratnam, Sharada Trilok
Release date: 18/06/2010

I will not compare Raavan with Ramayana beacause, Ramayana has great characters which cant be compared. Coming to the Plot of Raavan, Beera (Abhishek) a Leader of some downward caste and hates police men and starts punishing them like anything.

On the Process, he kidnaps the Wife of local SP Dev (Vikram) and her name is Raagini (Aish).
Dev starts the search for his wife, on the way he gets the help of Sanjeevani (Govinda) and will he succeeded in getting her wife back makes the rest of the story.

Even though story is simple, Maniratnam makes his mark in narrating it. Cinematography by Santosh Sivan and Manikandan are extraordinary. we cant see these kind of visuals in a normal Indian Cinema. Locations are outstanding with thick forests and large waterfalls. Music and Background score by A R Rahman are excellent.

Coming to the performances Aishwarya has more scope to perform and she did an outstanding job. Abhishek did a good job as Beera, he has peculiar mannerism like "Bak Bak Bak...".
Vikram and Govinda are good in their roles. Priyamani gave her best in her role, even though her role is limited but the key role for the movie.

Highlights :
1. Performances of Aish and Abhi
2. Cinematography
3. Music
4. Locations

Don't Expect a movie before seeing it, cause everyman has his own thinking..but finally, only one man will direct the movie.

My Rating: 3.5/5

Raajneeti Review

Raajneeti is Modern Mahabharatha

Director has inspired the whole story on the characters of Mahabharatha

Here is a List of characters who are inspired from Mahabharatha:

Ajay Devgan : Karna

Nikhila Trikha : Kunthi

Naseeruddin Shah : Lord Surya

Manoj Bhajpai : Dhuryodhan

Ranbir Kapoor : Arjun

Nana Patekar : Lord Krishna



Storyline: A War Between cousins to attain political power.There will be two brothers elder one is present chief minister candidate and younger one is party president. Suddenly, elder brother will be attacked with cardiac arrest and suddenly there will be hulchul in the political party. Younger one's children are Arjun Rampal and Ranbir Kapoor. Elder one's son is Manoj Bhajpai.The elder brother gives the control to his brother and Arjun Rampal. From here starts the rivalary between Manoj Bhajpai and Arjun Rampal. Both play's several games for winning the political power before elections. Ranbir comes from US and sees the present situations and plays a key role in supporting his brother. Who wins in the election and becomes CM is the rest of the story.

Performances : Arjun Rampal did a great job with his bold voice and natural performance.
Ajay Devgan has less scope to perform and Ranbir's characterization is more interesting than his performance. Katrina gave an outstanding performance in 3 shades (Bubly Girl, House Wife and Political Leader).Nana Patekar has done a cool job as his character is limited. Manoj Bhajpai also done a very good job.

Technical Team : Cinematography is good and Background score is also very nice. Screenplay and direction are very good. Dialogs also have a good impact while watching the film. Art and costumes department also done a good job.

My Rating : 3/5