Except the date in the censor certificate nothing in this movie vindicates the fact that it is made in 2009. With a story as old as hills & making even older , the movie is totally outdated & tedious to watch. Anyone one who has seen any 2 movies of Vikraman can easily guess the entire storyline & each and every word in the dialogues. To make the matter worse the movie gives a feeling of watching a play involving retired amatuer drama artists .
Vijaykanth can be appreciated for having underplayed in both the roles of his but how long we are going to endure his jigs in the name of dance in foreign locales with blonde girls in the background. All the punch dialogues are reserved for the supporting cast who praise their hero as Sun , Volcano , Mahathma Gandhi ,....what not....
Others in the cast over act to the point that it becomes unbearable after a while. Meera Jasmine is a pale shadow of her prime Malayalam days while Meera tries hard to play a vamp which doesn't suits her at all.Ambika has nothing much to do as does Ammu . Ramesh Khanna tries his level best to make us laugh along with Meera Jasmine but end up only irritating .Shanmugarajan & Sampath are wasted in underwritten roles.
Andrew's cinematographyis nothing special but adequate while Vijay Anthony is pale shadow of himself in this movie or may be he is caught up with the ghost of scoring music for a Vikraman movie which is the same from the Puthu Vasantham days of his irrespective of who the music director is.
Vikraman has not attempted to adapt with the changing times & his adamant adherence to his template of a rich chieftain of a village losing his wealth & after a struggle regaining the past glory while his hero getting betrayed by a woman but later rise up in his life with the aid of another woman ...one wonders when will he change his attitude . Only innovation in this movie he has thought of is unlike in his previous movies in which hero becomes rich in one song , here the hero becomes rich in just a minute's BGM...
When compared to this movie the television serials that we are annoyed off looks better a thousand times.
Save yourself your time , money & a throbbing headache by skipping this movie..
Bottomline : endurance test
1.5/5
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