When a director decides to launch a high profile youngster as an action and romantic hero with a typical and clichéd ‘masala’ film, there is little that you could expect from the film in terms of finesse and content.

Director A. Venkatesh, who is known for formulaic masala flicks, has come out with a story that is split in to two parts as romance and thriller. While the first half deals with the romantic track, the second half is dedicated to the thriller element filled with abduction drama and the bomb threat.

The story has nothing new to write about. A happy-go-lucky youth (Sivaji, the grand son of Sivaji Ganesan) wants to become an SI in police department. Since the first scene itself shows you that he has become an SI, there is no suspense or drama in the run up to reach the position. Yet the movie tries to hold your attention by telling you in the beginning that the hero, heading to his home town Madurai after getting the appointment order, is in for a big danger in Madurai.

Instead of going ahead to narrate the danger, the movie goes back to the past of the boy to tell you his background.

It is a typical lower middle class family in Madurai, with a mother (Saranya in a familiar role) and a sister pouring affection on the protagonist. The mother wants him to become a police officer and the boy is on the right track to make her dream a reality.

Meanwhile he gets into trouble by seeing a beautiful girl (Gowri Minjal) but end up winning over her heart after some heroic fights. He even gets the nod from the rich father of the girl but his mother wants him to get married only after becoming an SI. Then he goes to Chennai where he gets his appointment order after completing an adventurous mission. He is now heading to Madurai as a happy person, who has fulfilled his mother’s desire. 
When everything seems to be alright, a new villain emerges and makes the life hell for the hero. The hero is put into a disastrous mission by the villain. He cannot refuse to do that, as his mother, sister, and the lover are in the clutches of the villain, who seems to have a well knit network.

The rest of the movie says how the protagonist succeeds in saving his family and millions of people.

Though there is no point in pointing out the loopholes and flaws in the script, as the director has made it clear that he wants to make a masala and nothing else, certain absurdities cannot be left without being mentioned. The scene the lovers go out for an outing, in which the girl is found ‘missing’ is ridiculous. What happened to their cell phones, through which they could have sought help from others? How come the father takes his daughter without the knowledge of the boy, who was sleeping near by?
 
You can keep on raising many questions regarding the ‘bomb’ episode and the climax in which the hero does everything within 20 minutes. How does the father of the girl accept the boy, who jumps into fights just at the drop of a hat?

The director, however, has executed a few scenes before and after the intermission point well. The mystery over the new villain is maintained well up to some extent. He has also succeeded in projecting the young Sivaji as a potential hero material.

Sivaji, the grand son of legendary actor Nadigar Thilagam hasn’t tried to make an entry as his grand father did fifty six years ago. In other words, the young Sivaji hasn’t attempted to ‘act’ or tried to establish him as a performer. It seems he has tried to be known as a mass hero, who dances, fights, and romances. He has made some impact in all these departments but he has to pay more attention on his body language and facial expressions, which dilute his efforts up to some extent.

Gowri Munjal, who made her entry in to Kollywood in ‘Thottal Poo Malarum’ (the launch pad of another young hero, Sakthi), does perfectly what is expected from her – providing glamour to the film. She looks good – excepting in some close up shots that betray the wrinkles in her face – and oozes sex appeal with ease.
 
Vivek’s comedy track involving actress Malavika, doesn’t pass muster. His one-liners have become predictable. The comedian must think something new to maintain his position in the field. Smart looking Malavika, appearing as Malavika, sizzles in a song.

One wishes that Saranya gets some new roles to perform. Avinash as the father of the girl looks majestic but fails to impress in a half backed character. Anal Arasu and Guna as villains impress with their credible performances.

Music by Prasanna Sekar is one of the plus points of the movie. All the tunes are hummable with the enticing ‘Enda Ratchasa’ standing out.

Stunts (Kanal Kannan and Anal Arasu), cinematography (R.D Rajasekar), choreography (Brinda and Tharunkumar), and editing (Antony) have added strength to the movie.

Overall, ‘Singakkutty’, though lacking finesse and coherence, has the ingredients to become a hit and it could prove to be a decent launch pad for the young Sivaji.

Starring: Sarathkumar, Meghna Naidu

Direction: Vidhyadharan

Music: Srikanth Deva

Production: Annamalai Films Private Limited
 
 
 
 
The theme of rebirth and reincarnation seems to be reigning high in tinsel town now. First it was Shah Rukh Khan’s Om Shanthi Om, followed closely by Sila Nerangalil. The latest to join the bandwagon is Vaitheeswaran, directed by debutant Vidhyadharan.

The story is very simple. While on his mission to plunder jewels from a temple, Sayaji Shinde kills a small boy who happens to spot him. Being a witness to this dastardly act and at the same time powerless to counter Sayaji (because of his clout), the boy’s mother vows that Sayaji will be killed by her son in his next birth after thirty years on a new moon day. The rest of the film deals with the fears and trepidations of Shinde, and how he goes about combating his death threat. Will Shinde be killed as per the curse?
 
 
Talking about performances, Sarathkumar as the psychiatrist has allowed the director to completely mould his performance. He looks much younger and has delivered a very cool and nonchalant performance. In fact among his recent releases, this film showcases Sarath in a fresh and revitalized fashion. Meghna Naidu seems to have understood what is expected from her and has followed a liberalization policy with her costumes! Her glamorous looks is one of the selling points of the movie. Manobala and Santhanam provide the comic relief while Sayaji has put in an earnest performance. As the astrologer, veteran Vijaykumar delivers the goods perfectly.
The pre-interval session of the film proceeds linearly on track, but the first twenty minutes post interval is a little grueling for the audience. However, the film picks up momentum soon after. Reincarnation is a widely debated issue, evincing varied opinions. But this aspect has been discussed in the film back and forth and the director’s apprehension on which side to fall is clearly evident. A unique feature of the film is that the hero meets the villain only in the climax sequence. The twists and turns of the movie are enjoyable to an extent.
 
Srikanth Deva’s music is ordinary. But what is different about the songs is that there are only two. Both songs feature a very sexy Meghna Naidu. Cinematography and editing are just passable.
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kamal hassan,asin,settu sankar.

The first official stills of much awaited magnum opus of legendary actor Kamal Hassan’s Dasavatharam are out on Tuesday and it seems that there is nothing special in the photographs (May be the film had many specials of its kind!). Directed by K S Ravikumar, the movie is produced on a whooping budget by Oscar Ravichandran.

Kamal Haasan plays 10 different roles in this film and for which he has dubbed in 10 different voices. Apart from this Kamal has penned the story, screenplay and dialogues himself. Asin has given her own voice to her character and that too in typical Brahmin Tamil which has come out brilliantly.

Very recently, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Kalaignar Karunanidhi has watched the 10 get ups of Kamal in a special screening and enjoyed a lot with the actor’s versatility. After seeing the movie Kalaignar pat the actor’s back and said, ” Pinnitteenga Kamal. Kalaignaninnu Niroobichitteenga… (You have proved yourself as the Maestro in acting!)”

Kamal says: “Kalaignar has enjoyed the movie with a youthful enthusiasm and appreciated me a lot. According to me our CM’s appreciation is equal to an Oscar Award!”. The actor further told, ” Oscar Films is the only production house after Raajkamal to facilitate everything needed to make the film the way it is meant to be. It is planned to record the crowd voices of the opening sequence using 5000 people to match 10000 on screen. The scene will be shot at Nehru Indoor Stadium, Chennai next week”.

K.S.Ravikumar, the director of the film says, “Kamal plays the roles of 10 different characters, a Brahmin, a dwarf, a scientist, a fighter, a black man, a tourist guide, a robber, an old woman, an emperor, and a young lady in this film. There is no need to say about the commitment and talents of Kamal towards his profession. According to me he is the complete actor…”

The director continues, “The visual effects are handled by three different software companies and they are in the process of delivering their best output. Some of the leading writers who have listened to the narration from Kamal say that the screenplay is more exciting than some of his phenomenally successful blockbusters of the past like Thevar Magan and Aboorva Sagotharargal. Interestingly Dasavatharam features a host of directors in the cast Santhana Bharathi, Vasu, R. Sundararajan, Erode Sounder, Ramesh Kanna and of course me also part of the cast…”

Hollywood Action Director Joop has designed an action sequence in Dasavatharam that is expected to be better than anything that has been done before, even by Kamal himself. Joop took 20 days to can this fight. The care and safety measure the Americans take in executing some of the difficult stunts is meticulous. The thrilling fights Kamal has performed were not done with the help of computer graphics. According to the director and actor all the stunt sequences are original and manual.

“The small tricks employed by the American stunt directors helped me and Asin perform the stunt scenes without taking risks. If our stunt masters follow them, then they would not risk their limbs and lives”, says Kamal Haasan.

The shoot for the film started in Chennai and continued in Malaysia, USA and in Pichavaram near Chidambaram. All the dialogue portions have been successfully filmed already as per schedule. The audio of Dasavatharam (Music scored by Himesh Reshammiya) will be launched in Chennai on mid October. The film will be a New Year treat for the cine lovers of all over the country!

Cast: Jeevan, Priyamani, Raghuvaran, Livingston, Mayilusamy, Santana Bharathi, Mallika, Sabitha Anand, Vagai Chandrasekar, Vishnupriyan

Direction: Selvah

Music: Srikanth Deva

Production: Ram New Light Productions Ltd.
 
 
 
 
It is obvious that Jeevan is in the path of shedding his earlier image of crookedness on screen with this blend of action and sentiment. However, director Selva’s Thotta offers nothing new and is a hodgepodge of all commercial ingredients that includes a past-its-sell-by date plot and other inevitable elements such as songs, stunts, love, sentiment, and sacrifice. Priyamani, and a sub plot involving her desire to become a cop, is what makes the movie a little interesting. 

Jeevan’s mother is beaten to death by his father,Rajkapoor, and Jeevan is driven away from home. The kid finds shelter in a shady cop’s arms, Sampathraj, who eventually trains him under the auspices of another thug to raise him up as a ferocious hoodlum. Jeevan grows to become a terrifying gangster. However, when he is given orders to throw acid on Priyamani to disfigure her, he falls in love with her instead.

Priyamani aspires to become a cop and Jeevan helps her fulfill her wish. In the process, Jeevan brings her to Sampathraj who demands that she sleep with him to help her get the job. Jeevan comes to blows with his mentor and takes a vow to get Priyamani the job without his help. In an unprecedented climax, he helps Priyamani prove her mettle in the shooting test eventually gaining her the job and fulfilling her ambition.
 
 
Jeevan is at ease playing the thug and proves that he can emote well- watch the scene when he takes revenge on his father for his mother’s death. The script has scope for nothing more than a typical action hero’s antics and Jeevan pulls it off successfully. Priyamani has all it that takes to be the next bombshell. She scorches alongside Jeevan with skimpy outfits in songs and plays her part to perfection in other scenes where she’s required to act.

Other performances worth mentioning are Sampathraj, Livingston, Saranraj, Rajkapoor, and Chandrasekhar. Mayilsamy’s comedy doesn’t blend with the flow and is tiresome in places.

Balamurugan’s camera flips from frame to frame to provide the scenes with the necessary action-flick effect. T. Ramesh’s dialogue strikes the right chord in a few places. Srikanth Deva’s music is deafening, typical of an action-masala flick.
 
 
 
All said and done, Thotta seems to be director Selva’s attempt at reviving the 80s mindless action adventure flicks with an overdose of mother sentiment and sacrifice.

Banner: Dr. Murali Manohar, Sunanda Murali Manohar
Producer: Media One Global (P) Ltd – Metro Films
Story, Screenplay, Dialogues and Direction: Jeeva.
Star-casts: Jeyam Ravi, Kangna Raut, Lakshmi Rai, Chetan and few others.
Music: Harris Jayaraj
Lyrics: Pa.Vijay and Na. Muthukumar
Editing: VT Vijayan

Late Director Jeeva had held the credits of making films with different storylines like 12B, Ullam Ketkume and Unnale Unnale. His last venture is Dhaam Dhoom a gripping action thriller featuring Jayam Ravi, Lakshmi Rai and Kangna Raut in lead roles. The film is about a house surgeon played by Jayam Ravi who heads for a five day trip to Russia for Medical conference. Over there, he has to get trapped by unexpected trouble that makes him run for his life.

Well versed in Tamil and English, he has no use of these languages as Russia is a land where English never enters. Troubled with problematic situation, he has Lakshmi Rai to come for his rescue who is a practicing lawyer in Russia. Usually, in many of Tamil flicks we have seen songs being shot at foreign locations, but that’s completely different in Dhaam Dhoom. Reason over is that with the entire film shot in Russia, songs have been filmed at different locations in India. Apart from Moscow, other portions of the film have been canned at Pollachi, Hyderabad, Coorg, Thenkasi and Nellai.

Kangna Raut performs female leading role with the character of an active village girl reading who is a diehard fan of Sidney Sheldon novels. Screenplay has been designed entirely different that will let audiences to move to edge of their seats. Cinematography by Jeeva has been done in super 35 mm format. S. Ramakrishnan has written dialogues in the film. Harris Jayaraj scores music for the lyrical lines written by Pa. Vijay and Na. Muthukumar. VT Vijayan is the editor while Raju Sundaram and Rekha Chinni Prakash have choreographed songs.

Kanal Kannan has directed stunts for the entire film along with Greece Anderson and Thyagarajan… The film was slated to release for Pongal but due to some problems couldn’t make it up and will soon see the lights of tunnel… As Director Jeeva breathed his last, his wife Aneez is wielding megaphone to complete the film and PC Sriram will take care of camera works…

Production: Oscar Movies

Direction: Selva

Starring: Jeevan, Priyamani, Mayilsamy, Livingstone, Pazhani Bharathy and many others.

Music: Srikanth Deva…

An innocent man turning into a gangster never seems to be fade in Tamil cinema and along the same queue comes Thotta, a movie you will hate all the time. Well, expectations were more as duo Director Selvah-Jeevan had rocked with yesteryear super hit movie Naan Avanillai. But the same duo have failed to make up for the expectations among the audiences.

A same old tale of an abandoned youngster turning into a gangster and a girl changing his entire course of life is all Thotta about. Poorly drafted screenplay, vague characters and an annoying direction would be main the limelight of the movie. Each and every serious, emotional and action sequences from director’s perspective turns out to be an annoying comedy.

Seems like Director Selvah never came to the shooting spots demanding for any perfection from the actors and if you would like to confirm this, kindly watch this movie at your own risk.

The film centers on Shanmugam (Jeevan), who suffers a lot in his early days, as his mother dies getting abandoned by her husband. With no one to support his basic needs, a police officers comes to aid adopting him and sooner Shanmugham aka Thotta turns into a gangster and cunning blackmailer.

A serious task binds him together with Nalina (Priyamani) when Thota is urged to acid on her. But Nalina happens to be a good-doer in Shanmugham’s life as she had helped him with money to conduct his mother’s funeral rites. In contrary, Thotta gets more attached with Nalina who has a great ambition of becoming a police officer. On the attempts of fulfilling Nalina’s dreams, he takes up the task of gunning down an union minister in return for a job for Nalina.

But it’s a complicated situation for Shanmugham, when the police commissioner who raised him demands to have intercourse with Nalina.

Well, what happens next narrated in predictable manner forms crux of the story…

Like in his previous films like Kaakha Kaakha and Naan Avanillai, Jeevan does a good job in getting spotted with an action-packed role, but it’s a great disappointment his performance in romance part. He is not seen passionate while romancing with his ladylove.

The most annoying part of the movie is the role of baddies played by Mayilsamy, Livingston and Santhanabharathy. Especially, Mayilsaamy irritates a lot with his comedy tracks that doesn’t make you laugh.

Priyamani does justice to her performance, but her role isn’t convincing and it raises a big question, why she accepts such kind of roles?

Nothing to appreciate about technicians and Srikanth Deva isn’t able to analyze the tastes of audiences: His musical score doesn’t enhance the feel. The same goes with cinematography and editing.

As a whole, Thotta is a movie that you can watch, if you don’t any worthy thing to do.

Bottam – Line : Worst movie of all times

Verdict: Watch it at your own risk…

Production: Blue Waters Movie Makers

Direction: Agathiyan

Star-casts: Vikranth, Bharathi, Vikramaditya, Manivannan, Nizhalgal Ravi and many others.

Music: Premji Amaran

Expectations were more, when Director Agathiyan stepped into Kollywood after a long time with Nenjathai Killadhe. But the film soon becomes a great disappointment putting down our expectations. Despites carrying good script work and convincing characters, Director Agathiyan fails to add good narration and contains dragging screenplay. Vikranth does comes up with moderate performance, but it is not up to the expected level. Bharathi proves herself to be more skillful looking more apt with the role she plays.

Fine! We will have a well-defined analysis of Nenjathai Killadhe, its pros and cons soon after taking a sneak view of synopsis…

Vasan (Vikranth), a chap leading lavish life born to rich parents and Anandhi (Bharathi), a documentary filmmaker have nothing to do with each other. But situations urges destiny to make them meet and the encounters that pushes them together happens in the following manner: Vasan is in deep search of experience and thus gets a striding trip with risky tasks, having lunch in a five star hotel with no mony in his pockets, letting a sex-worker to sleep and then move away from her without even his fingers touching her.

Anandhi, as a part of her documentary project happens to meet the sex-worker and marks with her with an appealing question, ‘ one among many men who remains stunning in her mind?” the appropriate reply rendered by her is Vasan.

With a defying statement that concupiscence usually develops into love affair , Anandhi approaches Vasan does he agree with this line? It’s a contradictory reply from Vasan and now Anandhi challenges him whether he can stay with her for a week time and then decide who keeps up their challenge?

Not Vasan does fall into love with her, inturn we have Anandhi developing an affectionate approach towards him. Negligent in refusing her proposal, Vasan feels her love in Anandhi’s absence after two months. Now Vasan approaches Anandhi proposing his love, but she is already engaged to another chap (Vikramadithya).

Does these contrastive characters unite or not forms the crux of the story…

Director Agathiyan does an impressive task with an unique storyline but that isn’t the same with screenplay. At most part of the film, its more of dragging that makes us take a look at our watch atleast for half-a-dozen times. Does it alone put the film down, but letting loose with few characters makes it more unimposing. Especially, you don’t find it apt with the characterization of protagonist and at the points where he tries to impress Anandhi is again a great disappointment.

Bharathi continues to keep up her performance as she had done in her previous movie Ammuvaagiya Naan. Be it a normal or emotional scenes, she emotes well appearing to be the main limelight. As of other star casts inclusive of Nizhalgal Ravi, Manivannan, Saranya and others have done justice to their roles…

Getting on with technical aspects, its same as dragging screenplay and background score by Yugendran is the only convincing factor we have. Premji’s composing for songs doesn’t make you appreciate him rather gets you annoyed..

Valuating the whole, Nenjathai Killadhe doesn’t add feathers to Agathiyan’s cap and nothing great to say about it.

Verdict: Wanna waste your time for 2 hours? Catch out for this..

Bottom-Line : good work goes in vain

Siddique seems to be more touched by his nativity and fails to realize that wont suit to the taste of Tamil audiences. Well, none can object or deny that his maiden directorial Friends was of a good presentation, but he has to get it clear that audiences aren’t ready to accept when the same things are presented again and again. As of story, screenplay and direction, Siddique does a stupendous job with these aspects. His ability to carry film with a stunning suspenseful screenplay that makes the audiences not to get their attention diverted…. But I am sure if you are gonna answer your mobile between the movie, you will surely get confused of what had happened at that point…

Let us see what this movie is all about. Before starting off with the synopsis, let me frankly tell us this flick isn’t something different for it has been already seen in much of previous Tamil films. But the screenplay takes its all the film to the enhanced level of perfectionism…

The film opens with a tragedy of two bank burglars piercing bullets into an innocent girl. That’s just a prologue and we find Siva Sundaram (Prasanna) getting introduced on the screen. Depicted as an innocent guy, he makes his way towards a local gunda Davidraj (Manoj K Vijayan) for purchasing some narcotic drugs saying that Moorthy had asked him to get it. But soon he hops towards Minister Venkata Sabapathy (Kota Srinivasan) asking for Rs. 5 Crore that Moorthy asked him to do so. Priya (Kavya Madhavan) is a TV Anchor who gets to know about Siva Sundaram’s background that he is the brother of Ram Mohan (Abbas) her brother. But soon things take a great twist as Ram Mohan arrives in the city and sees his brother committing suicide…..

The rest of the story takes you all for fleet of suspense but not an expected thriller indeed…

Speaking about the direction, as mentioned earlier Siddique does a great job in shaping a good flick that has the genre of family entertainer with thriller, suspense, romance and comedy. Again taking up the same point again, Siddique has delivered the film with the taste of Malayalam audiences. Few comedy tracks doesn’t make you feel that they are rib-trickling and sometimes they make you get annoyed…

Prasanna does a moderate effort and please take a note that he doesn’t get suited with Kavya Madhavan for she looks quite matured than him… Kavya does a beautiful job and proves that stylish looks doesn’t mean that one has to wear miniskirts and roam around…

Nice to see Abbas in a different role and hats off to him for boldly choosing a different role for he looks cool with what he has done and Siddique does a wonderful job in shaping his character…

Speaking about the technical aspects, nothing is special to be mentioned here and director should have concentrated a bit on this…

As a whole, Saadhu Miranda will do well in the theatres for there aren’t any other movies to compete with…
 

Bottom Line : Nothing is clear

Production: Kiccha
Story, Screenplay, Dialogues and direction: Kiccha
Star-casts: Sathyaraj, Megha Nair, Goundamani, Shanmugharajan and many others.
Music: Srikanth Deva

Age factors don’t seem to be a great obscure for Sathyaraj and he seems to be cool performing various roles churning out film to film. If he had come up with an exceptional role of a 60 year old man, this flick presents him as a normal hero that’s appealing for masses…

With a simple and already seen script, Thangam is nothing special of its kind, but it’s just a thing that makes it highlighted, comedian Goundamani. This veteran ace comedian backs with an extraordinary comedy tracks and moreover Kiccha perfectly adds the necessary elements of a perfect entertainer…

The story of Thangam goes this way…

The film opens with Thangam (Sathyaraj) getting freed from prison and returning to his hometown. On his way to home back, the flashback what made Thangam to be put behind bars? Delhi Kumar and ‘Pithamaghan’ Mahadevan are good friends who have earned good respects in the village due to their care of well being of village people. Thangam is the son of Delhi Kumar and Mahadevan’s son is Shanmugarajan, but they aren’t friends as their fathers. Shanmugarajan is an evil doer and gets punished by Thangam during most of the times when he attempts for something bad. Waiting for a right chance, Shanmugarajan has his evil deed casted on Thangam is sent behind the bars. After returning from prison after punishment period, Thangam has to face another shock and that’s death of his younger sister for whom he had sacrificed many things… Thangam’s uncle (Goundamani) reveals what had happened to him when he was behind the bars… Soon Thangam vows to take seek revenge on the entire family that had made their lives gloomy….

Kiccha exerting same tempo for the flick wins the laurels, but he is a looser when he misses out of logical aspects. Though filled with lots of absurdities, the entertaining factors doesn’t make audiences’ attention from getting scattered…

Goundamani remains as main limelight right from the beginning till the climax striking with rib-trickling comedy tracks along with Sathyaraj. Megha Nair does justice to her job performing the best and that goes well with other performers too.

Thangam gets back the audience inserting in them a feel of watching a good movie made before a decade like Maman Magal, Pangali and many others…

Srikanth Deva has tuned melodies of his own kind and seems like he has been concentrating only on background scoring…

On the whole, Thangam is a movie that can be watched along with family members to enjoy killing your time. If you felt all over the week with hectic works, you can watch this movie relaxing during the weekend…

Bottom Line : appealing entertainer for massesVerdict: A good entertainer…

Production: On life Network

Story, Screenplay, dialogues and Direction: Mamani

Starring: Anu Haasan, Riyaaz Khan,

Music: Sriram

Cinematography: Chitti Babu

EFX: Raakshai

Editing: G.B. Venkatesh

Art: Veera Samar

Stunt: Power Fast

Tamil cinema has been going through a vivid change of trend with films of new innovative dimensions making their way on the screen. These set of films don’t have songs, unnecessary comedy tracks and other commercial elements, but just with a precise story and powerfully crafted screenplay. Of course, Akku can be grouped under this category of trendsetting flicks. This 90mins film has no songs, comedy tracks and glowering sequences.

Produced by On Life Network, Akku revolves around the conflict between love, life and death. The film opens with young lovers Siva (Ajay) and Bhanu (Sriji) eloping to get married. It’s all a night they spend together as Bhanu’s brother (Rakshai), a terrorist indeed get them alienated. With an attempt to devastate both Siva and City, he sets a bomb inside Siva’s shoes. Now the poor fellow has to keep running and if he halts down, the bomb would explode. Bhanu too is a victim for she is estranged into a dark room.

Right before the dawn, Siva starts running with no preferred destination and sooner group of cops led by assistant commissioner of police (Riyaaz Khan), Bomb squad officer (Anu Haasan) and a group of doctors accompany him with an attempt to save him.

Looks like Director Maamani was inspired by Hollywood movie Cellular and Speed. Fine! That isn’t a great deal here and he must be appreciated for his narration of script. Although the film has a wide lot of flaws, you don’t tend to notice because fast moving screenplay. The most flimsy part in the movie is that how can a person run continuously for 24 hours? It looks more odd and puzzled. It could have been just a scenario from dawn till dusk.

As Shiva keeps running, the media is right on its foot of getting this news directly with a live telecast to the masses. On the other hand, terrorists are not far behind the tracks of Shiva to gun him down. How police and doctors extend their feat in saving his life forms crux of the story.

Role of Raakshay is not just over with his performance in a negative role; his stupendous works in EFX steals the show. Director Mamani proves of his intelligence in not just focusing on the protagonist, for a parallel storyline of how Bhanu is saved by cops are well crafted.

The most blatant flaws in the movie are the way policemen are depicted with their working style at risky spots. Usually, a term (Back Up) is usually followed by cops when they are at risky spots: that is if couple of cops are moving towards a particular direction, the other companions should keep themselves walking reversed by turning to other side. But this is completely missing in all the scenes.

And IT professional calling a nun as madam looks odd. Well, along this hard enduring journey, we have eyes of entire policemen, doctors, media and public turned towards Siva, but none of them are seen in tensed moods. Doctors encouraging Shiva to keep running looks as though he is taking part in a running race. There is no sweat, tensing looks or serious emotions in them.

Misconception of steroids by Doctors is not acceptable. Steroids has its side effects on a person when its continuously taken. Over here, we see doctors saying that injecting steroids into Shiva will have a side effect. Even if it has a side effect, it doesn’t cost more worthy than his life.

If Mamani, his crew of associate and assistant directors had an eye on this, they could have presented this film with more perfection.

Background scoring by Sriram works good for the film, especially in the initial 20 minutes where you don’t see dialogues and only actions. Chitti Babu’s cinematography works a lot of best for the film.

As a whole, though filled with some defects, creative script and good narration moves audiences to edge of their seats, making them feel its worth watching for 90mins.

Bottom – Line : Bold and the beautiful

Verdict: Watch it for different experience