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MURATTU KAALAI MOTION PICTURE ASSESSMENT
Director Selva Bharathi, that has actually given films like Priyamanavale, Vaseegara and also Hi there, has actually made a comeback after a hiatus. His Murattu Kaalai, starring Sundar C, Sneha as well as Sindhu Tolani struck the monitors this week. This movie is the remake of the 1980 incredibly hit Murattu Kaalai that had Rajinikanth in the lead. This remake was to be released in 2010, yet continued to be in cans for lengthy due to an amount of explanations.
With his Kalakalappu having actually become a huge winner, the presumptions from Sundar C are higher. Having said that, this movie, wherein he has reprised the role Rajinikanth wagered in the first, hasn't offered him adequate option to delight the viewers. It looks like the lead pair, Sundar as well as Sneha have actually simply done just what they have actually been advised to do.
The most significant minus of the film is its monitor play, which fails to keep the viewers glued to their seats. Antonio Terzio's cinematography looks not very professional and is unstable. His designs neither look satisfying neither help the design of the movie. Praveen KL and also Srikanth NB's editing and enhancing also fall short to inspire.
Even after investing bunches of money on the producing of the celebration track, neither the faces of the actors neither the collections get registered in the minds of viewers. The quick editing and also a number of cuts have gone awry. Avoidable visual effects as well as solid outcomes too disrupt the movement of the flick.
The tunes by Srikanth Deva does not rise above standard. His strategy of using contradictory backgrounds (like a comic tune for a serious landscape) clearly doesn't go with the mood of the scenes. The tracks also are less pleasing for the ear canals.
Sundar C and also Sneha have the ability to pull huge crowd. However the director has actually underutilized them and all additional entertainers. Vivek, who comes as a girl in the movie, does make the audience laugh in a couple scenes.
On the whole, Murattu Kaalai is a team of really good members led by a low captain.
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Sneha's GOA Tamil Movie Review
Think Goa, you are immediately reminded of fun, frolic, women and wine. Venkat Prabhu’s ’Goa’ is no different as the movie dwells on all these things. With more of a Bollywood feel, the movie is ’funathon’, that is light and breezy all through without any seriousness involved in it.
Venkat Prabhu has managed to keep his reputation intact. Quite like ’Chennai 28’ and ’Saroja’, he doesn’t take himself very serious in ’Goa’ too. All is well but for few hiccups. The movie sets out to explore the changing relationships among the youths including being ‘gay’. But that’s takes very very little of the screen space.
The movie revolves around three youths who sets out on a trip to Goa only with a mission to fall in love with a white woman, get married and go abroad. The twists and turns they come across in their mission makes up the story.
A spoof of few popular Tamil films and songs does add to the merriment. With Premji, Jai and Vaibhav around, one is ensured of fun and frolic. There are some surprises in the form of Sampath Raj, Sneha, Silambarasan and Prasanna.
The movie begins in Pannapuram, a remote village near Madurai (the native place of Venkat Prabhu’s family). Three youngsters Samikannu (Premji Amaran), Vinayakam (Jai) and Ramarajan (Vaibhav) are callous who spend all their time doing nothing. Their acts invite the wrath of the villagers and the village panchayat decides that the three should never meet again in future for the welfare and peace of the village.
The trio decides to run away from the village and spend few days peacefully in Madurai. When they reach their friend’s place they come to know that he has married a foreign woman whom he met in Goa and that he would be flying to London soon. This results in them deciding to try their luck in Goa. They set off with a plan to lure a white woman and marry her.
They come across one Danny (Arvind Akash) who helps them with food and shelter in Goa and expose them to the party culture. Roshini (Piya) a singer in a hotel falls for Vinayakam, while Jesika (Melanie), a white lady follows Samikannu from Madurai attracted by his innocence. Now enters Dany’s friend Jack (Sampath), a gay who has affinity for Danny.
Soon Danny and Jack help the trio get an image makeover and start helping them in their mission. Ramarajan’s life takes a twist after he comes across Suhasini (Sneha), a rich Casino owner in Goa. They get attracted towards each other and eventually get married. But the true colour of Suhasini is revealed and he manages to escape from trouble there with the help of his friends.
Vinayakam is finally convinced by Roshini’s sincere love while Samikannu gets wedlocked with Jesica. After some twists and turns in the story, all ends well and the boys return to their village to start a new life. Vaibhav has a surprise when he lands in Pannapuram in the form of Nayanthara.
Premji Amaran, Jai and Vaibhav have equal screen space and they bring the roof down with laughter. Premji is impressive with his ’familiar one-liners’ while Jai trying to speak in English and Vaibhav getting into trouble for his own acts are appreciable.
Piaa and Aravind Akash have meaty roles to play while it is a surprise to see rough-and-tough Sampath playing a gay. Sneha though appears briefly seems to have shed her ’homely’ image to do a dare bare role. She has done full justice to it. The rest of the cast includes Vijayakumar, Shanmuga Sundaram, Anandhraj, Sathyapriya among others.
Yuvanshankar Raja is the real scene-stealer. A total of 9 songs including Goa theme are peppy and interesting to listen to. Sakthi Saravanan’s camera is equally appealing capturing the sands and sea-shores with clarity.
Goa is Soundarya Rajinikanth’s maiden production venture on behalf of Ocher Picture Productions. Once can applaud her commitment in taking the risk to deviate from the regular run-of-the-mill stuff and try something different.
However on the flip side, the movie might throw some shock to a section of conservative film audience. Also the second half wanders aimlessly and needs an immediate trimming.
At the same time, one has to say that Venkat Prabhu was clear on what he wanted to do on screen and has rightly delivered the same. If you want to unwind yourself, forget all logics and enjoy, then the destination ’G
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Actress Sneha's Amaravathi Movie Review
Film: Amaravathi
Rating: 2.5/5
Banner: Bhavya Creations
Cast: Ravi Babu, Nandamuri Tarakaratna, Bhumika, Sneha, Sindoora, Raghava, Subhashini, Kota, Paruchuri Gopalakrishna, Kasi Viswanath and others
Music: Sekhar Chandra
Fights: Kanal Kannan
Editing: Shankar
Cinematography: Sudhakar Reddy
Director: Ravi Babu
Producer: V Anand Prasad
Release date: 03/12/2009
Ravi Babu is slowly creating a brand for himself with his different approach towards film making. He has now arrived with ‘Amaravathi’ and how chilling and thrilling it has been, let us see.
Story:
The emergency help line 108 gets a call that a nine month pregnant woman’s life is in danger. By the time the staff reaches there, the baby is taken away by cutting the stomach. This is done by a psychopath (tarakaratna). Such things repeat so the special task force gets Venkat (Ravi Babu) to investigate. He manages to catch the killer but then even when the interrogation is going on, similar incidents happen outside. How does that happen? How does Venkat solve the case? All this forms the rest of the story.
Performances:
Tarakaratna:
His face was covered with a mask so that his expressions need not be seen, as long as it was seen, he was showing few blank expressions and did an okay job.
Ravi Babu
As a cop, he did his job. Since he has already proved himself as a director and an actor, he has done justice to his bit.
Sneha
As Ravi Babu’s wife, she has done okay job. Her romantic scene with Ravi Babu gathered a good response from the audience.
Sindoora
As Ravi Babu’s colleague, she looked sleek and stylish. Apart from toting the gun, there was not much she could do in terms of expression or performance. There was not even that much scope for her.
Bhumika
She is as usual, sometimes as a mad girl, sometimes in a graceful manner, her role was very limited.
Others
Kota, Paruchuri, Kasi Viswanadh, Subhashini did their bit as required and added value to the film.
Technical crew
As his previous movies, Ravi Babu has taken ‘Amaravathi’ in a very high quality technical standard. Though he has taken the movie from the start to the end in a gripping manner, fifteen minutes after the interval tends to give an idle time to the audience. After that, he has kept them engaged completely and here and there, he also mixed comedy and showed his sense of humor.
For a thriller movie, background score and cinematography are two very key aspects so both departments did very well. The cinematography gave a mood to the audience while the background score had enough punch and shock moment in it. The dialogues were weak, the screenplay was alright, costumes were hyped, art department was creative, editing was nice but it could have been crisp during the first half.
Analysis
The film ‘Anasuya’ showed heart, kidneys, eyes and other organs being taken away by a psychopath (Ravi Babu) and in ‘Amaravathi’ Tarakaratna came in the role of a baby lifter by cutting the stomach of the pregnant women. But then, the subject of hypnotism, the way it was used for the film and the twists that were deployed using this gave a new feel. The flip side of the coin is some unusually silly things. For instance -
Sneha ‘runs’ to open the door when the bell rings, this when she is 9 months pregnant
The special task force outfit and the office set up, cars, it was obviously a copy of the SWAT teams in the US, how absurd can that be? That could have been realistic
A fat and flabby guy like Raghava goes to catch the psychopath in the climax, is that the fitness levels of the special task force?
The film will appeal to those who like Ravi Babu movies or thriller genre of films. But if you compare it with ‘Anasuya’ then there is disappointment in store for you.
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