ENTHIRAN ( ROBO ) – Review

Enthiran is the first movie directly produced by SUN Pictures. They have proved time n before that not only a movie well made will reach but also a movie that is well promoted. With all the BIG names in the field to their advantage, have taken the promotion to the next level. Their promotion has made most audiences say either “hey have seen the movie…..Its Awesome” proudly or in a manner to restain their pride say “Hey have got tickets for @#$@# show ….n heard the movie is great”. That’s the Good part of the excess promotion. There another set of audience stating that “the movie must have come out as a crap, that’s y they are spending so much on promotion”. Lets check which set of audiences have got it right.
Story n Screenplay – It’s a Good story. Vasi (Scientist) creates a robot named Chitti to serve humans better. As a part of his research to upgrade the robot to make it think humans beyond skin and flesh, he inserts humane emotions to Chitti. Chitti. On an occasion Chitti is affectionately kissed by Sana (Vasi’s Girl friend) for saving the lives of a mother and a child. This sparks the newly added feature Love for the robot Chitti on Sana. And it does all possible things to its strength to get her. As I have said in the first line this is not a great story, but a good one for sure. Now lets try replacing the whole robot thing with a friend of Vasi (Scientist). That a guy’s friend falls in love with the guy’s girl friend due to the innocent action of the girl. Now the story sounds very normal. So we all must understand that the story is ROBOT. As the story is all about the ROBOT, first half majorly was used to portray that Chitti is better than us and girls love man-made dolls more than the men itself , and the second half was used to portray that how destructive Chitti can turn into and how the scientist beats his creation and its creations to return love to his girl and peace to the state. Screen play could have added lot more pace to the movie esp. with Rajini devotedly gave up all his image based scenes for Shankars story. But thats were the movie misses out majorly. The scene were Chitti chases down a mosquito and talks to it, could have been avoided if not the length atleast must have reduced. Seemed like the mosquitos had more dialogues than santhaanam or karunaas. Moreover, Shankar is into a habit having 5 songs picturised for a movie whether they all are needed or not. As the expense incured in the picturizing of the songs are high he is forced not to let them off. These end up slowing down the pace of the movie.
Character Utilization – This story revolves around 3 characters – Vasi, Sana and Chitti. And for the story build up the head scientist role has been used handsomely. The assistant roles played by santhaanam and karunaas , the by passer role by kalaabaan mani n many more were of no great plus to the movie. Rajini as a actor has done great in this movie. Guess Shankar didn’t realize that greatly, as he chose to prolong the graphics shows to rajini’s ultimate acting at the climax which could made a huge difference. Ash was excellent and attracted the audiences to an level that she convinced us that she could have easily attracted a robot too.
Make-Up, Special Effects and Camera– One must agree that Enthiran introduced a never before graphics show for Indian cinema. Make up for the Robot is remarkable. The efforts taken to hide any bulged visible nerves around wrist and neck or human-like skin shrinks has to be mentioned. Care taken to the core here. Ash was on her best of looks to attract even an electronic box as needed. But then at many points Vasi’s mustache or beard looked like school drama ones. As the Camera had to let the graphic people work on it, had some restrictions. Still when it comes to no special effect scene or songs, camera has captured us brightly. Esp., the songs have been captured brilliantly. On the whole, Make – Up ,special effects and Camera take a bow.
Music – Songs & BGM – songs were all quite pleasing and rocking as the situations demanded. But when some of the major scenes came up on screen, the BGM didn’t back the visuals. BGM was good, but good isn’t enough for a visually great movie.
On the whole this is yet another Rajini & Shankar movie, expected to take us for a ride at lightening speeds but then ended up at thundering speeds…

MY RATINGS
Story & Screenplay - 0.5 (1.0)
Music -0.6 (1.0)
Camera, Special Effects and Make-up -0.7 (1.0)
Character Utilization -0.5 (1.0)
Actors and Acting -0.8 (1.0) [Rajini scored the most here]

In my opinion, Enthiran gets 3.1/5.0

- Rajesh

Naan Magaan Alla - Review (3.8/5)

Naan Magaan Alla is pretty good movie. Actually the movie has got one of the best screenplays in recent times of Tamil cinema and I am sure that this movie will receive an award for the same. Music and Camera were equally good too. On the whole this is a Good movie, I would suggest it as a must watch. Esp. for making a Good Commercial movie is quite hard, where the only attraction would be its screenplay. Its NOT POSSIBLE to provide something new in every movie, we must be ready to accept that.

First Half – Breezy nicely scripted part. Camera was mostly bright with karthi related scenes and used a different shade for villains which was quite appreciable. Songs were good. As this is not a movie for love, one can’t expect a better ‘Falling in Love’ Explanation even then it is a lot better than Pollaadhavan in this part.
At no part of the movie was the heroine used as a ‘C’ Class attraction like in Pollaadhavan. Hero – Heroine interactions were good, none where too cinematic. The director took real good care in portraying the heroine as a beautiful girl and not as a sexy one. Family scenes were quite realistic. And most importantly an intermission point where both the shades of the movie start to mix was awesome. (any interval scene must drive some eagerness into the audience – which it did)

Second half - This is were the screenplay takes on. In scenes like karthi chasing the bad-uncle character, the camera has taken a step over the screenplay. Karthi’s father death was portrayed in best manner avoiding ppl crying like hell or disturbing the audience with the rituals conducted or some irrelevant music. It was all perfect, did nicely set up the mood change for audience. Kajal could proudly say that she has played the most decent and clean sheet role in a quite possible violent commercial movie. Kajal, who fills the screen mostly with karthi in first half is nicely left out in second half. With final fight as expected, but power packed in forms of music(bgm), camera and the threat/fear shown in each characters face.

PFB my ratings for – NAAN MAGAAN ALLA

Story(1) - 0.4
Screenplay(1) - 0.85
Music(1) - 0.8
Camera(1) - 0.85
Characterizations and characters utilization(1) - 0.9

Overall – 3.8/5

- RaveN