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For a beginning, don't go to the theaters expecting another Panchathantiram or Thenali. This movie is altogether different from those other KSR - Kamalahassan combo movies. This is somewhere in between Anbe Sivam and Panchathantiram. A movie with a message plus comedy. A feel good movie. Just sit back, relax and enjoy the cruise....
The Story
Ambu@Nisha (Trisha) is a popular actress and is engaged to Madhanagopal (R.Madhavan), a successful and rich businessman. A series of misunderstanding during the shooting for the "Oyyale" song with Suriya leads to a quarrel inside a brand new Hummer that Madhan bought specially for Ambu. And the quarreling lead to an accident with another car. Both of them were safe but no one knows what happened to the other car. The fight between the two ends as Ambu decided to take a break for holiday in France together with her childhood friend and divorcee Deepa (Sangeetha) and her two kids.
And now enters our universal hero Major R.Mannar (Kamalahassan) as a private detective sent by Madhan to spy on Ambu. As a return Madhan is to pay for the medical fees for Mannar's friend Rajan (Ramesh Aravind) who is suffering from cancer.
After a series of investigation, Mannar confirmed that Ambu is clean, loves only Madhan and is not flirting with any other guys. Madhan who is now a relieved man, backstabbed Mannar by refusing to pay the medical fees for Rajan since Mannar could not find any fault on Ambu.
Desperate to pay the bills for Rajan, Mannar decided to play a game by lying that Ambu is seeing a man.This made Madhan furious and ordered Mannar to continue the investigation and he promised to settle the bills.
How and where the lies leads form the crux of the movie.Will Madhan end up marrying Ambu? What was the significant of the car accident in the movie? Well, watch the movie to find out how the movie ends..
The Characters
As for the characters in the movie, all of them played the roles to perfection. Madhavan was simply superb and played the character to perfection.Suspicious and drunkard. A perfect casting for this movie. However, he did look like he gained a few kilos. Trisha spoke in her own voice for the first time and I do hope she will continue to do so in future. Acting along side with Kamal is no mean task and she managed to pull it off successfully.Sangeetha as a divorcee, money minded, a good friend and a mother was really good. A very special mention to Ramesh Aravind as the cancer patient. His acting was awesome! You can really feel the pain that he is going through in the movie.Oorvasi as Ramesh Aravind's wife acted in a serious role after some time. And not forgetting the kid who acted as Sangeetha's son, I believe he has a bright future and we might get to see him in a few more movies. Well, as you can see I did not comment on KamalaHassan's performance.err...do we need to comment on his performance?? Everyone knows how good he is and what can I say? Good to see that Kamal managed to reduce his weight and we can't see his belly anymore.hehehe..Kudos for Gauthami for his costumes selection. My personal favorite would be the black shirt and pants he wore during the stage show (the theme music). First time I saw someone wearing a Transitions lenses in a Tamil movie. :P I'm wearing one, but I am not acting in any movies. LOL!
Whoever came up with the idea of showing the flashback scene in reverse mode in "Neela Vaanam" is brilliant. I assume it should have came from Kamal himself.Notice that Kamal will be singing normally but their action will be in reverse. Cool!
The Music and Background score
All the songs seems to be well placed and some songs runs in the background ("Who's the Hero" and "Manmadhan Ambu") so, feels like it does not distract the flow of the movie.The first song ("Boogolam"- was not in the Audio CD) during the beginning was nice and soothing to the ears. Background score was apt for the movie. I taught "Kamal Kavithai" was removed from the movie but strangely found it ways into the theaters. Perhaps it was removed only in India. "Neela Vaanam" is my all time favorite song from DSP so far. The lyrics of the song is awesome. As for the music, Devi Sri Prasad (DSP), well done!
Summary
Overall, this is a movie about love, friendship,betrayal, the suffering of a cancer patient with a sprinkle of comedy. The movie takes it own sweet time to progress until the interval. It will be much faster during the second half and towards the ending it was really funny. This is a story based movie where each characters of the movie is well etched so there is no illogical scenes or unneccessary scenes in the movie except for two. One, the bullfight scene. I felt it was a bit silly. Maybe it was just me. Two, when Madhan confess his love during the climax, I felt it was a bit unbelievable. Maybe it was because he was drunk? I don't know. When Sangeetha confesses her love, it was a bit more belieable as she was more of a money oriented person and drunk. What am I talking about?? hehe..go and watch the movie yourself.
NOTE :
1. Please do not compare this movie with Endhiran as both are in a different league altogether.
2. You will enjoy the movie if you dont set your expectation too high.
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