Have you read the prequel to this? And the Tamil Review?
Now that you well and truly want the K review, here we go.
Man! I have never had an experience, as 'interesting' as watching Kandasamy.
('Interesting' is an euphemism that the Russians usually use to describe anything that is screwy)
Otherwise, How can you explain watching a movie that has
* Batman (all those logical contraptions)
* Phantom (the spear tattoo on the victim's faces)
* Bourne-series (nifty - no, not NIFTY! this is an English word - use of computers to transact billions)
* Shakira music video (Allegra! rocks...)
* Numerous Kung Fu movies which extol the virtues of blind-fold fighting
* Robinhood (Prince of thieves, not Men in tights ;-)
* Sivaji (the numbers are much bigger here! Depending on who you ask, it goes from 30000 cr to 125 Lakh cr ....)
* RamaNa (there it was the college; here it is the high-school; next movie will tap kindergarten - remember Aegan's review?)
Story: CBI Officer Vikram robs the rich to help 300,000 families masquerading as a Cock (hmmm). He plays cat and mouse love game with Shreya when not acting as the bull in the china shop hammering away the untold riches of the baddies. As the Russkies say, 'Interesting'.
Vikram: A cool dude performance. Has slogged butt and looks dashing. Even sings well...And I want that mask!
Shreya: The Allegra girl has probably done her best role to-date. The hairdo, voice (dubbed of course! Suchitra?), skimy outfits everything oozes with attitude with a capital A!
Music: DSP's tunes will rule the FM world until Enthiran. All songs are Item numbers. Period. (If it is not Shreya, it is Mumaith!) - Can he stop referring himself as DSP? It is opening the painful scars of the Digital Signal Processing examination in 8th Semester :-
Editing: Quite cool. Lots of jump cuts; fast and slow at the same time. Inspite of that, the movie is long :-(
Cinematography: Hard-hitting; Different and desperate colours combinations in Chennai, Mexico, songs... good show Ekambaram!!!
Now for some awards:
Highest Small Scale Industry Impact Award (HSSIIA): All the Robinhood money is being delivered in the black plastic bags. So, this award goes to the producer - for getting all those plastic bags and ensuring that at least one small scale industry thrived! But the police missed a trick there, I feel. If Vikram & Co. deliver the money in those bags to the 300,000 families - that is a bulk order of bags, mate! To paraphrase the immortal line from that movie "All the President's Men" - "Follow the Bags!"
Cultrual High Imagination Medallion (CHIM): To Director Susi Ganeshan for making the 'Symbol of Tamilnadu' Mukesh Tiwari to do a pole dance. Wow! Heard that this movie is going to be dubbed into English, Italian, Spanish etc.. They will love that portion in San Francisco... Don't bend to pick up a dropped quarter in 'Frisco, they say!
Hollywood Or Kollywood Award (HOKA): Jointly shared by the Editor, Cinematographer and Production Designer The graphics and gadgets are very believable and enjoyable. Key stroke tracker; signature lifter - Super! You even have the mandatory iphone email floating around!! Very seamless and unobtrusive. Hollywoodish... (Have to find out which company did the software... May be they have an opening...)
Pizza Rules Cross (PRC): Have to find out who wrote that 'Dupe' song. The guy puts all those 'yucky rural food' down and says that Pizzas are the tops!! Aye, Aye, Sir! (Found out: Viveka; he even jams one part of the song.)
Piercing Pin Puraskar(PPP): To Mumaith. That is a very interesting place to have a piercing...oooooh! LoL!!
Alt-I Reward (AIR): To Vadivel. Heard that his entire piece is an insert in the movie, as an after-thought. The guy brings down the theatre – with all of its 70 people, on many occasions. Pandi knocked his head on the seat in front while laughing out loud, ouch! I could not understand many a thing that the guy blabbers. But may be my Judgement is Wrong ;-))
Overall: A good Hollywood-ish Movie + 7 songs + 20 minutes of Vadivel Inserts... Well, I will enjoy the 2nd time as well...
Now that you well and truly want the K review, here we go.
Man! I have never had an experience, as 'interesting' as watching Kandasamy.
('Interesting' is an euphemism that the Russians usually use to describe anything that is screwy)
Otherwise, How can you explain watching a movie that has
* Batman (all those logical contraptions)
* Phantom (the spear tattoo on the victim's faces)
* Bourne-series (nifty - no, not NIFTY! this is an English word - use of computers to transact billions)
* Shakira music video (Allegra! rocks...)
* Numerous Kung Fu movies which extol the virtues of blind-fold fighting
* Robinhood (Prince of thieves, not Men in tights ;-)
* Sivaji (the numbers are much bigger here! Depending on who you ask, it goes from 30000 cr to 125 Lakh cr ....)
* RamaNa (there it was the college; here it is the high-school; next movie will tap kindergarten - remember Aegan's review?)
Story: CBI Officer Vikram robs the rich to help 300,000 families masquerading as a Cock (hmmm). He plays cat and mouse love game with Shreya when not acting as the bull in the china shop hammering away the untold riches of the baddies. As the Russkies say, 'Interesting'.
Vikram: A cool dude performance. Has slogged butt and looks dashing. Even sings well...And I want that mask!Shreya: The Allegra girl has probably done her best role to-date. The hairdo, voice (dubbed of course! Suchitra?), skimy outfits everything oozes with attitude with a capital A!
Music: DSP's tunes will rule the FM world until Enthiran. All songs are Item numbers. Period. (If it is not Shreya, it is Mumaith!) - Can he stop referring himself as DSP? It is opening the painful scars of the Digital Signal Processing examination in 8th Semester :-
Editing: Quite cool. Lots of jump cuts; fast and slow at the same time. Inspite of that, the movie is long :-(
Cinematography: Hard-hitting; Different and desperate colours combinations in Chennai, Mexico, songs... good show Ekambaram!!!
Now for some awards:
Highest Small Scale Industry Impact Award (HSSIIA): All the Robinhood money is being delivered in the black plastic bags. So, this award goes to the producer - for getting all those plastic bags and ensuring that at least one small scale industry thrived! But the police missed a trick there, I feel. If Vikram & Co. deliver the money in those bags to the 300,000 families - that is a bulk order of bags, mate! To paraphrase the immortal line from that movie "All the President's Men" - "Follow the Bags!"
Cultrual High Imagination Medallion (CHIM): To Director Susi Ganeshan for making the 'Symbol of Tamilnadu' Mukesh Tiwari to do a pole dance. Wow! Heard that this movie is going to be dubbed into English, Italian, Spanish etc.. They will love that portion in San Francisco... Don't bend to pick up a dropped quarter in 'Frisco, they say!
Hollywood Or Kollywood Award (HOKA): Jointly shared by the Editor, Cinematographer and Production Designer The graphics and gadgets are very believable and enjoyable. Key stroke tracker; signature lifter - Super! You even have the mandatory iphone email floating around!! Very seamless and unobtrusive. Hollywoodish... (Have to find out which company did the software... May be they have an opening...)
Pizza Rules Cross (PRC): Have to find out who wrote that 'Dupe' song. The guy puts all those 'yucky rural food' down and says that Pizzas are the tops!! Aye, Aye, Sir! (Found out: Viveka; he even jams one part of the song.)
Piercing Pin Puraskar(PPP): To Mumaith. That is a very interesting place to have a piercing...oooooh! LoL!!
Alt-I Reward (AIR): To Vadivel. Heard that his entire piece is an insert in the movie, as an after-thought. The guy brings down the theatre – with all of its 70 people, on many occasions. Pandi knocked his head on the seat in front while laughing out loud, ouch! I could not understand many a thing that the guy blabbers. But may be my Judgement is Wrong ;-))
Overall: A good Hollywood-ish Movie + 7 songs + 20 minutes of Vadivel Inserts... Well, I will enjoy the 2nd time as well...
2 comments:
mmm... interesting... not the russian way !!
Truly , kandasamy was a big let down for the first half ..just for the fact that i saw in thiyagaraja for 50 Rs, i was able to pass through the 2 nd half ..
I feel the trailer itself was a let down . This is no super hero story -just a combination of all , and it was just OK in the end .
In contrast , i loved EEram - not for the thrills , but for the film making , very rarely whole some !- Charactersiation and thrills are 180 degree out of phase , but the director has successfully managed to make it resonant !
My review for the same at
http://mumbairamki.blgspot.com
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