Direction: Shankar
Music: A. R. Rahman
I know it’s quite very late for writing a Sivaji Review. Though I had watched the movie 2 weeks back itself, my offline status from blogging has permitted to write a review after so many days. And as I always say, better late than never :P I watched the movie in San Jose, in Camera 3 cinemas. It is right in center of San Jose downtown, in quite a nice place. I was on time for the show and there was a long queue waiting to get inside the theatre. (Though it was nothing when compared to India) The show started at 1.10 PM. (It was scheduled at 1 PM ;-))
The movie was quite good, a good entertainer for a time pass, though I would say from the expectations that I had built up on a Shankar and Rajini combo, it fell little short. Mainly for two reasons:
1. There were not much of Shankar's thoughtful ideas seen in the film. Getting the knots undone was simply a matter of super heroism.
2. The theme was on similar lines of Shankar's old social themes. Nothing fresh or unseen about the theme.
Having said that, if we leave all expectations aside and sit for 3 hours free minded, we can really enjoy the movie to the fullest. There is surely guaranteed fun unlimited.
Rajini was at his full fledged action, be it comedy or stunts or styles. But the fact that he has grown very older is too very evident in many scenes, the blitzkrieg style action was really missing. For an actor if his age, he had done a very good job.
Shreya has atlast got a chance to prove her critics wrong, and has displayed equal good amount of skin and skills :P Supporting cast had done a good job, especially, Vivek was seen back in good form. The villain Suman was just okay. I couldn't get the feel of a powerful villain in him pitted against Rajini, like Raghuvaran in Baasha and Ramya Krishnan in Padayappa.
The "motta boss" climax fight was no good either as everyone claimed, except for Rajini's get up, I felt it was the worst climax in any Shankar film. Not impressive atleast for me!
Songs are main strengths of the film, especially Vaaji vaaji and Sahara Pookal. The other good one was Adhiradi kaaran by Lawrence. Style song was good only for Prabhudeva's excellent choreography. The intro song is a big big let down, brickbats to Brindha was totally messing up with a crappy choreography inspite of having a sexy Nayanthara and beautiful locales and properties. Even Rajini's steps were like making evident of the fact that he has become old. Very bad attempt of an intro song for a super star!
Stunts on the other hand were also good and executed well. Comedy by Vivek and Rajini was good in the first half, but a lot of scenes introduced in the name of comedy were ultimate mokkais. There were unintentional comedies too. For instance, the whole theatre laughed for Rajini's dialogues like "Give me a break yeah" and "Software system Architect" :P
The movie has very good production values and star values and its undoubtedly the biggest movie of the year. Still, I felt that it was like idly-vada eaten with tomato sauce. Everything is great, but still, something missing on the whole :))
To end it all: Sivaji - Sooperji!!! :D
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