Tamil blog­gers praised the movie Nadodigal,Pasanga blindly. I had checked the same in the­atre and was dis­ap­pointed as they were just aver­age movies. Sim­i­larly, for Kan­thaswamy – I pre­pared myself to watch this movie with­out much inter­est, in a the­atre. Sur­pris­ingly, the movie was not as bad as it was pre­sented in the reviews or in blogs. Moral of the movie is

Let me keep this review short [ த‌ப்பிச்ச‌ம்டா !]. Some myth­i­cal char­ac­ters are always attrac­tive. One such char­ac­ter is Robin hood. The con­cept is catchy – steal­ing from the rich and serv­ing the same to poor. Fight­ing injus­tice and doing good. Till date, we have so many movies based on this con­cept. In fact, all the movies [ end­ing with ‘n’ ] of Shankar had the same old con­cept of Robin hood. It started way back from Kongu nattu thangam, Nee­la­malai thiru­dan, Malaikallan, Karuppu Panam. So don’t worry about the story.

 

The movie fan should not search for same Will Smith of ‘Enemy of the state’ in the other film ‘The pur­suit of hap­pi­ness’ or vice-versa. They are dif­fer­ent. Kan­thasamy is a fan­tasy thriller type [ like Ayan]. For me, a good film never makes me to check for time or look for killing time in the the­ater. Nei­ther Ayan nor Kan­thasamy did that. It was good.

Plot

If you have already seen Guru, Gen­tle­man, Ramana, Sivaji, Anniyan that’s more than enough. The mak­ing and looks, make the film to watch it interestingly.

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The film got a good script and inter­est­ing sequences. The screen pres­ence of Vikram is con­vinc­ing and good in this film. He is basi­cally from mod­el­ling and that helps him a lot in this kind of ‘looks’ based movie [ like Billa 2007 ]. He works as CBI offi­cer and the robin hood who does the money dis­tri­b­u­tion part. He fit the role per­fectly and could have done even more rich dress­ing.[ the best cos­tumes, I have seen is in ‘Oceans 11′ — Classic ].

Inter­est­ingly, the Thiru­porur tem­ple has been used in this movie. It’s a risky theme to play with tem­ple and people’s belief in the sys­tem. For­tu­nately, Susi Gane­san has han­dled the game clev­erly, con­vinc­ing the audi­ence. He eas­ily got the pos­si­ble ele­ments of a spy/action thriller. For the first time, the direc­tor jus­ti­fies the way all the gim­micks done by a hero – logic’s of fly­ing, make-up and using intel­li­gence. The same old char­ac­ters of a Don film fol­lows the story like CBI Direc­tor, another higher rank police offi­cer, Vil­lain, Villain’s sec­re­tary, club dance [ அட‌ ..அட‌.. :) ].

Inter­est­ingly, Sreya looks far bet­ter in this movie [ A mole in the left cheek too ! — padam review ezhud­hu­daan­naa :) ]. Don’t think very cheap about me prais­ing Sreya for ” Miyaav Miyaav” dances. [ முமைத்கான் பேர் போட்டாங்க‌.. ப‌ட‌மே முடிஞ்சிடும் போலிருக்கே ! :) ]. I con­sider the work of Devi Sri Prasad as not up to the mark. I could still remem­ber the songs/re-recording of Haris Jayaraj in Vet­taiyadu Vel­laiyadu – It was so apt as hav­ing an ATM in the entrance of a big shop­ping mall [ Ha..ha..]. DSP lacks the inter­est in the BGM and only 2 songs were good. Oth­er­wise he depends on loud music [ high deci­bel hin­drances. ]. Had the movies got a bet­ter music direc­tor, the out­put might have been entirely dif­fer­ent. DSP’s music is not match­ing the movie – they look detached as the vibuthi kungu­mam stand in Anjap­par hotel [ ஆமாம் .. அது எதுக்கு அங்க‌ வைக்க‌றாங்க‌ ?!? ]. The tech­ni­cal part of the movie is good – espe­cially, the Mex­ico sequences.

Don’t ask for logic in action movies. It’s sad that our crit­ics also ask for a “mes­sage”, after watch­ing the eye catch­ing dances of Sreya [ இப்ப‌ தான்டா புரியுது !]. I don’t want to get into the col­lec­tion sta­tis­tics, Vikram, Dhanu or Abi­rami Ramanathan [ Chen­nai dis­trib­u­tor for this film ]. Because, I was dis­heart­ened to see 150 days life size flex ban­ner for the movie ‘KURUVI‘ in Sathyam the­atre [என்ன‌ கொடுமை சர‌வ‌ணா இது]. I nei­ther liked Anniyan nor Sivaji [ except Songs and Rajini ] but Susi Gane­san has def­i­nitely done a bet­ter job than Shankar. Actor Prabhu has become Tamil cinema’s sen­ti­ment as the films were hit with him doing a sup­port role [ Billa, Ayan ]. I liked the SUVs used in the Mex­ico sequences [ Toy­ota Prado, Nis­san Armada — won­der­ful one ]. Have you seen ‘Cadil­lac Escalade‘ ? That’s mine :)

Yes ! There are flaws in this film like Vikram’s unnecessary/forced getup(s) like the lady, old man, etc., First, I was won­der­ing why Susi Gane­san did a small role in this film. It’s a bud­get rea­son – instead of tak­ing an artist to Mex­ico, they might have felt the direc­tor can do the role :) .Susi gane­san in an inter­view said that instead of tak­ing the same Rowdy/Madurai /Village/Thiruvizhaa Avyinga/Ivyinga based movies, he has tried the repeated story with 30 new scenes ! Though I dis­agree with his state­ment, I can say it’s a good enter­tainer. The only cau­tion is if you have grownup kids, the glam­our part is too much. [ not for us :) ]. For kids, I would sug­gest ‘ICE AGE 3′ the 3D ver­sion in Sathyam theatre.

:)

–Toto.