There is always a hype and craze when a Maniratnam movie releases in town and similarly during the release of this movie, Kaatru Veliyidai where it received a mixture of reviews after his superhit OK Kanmani which released couple of years ago.
This flick has actor Karthi and Aditi Rao Hydari in the lead supported by Rukmani, RJ Balaji,Delhi Ganesh and many new faces. The movie was mainly shot in the snowy regions around Jammu Kashmir, Leh Ladakh and Pakistan.
Maniratnam has tried to pull off an 'Alai Payuthe' Madhavan and 'Ok Kanmani' Dulquer from Karthi, which didnt come out as expected I feel. Also the characterization and screenplay were not that strong nor interesting like Mani's earlier record breaking films.
And the plot itself resulted as negative as it resembles many of his earlier movies like Roja, Uyire and the terrorism, fights between muslims & hindus in Bombay movie, etc. The hero's characterization was also a cliche Maniratnam hero which we have seen in many movies.
Infact the movie takes off well showing the struggles and happenings around India's border and how our arm forces strive hard to keep us safe. The airplanes, fighter planes, the runways and the airports do excite us. But more importantly the scenes happening between the hero and heroine fails as we couldn't understand them properly and enjoy the narration. I really liked Karthi's acting in the climax where he hits a sixer on seeing his own daughter which he didn't know was born to him. He keeps fighting with Aditi and his egoistic nature she hates and tries to move away from him and Karthi goes in search of her resembles Alai Payuthe movie where Madhavan goes fin search of Shalini to Kerala and finds her in a medical camp.Also I liked Karthi's performance when he tries to escape from the Pakistan jail. But to see him throughout the movie as VC was a bore.
Aditi Rao Hydari as female lead has definitely done justice as a debutant, she resembles hansika in few instances and is good at emoting but looks little old for the role. Some of her dialogues and scenes resembled the superhit 'Sakthi' character played by Shalini in Alai Payuthe.
And RJ Balaji was also not used properly. He is definitely a better actor.
Rukmani is good in her dance moves though she doesnt have much scenes to prove her acting skills and she was infact not at all needed for this movie.
The plus point of the movie was A.R.Rahman's music and songs and the cinematography.
The movie runs in a non-linear pattern front and back. My favourite portion in the movie was Azhagiye song.
Overall the movie couldn't match the hype. Its an one time watchable entertainer.
This flick has actor Karthi and Aditi Rao Hydari in the lead supported by Rukmani, RJ Balaji,Delhi Ganesh and many new faces. The movie was mainly shot in the snowy regions around Jammu Kashmir, Leh Ladakh and Pakistan.
Maniratnam has tried to pull off an 'Alai Payuthe' Madhavan and 'Ok Kanmani' Dulquer from Karthi, which didnt come out as expected I feel. Also the characterization and screenplay were not that strong nor interesting like Mani's earlier record breaking films.
And the plot itself resulted as negative as it resembles many of his earlier movies like Roja, Uyire and the terrorism, fights between muslims & hindus in Bombay movie, etc. The hero's characterization was also a cliche Maniratnam hero which we have seen in many movies.
Aditi Rao Hydari as female lead has definitely done justice as a debutant, she resembles hansika in few instances and is good at emoting but looks little old for the role. Some of her dialogues and scenes resembled the superhit 'Sakthi' character played by Shalini in Alai Payuthe.
And RJ Balaji was also not used properly. He is definitely a better actor.
Rukmani is good in her dance moves though she doesnt have much scenes to prove her acting skills and she was infact not at all needed for this movie.
The plus point of the movie was A.R.Rahman's music and songs and the cinematography.
The movie runs in a non-linear pattern front and back. My favourite portion in the movie was Azhagiye song.
Overall the movie couldn't match the hype. Its an one time watchable entertainer.
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