Originally Posted by MusicIsLife
Watched the movie yesterday in Phoenixville PA. one hour drive from my house.
After much expectations, being ardent RK fan it seems there was much lost than gained.
Movie started great, the songs are good heard outside than in the theatres. Ballelakha did not have a punch, so will surely not have any place as all time intro for RK in a movie. Movie was dragging, the comedy was just OK, it was desperate attempt by shankar to move the first half of the movie, if shankar had concentrated just a bit in the first just to make a good screenplay, it would have been gr8. Some wow's showing the plight of India was awesome, some parts of ARR music, RK, Shreya (damn the girl is sexy and awesome) and Shankar in some parts of imagining a almost fiction, song picturization of Style, Sahana and Athiradee.
Some questions:
It is very simply stupid to run a movie with an idea of a Defabrilator.
He is a Software System Architect, and has 200 Crore (how the hell did he manage to do it)
If he is such an intellect, the comedy that scenes that ensues were just cheap, sometimes making one feel irked (especially Solomon Pappaya's comment about 2 girls and showing them black, RK how could you allow this? it was such a demeaning act).
Another wow was Mottai Boss, but the gr8 thing was the super comedy timing in that.
Suman was wasted somehow. the fights were totally random not needed, it did not even show RK's quickness and the ferociousness.
Since it is a music forum, i will go back to music,
BGM was not a remarkable one, it is sub-standard (comparing ARR's BGM's). I really would love the songs (may be the videos) nothing much, Ballelakha just for Nayan.
The Rap is OK, i really like Baba rap for some reason more than this one (atleast it stuck a chord with me immediately).
I am still questioning myself to disbelief, why was such a good story lost somewhere, it was a loooooong drag.
But being an RK fan, i have to love the movie, Goog that it is not a Naatukkuoru Nallavan or Kodi Parakudhu or Adhisiya piravi, I am relieved.
And another thing, what made shankar take them nearly 2 years to make this movie? pondering,questioning and it is utter disbelief.
Probably if the movie came 2 years early, it would have made my expectations low and loved the movie more!!