Pongal release 2011

Kerala chips

Kavalan - The story of a young bodyguard who has no job as the villain gone to America, falls in love like Gemini ganeshan and finally marries his real love.

The screenplay and the director touch gives the trick of mixing this simple story line with fights, songs, comedy, making it slow, to make climax interesting. This is the remake of mega hit movie in Malayalam"Bodyguard"

The transformation of Vijay from mass hero to lover boy gives the relaxation and that relaxation from the audience has been sensed as the success of this movie. It is good to see Vijay in love stories and relates to his old hits, mostly love stories as they are apt for his looks.

Of course the signature version of Vijay - the introduction songs with punch lines comes little bit late and punk wig songs as the solace for vijay fans to see him dancing with unusual costumes in unusual locations(Malaysia!!!), all these factors are been forced into this movie to remind the audience that the hero is not Nakul.

The way Asin speaks makes us to check the audio whether it is malayam or tamil. Chechi has lost her looks and joins with trisha et al in the list of old heroines.

The thrilling climax is the total turning point to nail the idea that it is not vijay's movie, it is the director's movie.Well done Siddique!

Overall Saviour for Vijay, after hatrick boxoffice failures of his movies and protest from the theater owners not to release his movie till he settles Rs.8 Cr for the losses. Vijay cames back with success.

Will he campaign for ADMK in the forthcoming election is the MOST question now, then that of how can Kajol and Tabu get padmashri awards!!!

Andhra meals

Siruthai

The story of a policeman and a petty thief who looks alike, and hold the responsibility of the other as the policeman dies.

The initial comedy scene mostly not digestible but what to do lets wait for few more scenes to switch off the movie, fortunately the following scenes are better and makes it watchable at least once after the seriousness of the movie been felt, the game starts when the child calls Rocket raja "Daddy"

The flashback has the strong aroma of Andhra with too much of violence, ignorance, cruelty, vengeance, bravery, which has made interesting sequenced with action comedy in the end with the replace of Rocket raja.

Karthi's presence in dual role has yield the results in making this movie a fast entertainer, with comedies, actions and comedies.

This is the remake of the telugu super hit movie

Madurai chukka varuval

Aadukalam - the story of Godfather's betrayal to his newly successful successor.

In the era of XBox, PSP, Wii game console this movie grandiosely talks about cock fighting(koli sandai), you have history to stress the importance of this game for Tamilians, narration says so with evidence in the beginning with threatening Kamal's voice(??!!)

Tokyo, London or LA cannot be the venue to shoot this movie, where else the crew can go besides Madurai for this story. Hence the movie has been taken in and around madurai to get the feel of the theme, it was a right decision.More than that they have added sourashtra dialogue in the first 30mts of the movie to bring more closeness to Madurai for me.

Dhaush has been very clever in choosing the right role for him, this movie has taken him to a big role to perform which he had done correctly, he made us to believe that the character was lively, with limited costume of lungi, and shirit.

Even in the era of Xbox, PSP, Wii game console, this movie has proved that cock fighting scenes can also bring sentation in the big screen, which gives the ultimate thrill of the game, especially the thrid time when the cock fighting against the Bangalore cock, if it is hollywood, they would have come out with video games to come up with this idea of cock fighting or Rooster booster video games in the market..where as for tamil movie goers, we have the new taste of cock fighting instead of the repeation of bull fight(jallikattu) which has been seen many times in the movies, cock fighting been first time has given more new ventures to the Tamil movie industry.

Director Vetrimaaran of Polladavan fame has shown the same dark shots, with the sharp frame of narration by utilizing all the characters very nicely like vettaikaran, dorai, new heroine as Anglo indian, he has sent the right mood for the film, too much of violence in the climax shows the anger of the character, most brilliant direction is when the twist happens to be the vettaikaran who becomes a natural villian to regain the status which he had lost.