YENNAI ARINDHAAL - Movie Review

Hi Folks! Yes...Another “real” tamil movie for us (by us, I mean me J ) action specific movie lovers. And the winner, (so far for new tamil released movies for year 2015) goes to “THALA” Ajith Kumar. (Please do whistle or clap as you read to bring in the mood of cinema tamil movie goers – and don’t be shy!)

The title, YENNAI ARINDHAAL, loosely translated as “IF YOU KNOW ME” or should it rather be “IF YOU KNEW ME” , kinda send the message loud and clear of the main character - Sathyadev played by Ajith Kumar .

Theres 3 specific segments here:

Young Sathyadev – driven by the “itch” to revenge the tragic and innocent death of his father, sathyadev was made to choose between a very fine line in becoming a gangster or police officer, he in the end chooses the good side with the help of his father’s words to do things, “with all your heart” and all good things will fall into place.

Sathyadev – The Cop – Being a police means inviting danger in your own backyard – well for this case specifically his own house. While throughout in his “I am not corrupted police attire”, Sathayadev have busted one too many gangsters ring and eliminated a few (if not killed, thrown in jail to be another convict’s punching bag).

The ISP, also shows (well of course they blend this in as well!) a very human nature in him and this was brought to life by Trisha ( Hemanika )  and throughout this movie she is ever so enchanting being portrayed as modest in beauty – a great change with the ever boob bearing actresses (for almost all bollywood and kollywood movies cheap attempt to pull in crowd) . Hemanika has a child from her previous marriage and Sathyadev instantly consider Esha ( Hemanika’s daughter ) as his own. Despite the arrangement of marriage that was set to be held the next day and with a specific heart wrenching line said by Hemanika on that night – “You have taken half of me and I want you to take me fully” – in reference of her giving Esha to be under Sathyadev’s care, and he to bring Esha along when they exchanged vows the next day. This never happened as the very next day on their supposedly wedding day, the “groom” received shocking news of his bride to be and her father was brutally murdered with multiple slashes (An obvious form of revenge directed towards the policeman, which then made him wonder WHO the killer was for many years to come)

Sathyadev- The Dotting Dad – There will be a specific self-realization and worry that will makes a man change and drop everything just to make sure the person with him is always safe and out of danger, and in this case , it was Esha , the 6 year old girl who became his child. This proves to shows the element of love and bond does exist and without any specific blood ties, people can be family after all. This part of the “father-daughter relationship” throughout this movie moves the audience’s emotion (ok fine I cried, not once, but many times, I admit).

It was beautiful. So just imagine a lioness and if anyone disturbs her cubs... Yes that was it! Die or be Killed (Ahem) – That’s how protective Sathyadev was towards his daughter. And to mess the whole situation, Esha was kidnapped when Sathyadev stumbled into a kidnap/organ harvesting ring while helping to rescue his friend’s daughter. Well of course they pushed in Anushka  Shetty as Thenmozhi ( pronounce as Thenmoli)  into the scene for this climax being the target of the ring who’s heart seems to matched one of the clients who is willing to pay few million crores( filthy right bugger!)  But of course they ended the movie in a very “expected” manner with Esha being rescued and Thenmozhi still gazing with twinkled-eyes at Sathyadev (this was made very obvious throughout the movie – well the element of romance)

Overall: This movie is action-pack thriller. Less music (very very less – which is good!). Logical storyline. Good Line up of actors and by that I mean even Vijay Anand (Victor in the movie) did hell of a good job in this – being the perfect villain who also brutally murdered Hemanika  . This is a perfect comeback movie for him. Vivek is in as well and never fall short with intelligent comedy.

I need to apologize for all Rajinikanth and Vikram as this is by far the best Tamil movie released for year 2015. Looks like I’ll be going back soon to the cinema to watch this again AND again and …sorry folks , no more second viewing for me for “Lingaa” and  “I” movie after this , storing these two movie at the back of the storeroom . No artificial makeovers please. Thala rocks!

LINGAA - Movie Review

Posting this late .. but why not right :)

The much awaited movie which is said to be equivalent (if not the best) from Rajinikanth’s previous hit – Bashaa have been released!  Released on 12^th December (obviously they chose the “thalaiva’s” date of birth!).

The movie starts off with a song with straight line of rib/belly bearing hot chicks from god knows where donned in a skimpy, teeny weeny leather suit (Much to the delight of the audience who started whistling even before Rajini even appeared!- this is also called as eye-candy)

Ok now the storyline – There was a small village called Solaiyur , where Lingaa’s grandparents and parents are originated from . As the flashback shows (yes flashback!) Solaiyur was suffering from severe drought.

But before the discovery of the village’s condition, there was a prince name Raja Lingeswaran who was at that time was very educated and by education was an engineer was serving in the British army. He made his usual rounds and knew that he need to help the people of Solaiyur (all heroes have this heroic criteria of helping the needy, ahem), Next, during the meeting (some sort of meeting with the ministers within the British goverment), Raja Lingeswaran proposes that the village need to build a Dam (and mind you this is after he witness an entire family jumped inside a dried well through his binoculars- some crazy shait). The family committed suicide as they do not have any food and supplies to sustain their growing family. British refuses to help and so Raja Lingeswaran used his own money and with the help of the entire village constructed the entire dam (again in stress that he was by education a certified engineer).

The usual took a turn – the dam was constructed, the villagers were very rich and had full resources to man their own crop and entire living with the help of the dam as it provided never ending source of water, but yes the twist! (They call it intermission in most tamil movies), Raja Lingeswaran was thrown out of the village and live a life of a common man (How ungrateful!)

Anyway, back in the real age, Lingaa is the decendant of Raja Lingeswaran (note that his name is Lingaa – which is short for Lingeswaran – he was named after his grand daddy). He was summoned to go back and help as there was a very evil MP (as we expected- the villain!)  Who wants to get the benefit from the dam that was previously constructed by Lingaa’s engineer grand pappy. So yeah – corruption happen since those days. Initially reluctant to help – as he was a very “talented thief” in the city, he did agree ‘finally” after seeing the hot and spicy belly bearing Anushka who bail him out from jail wearing saree (yeah they can’t resist that)

Entire storyline was interesting BUT... Yeah the BUT. It wasn’t as what everyone expected to be, the way it was done fall short of expectation, there wasn’t any UHMPH impact as in Bashaa. but I’m sure Rajini is not going to complaint much as within 3 days the movie raked in 34 crores – which is equivalent to RM 18 million(gulp!- I won’t be able to see that much in my entire lifetime ) . 

All in all, it is still a good watch especially during this rainy season and all hail thalaiva!