This film made a great impact with a message in spite of the attention it garnered being a silent movie made after 3 decades. When people have to take to streets to bring awareness on pollution due factory residues and the fight against sterlite, this movie just hits the core. Just shows how powerful a cinema can be.
When one goes to a theatre for entertainment, the movie maker also tries to give that to the maximum and rake in profit. But here is a movie which is a fantastic mixture of enjoyable cinema with the much needed thought provoking base.
A good batting track is laid down by the Director with a strong backing script. The DoP and Music director have taken advantage of it. They have played each ball bowled to them to a hit. When you feel sympathy for the five youngsters, its because they have simply lived those characters. At the same time the wrath Prabhu Deva receives from us and pity towards the end shows his acting is a class apart.
The scenes we thought are done with, come back to us with a vengeance in a more rounded holistic manner and take away our breath. When the love gift is broken we are carried around to see a palm also getting broken and ultimately breaking us audience too. When Prabhu Deva sees the world the colour of the movie changes marking it as an eye opener, it's not only for the character but also for us.
Kudos to Karthik Subburaj! a terribly brilliant director for Tamil cinema. "We end up fighting the wrong battle" just to those words, hats off!!!
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