kanthasami-tamil film review

film: kanthasami (tamil)
theatre: athulya 70mm a/c dts ufo, thiruvananthapuram
date and time: 22-8-09, 10.45 am
status: 100%
(playing in anjali and athulya.total capacity morethan 2400)


Kanthasami is about mysterious super character-kanthasami, who steals black money from biggies and pass it to poor. The same old story, which has become subject for tamil films from the time of shanker's gentleman has again arrived in the new (?) bottle.!! If the director had put some more effort to get a good script, the film would have become more interesting.


story:
Chiyan Vikram appears as Kanthasami IPS, who is a senior officer in CBI economics offence section. He is the same super character Kanthasami, who is a mystery to others. As said in the introduction, his 'extra curricular activity' is to take wealth from biggies and distribute it among needy people without revealing who he is. Common people believes that the lord Muruka (kanthasami) himself is coming as their savior! But police team led by Prabhu is sure that this character is not a 'saami' but an 'asaami' and they are behind him...
Heroine of this story Subbalakshmi (shreya) is the daughter of business tycoon PPP (ashish vidhyarthi), who becomes a victim of Kanthasami. Can these people trap Kanthasaami or how he tackles these obstuctions in his path..the film is answer to these questions...

technical departments:
While selecting a path of beaten tracks, director Susi Ganeshan should have made sure that he could execute his duty neatly. There should be something new in the narration at least. In my opinion, he has failed miserably in co ordinating other technicians and resources and that resulted in this rubbish output. Script and direction parts can be pointed out as main negatives in this film.
Everybody in acting side did their role neatly. Chiyaan was handsome and tough as Kanthasaami. He was good in kokkarakko get up too..But i think lady get up was unwanted. Sreya was cool in her performance but waste in her looks. Her new hairstyle was something which made her ugly in looks. I think she was cute and seductive in films like sivaji, azhakiya tamil makan etc. Prabhu, Ashish vidhyarthi, Rajmohan etc were decent in their roles.
Comedy track from Vadivelu was boring.
Camera, costumes and editing was ok. But action sequences didnt thrilled the viewers. We cant point out a single stunt scene which was above average.
Music was average, but it is already in hitcharts. Compared with films like Sivaji and Annyan, song picturisation was not at all attractive.

review:
As a much hyped mass masala mega budget thriller Kanthasaami fails to appeal its audience. This will be just a feast for Chiyaan lovers. No other factors can be found novel in the story or execution part of this film. It is time film makers think of some fresh ideas while dealing with subjects like black money, corruption etc...
So, Mr.Susy you should understand that it is not so eazy to make a mega entertainer without having any creative sense.


theatre experience:
The film was screening in both anjali and athulya theatres and the compound and floors were jam packed. It took more than ten minutes for me to reach the ground floor from fourth floor after the show.
Color correction, brightness, contrast adjustments in digital projector was not upto the mark so that the viewing experience was also bad.