Mugavari

I first heard about this movie, when I was visiting Mississippi State Univ for a symposium in 2000. A tamil guy there was all praises for this movie, 5 years later, I did not necessarily feel the same.

What's New?

I would have left this column blank, but for the end. That was different from the usual binary nature of tamil movie endings, heavily biased towards the positive (1) rather than a sad ending (0). This one is fuzzy logic, as is most of the movie itself!

Noticeable

It is quite an irony that Deva is the music director of this movie. It is supposed to show, how difficult talented aspirants find it, to make their way into mainline cinema. Instead, we have Deva, providing a bounty of copied and patched tunes to this movie. If any other aspiring music director tries the same technique, he is sure to succeed, a la Anu Malik and Deva, but our hero does not find much success.

The story has surely taken some inspiration from the theme of Akele Hum Akele Tum. Some scenes are inspired from other tamil movies. For instance, take the beach scene, where some boys are playing; it is clearly copied from the beach scene in Kadalan, where Prabu Deva and his friends watch a group of boys playing along the shore. The movie drags on at unbearably slow speeds like the thatha driving in front of you along a one lane road.

Jyothika has really slimmed down in recent times and having seen her in movies like Chandramukhi and Kaakha Kaakha, it is tough to see her in movies such as this one. Her performance is good in a couple of scenes, especially when she talks to her dad about Ajith.

There are some assumptions that the director makes, which could have proved costly to the success of this movie, especially in the climax. It was quite difficult for me to understand the logic of changing priorities, when it comes to love, money or career. But that may just be me and not everyone.

Ajith's allies in Raghuvaran, Sitara and Manivannan have done a better than average job in the serious scene, but Ajith himself has not done to their standard. It could be partially because of the mistimed song sequences among serious scenes, even before the seriousness can sink in. Also, things in the family seem to go too idealistic for anyone to believe.

Vivek's comedy and the fight sequence complete the list of no-so-good things in this movie.

Verdict

All in all, this is a below average movie, patched up from several of its predecessors, whether it comes to music or scenes. There are lots of other movies you could watch instead of this one. Monday, June 13, 2005 at 11:12 AM