Movie review score
5
Ranjith's Madras ( 2014 ) Tamil - "A perfect Bell curve in terms of entertainment"
Ranjith's Madras is a typical pakka local mass movie taking us to the live-hood of North Chennai. Those who lived by these places would easily connect to this movie and even may give nostalgic feel as well while watching it. A feud between two political parties resulting in a rivalry between local groups with a Single Huge Wall taking center stage. It becomes a matter of pride for these political parties on deciding who gets to control that area so they could get their leader picture drawn on that wall and this struggle slowly turns into a gang war and faction. So much lives were lost in this process which ran for years and lot of blood has been shed to this cause. Karthi and his friend anbu end up in losing side and how they manage to get back control over that wall forms rest of the story.
First half was really engaging and it just keeps going in a good phase. Be it friendship , love , romance , fights it had everything to it. Karthi body language was totally different and was very apt for this role and lived up to the character . Even his dialogue delivery using perfect Chennai slang was cool. Catherine Tresa as Kalaiarasi paired up really well with karthi and their chemistry worked out very well. Those love proposal scenes between them were really nice and brought a nice feeler to this movie. There are so many goosebumps scenes in first half and scene before intermission was highlight. Songs were good and especially Chenna Wada Chenna was wonderful to watch on screen. I liked Karthi's Friend Anbu role also very much as he too plays important part in first half and johnny character was mind blowing too. Till intermission this movie gave me the best experience what i expected from this movie and it almost impressed me so much as i equally got impressed watching Naan Mahan Alla. I am sure first half raised expectation bar so high with a pitch perfect engaging screenplay and making was damn osm. Special mention is the BGM for this movie which really blended well with the visuals and gave the exact impact this movie tried to deliver. Though not all tracks were appreciable but yet a stunning job in terms of BGM and a standup applause to Santhosh Narayanan on that part.
Second half started and as expected with the outcome of scene before intermission , things slowed down a bit. Still it was agreeable to some part as the script demanded that slowness. But no sooner we had that unexpected incident in second half , things really got very slow. This added by three more Songs back to back , especially Gaana Bala song "Irandhidava" it became very sluggish. I rather felt that the song really didnot bring the impact it was expected. Not a perfect song for that situation. But yet the script was still on track until last 20 minutes it totally lost its track. One of worst climax for such a good movie i would say. There was no single logic to the climax and it was rather too cliche too even accept n convince our-self to our rational mind. Living in such a locality filled with young lads , our hero decides to take all antagonist single handed was illogical and definitely not impressive. It really lacked everything to it and thats why i mentioned bell curve as it brought the entertainment factor completely down at later half.
Verdict : I would not mind spending My 120 Rupees to just watch First half alone and few minutes of second half which is really well made. A perfect commercial subject which could easily reach to mass audience. But unfortunately second half screenplay was really not impressive and even more climax of this movie is logic-less and unsatisfactory. The second portion really stood as a spoiler to this entire movie and whatever audience experiencing this movie till that moment gets totally lost there. I personally felt so disappointing to see such a finish for if little care would have been taken , this would have been easily a best movie in this season but fate took its toll. Still Ranjith has done a wonderful job to the movie and i liked it definitely at parts. If it was me , i would rather walk out from theater before climax. A average movie which can be enjoyed with bunch of friends provided if you could digest few things in this movie. Not a bad one to be skipped especially considering the ground work done by Ranjith to bring the reality and nativity to this film which is the most captivating part in this film. One time must watch for this brave attempt . If you are a chennaity then enjoy it in Local theater with your area folks and you will definetly feel the fun in it. thanks.
Ranjith's Madras is a typical pakka local mass movie taking us to the live-hood of North Chennai. Those who lived by these places would easily connect to this movie and even may give nostalgic feel as well while watching it. A feud between two political parties resulting in a rivalry between local groups with a Single Huge Wall taking center stage. It becomes a matter of pride for these political parties on deciding who gets to control that area so they could get their leader picture drawn on that wall and this struggle slowly turns into a gang war and faction. So much lives were lost in this process which ran for years and lot of blood has been shed to this cause. Karthi and his friend anbu end up in losing side and how they manage to get back control over that wall forms rest of the story.
First half was really engaging and it just keeps going in a good phase. Be it friendship , love , romance , fights it had everything to it. Karthi body language was totally different and was very apt for this role and lived up to the character . Even his dialogue delivery using perfect Chennai slang was cool. Catherine Tresa as Kalaiarasi paired up really well with karthi and their chemistry worked out very well. Those love proposal scenes between them were really nice and brought a nice feeler to this movie. There are so many goosebumps scenes in first half and scene before intermission was highlight. Songs were good and especially Chenna Wada Chenna was wonderful to watch on screen. I liked Karthi's Friend Anbu role also very much as he too plays important part in first half and johnny character was mind blowing too. Till intermission this movie gave me the best experience what i expected from this movie and it almost impressed me so much as i equally got impressed watching Naan Mahan Alla. I am sure first half raised expectation bar so high with a pitch perfect engaging screenplay and making was damn osm. Special mention is the BGM for this movie which really blended well with the visuals and gave the exact impact this movie tried to deliver. Though not all tracks were appreciable but yet a stunning job in terms of BGM and a standup applause to Santhosh Narayanan on that part.
Second half started and as expected with the outcome of scene before intermission , things slowed down a bit. Still it was agreeable to some part as the script demanded that slowness. But no sooner we had that unexpected incident in second half , things really got very slow. This added by three more Songs back to back , especially Gaana Bala song "Irandhidava" it became very sluggish. I rather felt that the song really didnot bring the impact it was expected. Not a perfect song for that situation. But yet the script was still on track until last 20 minutes it totally lost its track. One of worst climax for such a good movie i would say. There was no single logic to the climax and it was rather too cliche too even accept n convince our-self to our rational mind. Living in such a locality filled with young lads , our hero decides to take all antagonist single handed was illogical and definitely not impressive. It really lacked everything to it and thats why i mentioned bell curve as it brought the entertainment factor completely down at later half.
Verdict : I would not mind spending My 120 Rupees to just watch First half alone and few minutes of second half which is really well made. A perfect commercial subject which could easily reach to mass audience. But unfortunately second half screenplay was really not impressive and even more climax of this movie is logic-less and unsatisfactory. The second portion really stood as a spoiler to this entire movie and whatever audience experiencing this movie till that moment gets totally lost there. I personally felt so disappointing to see such a finish for if little care would have been taken , this would have been easily a best movie in this season but fate took its toll. Still Ranjith has done a wonderful job to the movie and i liked it definitely at parts. If it was me , i would rather walk out from theater before climax. A average movie which can be enjoyed with bunch of friends provided if you could digest few things in this movie. Not a bad one to be skipped especially considering the ground work done by Ranjith to bring the reality and nativity to this film which is the most captivating part in this film. One time must watch for this brave attempt . If you are a chennaity then enjoy it in Local theater with your area folks and you will definetly feel the fun in it. thanks.
