Movie review score
5
Kaththi ( 2014 ) - " Message straight to the heart. Bulls Eye. "
This movie right from the time ARM announced his project , it went through a roller coaster ride creating much expectation with decent music tracks but a let down with Teaser\Trailer making itself unpredictable all the time. So the festive season has come and Kaththi finally got released in theaters passing through all hurdles it faced. Like all other major star movies , this movie also had a house full first day for fans and so i waited patiently till the next day to watch in theater and i did. No wonder even it was jam packed-on second day too being it a working day for many. Okay lets get into the movie review now.
Movie starts off with a introduction of characters one after the other and as we all know by now its a dual role played by Vijay. So the movie moves on slowly as the characters find their common ground and allowing the script to do it part and evolve itself into a much larger story. Sathish joins in as a friend to vijay and it takes a fun ride for sometime while their combo march towards much serious story. I heard many been telling that the first 20-30 min of the story is slow or dragging , but what i realized is this first 30 min becomes important for the characters to blend in to the story and as we know we just cant jump straight into the main story. So ARM took his time to bring the characters together as screen-time progressed. Sathish one liners and wits were good at parts but its just goes in as a usual one nothing so worthy to mention. Love portion of the movie played by samantha is really not needed for this movie but yet a movie needs to have everything covered and as we know movie plot becomes more active in second half only , first half of the movie just cannot go dry without these placements in it.So comedy tracks , love n romance tracks , music tracks play a major part in it and may be the reason why some might feel it bit slow or dragging. But for me , it was okay and it was really not that bad either though samantha was not that apt for the role but she is just there adding no weightage to the movie.
Kaththi's change over role and how he transforms into a serious character was wonderfully portrayed. Post Lions club award scene story starts to fire up and from then on it just keeps us stick to the seat with edge of seat moments. Unlike ARM's previous movie Thuppakki , this one is altogether different and totally a different genre. So if people go in expecting to watch Thuppakki Part 2 then yes it might lead to disappointment. This is more of a emotions filled message oriented action movie and you had to allow the story n its emotions to build in you to enjoy this film. The core message delivered in this movie relating to farmers is definitely a overlooked social issue in India and i am really glad ARM picked it up to send a strong message to people instead of regular subjects. Whats more catchy is that with a difficult message to say , ARM did a perfect job to portray it in his own style with Kaththi (a) Kathiresan as his weapon of destruction. Every fights in the movie were brilliantly made and it will be a real treat to vijay fans for sure. Those razor sharp dialogues were awesome throughout and Vijay body-language was mere perfect in this film too. I was really happy to notice that there were no unwanted punch dialogues or quotes added to the movie just for the sake of it , rather all the dialogues were supporting to the script more perfectly.
I guess Vijay's previous Dual role movies didnt made a mark in the industry but i believe he finally found the right film maker who can give it to him as expected. This Kaththi movie will be a mark of his beginning into Dual role film for sure and i am sure actor vijay will be more then happy to notice it.The major plus point in the film is its BGM , i would say without the right BGM these characters wouldn't created that intensity in the screen. Bad eye theme was awesome but i feel antagonist role by Neil Nitin Mukesh was not much justified in this film yet Kaththi with his Kaththi theme takes the screen to his control with his presence. Every BGM at actions sequences was mind-blowing with goosebumps all over, Sure Anirudh did deliver what director trusted him with. Music tracks created a much hype but on screen they were not that catchy actually. Yet Pakkam vandhu was good supported by good choreography and as one can expect vijay dance steps was excellent to watch. Aathi song is my favorite track in this movie but visuals was really not that impressive as it was all done in closed sets instead oof shooting them in some good locations , whatever that green matte technology it was used , yet it was really not that attractive. Rest all tracks are just placed here and there on purpose and they take its course.
Pre-climax scene was brilliant and the way kaththi plots the scheme to tackle the situation was really engaging and meticulously done.There were some instances were the emotions take its toll bringing tears in you seeing the cruelty people go through in villages and especially when the people in old age home say to kaththi that they are again ready to commit suicide to attract national audience was heart wrenching to the core. A very melancholic script handled in such perfection is no easy job and really ARM had proved it yet again and looks like this combo ARM with vijay seems to be a successful one after-all. Having said all these i don't deny there are too many logic skips and very open errors in the movie which is clearly noticed and could have been avoided if extra care was taken , still those mistakes never impact the actual plot in any way allowing screenplay to have complete immunity from it. I wouldn't say this is best of vijay or ARM but i will definitely say this is a very good attempt from them and its really a very good entertainer for sure. If you go in theater to watch and enjoy movie alone keeping your judgements , biased views or critic mind out then this movie will definitely impress you for sure. This movie definitely deserves a one time watch for normal audience if not for the star cast behind it but at-least for the message it tries to portray. But for vijay fans this sure will be a happy diwali season to see his favorite actor rocking the screen with his brilliant acting.This is definitely a above average fair. Enjoy watching and all what written above is just my opinion only which can be totally different from yours.thanks for reading. Enjoy the show.
This movie right from the time ARM announced his project , it went through a roller coaster ride creating much expectation with decent music tracks but a let down with Teaser\Trailer making itself unpredictable all the time. So the festive season has come and Kaththi finally got released in theaters passing through all hurdles it faced. Like all other major star movies , this movie also had a house full first day for fans and so i waited patiently till the next day to watch in theater and i did. No wonder even it was jam packed-on second day too being it a working day for many. Okay lets get into the movie review now.
Movie starts off with a introduction of characters one after the other and as we all know by now its a dual role played by Vijay. So the movie moves on slowly as the characters find their common ground and allowing the script to do it part and evolve itself into a much larger story. Sathish joins in as a friend to vijay and it takes a fun ride for sometime while their combo march towards much serious story. I heard many been telling that the first 20-30 min of the story is slow or dragging , but what i realized is this first 30 min becomes important for the characters to blend in to the story and as we know we just cant jump straight into the main story. So ARM took his time to bring the characters together as screen-time progressed. Sathish one liners and wits were good at parts but its just goes in as a usual one nothing so worthy to mention. Love portion of the movie played by samantha is really not needed for this movie but yet a movie needs to have everything covered and as we know movie plot becomes more active in second half only , first half of the movie just cannot go dry without these placements in it.So comedy tracks , love n romance tracks , music tracks play a major part in it and may be the reason why some might feel it bit slow or dragging. But for me , it was okay and it was really not that bad either though samantha was not that apt for the role but she is just there adding no weightage to the movie.
Kaththi's change over role and how he transforms into a serious character was wonderfully portrayed. Post Lions club award scene story starts to fire up and from then on it just keeps us stick to the seat with edge of seat moments. Unlike ARM's previous movie Thuppakki , this one is altogether different and totally a different genre. So if people go in expecting to watch Thuppakki Part 2 then yes it might lead to disappointment. This is more of a emotions filled message oriented action movie and you had to allow the story n its emotions to build in you to enjoy this film. The core message delivered in this movie relating to farmers is definitely a overlooked social issue in India and i am really glad ARM picked it up to send a strong message to people instead of regular subjects. Whats more catchy is that with a difficult message to say , ARM did a perfect job to portray it in his own style with Kaththi (a) Kathiresan as his weapon of destruction. Every fights in the movie were brilliantly made and it will be a real treat to vijay fans for sure. Those razor sharp dialogues were awesome throughout and Vijay body-language was mere perfect in this film too. I was really happy to notice that there were no unwanted punch dialogues or quotes added to the movie just for the sake of it , rather all the dialogues were supporting to the script more perfectly.
I guess Vijay's previous Dual role movies didnt made a mark in the industry but i believe he finally found the right film maker who can give it to him as expected. This Kaththi movie will be a mark of his beginning into Dual role film for sure and i am sure actor vijay will be more then happy to notice it.The major plus point in the film is its BGM , i would say without the right BGM these characters wouldn't created that intensity in the screen. Bad eye theme was awesome but i feel antagonist role by Neil Nitin Mukesh was not much justified in this film yet Kaththi with his Kaththi theme takes the screen to his control with his presence. Every BGM at actions sequences was mind-blowing with goosebumps all over, Sure Anirudh did deliver what director trusted him with. Music tracks created a much hype but on screen they were not that catchy actually. Yet Pakkam vandhu was good supported by good choreography and as one can expect vijay dance steps was excellent to watch. Aathi song is my favorite track in this movie but visuals was really not that impressive as it was all done in closed sets instead oof shooting them in some good locations , whatever that green matte technology it was used , yet it was really not that attractive. Rest all tracks are just placed here and there on purpose and they take its course.
Pre-climax scene was brilliant and the way kaththi plots the scheme to tackle the situation was really engaging and meticulously done.There were some instances were the emotions take its toll bringing tears in you seeing the cruelty people go through in villages and especially when the people in old age home say to kaththi that they are again ready to commit suicide to attract national audience was heart wrenching to the core. A very melancholic script handled in such perfection is no easy job and really ARM had proved it yet again and looks like this combo ARM with vijay seems to be a successful one after-all. Having said all these i don't deny there are too many logic skips and very open errors in the movie which is clearly noticed and could have been avoided if extra care was taken , still those mistakes never impact the actual plot in any way allowing screenplay to have complete immunity from it. I wouldn't say this is best of vijay or ARM but i will definitely say this is a very good attempt from them and its really a very good entertainer for sure. If you go in theater to watch and enjoy movie alone keeping your judgements , biased views or critic mind out then this movie will definitely impress you for sure. This movie definitely deserves a one time watch for normal audience if not for the star cast behind it but at-least for the message it tries to portray. But for vijay fans this sure will be a happy diwali season to see his favorite actor rocking the screen with his brilliant acting.This is definitely a above average fair. Enjoy watching and all what written above is just my opinion only which can be totally different from yours.thanks for reading. Enjoy the show.
