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Story
Siva (Madhavan) comes to his sister's (Anu Hassan) place in
Hyderabad from a small town to do his graduation. He falls
in love with a girl whom he saw on the road and proceeds aggressively
to woo her. Her name is Priya (Meera Jasmin). She also falls
in love with him. But the catch is that her brother (Atul
Kulakarni) is a ruthless gangster in the city and would not
spare anybody who follows his sister. At this juncture, Siva
retaliates and beats up the henchmen of gangster. Then starts
the war between the lover of the girl and the bother of the
girl. The rest of the story is all about how the lover wins
the war.
Artists:
Madhavan looks very romantic as well as manly in this film.
He slimmed down a bit. He underplayed his character and made
sure that he never went overboard. Meera Jasmine looks pretty.
Her innocence and classic outlook suited the character of
the traditional girl in this film. Atul Kulakarni performed
well as the gangster. Anu Hassan looks pretty sensuous and
did portray her character with poise. Raghuvaran has got a
different character of a good husband with comic outlook and
he did well as well. The separate comedy track for Sunil is
not interesting.
Technical
Departments:
Screenplay - Direction: Generally we see lots of 'over
action' in terms of histrionics in dubbed Tamil films. But
the director Linguswamy made sure that all the characters
are underplayed in this film. Though the story is a wafer-thin
one, director narrated the story effectively with commendable
screenplay. However, there are dull moments in the second
half, which made the film getting dragged a little bit. The
director showed his grip on mass elements in a scene before
interval where Madhavan runs away from the henchmen only to
close the subway's shutters so that he can come back and beat
them to pulp in front of the heroine. There is also another
brilliant scene in which a faithful handicapped servant tries
to prevent Madhavan from taking Meera Jasmin away from her
house.
Other
departments: Music by Vidya Sagar is OK. The background
music is good. Most of the songs in this film are melodious.
Jeeva has done excellent work as cinematographer. VT Vijayan
edited the film crisply. Dubbing dialogues by Srirama Krishna
are good.
Analysis:
The first half of the film is about Madhavan 'run'ning after
Meera Jasmin. The second half of the film is about leading
pair 'run'ning away from the attention of the villain. Over
all, it's an above average flick. But, do the Telugu people
are in a mood to accept dubbed films in these changed days?
We have to wait and see if Madhavan's magic works.
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