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Film: Alex Pandian
Mp3Waala Rating:2.5/5
Starring: Karthi,Anushka,Santhanam,Akanskhka Puri
Director: Suraaj
Producer: K. E. Gnanavelraja
Banner: Studio Green banner
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Genre:Action/Adventure
Release Date: Jan 11, 2013
Story:
It has a stunning beginning with a much-talked train chase sequence. A group of thugs chase Anushka Shetty and Karthi comes to rescue her and bashes them up. The first 10 minutes is thrilling and the action sequence have been brilliantly shot, despite the fact that the audience can easily make out that the scenes have been choreographed on a still train at parts.
Alex Pandian is about a convict who kidnaps the CM daughter for money, falls in love during the process, later changes his mind to save her from an army of enemies who have a sinister plan against the people of Tamil Nadu.Alex Pandian is directed by Suraaj who used the same formula as his previous movies such as 'Padikathavan', 'Maapillai', "Marudamalai", etc. Studio Green has produced this movie with the single objective of pushing
Karthi to "Mass" hero status.
The second half shows the true identity of Karthi and Anushka Shetty, the daughter of a Chief Minister. Alex has kidnapped Anushka and the orders are passed by Alvin Martin (Milind Soman) and Dr GKM (Sumanth). The baddies wants to sign a deal with the state government. As the Chief Minister refuses to sign, they give a contract to Karthi to abduct Anushka. What happens next should be seen on-screen.
Karthi has literally got an on-your-face introduction scene aimed at pleasing the masses. The opening fight scenes are jaw-dropping and Karthi appears to have pulled off some difficult stunt sequences. Even though we don't understand the motive for the fight, the opening fight is picturized and choreographed well.
Karthi's comedy timing with Santhanam is the highlight of the movie. Karthi continues to show notable improvement in his dance moves and also appears more confident in making animated expressions in songs. Karthi's dialogue modulation is good as always, despite showing some monotony.
Santhanam No doubt, first half is a complete laugh riot. Full credits to Santhanam and Karthi's unbeatable comedy timing. Santhanam continues to maintain his top form in this movie. The story in the first half single threads on Santhanam trying to protect his 3 flirtatious sisters from Karthi's antics. Karthi and Santhanam's one-liners give a thunderous start to the movie.
Santhanam gets full marks and key reason for keeping us engaged during the first half. However, it is still a surprise how the censor gave a clean "U" certificate allowing double-entendres such as the lewd dialogues in the carrom board playing scenes with Santhanam's sisters.
Anushka hardly appears during the first half. With hero's help, she escapes from the enemies in the opening fight sequence and once again during the interval fight sequence. She goes missing-in-action during rest of the first half. Anushka, who appears to be a bit bulky, doesn't have much to do other than being carried around by Karthi and for doing standard "DSP" dance-routines. Other than Anushka, there are 3 sisters of Santhanam repeatedly flirting with Karthi in song and comedy scenes throughout the first half.
Impact-Less Cast of Characters:
Comedy department has done their job well. The movie has 3 comedians (Santhanam, Lollu-saba Manohar and Manobala). Karthi's comedy with Mano Bala in the second-half largely falls flat and is of poor humour. The stark contrasts between the first and second half comedy scenes clearly highlight the limitations of Karthi when performing without Santhanam.
There are close to 8 full-time/part-time villains (Suman, Milind Soman, Prathap, Santhanabarathy, Saravanan, director Raj kapoor, familiar looking villain acting as Samiyar and a new-face villain acting as Saravanan's brother). None of them make any impact, whatsoever.
Technical Aspects:
Cinematographer Sarvanan's photography stands out of all technical departments...especially, the train action sequence has been well captured by the cameraman. Editing by Praveen-K.L. Srikanth's okay and they could have done a better job. Finally, director Suraj, who has written story, screenplay, dialogues, and direction, gets full marks in dialogue department. His first half is good but second half is not up to the mark.
Final Word:
Suraaj, Karthi and Studio Green have made this formula movie under-estimating the intelligence of Tamil audience. Karthi is keen on pursuing the path that our Tamil "mass" heroes have shunned of-late. Encouraged by the success of Siruthai, Karthi seems to be fully convinced that this is his path to massdom in Tamil and Telugu film industries.From business perspective, Studio Green may recover the money during the long Pongal weekend.
But, the real question is whether such movies actually do any good for Karthi's career in the long run.People's verdict will validate whether Karthi is on the right track in his choice of movies.Alex Pandian is a typical masala film, which would work better in the Telugu market than among Tamil film goers. To be precise, it is a time-pass movie that can be watched for comedy and action sequences.
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