Genre: Fiction/Fantasy/Drama
Cast: 'Chiyan' Vikram, Shreya, Vadivelu, Prabhu
Plot: Social Theme
Positives: Devi Sri Prasad's Music, Thotta Tharani's settings, Vikram's vocal skills!!
Negatives: Every thing else & an extremely dragging storyline!!
Review:
How would you call a movie, which a kindergarten kid creates after watching Gentleman, Anniyan, Sivaji? Nothing but kanthasamy!! Its a colossal waste of time, money (both for audience & producer) and talent (vikram). I can't believe what director Susi Ganesan was thinking in his mind while drafting the story & screen play for this movie. Susi was so brilliant in his past ventures like virumbigiren, five star & thiruttu payale (Five Star is his best). But in kanthasamy, he seems to have ventured in a territory (action movies), which is not his cup of tea.
The producer kalaipuli thanu must have drained lots of money for this movie, considering the fact that the movie was in production for so long. (Well, its the producer's call anyways, as he had to make up for this disappointing performance by calling press meets).
Coming to the story, the movie starts with a robin hood like sequence. An old lady prays to God to save her husband (for medical expenses). The priest asks her to write her request in a letter and tie it to the temple tree (The priest is a part of vikram's robin hood gang). The letter gets to vikram and he sends her the money for her husband's surgery. The honest lady hands the money to the corrupt inspector (mansur ali khan) & viola our super hero vikram appers in a cock like costume (inspired from batman). He beats the heck of the corrupt cop and the cop hands over the money to the lady for her husband's treatment.
The hero kanthasamy (vikram) is a IPS officer working in CBI/Vigilance. He has a group of folks (childhood friends working in all goverment agencies in various law enforcement departments) helping him in finding out who are all the corrupt rich men having lots of black money. The chief director of CBI/Vigilance is also a part of this gang :) For a moment i thought every tom, dick and harry in the movie is part of Vikram's secret gang, except for the villian, Prabhu (CBI Officer) and Vadivelu (Comedian) lol!!
One such raids is against Aashish Vidyarthi. Vikram freezes all the known assets of Aashish and as usual (both in movies and in real life), the bad guy gets a stroke. Aashish's daughter is Subbu lakshmi (Shreya). Shreya wants to take revenge on vikram for making her dad get stroke. On one such attempts, they corner vikram to say the truth. Aashish sends his guys dressed as CBI officers and they try to have a rapist criminal try to rape Shreya. Vikram confesses. The lengthy first half nearly had 3 fight sequences, 3 songs etc, etc. I thought the movie is almost reaching the climax now.
Then comes the dragging second half. Aashish demands 1/2 of vikram's earnings so far, for not leaking vikram's true identity to CBI. Vikram says, he has an assignment in Mexico, the earning of which will provide Aashish the money he wants. Aashish arranges for a forged passport for vikram to travel to mexico. Shreya accompanies vikram to mexico and falls in love with him.
In between, there is a second villian (this guy was the bad cop in pokkiri). Vikram slaps him with his left hand once and he wants vikram's left hand desperately for revenge. Aashish joins hands with this 2nd villian and trys to kill vikram in Mexico. But, vikram does all heroic stunts in mexico and escapes. He also tricks aashish vidyarthi for the amount he promised to provide to him and in addition takes all his money as well. Aashish becomes dummy now and the 2nd villian takes charge.
The 2nd villian is a industrialist and his favorite pass time is to hang out in a huge bus with all luxury items in it. He gets all booze, chicks, movies, briyani etc etc inside this bus. What a creative imagination by the director :) The hero kandasamy(vikram) finally breaks the villian's bus using a sledge hammer in the climax and tells the villian to adapt some villages as a social message.
It was refreshing to see vikram after a long time in the screen. Kandasamy kept the expectations very high for all vikram fans. But unfortunately, its worse than his previous movie Bheema! Its a big failure on all aspects like story(??), screen play, comedy track (Vadivelu's comedy track is like beating round the bush)!! The only positives are Vikram's stylishness, Shreyas' cuteness, Devi Sri Prasad's music and Thotta Tharani's sets!!
Its highly not recommended to watch this movie in theaters as you cannot fast forward the streching scenes and the loooong movie (3 hours and above) drags you the doorstep of the theater!! Best is to watch it in a DVD at you leisure!! You can be your own editor of the movie and make it rapid fast :)
Shiva's Rating: **
* It's Crap
** TV/DVD Watch
*** OK to watch once for some positives
**** Good
***** Must Watch
Cast: 'Chiyan' Vikram, Shreya, Vadivelu, Prabhu
Plot: Social Theme
Positives: Devi Sri Prasad's Music, Thotta Tharani's settings, Vikram's vocal skills!!
Negatives: Every thing else & an extremely dragging storyline!!
Review:
How would you call a movie, which a kindergarten kid creates after watching Gentleman, Anniyan, Sivaji? Nothing but kanthasamy!! Its a colossal waste of time, money (both for audience & producer) and talent (vikram). I can't believe what director Susi Ganesan was thinking in his mind while drafting the story & screen play for this movie. Susi was so brilliant in his past ventures like virumbigiren, five star & thiruttu payale (Five Star is his best). But in kanthasamy, he seems to have ventured in a territory (action movies), which is not his cup of tea.
The producer kalaipuli thanu must have drained lots of money for this movie, considering the fact that the movie was in production for so long. (Well, its the producer's call anyways, as he had to make up for this disappointing performance by calling press meets).
Coming to the story, the movie starts with a robin hood like sequence. An old lady prays to God to save her husband (for medical expenses). The priest asks her to write her request in a letter and tie it to the temple tree (The priest is a part of vikram's robin hood gang). The letter gets to vikram and he sends her the money for her husband's surgery. The honest lady hands the money to the corrupt inspector (mansur ali khan) & viola our super hero vikram appers in a cock like costume (inspired from batman). He beats the heck of the corrupt cop and the cop hands over the money to the lady for her husband's treatment.
The hero kanthasamy (vikram) is a IPS officer working in CBI/Vigilance. He has a group of folks (childhood friends working in all goverment agencies in various law enforcement departments) helping him in finding out who are all the corrupt rich men having lots of black money. The chief director of CBI/Vigilance is also a part of this gang :) For a moment i thought every tom, dick and harry in the movie is part of Vikram's secret gang, except for the villian, Prabhu (CBI Officer) and Vadivelu (Comedian) lol!!
One such raids is against Aashish Vidyarthi. Vikram freezes all the known assets of Aashish and as usual (both in movies and in real life), the bad guy gets a stroke. Aashish's daughter is Subbu lakshmi (Shreya). Shreya wants to take revenge on vikram for making her dad get stroke. On one such attempts, they corner vikram to say the truth. Aashish sends his guys dressed as CBI officers and they try to have a rapist criminal try to rape Shreya. Vikram confesses. The lengthy first half nearly had 3 fight sequences, 3 songs etc, etc. I thought the movie is almost reaching the climax now.
Then comes the dragging second half. Aashish demands 1/2 of vikram's earnings so far, for not leaking vikram's true identity to CBI. Vikram says, he has an assignment in Mexico, the earning of which will provide Aashish the money he wants. Aashish arranges for a forged passport for vikram to travel to mexico. Shreya accompanies vikram to mexico and falls in love with him.
In between, there is a second villian (this guy was the bad cop in pokkiri). Vikram slaps him with his left hand once and he wants vikram's left hand desperately for revenge. Aashish joins hands with this 2nd villian and trys to kill vikram in Mexico. But, vikram does all heroic stunts in mexico and escapes. He also tricks aashish vidyarthi for the amount he promised to provide to him and in addition takes all his money as well. Aashish becomes dummy now and the 2nd villian takes charge.
The 2nd villian is a industrialist and his favorite pass time is to hang out in a huge bus with all luxury items in it. He gets all booze, chicks, movies, briyani etc etc inside this bus. What a creative imagination by the director :) The hero kandasamy(vikram) finally breaks the villian's bus using a sledge hammer in the climax and tells the villian to adapt some villages as a social message.
It was refreshing to see vikram after a long time in the screen. Kandasamy kept the expectations very high for all vikram fans. But unfortunately, its worse than his previous movie Bheema! Its a big failure on all aspects like story(??), screen play, comedy track (Vadivelu's comedy track is like beating round the bush)!! The only positives are Vikram's stylishness, Shreyas' cuteness, Devi Sri Prasad's music and Thotta Tharani's sets!!
Its highly not recommended to watch this movie in theaters as you cannot fast forward the streching scenes and the loooong movie (3 hours and above) drags you the doorstep of the theater!! Best is to watch it in a DVD at you leisure!! You can be your own editor of the movie and make it rapid fast :)
Shiva's Rating: **
* It's Crap
** TV/DVD Watch
*** OK to watch once for some positives
**** Good
***** Must Watch
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