Technically Brilliant Movie Fails to impress .

     Concept  : Science and Religion
    Story:
    The movie begins  the ancient tussle between Kulothunga cozhan played by Napolean and the Vaishnava saint Ramanujan Played by Kamal Hassan . The story immediately shifts to 21st century from 12th century  A  scientist invents a biological weapon (atomic fission ) which falls into the eyes of bad guys  lead by another Kamal  Hassan (a white man) and tries  to steal that weapon. But the  formula comes to  India   and  finally reaches a  old lady (also played by Kamal) and  and the rest of the movie deals with the efforts and attempts of the hero with heroine  to stop the American undercover agents.

    Positive  :
    Techincally the Movie is brilliant. Art directors and cameramn dominate the movie and  scores full marks
    Huge sets depicting the 12th century Cholamandalam Kingdom with elephants is worth and is a feast to your eyes .
    Sameer Chanda, Prabhakaran and Thotta Tarani's sets makes  the viewers thrill and spellbound. Settings are on par with Hollywood standards.
    Andy Dixon the Action choreographer did a brilliant job and some scenes feel you think that you are watching an Hollywood movie
    Cinematography  is simply Superb. Ravi Verman's camera work glues you to the screen
    Make-up man Micheal Westmore did a superb job
    Production values are brilliant and you can see the richness in every frame
    Kamal Hassan give brilliant performance
    First 40 minutes of the movie is awesome and provides a tight and terrific screenplay  Graphics and  for tsunami scene shot in Muttukadu is brilliant
    Asin in dual role  gave her best .
   

    Negative

    Story is the biggest disappointment  and its hard to tell what it is all about.
    Screeplay tests your patience
    Editing should have been crispy.
    There is no reason for Kamal playing all the 10 roles. Asin's Grandmother, Cop, Scheduled Tribes Leader ,Priest, George Bush ,Chinese man, Punjabi Singer .and so on
    S.P Balasubramaniyam giving dubbing to almost all characteres of Kamal Hassan.
    Mallika sheawat dancing for telugu song in Lasvegas Casino
    Himesh Reshamiya third grade  music fails  and DeviSri Prasad's  below average Background Score.
    Comedy is missing and dialogues are kind of EVV commedy where hero says shoo ( silent) and heroine says aiteh nenu socks aa. and many more in similar fashion
    Mallika sherawat has nothing much to perform

    There is nothing a director can do with such a weak story line

    Output : Hard to digest

Review by Sai Jeedi