1) Movie - Kavalan
Theater - Big Cinemas, Mulund, Mumbai
Show time - 8; 15 PM, Jan 15 (Saturday)
Occupancy - 60% (Mostly family)
As all know Movie is a remake of Bodyguard. So story is same as the BG. But still whatever the good difference for movie were due to Vijay and his presence throughout. After a long time we are able to see his romantic Avatar back and he really rocks. At the same time I liked Asin too a lot for her emotional scenes. Lot of web reviewers was commenting of Asin's disinterest and sleep walking, but I didn’t felt like that at all.
Other Performances - Vadivelu was good and people were laughing almost for all his antics. That’s a good hit ratio. Raj Kiran was okay. Mitra Kuraian was lokking much better than Body guard. Others have nothing much to be done
Siddique has done a good job in this Tamil version. I'll not say story was out dated, people can still relate this.
Audience comments:
Husband: "Enna padam ithu ..Nallava illai",
Wife: Nalla Padam thaane, Ungalku pinne enna padam pudikum??"
Verdict - Vijay back to Romantic family root. Family audience expected to welcome this movie whole heartily. Same cannot be said for Vijay die hard fans. I can see the disappointment of fans from starting of introductionJ ...
2) Movie - Siruthai
Theater - Cinemax, Thane
Show time - 2; 00 PM, Jan 15 (Saturday)
Occupancy - 30%
I haven't seen any of Karthi's movies in theater before and also I want to kill the time before going for Kavalan. This was the two reasons that made me to go for Siruthai, but after seeing the movie I felt like that was a wrong decision after all...The movie for me was real torture. Loud comedy, Loud action, and Loud villains everything was loud in the movie...And above all we have seen this type of movie umpteenth time in Tamil...Nothing new....
Karthi tried earnestly to do the over top comedy character Rocket Raja and Stiff Cop Rathnavel Pandian, but it’s still early time for him to do a double role. Tamanna looked cute and throughout she was exposing her navelsJ …Santhanam disappointed…
Audience comment: I didn’t wait to hear any comments. Just ran after the show..
Verdict - Old Wine in Old bottle