Chennai 600028-Movie review

Chennai 600028
This movie is one quality release from capital film works. To start off, Venkat prabhu hits an one bounced four as he is the captain of this ship.The plot is simple as its narrated by SPB’s soft voice in the beginning of the movie: Rockers of Royapuram and Sharks of Visalakshi thottam{so called sunnambu kalvai!} are two street cricket teams who fight happily ever after in the field as well as in the streets . They are the India and Pakistan of this movie, ofcourse Sharks is our Indian team.

In the first over, oops…in the first scene,to our surprise, we see Sharks losing to Rockers in the Mirchi cup. We are reported that this has been happening for the past three years. So we clearly know that our heroes are going to defeat Rockers in the next Mirchi cup which is conducted every year.So as SPB says, this whole movie is about the day to day events of sharks till they meet Rockers again in the next Mirchi cup. If you think Rockers vs Sharks in the coming year is the anti-climax of this movie, you are wrong.This movie has a very good ending,with the director’s stamp and cut. This is where Venkat Prabhu “Bradmans” this game.

The artist selection is extremely good.We already know a few faces like radio Mirchi RJ Siva{who acts for the first time}, actor Arvind Krishna, Nitin Satya and Jai{Deva’s son}.All the above guys have used this oppurtunity well.Particularly Siva proves that the director is not wrong in his choice. Along with these guys the new boys rock the movie. Especially Premji Amaran who holds the responsibility of making the audience merry, maintains a good ‘fun’rate. Also the “steady” drunkard of this movie should be noted.

Basically this story revolves around the lives of the friends,Karthik{RJ Siva}, Palani{Nitin Satya}, Arvind{Arvind Krishna} and Raghu{Jai}. The story is properly pulled by these characters and the events around them till it reaches the boundary line. First we see Raghu and his problems. Secondly the affair between Arvind and his Sexy girlfriend,thirdly the conflict between the friends Karthik and Palani.You may me surprised why i didnt quote any female characters,indeed they are the substitutes[of glamour and love] and they have nothing to do with the main game{story}.Manohar{Ilavarasu} who is the godfather,mama,chittappa,periyappa of the Sharks team plays a very good manager and the guy who plays the brother of Siva has done his work good.Totally the characterisation is mind blowing!.

Almost every character is utilised properly.But on the whole,there are some holes in this ship. The title song is good but the picturisation fails totally to convey what it actually meant to.There are no strong reasons for Rockers Raghu joining Sharks,though the director tries to give proper reasons.This movie loses its course when a few supplementary commercial elements step in,but comes back to its axis soon.Apart from these flaws there are quite a lot “booze” scenes in the movie, which may prevent orthodoxes from enjoying this movie{“Enna koduma sir ithu!”}.Adding to that, a couple of songs break the movie’s integrity like the commercials inbetween a cricket match. But the songs are good to our ears especially the “Jalsa” song ,the many ‘beat’ed melody “Unparvai” and the soft number”Yaaro” are good.The item number “Saroja” song is already popular around the corners.But Yuvan, never write exams like this, you will be debarred for the next five years

.The technical aspects of this movie are also good. Cinematography,Sound and choreography are remarkable. Not only Chennai boys, but the whole cricket loving species will enjoy this movie and this movie is released in the right time of tension free, ofcourse “holy”days. So Chennai 28 is a good match where the duo of SPB Charan & J.K.Saravana and their crew has a lot of scope to score. Let this movie wipe away our world cup tears! A proper tagline for this game..sorry movie would be “eat fun sleep fun drink only booze”.

- Spontic