Sivaji-Movie Review

Sivaji-Tasty Rajni wine in shankhar bottle

Finally the judgement day has come. The Titanic ship Sivaji has started its sail from today. Among its creators Rajni shines on screen. So one could easily say that this is a normal Shankhar balloon like gentleman or Anniyan,but its Rajni who blows this balloon into a Titan. AVM’s generosity provides a great treat to the audience. This movie is led by leading people, so once again they have proved that their artmenship is mind blowing. As usual Rajni swallows the character as well as director into him and spits out a Rajni movie,appealing to the masses. But other than his same old formula, Shankar rocks. People always wanted to see Rajni in the driver’s seat of Shankar’s car and thats what this movie is. But here its the super driver who dominates than the owner of the car.

The plot is from the same old locker which has its password as S-H-A-N-K-A-R. But this time its on a different platform. Sivaji{Rajnikanth} a software professional comes back from America with a lot of hard earned cash{exactly its 10 dollars less than 250 crores!} And he wants to start charity institutions like colleges and hospitals and serve the needy. Meanwhile he searches for a Tamil cultured bride for him and discovers Tamilchelvi{Shreya} in a Temple while birdwatching with Arivu{Vivek}, his mother’s brother.Following this he devises plans to move closely with Tamilchelvi’s family which culminates in their betrothal.When Sivaji unrolls the ideas which were in his mind, he gets away from the good books of Adhi Seshan{Suman} who is the king maker as well as head of similar institutions.Sivaji ignores his creeps and proceeds ahead,but only to meet the corrupted money hungry officials asking him to bribe them to work in his favour. Reluctantly he feeds the money hungry dogs, when Adhi Seshan crawls in once again and reverses the political situation{You too Shankar!}. His next step makes Sivaji a pauper though he tries to sail out of the situation in a life boat named law. Now Sivaji becomes a Sivaji’s debutant character in Parasakthi left with only a rupee. Then Sivaji decides to take up the lion’s path at the interval. One could easily investigate the rest of the story. The first half has nothing but the Vivek’s agmark comedy , Shreya’s romance and her skin show in the songs ending in a venomous act of Adhi Seshan. In the second half Sivaji uses some funny methods{!} to extract money from the black money ores and uses it for his institutional work. Inbetween he gets married to Shreya. After this the story makes a few swings and ends when Sivaji turns into MGR!. “This is only the trailer, you’ve got to see the full picture”

Shankar’s same old formula ie , common people , corrupted white collars and a mediatory hero is repeated once again in this movie{repeattu!}. This may be appealing to common people since it has a tinge of pathos it. But in the long run, today there are a lot of directors who could do the same thing, so we expect something fresh from Shankar. Shreya gets in and gets out of the stage like a sexy doll and makes a glamorous skin show. Rajni says that he loves Shreya because of her Tamil culture, but she is TamilChelvi only in the story, but in the songs she is “Bikini Selvi”. Actually glamour had been stuffed in where there its not required, this becomes too superficial. Also the villains are treated as mere fools and brainless idiots as in a nasty commercial movie.Though this is a superstar’s action filled candy,the taste of violence is too much. But since we see Rajni fighting, it’s cool!.Definitely Rajni roars in this movie but as an aged lion

Rajni’s style , fancy actions and punch dialogues rocket this movie up. Especially “the cool” dialogue is really hot! Rajni’s makeup and extra fittings are above the mark and they reminds us {g}olden movies of Rajni. Coming to the punches, “Kanna,Pannithan kumbala varum , Singam singlathan varum” {Hogs come in herds and lion comes alone}is extraordinary. Technically speaking, Rajeevan,Anthony and K.V.Anand have done their work extremely well. Especially Anand’s camera is even better than hollywod cams. So atleast in the technical regard we stand above the western cinema.Going further the sets for the songs reminds us T.R’s song sequences though the money spent hits our eyes. The climax fight is well done and receives hails. Apart from Rajni Vivek Suman and Shreya Manivannan,Vadivukkarasi,Raja,Uma and Solomon Pappaiya are cool! Raguvaran does a “guest-like role” to perfection. So totally Sivaji is worth the hype. If you are a Rajni fan you’ll love this movie 90%. If you are a Shankar fan you will love this movie 40%. But if you are a techy you will love this movie 100%. So Sivaji proves, style+technology———–>Stechyle + box office. Idhu epdi irukku?

-Spontic