First off let me tell you, I have seen all three versions of 'A Wednesday' - A Wednesday in Hindi, Unnai Pol Oruvan(UPO) in Tamil and Eenadu in Telugu and I have a few interesting things to share. This review might contain spoilers and therefore please skip my review if you haven't yet seen this movie.
In UPO, they show one of the four terrorists as a hindu and he admits that he supplies arms, bombs and weapons to terrorists for sake of money alone. The other three are shown as in Wednesday. Anupam Kher's performance as the commissioner is a notch better than Mohanlal's portrayal but Venkatesh's version beats both. Kamal's come out with a brilliant performance and even his body language while he climbs the stairs and picks up the fallen tomatoes look so naturally 'uncinematic' and so real.
Mohanlal acts as if he knows whats going to come in the next scene which is a big disappointment but at least he does not falter in dialogue delivery and his thick accent probably is needed to justify that he is very vulnerable to insubordination and lack of cooperation thereof among peers in the judicial setup like the chief secretary of the CM for instance. So one can personally interpret that he was living in dangerous waters dealing with other big names even though Tamil is not his mother tongue. So there is no need for audience to understand how he would have been stripped off his duty. (Atleast seeing his character I did not feel curious as why such an able officer was sacked. For he looked very vulnerable for that position with his accent. But not in the case with Venkatesh in eenadu) In Telugu version(Eenadu), they rather show a bit more confrontation between Lakshmi and Venkatesh to make it look like he was terminated of his service as a result of his misuse of power and authority alone. And that made me wonder how such an efficient officer is sacked. Kamal's casting of Venkatesh was a good one but Mohanlal should have done a bit of more home work. Especially the scenes where he is made to react to the phone call - Venkatesh makes it look like he is left in the blue to figure it out himself and gives the impression he actually is facing the situation while Mohanlal looked like he knows the story and whats going to happen next. But that apart, Eenadu is the better version between the three and although I do not understand much of Telugu, still the acting was exceptional by all. UPO is good for its dialogue delivery and Kamal & Ganesh Venkatraman's performance alone. But full marks for this path breaking theme of songless, glamorless, comedy less, single-costume affair that it is going to inspire more and more movies of this genre in the future. Already the movie has had a fairly decent opening to add to the success story of this project. Raj Kamal international and UTV's production values have been excellent and is a 100% value for your money. Shruthi's music, Era Murugan's screenplay and dialogue, the cinematography of the movie (using the Red One camera for an entire movie for the first time in Indian cinema) and the acting, it is a 5/5 rating movie.
In UPO, they show one of the four terrorists as a hindu and he admits that he supplies arms, bombs and weapons to terrorists for sake of money alone. The other three are shown as in Wednesday. Anupam Kher's performance as the commissioner is a notch better than Mohanlal's portrayal but Venkatesh's version beats both. Kamal's come out with a brilliant performance and even his body language while he climbs the stairs and picks up the fallen tomatoes look so naturally 'uncinematic' and so real.
Mohanlal acts as if he knows whats going to come in the next scene which is a big disappointment but at least he does not falter in dialogue delivery and his thick accent probably is needed to justify that he is very vulnerable to insubordination and lack of cooperation thereof among peers in the judicial setup like the chief secretary of the CM for instance. So one can personally interpret that he was living in dangerous waters dealing with other big names even though Tamil is not his mother tongue. So there is no need for audience to understand how he would have been stripped off his duty. (Atleast seeing his character I did not feel curious as why such an able officer was sacked. For he looked very vulnerable for that position with his accent. But not in the case with Venkatesh in eenadu) In Telugu version(Eenadu), they rather show a bit more confrontation between Lakshmi and Venkatesh to make it look like he was terminated of his service as a result of his misuse of power and authority alone. And that made me wonder how such an efficient officer is sacked. Kamal's casting of Venkatesh was a good one but Mohanlal should have done a bit of more home work. Especially the scenes where he is made to react to the phone call - Venkatesh makes it look like he is left in the blue to figure it out himself and gives the impression he actually is facing the situation while Mohanlal looked like he knows the story and whats going to happen next. But that apart, Eenadu is the better version between the three and although I do not understand much of Telugu, still the acting was exceptional by all. UPO is good for its dialogue delivery and Kamal & Ganesh Venkatraman's performance alone. But full marks for this path breaking theme of songless, glamorless, comedy less, single-costume affair that it is going to inspire more and more movies of this genre in the future. Already the movie has had a fairly decent opening to add to the success story of this project. Raj Kamal international and UTV's production values have been excellent and is a 100% value for your money. Shruthi's music, Era Murugan's screenplay and dialogue, the cinematography of the movie (using the Red One camera for an entire movie for the first time in Indian cinema) and the acting, it is a 5/5 rating movie.