Selvaragavan has made a bold attempt in making an historic movie without the usual clichés of Tamil cinemas. I also want to mention that this movie is a complete fantasy and no records suggests the authenticity of the facts mentioned in the movie. As i've established the movie is a pure fantasy there are places in the movie where you are bound to see various clippings from Hollywood movies like the war scene where the tactics were taken from last samurai and also the famous gladiator scene.
But apart from that the movie's first half has some awesome visuals and settings which is a revolution in Tamil cinema. The first half of the film while make you sit on your edge and also it is made in an adventure type. But the second half of the movie was ridiculous, first of all showing the Tamil people as cannibals was not good and also there were some silly magic present in the second half. If Selvaragavan would have concentrated more on the cinematography rather than the visual settings the movie would have been a perfect one. There were lots of plot holes in the second half, and as the movie progresses you get irritated in Reema Sen's role and also the director pathetically copy the Lara Croft, yes, thats true. Andrea's character has no real importance and it was totally eliminated at the end. Some scenes were really unbelievable and not in a good way, the scene were Reema Sen's blood poisons the soldiers made me laugh.
The most foolish character was the leader of the mercenary team. The Indian army or the mercenaries were just crawling at the end war scene. Apparently the director didn't think about the amount of opposition in just moving a single gun. would sanction the massacre of all those people at the climax war. The guy was not even holding his gun correctly and made a very foolish attempt at the scene were he was wearing a traditional Pandian dress and giving orders. Also I didn't think professional soldiers would behave in that way at the end and this proves that the guys were mercenaries and not the Army. In reality no government would allow the recruitment of mercenary and it is done only as a last resort, but i'm going to let go of this logic as majority of the audience would not notice it.
Karthi made a memorable performance at the beginning of the movie but his character was also reduced at the end. Also I think the director had so much confidence in himself, he believed that the movie would be a success and a sequel would be taken later. I'm hoping the sequel would be much better than this.
But apart from that the movie's first half has some awesome visuals and settings which is a revolution in Tamil cinema. The first half of the film while make you sit on your edge and also it is made in an adventure type. But the second half of the movie was ridiculous, first of all showing the Tamil people as cannibals was not good and also there were some silly magic present in the second half. If Selvaragavan would have concentrated more on the cinematography rather than the visual settings the movie would have been a perfect one. There were lots of plot holes in the second half, and as the movie progresses you get irritated in Reema Sen's role and also the director pathetically copy the Lara Croft, yes, thats true. Andrea's character has no real importance and it was totally eliminated at the end. Some scenes were really unbelievable and not in a good way, the scene were Reema Sen's blood poisons the soldiers made me laugh.
The most foolish character was the leader of the mercenary team. The Indian army or the mercenaries were just crawling at the end war scene. Apparently the director didn't think about the amount of opposition in just moving a single gun. would sanction the massacre of all those people at the climax war. The guy was not even holding his gun correctly and made a very foolish attempt at the scene were he was wearing a traditional Pandian dress and giving orders. Also I didn't think professional soldiers would behave in that way at the end and this proves that the guys were mercenaries and not the Army. In reality no government would allow the recruitment of mercenary and it is done only as a last resort, but i'm going to let go of this logic as majority of the audience would not notice it.
Karthi made a memorable performance at the beginning of the movie but his character was also reduced at the end. Also I think the director had so much confidence in himself, he believed that the movie would be a success and a sequel would be taken later. I'm hoping the sequel would be much better than this.