Pithamagan (2003) :
Brief Review -
Chiyaan Vikram goes completely berserk and Suriya goes totally nasty in this soulful action drama. Pithamagan is typical South action flick with out of the hands characters. It's very easy to write an action flick with two heroes and one antagonist by mixing several filmy conflicts in it but it's not easy to have a mad character leading the ship. Pithamagan experiments with the leading actor and designs a solid emotional surroundings. At the same time, it shows you the second hero with completely opposite features from the mad one. That works on some level hence Pithamagan ends up well on its own zone. The film is about Chittan, a social outcast who has grown up in a cemetery. A drug dealer finds him a job in a cannabis farm but he gets caught by the cops In prison, he meets a kind-hearted conman, Shakti. This friendship transforms him from his stony existence and then tragedy strikes at them. Chiyaan Vikram plays Chittan with utter brutality. He is terrific in the role and goes on to cross the barriers of compromises set by other actors in Action Genre. No wonder why he won the national award for his performance, he was actually beyond any award credits. On the other side, Suriya is damn funny and entertaining as Shakti. Whenever he appears on screen, a grin smile on your face is generated naturally. Don't know why, but whenever he was about to speak something i found myself laughing already, i mean even before listening to his dialogues. Remember that formula of attraction between two opposite sides? It works so fine here. Bala's direction is good but nothing special. Even the film good but nothing like a classic at all. I am shocked to see such a high rating to this film. Anyways, i enjoyed it and that's enough.
RATING - 6.5/10*
By - #samthebestest.
Chiyaan Vikram goes completely berserk and Suriya goes totally nasty in this soulful action drama. Pithamagan is typical South action flick with out of the hands characters. It's very easy to write an action flick with two heroes and one antagonist by mixing several filmy conflicts in it but it's not easy to have a mad character leading the ship. Pithamagan experiments with the leading actor and designs a solid emotional surroundings. At the same time, it shows you the second hero with completely opposite features from the mad one. That works on some level hence Pithamagan ends up well on its own zone. The film is about Chittan, a social outcast who has grown up in a cemetery. A drug dealer finds him a job in a cannabis farm but he gets caught by the cops In prison, he meets a kind-hearted conman, Shakti. This friendship transforms him from his stony existence and then tragedy strikes at them. Chiyaan Vikram plays Chittan with utter brutality. He is terrific in the role and goes on to cross the barriers of compromises set by other actors in Action Genre. No wonder why he won the national award for his performance, he was actually beyond any award credits. On the other side, Suriya is damn funny and entertaining as Shakti. Whenever he appears on screen, a grin smile on your face is generated naturally. Don't know why, but whenever he was about to speak something i found myself laughing already, i mean even before listening to his dialogues. Remember that formula of attraction between two opposite sides? It works so fine here. Bala's direction is good but nothing special. Even the film good but nothing like a classic at all. I am shocked to see such a high rating to this film. Anyways, i enjoyed it and that's enough.
RATING - 6.5/10*
By - #samthebestest.