An honest opinion of the film from a Surya fan and KV Anand follower.
i just feel Suriya is jinxed (or maybe even cursed by his competitors(Vijay???!)) with back to back scrappy scripts in the form of Rakthacharithram- 7Am Arivu- Maattrraan.Trustable directors are letting him(and us, Tamil audience) down. Prior to that Singam ,Adhavan,Ayan,VA,Kaakha Kaakha,Ghajini were all blockbusters.
Maattrraan was marketed as a technical wizardry.Conjoined twins concept was amazing.Suriya's looks were also dashing.But in the trailer itself one can see the disjoint not-so-perfect Suriyas..........every one is praising "Performance Capture",but it was major flop in the movie.The opening half with 2 Suriyas ,we can clearly see one Surya match very abnormally which increasingly became a glaring joke.Shanker got it wrong when he prolonged VFX scenes(Endhiran fire and climax scenes) Which no Hollywood studio would do.Kamal got it wrong with the tall-afghan guy in Dasavatharam.Why use a technology/Technic when we cannot make perfect output like our Hollywood counterparts.
I very well belief this technical mess got KV Anand sir distracted and as a result he could not churn out a perfect entertaining flick such as Ayan and Ko.Comedy was forced and there were numerous predictable draggy scenes 1)Anniyan Ambi like love letter 2)over- overstretched fight scene at MGM Dizee world-made no sense.It was too long.3)that long drive into that cave at climax scene and a even longer speech session.these are just 3 examples.
2nd half has so much research,but it was a pointless ordeal.the moment Surya shatters the dining table glass we roughly know what will happen in climax.All the twists became clichéd.as Preshanth of Desimaritini mentions "the second half is a big chore, no matter how you look at it. There's not an ounce of suspense and everything that you see here doesn't matter at all. It becomes very evident how things are eventually going to pan out, but we are made to sit through a very long, pointless exposition".
Foreign military were made to look stupid.And again we see hero,heroine missing bullets at close range.
i also thought there was no real need for the conjoined twins.It seem more of a marketing purpose only,just to draw the hype.Except the fact that they were a result of their father's experiment(gone wrong).To me it does not add much literature value other than an eyesore whenever i see the badly matched Cut-n-paste Surya.they could have played another actor(Ajmal?!) as the would-become-dead twin.
finally....Harris Jeyraj has to quit movies.other than songs he cannot make decent Bgm. His climax Bgms were loud and noisy.
KV Anand lost plot midway.Surya looked as if he just wanted to finish off the project asap(as if he knew its going to be another dumb forgettable project like 7Am Arivu).Writers SuBha must reinvent.Harris Jeyraj,KV Anand,Suriya all seem to hastily finish off the project.Everyone pawned AGS Kalpathi Agoram's money and went holiday to that Ukrania or Ukvania(sometimes heard as Rukmenia).
Kajal was the only inspiration(for men) to sit through the ordeal.Women and children can drink "Energion" to keep up.Audience grew impatient towards the end.Some started to clap(mockingly)and sulked at the level of stupidity allowed in a 2012 movie.
Although its an average one-time-watch flick,one deservedly expect much more from the director of Ayan and Ko.
#trivia - Prakash Raj was supposed to do the villain role but he was sacked early.Maybe its a boon in disguise for him
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