Moonu movie review

Directed by	Aishwarya R. Dhanush
Produced by	Kasthuri Raja
Starring	Dhanush Shruti Haasan
Music by	Anirudh Ravichander
Cinematography	Velraj
Editing by	Kola Bhaskar

Vicky's analysis:

The film '3' (moonu) is the debut film for Aishwarya R. Dhanush. Also that movie shows, that it was by a debut. '3' is in the genre of Romantic thriller, where first half is romantic and second half was tried to be a thriller. This story is about a two couple who started loving even from their school days and got married, and abviously the problem comes. The movie begin with the funeral of Ram (dhanush) and then the flash back starts from Janani's (Shruthi hasan's) point of view. In that flash back the school love story starts. That consists of similar love scenes which we are seeing for the past many years, even from gemini ganesan's 'kalyana parisu'. Only satisfaction in first half is siva karthikeyan's comedy,that too ends in first half. From the second half the movie takes a difference genre, i.e thriller, where the movie is from Senthil's (Sunder Ramu, friend of dhanush who was also did the friend role in mayakkam enna) point of view.In that second half the problems of Dhanush was explained by senthil and then how Ram (Dhanush) died is the climax.

As for as acting is concerned Dhanush acted nicely, asusual. He again proved himself as a good actor. But some expressions are similar to that of 'mayakkam enna'. Shruthi hasan acted well in a scene where she is crying outside a temple. And seeing that repeatatively through out the movie makes boring. Others characters like Prabhu (Ram's Father), Banupriya (Ram's mother), Rohini (Janani's mother), Sunder, siva karthikeyan ,etc did their role satisfactory.

A film in a genre like this should have a perfect cinematography. Here it doesnot provide the feel. Velraj is the cinematographer, who created wonderful frames in 'Audukalam' failed here.

Songs are nice. Because of the expectation, the heap created by "kolaveri" is not satisfied visually.Back ground score by little boy anirudh misses something because it doesnot create tears in the emotional scenes, especially in the climax. The BGM in the car parking fight scene is excellent.

The screen play of the movie has some problems. Especially in second half, his friend is narrating a scene where he himself not present at that time. And if some scenes in second half are shown from shruthi's point of view in first half then it might have created curiosity in the whole movie. The scene where shruthi hasan's sister starts speaking is nice but that too not provide a very good impact because, before that they did not create any feel of pity or sympathy on her sister. Similarly in that Dog scene also, they didnot show any scenes that how she liked the dog. They also failed to create the doubtfulness on others about Ram's (Dhanush) murder so that the climax twist is not useful in making screenplay good. Also their marriage was happened in the disco bar. It is a bold attempt saying "Marriage can happen anywhere but after that how they are living matters". But there are somethings like tradition and culture.

Anyway good attempt by Aishwariya Dhanush for choosing this genre, one of the rare female directors and if she concentrates on camera angles's and BGM's of the movie it will be very nice.

Vicky's plus:

Dhanush acting.
Siva karthikeyan's first half comedy.
Aishwariya's bold attempt.

Vicky's Minus:

screenplay.
Cinematography.
BGM.

vicky's rating:

4 out 10

Aaranya Kaandam

Producer	S.P.B.Charan
Writer & Director	Thiyagarajan Kumararaja
Casting	Jackie Shroff
	Ravi Krishna
	Sampath Raj
	Yashmin ponnappa
	Somasundaram
	Master Vasanth
Music	Yuvan Shankar Raja
Camera	P.S.Vinod
Editing	Praveen K.L
	N.B.SriKanth

Review

The Film 'Aaaranya Kaandam' was produced by S.P.Charan's Capital FrameWork. This Film based on a gangster story which was written and directed by the newcomer named Thiyagarajan Kumararaja. The story of this film is very simple in which the leading character is 'a bag containing heroin'. There is a two gang and both gang wants that worth full bag. Jackie shroff (as Singaperumal) is the leader of one gang in which Sampath Raj(as pasupathi) is working. At one stage Sampath came to know that his gang leader himself told to kill him. So he escaped from the gang. Behalf of Sampath they kidnapped his wife and asking him to surrender himself to the gang. This story happening in one track.

And the gang leader Jackie shroff has a girl named yashmin ponnappa (as subbu) in his home who was a slave like for him to satisfy his lust. Ravi krishna (as sappa) is acted as a twelfth standard boy who was the only person that Jackie shroff trust for taking care of yashmin. But Ravi Krishna made love with Yashmin and they both planning to take money from their leader and to elope together. This is another track.

The third track is a small boy master vasanth (as kadukka puli) and his father living in a mansion where the heroin stuff bag holder presents in the same mansion. When they came to know that herion holder was dead, they took the bag and ran away. Also they are planned to sell the heroin to the Jackie Shroff gang and so boy's father called them through phone. Instead buying the heroin they kidnapped the boys father thinking that he has the bag, but actually the small boy has the bag.

So Sampath's wife and that small boy's father were present in Jackie shroff custody. They demand for the stuff to release them. But mean while Sampath also went in a situation to give the bag to another gang opposite to Jackie shroff's gang.

Finally how Sampath rescue his wife and the small boy rescue his father and Meanwhile what was happened to Yashmin and Ravi Krishnan are the climax.

Also a scene is nicely scripted in which how sampath is recognising himself that his own gang leader saying to kill him.

The Climax consist of many twist which gives the satisfactory for the audience. And the characters are well performed by all the actors especially Jackie shroff when showing its full teeth to the people when he is angry.

There was a big doubt in this who is hero and villan but the only one sure thing is that yuvan's back ground score is the real hero.

Perfect camera and equal editing. Dialogue are nice but it can be made audiable in some scenes.

Ravi Krishna in new look is unexpectable. Nice story with slow screenplay. Anybody can believe if i say a scene in which Jackie Shroff went to bath and came after 10 min as if he really bathed.

Risky and bold attempt by S.P.B Charan. Hats off to him.

Vicky's plus

• Acting by all characters
• Background score
• Twists in clymax

Vicky's Minus

• Slow Screenplay
• voice audiabliity

vicky's Result

The people who want entertainment wont like the film but it is very good film for the people who needs powerful story and the script with a twist in a climax.

vicky's rating 5 0ut 0f 10

Avan Ivan

Producer	Kalpathi S.Aghoram
	Kalpathi S.Ganesh
	Kalpathi S.Suresh
Story,Screenplay &Direction	Bala
Dialogue	S.Ramakrishnan
Casting	Vishal
	Arya
	G.M.Kumar
	Madhu Shalini
	Janani Iyer
Music	Yuvan Shankar Raja
Camera	Arthur A.Wilson
Editing	Suresh Urs

Review
The movie Avan Ivan has the lead characters walter vanagamudi (Vishal) and kumbudraensamy(Arya) and story screenplay and direction by Bala. This is the fifth fim of Bala but differs from other 4 films in the screenplay wise. Avan Ivan is the well commercial story of Bala which has nearly one and half hour the entertainment part but it portraits the real character and habits of the people lives in the villages of Theni. But in the story wise there is nothing new, the same thing said in "pithamagan". The another important thing to say is the dialogues by S.RamaKrishnan which is the only thing made the audience to sit in the chair for 2 hours.

Some of the new scenes sketched by Bala will attract the people more. In particular to say, the police inspector giving party to all thieves in the village for requesting them to stop their robberies, Arya asking Madhu Shalini to make her 'head over heals', Arya dancing with his own mom after an achievement, a hero showing all the nine emotions,etc.. are new to tamil cinema.

The back bone of the film is the characterization of Bala. First of all wanna say about Vishal (as walter vananga mudi). After watching the film every one will say " where is this Vishal previously??" .With a squint eye he played a roll of a drama artist but no where Bala showed him as a drama artist, except in 2 scenes, the opening song and the stage performance of showing all emotions.Vishal got the applause in the scene of crying in a tree at a height of 20 feet.

Arya as kumbudraen samy played a roll which is non stop speaking character. He is used fully for the entertainment purpose starting from his introduction. He slightly resembles the character of Surya in "pithamagan".

G.M Kumar acted in a roll of an old time king (called affectionately as 'Highness' by the people) who always like these two brothers. I can say that he gave a tough competition to Vishal in acting, that too before the clymax scene where he acted in nude.

Both Heroines Madhu Shalini ( as thenmozhi, a tutorial college student) and Janani Iyer(as baby, a police constable) are used just to move the story nothing more than that.

Also Ambika( vishal's mother) and Jaya Prabha (Arya's mother) were used well in first half but disappears in second half. In the first half, Jaya Prabha shines in the scene of dancing with Arya. Anand vaidyanathan (father of vishal and arya) caught between these two wives who always beating him.

The villan R.K just came only few scenes (as a cattle smuggler) but did his job nicely. Also Actor Surya made a cameo appearance in a scene which is no way related to the story but just Bala made those scenes to show the acting skill of Vishal.

Yuvan's music plays a important role in the film especially in the introduction song and clymax BGM. Also ' rasathi 'song is nice to hear.

Arthur A.Wilson 's camera showed the Vishal's squint eye well as much as possible. Suresh Urs editing is perfect especially the place where G.M Kumar acted in nude.

Out of 5 films of bala 4 got National Award, so there is more expectation for this film too. But the chance of getting award is for Vishal and Dialogue Writer S.RamaKrishnan.

AGS Entertainment's another succcesful film.

vicky's plus

• Vishal's and Arya's acting
• S.RamaKrishnan's dialogue
• Bala's new scenes
• Yuvan's BGM
• Less Runtime of less than 2 hours (excluding 2 songs)
• Scenes made audience calmness in last 20 minutes of second half

vicky's Minus

• Same storyline of previous films of Bala
• Showing the nude pose of G.M Kumar before killing might be reduced in count.
  
• Expectation created before interval was waste because it is not satisfied after interval.

Vicky's Result and Rating
The film can be watched by all the people who want to see a entertaining movie and also the people want to see a reality movie. worth watching the film in theatres.

Rating: 7 0ut 0f 10

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