Kaththi (2014)

So a Diwali - Vijay Entertainer.

OVERALL REVIEW : Yes. A good movie with a social thought for all. Good acting by Vijay, Neil Nitin Mukesh and Satish. Decent story and good direction. Amazing cinematography and crisp dialogues make the movie a pleasure to watch. Amazing Music and Awesome BGM. Bad heroine acting.

Movies Similar to it: Citizen , Thamizhan , Ramana.

MOVIE RATING : 6/10 MOVIE WITHOUT SAMANTHA : 7/10

IN-DEPTH REVIEW (SPOILER ALERT):

1. STORY:

First half: The movie starts off with Vijay (Kathiresan), a prisoner helping the cops catch a thief who has just escaped the prison. When his job is done, Kathiresan just vanishes and the story moves on. With a few unnecessary scenes of the heroine introduction and other stuff that is totally irrelevant, the director finally comes back to the story in a while when Satish (Dhanu) and Kathiresan see people shoot at an innocent fellow in an auto rickshaw. They decide to rescue him and to their shock, the guy who was shot looks exactly like Kathiresan. They come to know that his name is Jeevanandam ( Vijay's double action). Kathiresan immediately decides to pretend like Jeevanandam and makes things appear like Jeevanandam is Kathiresan to avoid the cops chasing him. Kathiresan (who people assume to be Jeevanandam) then comes to an Old-Age home where he is brought to by the District Collector (somehow, don't question). Kathiresan wants money and decides to stay for it. Cedric Peter Von (more like Viktor Von Doom) (Neil NItin Mukesh) plays a typical MNC CEO who is ready to do anything for the company. Jeevanandam is arrested by the police and kept in jail. Kathiresan however slowly comes to know the real story of Jeevanandam and the pain he has gone through for his village and the farmers in his village. Kathiresan decides to help the old farmers as Jeevanandam and starts his fight for the right.

The first half ends with the THUPPAKKI QUOTE - "I am waiting"

Second Half:

After numerous attempts by Neil Nitin Mukesh to kill Kathiresan( they think Jeevanandam) failed, the story begins to move quick when Kathiresan uses his extravagant skill to fight for the farmers. The entire story revolves around the fact that the farmers in a village deep south are devoid of water for farming and an MNC Cola Factory has encroached the farmer's property by illegal means.

Jeevanandam escapes the prison with the help of a few people and returns to Chennai when he comes to know everything. Kathiresan fights till the end as Jeevanandam and wins the case for the farmers but however leaves the place giving all credit to Jeevanandam, and finally accepts his mistake and returns to jail.

WHAT COULD BE BETTER:

1. The Heroine, Samantha ( I don't want to talk about her) 2. A bit quicker story build. 3. Rectification of very minor forgivable logical flaws in the movie.

WHAT WAS GOOD:

1. Vijay 2. Anirudh's Music and BGM 3. Direction

Fmovies: Best concept ever... The movie starts of with a bit of comedy as out hero falls in love with Samantha on first sight. Later the twist is when the double is shown in screen and that's when the movie kicks off. Flash back is a little slow but the story has a lot of weight. Reality and action are the true base of the movie.. Best in its making.. I would like to watch the movie again.. Truly inspiring because of the farmers and the story behind all the farmers.. This should show the true meaning of the farmers life behind the field. Among the other performers, Neil Nitin Mukesh is a new addition to the list of suave, stylish villains. His voice and the dubbing elevate his overall performance. Samantha is sadly what you may call the 'typical commercial cinema heroine' who appears in the songs, few romantic scenes and stands in the background while the hero takes charge.

Another nice movie from the director of the blockbuster THUPAKKI.The movie ensembles the real life struggle of the farmers who experiencing the water scarcity.Vijay's acting skills are charismatic and he have done best on both of the dual roles.Again director Handled the social problem in an correct manner.Overall the movie is good. Background score is an masterpiece of aniruth ravichander.Character selection for the movie is good.Samantha's performance should be appreciated all the songs are good the negative thing in the movie is dulling comedies by karunagaran.We have to majorly thank the elder ones who acted in the movies because all of them done a great performance.According to the sources the revenue of the movie is profit and also ANOTHER 100CR collection record for VIJAY

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Kaththi (U) TAMIL ------------- my Rating: ★★★★ DELIVERS STRONG SOCIAL MESSAGE

STRENGTHS:- * Ilayathalapathy Vijay's performance.... * Story Screenplay Dialogues Direction was best by AR murugudoss * Anirudh's Music and BGM.... * Cinematography and Editing was awesome.....

WEAKNESSES :- * Pre Interval portion goes slow..... * A song was utter waste in second half.....

FINAL VERDICT:- * Overall... it is not a commercial entertainer but it delivers a strong social message in Vijay style.... AR murugudoss cameo scene is best... DON'T MISS IT....

Director: A.R. Murugadoss Writer: A.R. Murugadoss Stars: Vijay Chandrasekar, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Neil Nitin Mukesh | See full cast and crew »

The film conveys a strong social message which depicts the current pity situation of farmers, where their resources are exploited by multinational companies.

Regarding the first half, the screenplay is much slow and dramatic which makes you unfocused off the movie. But the film takes on in the second half with racy screenplay.

Vijay's performance looked neat where he had emoted good in few scenes and avoided unnecessary punch dialogs. Actress Samantha is adequate in the movie. She is just used for filling the glamor quotient. Cinematography by George is appreciable.

What worked out in the film is, A.R. Murugadoss' bold attempt in depicting country's corruption as well as MNC's con moves by razor sharp dialogs.

Finally, actor Vijay has succeeded once again by joining with A.R. Murugadoss after 'Thupaaki'. After the failures of his previous flicks, Vijay had managed to rectify his mistakes and A.R. Murugadoss had well used the actor in the film.

Stop wasting your time in reading reviews, you just don't want miss the best of Vijay & AR Murugadoss, If you still want to know something then read on...

Water Scarcity for farming resulting in farmers suicide, Disrespecting elderly people, Media's hunger for TRP, Corporate/MNC's domination, City people ignoring villager's issue.. Well these are the various issues highlighted in the movie while the farmers issue being the main theme. Murugadoss is a master of screenplay and good concepts (like how he developed ACF in Ramana, 7am Arivu theme, 12 on 12 in Thuppakki) and this movie has some good sequences. He starts with bits & pieces and post Aathi song the movie picks up and ends with a bang. The technical dept is brilliant like Thuppaki, DOP George u rock man u r the future,I bet u wont miss Santhosh Sivan.. Anirudh's first big movie and he delivers well in Songs & BGM.. Sreekar Prasad continues from where he left in Thuppakki. Excellent Action sequences by Anal Arasu.. especially coin fight where he delivers a logical way of how a single person can fight 50 people,am stunned coz in Thuppaki too the fight sequences made sense,hats off to Murugadoss for it.

NOTE: Only in Thuppaki & Kaththi you can find a hero getting tired after fighting.

Vijay's performance as Jeevanandham & Kathiresan is excellent, the performance comes from body language,mannerism and Vijay is bang on.Get up change is not needed.. According to me he is the best for facial expressions..woww.. let it be the cute reaction after slapping Samantha or Mocking Neil Nitin after Killing him.

Neil Nitin is typical corporate Amul Baby, Excellent dubbing in his own voice for a first time Hindi actor in tamil.. now thats good

Special mention tp all the elderly people, they have done well.

Excellent choreos for songs, Paalam song & A fight sequence were removed to make sure movie is speedy enough.

The downsides are Samantha & Song placements.

Apart from Vijay fans.. post Ghilli 2004 probably Sachein 2005 & Thuppakki 2012 were widely appreciated Vijay films.. Remaining were either liked only by few or some had issues with remakes (come on everyone does remakes) But Kaththi will be liked by everyone...Vijay & ARM has Nailed it. I have not mentioned many things enjoy it in theater with ur family