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Kuselan - An ode to friendship and of course RajinikanthHow many times have you walked out of a theatre emotionally choked up after watching a Rajinikanth film? How many times have you seen Rajinikanth not uttering a punch dialogue in his films? How many times have you not seen Rajinikanth flexing his muscles and bashing the baddies in his movie?
Watch ‘Kuselan’, where one can find a completely different Rajinikanth – the real Rajinikanth, the human being. The movie is perhaps an answer to his critics who have been criticizing the actor for doing routine 'commercial masalas'. Thanks to P Vasu, Rajinikanth reinvents himself bringing out the actor within him through this film. One thing is very clear. He has not acted to commercial compulsions.
The movie throws light on the real Rajinikanth, who has been quite a puzzle with millions of his fans. And the star himself answers questions that have been plaguing the minds of millions of his fans. Want to know the answers to why Rajini has not entered politics? Why the superstar often goes to the Himalayas? Why the actor still prefers to work in run-of-the-mill stuff?
‘Kuselan’ has got all the answers. With Rajinikanth by his side, P Vasu has come out with a message that is quite though provoking. The usual adage is 'Matha Pitha Guru Deivam'. With ‘Kuselan’ the adage gets an addition - 'Matha Pitha Guru Nanban Deivam'.
He plays the 'Super Star' himself and does not at any time impose himself on screen. Watching Rajinikanth play the role with consummate ease is like watching Sourav Ganguly on song at the middle of the crease. Flair is the best word to explain this. Though the story doesn't revolve around Rajinikanth, he manages to leave his indelible presence on screen. Especially towards the climax, an emotional Rajinikanth identifies his friend recalling their good old innocent days. These are sequences that evoke tears to our eyes bring the human side of each of us to the forefront.
It is a tough task for an actor like Pasupathy to carry the entire burden on his shoulders acting alongside a scene stealer like Rajinikanth. As a poor barber, fighting for survival, he evokes all the sympathy. Seemingly an extension of his role in ‘Veyyil’, Pasupathy passes out with flying colors. Hats off to him!
Meena as his caring wife is more of a realistic portrayal. She understands the emotional struggles of her husband and gives him the much needed solace and comfort. She sure manages to get under the skin of her character and has done an extremely good job.
Nayanthara plays herself in the film and executes the job entrusted to her quite well. She plays a heroine in films, who shoots for a movie alongside Rajinikanth. She fulfills the glamour quotient and serves the purpose indeed well. Vadivelu's comedy compliments the script well. His trick to get an audition with Rajinikanth, who is shooting in the village brings down the roof with laughter.
The movie boasts of a huge star cast including Livingston, M S Baskar, Sona, Geetha, Fathima Babu, Brahmanandham, Chinni Jayanth. All have significant parts to play in the film.
Prabhu plays a cameo while a host of stars including Sneha, Soundarya Rajinikanth, Suriya among others appear for the ‘Cinema Cinema’ song.
Kuselan is about two childhood friends, with one becoming the Numero Uno in the film industry, while the other lands up as a barber in a hamlet.
Balakrishnan alias Bala (Pasupathy) is a poor barber in a village. He leads a happy life with his wife Sreedevi (Meena) and his children, until a film crew lands in their village to shoot for a movie. Coming to know that Super Star Ashok Kumar (Rajinikanth) has come for shooting in the village, and also with the understanding that he is Bala's childhood friend, villagers flock to Bala's house with favors. A man with tremendous self dignity, Bala fears to meet Ashok Kumar thinking that he may not identify him. But, when the two meet after a long gap, the emotional drama between the pals, sets up an emotional 20-minute climax.
Complimenting Vasu's hard work are Arvindh Krishna's excellent cinematography. The background score towards the climax sets up the momentum.
Hats off to director P Vasu! The film-maker, who knows the knack of remaking a Malayalam hit in Tamil, has rendered a movie that has the right packaging of emotions. He has intelligently packaged the movie with commercial elements that a hardcore Rajinikanth fan would love without spoiling the crux.
Produced by Pushpa Kandaswamy and Vijayakumar, ‘Kuselan’ is a movie that would go down well with Rajinikanth fans and this is a great opportunity to see the real side of this spectacular actor though on celluloid.
Watch ‘Kuselan’, where one can find a completely different Rajinikanth – the real Rajinikanth, the human being. The movie is perhaps an answer to his critics who have been criticizing the actor for doing routine 'commercial masalas'. Thanks to P Vasu, Rajinikanth reinvents himself bringing out the actor within him through this film. One thing is very clear. He has not acted to commercial compulsions.
The movie throws light on the real Rajinikanth, who has been quite a puzzle with millions of his fans. And the star himself answers questions that have been plaguing the minds of millions of his fans. Want to know the answers to why Rajini has not entered politics? Why the superstar often goes to the Himalayas? Why the actor still prefers to work in run-of-the-mill stuff?
‘Kuselan’ has got all the answers. With Rajinikanth by his side, P Vasu has come out with a message that is quite though provoking. The usual adage is 'Matha Pitha Guru Deivam'. With ‘Kuselan’ the adage gets an addition - 'Matha Pitha Guru Nanban Deivam'.
He plays the 'Super Star' himself and does not at any time impose himself on screen. Watching Rajinikanth play the role with consummate ease is like watching Sourav Ganguly on song at the middle of the crease. Flair is the best word to explain this. Though the story doesn't revolve around Rajinikanth, he manages to leave his indelible presence on screen. Especially towards the climax, an emotional Rajinikanth identifies his friend recalling their good old innocent days. These are sequences that evoke tears to our eyes bring the human side of each of us to the forefront.
It is a tough task for an actor like Pasupathy to carry the entire burden on his shoulders acting alongside a scene stealer like Rajinikanth. As a poor barber, fighting for survival, he evokes all the sympathy. Seemingly an extension of his role in ‘Veyyil’, Pasupathy passes out with flying colors. Hats off to him!
Meena as his caring wife is more of a realistic portrayal. She understands the emotional struggles of her husband and gives him the much needed solace and comfort. She sure manages to get under the skin of her character and has done an extremely good job.
Nayanthara plays herself in the film and executes the job entrusted to her quite well. She plays a heroine in films, who shoots for a movie alongside Rajinikanth. She fulfills the glamour quotient and serves the purpose indeed well. Vadivelu's comedy compliments the script well. His trick to get an audition with Rajinikanth, who is shooting in the village brings down the roof with laughter.
The movie boasts of a huge star cast including Livingston, M S Baskar, Sona, Geetha, Fathima Babu, Brahmanandham, Chinni Jayanth. All have significant parts to play in the film.
Prabhu plays a cameo while a host of stars including Sneha, Soundarya Rajinikanth, Suriya among others appear for the ‘Cinema Cinema’ song.
Kuselan is about two childhood friends, with one becoming the Numero Uno in the film industry, while the other lands up as a barber in a hamlet.
Balakrishnan alias Bala (Pasupathy) is a poor barber in a village. He leads a happy life with his wife Sreedevi (Meena) and his children, until a film crew lands in their village to shoot for a movie. Coming to know that Super Star Ashok Kumar (Rajinikanth) has come for shooting in the village, and also with the understanding that he is Bala's childhood friend, villagers flock to Bala's house with favors. A man with tremendous self dignity, Bala fears to meet Ashok Kumar thinking that he may not identify him. But, when the two meet after a long gap, the emotional drama between the pals, sets up an emotional 20-minute climax.
Complimenting Vasu's hard work are Arvindh Krishna's excellent cinematography. The background score towards the climax sets up the momentum.
Hats off to director P Vasu! The film-maker, who knows the knack of remaking a Malayalam hit in Tamil, has rendered a movie that has the right packaging of emotions. He has intelligently packaged the movie with commercial elements that a hardcore Rajinikanth fan would love without spoiling the crux.
Produced by Pushpa Kandaswamy and Vijayakumar, ‘Kuselan’ is a movie that would go down well with Rajinikanth fans and this is a great opportunity to see the real side of this spectacular actor though on celluloid.
Director : B.Unnikrishnan
Producer : Joshy
Music : M.Jayachandhran
Cast : Mohanlal,Ajmal,Kavya Madhavan,KPAC Lalitha,............
Maadambi is designed as a typical Mohanlal mass masala, by director B.Unnikrishnan. It is a time-pass family entertainer that delivers the goods in these hard days.
The film sticks to the easy comfort of the formula and image that one associates with a superstar film. Why do we pay Rs 40 and then push and get squeezed to get into the theatre to watch a superstar film first day, first show?
And if you come out smiling, then it is only because of the good time provided by the superstar. Unnikrishnan was certainly in no mood to take chances, when he got the dates of Mohanlal.
The film is built on simple bits of screen writing fluff and is made to appeal to the highly susceptible audiences. The basic story is as old as the hills, and etched from various movies of the past- Balettan, Vesham, Vatsalyam and a few Tamil village movies of Vijaykanth and Sathyaraj!
The director has tried hard to portray Mohanlal as a commoner. He drives an Ambassador, rather than the Scorpio or the Pajero he is usually seen with in other movies. Wears plain shirts and a 'Mundu'. That went down well with me. However the director couldn't help himself anymore, and gave us a character who is the saviour, the philosopher, the wrestler and the Einstein all packed into one.
The movie has real good, powerful dialogues, which I loved. Credits to Scriptwriter. There was this special dialogue which got my attention. ' Ente thaleku meethe oru parunthum parakilla' a clear indication to the soon to be released Mammotty movie 'Parunthu', which is also based on a moneylender.
The climax of the movie was really terrible. Could not believe they had to end the movie like this. At the end, every thing comes into order. All problems solved.
The character was played out by Mohanlal with complete ease It some times feels sad that such a talented actor had to agree to such menial movies.
On a scale of ten I would rate this movie seven.
Every Mohanlal fan should watch this movie.
Actor: Kamal Hassan(10), Napoleon, Bhaskar, Chiti Babu,.......
Actress: Asin(2), Mallika Sherawat,....
Director : K.S. Ravikumar
Produced by : Oscar films
Overall Review
Dasavathaaram movie is good — Movie is spectacular, a must watch movie.
Kamal Hassan’s magnum opus Dasavatharam ends up setting a new benchmark for Indian films. Tamil cinema has entered a new era with Dasavatharam. All in all, Dasavathaaram is an extraordinary movie by Kamal and his team — A must watch movie.
All the credit goes to — Kamal Haasan, K.S.Ravikumar and Ravi Varman.
Rediff Review : Dasavathaaram is spectacular
IndiaGlitz Review: Dasavatharam - Kamal’s perfect ten
Detailed Review
It has its own merits and demerits.
First 30 minutes is just superb.You must see it. It is mindblowing to say the least. 12th century is shown as good as it could have ever been. Kamal & Asin ,not to forget Napoleon were just at their very best."Kallai matum kandal...." song is shot very nicely. It made me like that song which I didnt at first on hearing audio alone.
Asin is just superb not just with her looks but with her acting too.
Avoiding romance in the story was good, I really appreciate that.
Final Stunt between American and Japanese guys is one of the best.
His Telugu Police Officer role takes a special mention.You will remember this role better than anyone else.
Tsunami shown with graphics is superb.Probably graphics is almost as good as in Anniyan though in a different way.
Some of the original facts were pulled into the film like water not entering a mosque full of people.But intervention of God to save India by Tsunami is not actually liked or appreciated by me.
Subject on which the story revolves is very good - Biowar.
Though subject is very good, the storytelling is so complicated that you wouldnt be able to recall the whole movie but only a few scenes.
American and Japanese guys that he has done is great.
Story is such that they had tried to give importance to every role that Kamal does which is a sort of irritation that you will be telling to yourself that this is Kamal,this is Kamal and continuation is lost.
I think everyone know why Mallika was in this film. She does her job perfectly and has an early exit.
It is quite a mock when Bush asks "What is that?" when someone says to him about NaCl.
Old woman and Tamil guy roles were not needed at all but to insert some more of the irritating story to go through with the main plot of the film.
When Singer gets cured of throat cancer by a bullet, it felt like utter stupidity as well as made a big black hole on the movie.Avoiding this everything in this film was digestible.
God Intervention though not appreciated by me was not that bad.
Overall avoiding some unnecessary roles and keeping the story simple would have made this surely megahit film into a gigahit.
