Chikku Bukku - A Plesant Journey!

I had been to the movie: Chikku Bukku @ Escape Cinemas - Chennai. Starcast: Aarya, Preethika Rao, Shriya Saran, Santhanam. Music: Colonial Cousins, Director: Manigandan.

Chikku Bukku is a lightweight family entertainer from debutant director Manikadan, who has worked as assistant director to Jeeva(late). Although, the story seems to have been stitched from likes of various Bollywood movies like Love Aaj kal etc., the director has put in a good effort to keep the audience involved.

Arjun (Aarya) is a Radio DJ in London. Anu(Shriya) is potrayed as a outlandish, modernized silly girl, who is pursuing her MBA in London. Both of them are headed to Tamilnadu, accidentally meet at Bangalore airport, and they continue their journey together due to some bizarre consequences. Another central character, Sekar(Played by Aarya) is infused into the film as a flashback from the past. Debutant Preetika Rao plays as Aarya's second love-lady in the film. The scenes in the film shift back and forth, between the present and the past, where the director tries to correlate the two.

Aarya's performance, especially in the role "Sekar" played by him, has certainly been very admirable. The character "Meenal" played by Preetika is perhaps the best character in the film. She looks gorgeous and has etched out her role seamlessly. Santhanam's comedy is a big plus to the film, though, he could have been utilized more effectively. Shriya Saran has delivered a hackneyed performance, some times, even grossly annoying. Hariharan's music was nothing special, but decent enough. A special mention goes to the exemplary camera and art work throughout the film.

The screenplay of the film is a bit edgy, could have been refined. In sum,thumbs up to director Manigandan, Chikku Bukku gives you that "pleasant" feel, once you have watched it.

Bottomline: Worth a watch once.

Kanimozhi - Movie Review

Today, I had been to the movie: Kanimozhi, at PVR cinemas - Chennai. Starcast: Jai, Shazhn Padamsee, Vijay Vasanth. Music: Sathish Chakravarthy. Director: Sripathy.

The term "Kanimozhi" might ring the bells of politics in your ears, but this movie has got nothing to do as such with politics. The debutant director Sripathy, comes up with a laudable effort, tries to bring out a realistic sketch of love and life. However, he fails miserably to keep the audience gripping, in an almost blatantly predicable love story with philosophical flavors added to it.

To start with, the so called "plot" revolves around Rajesh(Main character played by Jai) who is portrayed as a visual communications student, aspires to be a film director. He falls into a one side love cliche with with the heroine (Shazhn Padamsee). Actor Vijay Vasanth plays a antagonistic role (Kowshik), who also tries to win the girl's heart. The crux of the movie is based on similar interests shared by Jai and Vasanth, including the heroine. (you should have guessed the story by now?)

Actor Jai has come up with a mediocre performance in the role (Rajesh) played by him. The heroine Shazhn Padamsee an utter disappointing act, manages to look like a doll, and convincingly manages to act also like a doll. Some of the characters played by Rajesh's friends, especially Micheal, provide some comic relief during the course of the film. The music director Sathish Chakravarthy has composed excellent tracks like Muzhumathi and Penne Pogathey, which keep the movie alive. The climax of the movie is inexplicably horrendous, leaves you totally flustered, erasing even some of the good scenes you might have enjoyed in the film.

Overall, the movie is a stern test of your endurance, which leaves you staring viciously at the screen, perhaps, even making you wonder, what the hell happened after the climax. A criminal waste of time, strongly advise you to watch it under your own risk !