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Originally Posted by sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar
Poi
Veteran director K.Balachandar is back with Poi after a long sabbatical. The film is supposed to be a love story with a difference but threads the thin line between reality and fantasy.
You simply wouldn’t associate this film with the director who had made some memorable love stories in the past which were cult classics. In Poi, all characters are uninteresting and even fake, the situations predictable and humour forced and corny.
Valluvanar (Avinash) is a popular political leader and poet. He lives in a huge mansion with his wife Vasuki and his only son Kamban (Uday Kiran). Kamban’s pet hate is his father who he thinks is overbearing and does not understand him. Vasuki is always caught between the devil and deep sea as she dotes on her son and has great respect for her husband.
One day Kanban to spite his dad joins his arch rival’s political party making him look like an idiot. After realizing the blunder Kamban decides to move away from Chennai for some time while things quiten down. He promises to his mother that he will never lie and Kamban goes to Columbo and make friends with Banerji a Bengali and stays in his house.
He lies to everybody that he is Bharati and his father is a mean guy called Theepori from Tirunelveli! Suddenly a God like visionary in all-white and beard (K.Balachandar) appears in front of Kamban and says he is Theepori!
He advises Kamban to show more restraint and fall in love with a beautiful girl! Next day he meets Shilpa (Vimala) and falls for her. Shilpa stays with her brother, a pilot and she is preparing for her civil service exams in India. She hates love and marriage and finds Bharati as a nuisance. Bharati through the advice of Theepori is able to win over Shilpa’s family including her friend Renuka( Geetu Mohandas).
Meanwhile Theepori is fighting a battle with ‘fate’ (Prakash Raj in black cowboy attire!) as they play Snake & Ladder. Shilpa’s friend (Robert) appears from no where to woo her! But by now Bharathi is winning the battle and is slowly able to melt Shilpa’s hard stance on love. But fate plays a role in a twist which leads to a melancholic ending on the beaches.
The film lags from scene one. Alas there is no life in this moribund script which seems to have its basic thread from Jim Carrey’s Bruce Almighty. Uday Kiran is the only silver lining as he is able to keep his character’s wit till the end. New girl Vimala looks good, however she needs to go a for a crash course in acting and dancing.
The supporting cast are all good especially Avinash. The music of Vidyasagar is average with Kutti Kutti Kavithai Njane… being the pick of the album. Colombo has never looked so good thanks to Biju Viswanath’s camera.
And finally- Will KB sir whom we respect and love choose his scripts with more discretion in future?
Verdict: Disappointing
POI.. very very few OK scenes in the second half.
the hero's voice and expressions were irritating.. had to close my ears for most of the movie..
heroine was gud again the dialogues were very old fashioned and serial type.
Oiyooooooooooo :lol:
prakash raj worst character in this life time and getup too :oops:
take an ipod and hear some other songs and watch the movie for heroine and few scenes in the climax.
two songs are great in the movie.. other songs are gud.
its old wine in the beer bottle :evil:
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Originally Posted by kb
Thanks NOV for the review. :) Will surely watch.
Is this the Ist positive review? :roll:
Nice list NOV :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by NOV
I havent seen IA23 and Poi and I loved 3 out of the 4 movies you have listed. EM wasnt so good: nasser's character was poorly etched, IMO :)
Btw this is the first positive review for poi, but I would surely watch it :thumbsup:
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Originally Posted by selvakumar
I am shocked Selva! :shock:
I thot you already knew that I am the most biased guy in the Hub, if not the world.
You disappoint me Selva. :cry:
1. :ty: I try.Quote:
Originally Posted by sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar
2. Good. In fact I would imagine connoiseurs of Kamal's movies to indulge in KB's movies. There are just so many layers...
3. No. :notthatway: there are three L's in thamizh. zha is NOT the second la. :roll:
kal
aval
thamizh
4. I just gave a few examples as popular movies. :huh:
putting VV and Vallavan in the same line is sacreligous? :lol:
I know that Hub Kamal fans think that I hate VV, which is not true. Nowhere have I said that VV is a bad film. 8-)
GF, on the hand, if you take away the remarkable performance of Ajith, is nothing but pure trash. :banghead:
SOK is also an ok movie. Not great.
As for Vallavan, where is Simbu, would like to wring some necks. :argh:
summa thaaN NOV :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by NOV
See when everyone puts Vallavan with Varalaaru it :x us ! May be - the natural response from us (ajithfans) for such posts reflected here as well :wink: :lol:
BTW, I want to reiterate my comments for ur VV review and that proves point #2 and reply for #3 is present in this as well :wink:
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Originally Posted by NOV