Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Aananda Thandavam – Tamil Movie Review
Star-casts: Siddarth, Thamannah, Rukmini, S.T. Venki, Kitty, Rishi, Madan Bob, Charlie, Bala Singh, Kalai Rani.
Banner: Aascar Productions
Production: V. Ravichandran
Story and Dialogues: Sujatha
Screenplay and Direction: Gandhi Krishna
Music: G.V. Prakash
Lyrics: Vairamuthu
Art Direction: Thotta Tharani
Editing: V.T. Vijayan
Director of Photography: Jeeva Shankar
Special Effects: S.T. Venki
Aascar Ravichandran is one such versatile producer who gives no importance to the star-values, but for good stories. Churning out year’s best film Dasavatharam, he is so elated taking up the films with no A-rated star casts and it’s for the good theme. ‘Ananda Thandavam’ falls under this genre.
Followed by grand success of Vishal-Bharath starrer ‘Chellamae’, Director Gandhi Krishna wields megaphone for this flick. As known to everyone, it is inspired by late veteran novelist Sujatha’s ‘Pirivoam Sandhipoam’. Thanks to Director for he hasn’t left out the credits of Sujatha as one of our leading director in Kollywood had done so.
The film starts with a narration by protagonist Ragupathi (Siddarth), an engineering graduate on the pursuit of right job. He shares a close bonding with his lovable father as a very close friend. He get frustrated with his unemployment crisis and then amidst of it, he meets Madhumitha (Thamannah). Beguiled by her enchanting looks and childlike innocence, he falls in love with her and her too. Nevertheless, Ragupathi’s father doesn’t want his son to carry on with his relationship and in contrast goes Madhumitha’s parents. They receive him well and indeed share good relationship…
But his dreams are shattered once the antagonist Radhakrishnan (C. Rishi) arrives from United States and sweeps the family off its feet. The girl’s parents change their mind overnight and quickly arrange a marriage between Madhumitha and Radhakrishnan. The marriage takes place.
Broken down into pieces, Raghu is unable to overcome this turmoil and fleets to USA for a management course. Over there, his life transcends into a well-light brightness as he meets Rathna (Rukmani) and a good relationship blossoms between them.
Rathna is a girl who gives more value to the eastern cultural ethics despites her life settled in USA. She wants to get settled in India and they decide to marry at Pittsburgh Hindu Temple.
Well, everything doesn’t happen as you expect and here goes triangular love story…
Audio for the film was launched during last week and release is expected in the mid of November…
Anandha Thandavam is about how a love is broken, only to be rekindled and tested and ending in a rather spectacular climax ( a saving grace for an otherwise mediocre movie).
Siddharth, the newcomer, plays a job seeking engineer (Raghupathy) who runs across the family of the bubbly girl Madhumitha ( Tamannah, of course). Raghupathy falls for the antics of the mischievous Madhumitha and she reciprocates the love. The family, too, approves the pair and all seems to be going well for the budding lovers. Raghupathy’s father disapproves of the relationship, but that seems like the only bump in an otherwise smooth road.
In comes Radhakrishnan from the US. Filthy rich and cunning, he uses both these attributes to win over Madhumitha and her family and is soon engaged with her. Raghupathy, out-of-station on a job, returns to find about the engagement and is shattered. Madhu marries the rich man and leaves for the US. Raghu, motivated by his father, aims to reach great heights and leaves to, no marks for guessing, the US for his studies. There he comes across Rathna (Rukmini) and starts to have some feelings for her. And, again no marks for guessing, he comes across Madhu as well and learns about how Radhakrishnan has been cheating her. Torn between Rathna and Madhu and with Madhu wanting to leave Radhakrishnan, the setup is done for a nice climax.
Tamannah’s fans who were disappointed that she didnt get a good enough role in Ayan, rejoice. Anandha Thandavam has given her a meaty role, more than the critically acclaimed Kalloori. Tamannah steals the show in this triangular love story and it is not just her good looks ( though that plays a major part), but her good acting and ability to express different emotions that will win her more fans. The climax scene seals the deal for Tamannah and her already burgeoning popularity will get a big boost.
Newcomer Siddharth shows some promise, but needs to improve a lot. He lacked the enrergy that was required of his character. Other actors in the movie have done their bit, but none shines enough to be spoken about. A movie with all the main characters having some grey shades is closer to reality than movies in which the protagonist is the ultimate do gooder, but a weak screenplay and poor editing results in the movie being a mediocre one as opposed to the fabulous one it could have been. And did I tell about the filthy innuendos in the movie? They were needless and should have been avoided.
Music from G.V.Prakash is good to hear and is above average. The BGM could have and should have received much more attention so that it raised the level of the emotional scenes towards the end, but it fails to do so.
All in all, Anandha Thandavam is a modified Unnalle Unnalle that might just be saved by Tammanah and the good climax. But may be not!
Banner: Aascar Productions
Production: V. Ravichandran
Story and Dialogues: Sujatha
Screenplay and Direction: Gandhi Krishna
Music: G.V. Prakash
Lyrics: Vairamuthu
Art Direction: Thotta Tharani
Editing: V.T. Vijayan
Director of Photography: Jeeva Shankar
Special Effects: S.T. Venki
Followed by grand success of Vishal-Bharath starrer ‘Chellamae’, Director Gandhi Krishna wields megaphone for this flick. As known to everyone, it is inspired by late veteran novelist Sujatha’s ‘Pirivoam Sandhipoam’. Thanks to Director for he hasn’t left out the credits of Sujatha as one of our leading director in Kollywood had done so.
The film starts with a narration by protagonist Ragupathi (Siddarth), an engineering graduate on the pursuit of right job. He shares a close bonding with his lovable father as a very close friend. He get frustrated with his unemployment crisis and then amidst of it, he meets Madhumitha (Thamannah). Beguiled by her enchanting looks and childlike innocence, he falls in love with her and her too. Nevertheless, Ragupathi’s father doesn’t want his son to carry on with his relationship and in contrast goes Madhumitha’s parents. They receive him well and indeed share good relationship…
But his dreams are shattered once the antagonist Radhakrishnan (C. Rishi) arrives from United States and sweeps the family off its feet. The girl’s parents change their mind overnight and quickly arrange a marriage between Madhumitha and Radhakrishnan. The marriage takes place.
Broken down into pieces, Raghu is unable to overcome this turmoil and fleets to USA for a management course. Over there, his life transcends into a well-light brightness as he meets Rathna (Rukmani) and a good relationship blossoms between them.
Rathna is a girl who gives more value to the eastern cultural ethics despites her life settled in USA. She wants to get settled in India and they decide to marry at Pittsburgh Hindu Temple.
Well, everything doesn’t happen as you expect and here goes triangular love story…
Audio for the film was launched during last week and release is expected in the mid of November…
Anandha Thandavam is about how a love is broken, only to be rekindled and tested and ending in a rather spectacular climax ( a saving grace for an otherwise mediocre movie).
Siddharth, the newcomer, plays a job seeking engineer (Raghupathy) who runs across the family of the bubbly girl Madhumitha ( Tamannah, of course). Raghupathy falls for the antics of the mischievous Madhumitha and she reciprocates the love. The family, too, approves the pair and all seems to be going well for the budding lovers. Raghupathy’s father disapproves of the relationship, but that seems like the only bump in an otherwise smooth road.
In comes Radhakrishnan from the US. Filthy rich and cunning, he uses both these attributes to win over Madhumitha and her family and is soon engaged with her. Raghupathy, out-of-station on a job, returns to find about the engagement and is shattered. Madhu marries the rich man and leaves for the US. Raghu, motivated by his father, aims to reach great heights and leaves to, no marks for guessing, the US for his studies. There he comes across Rathna (Rukmini) and starts to have some feelings for her. And, again no marks for guessing, he comes across Madhu as well and learns about how Radhakrishnan has been cheating her. Torn between Rathna and Madhu and with Madhu wanting to leave Radhakrishnan, the setup is done for a nice climax.
Tamannah’s fans who were disappointed that she didnt get a good enough role in Ayan, rejoice. Anandha Thandavam has given her a meaty role, more than the critically acclaimed Kalloori. Tamannah steals the show in this triangular love story and it is not just her good looks ( though that plays a major part), but her good acting and ability to express different emotions that will win her more fans. The climax scene seals the deal for Tamannah and her already burgeoning popularity will get a big boost.
Newcomer Siddharth shows some promise, but needs to improve a lot. He lacked the enrergy that was required of his character. Other actors in the movie have done their bit, but none shines enough to be spoken about. A movie with all the main characters having some grey shades is closer to reality than movies in which the protagonist is the ultimate do gooder, but a weak screenplay and poor editing results in the movie being a mediocre one as opposed to the fabulous one it could have been. And did I tell about the filthy innuendos in the movie? They were needless and should have been avoided.
Music from G.V.Prakash is good to hear and is above average. The BGM could have and should have received much more attention so that it raised the level of the emotional scenes towards the end, but it fails to do so.
All in all, Anandha Thandavam is a modified Unnalle Unnalle that might just be saved by Tammanah and the good climax. But may be not!
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