Jodi Breakers

Ashwini Chaudary has taken a plot that is no new to us. Madhavan and Bipasha are two people who do not believe in love or commitment or long time relations. They Both help People in relation to break up when they have a problem in their relation. This makes the First half quite so obvious to all of us even to people who have not yet watched the movie.

But then at a time when both Madhavan and Bipaasha work for a common client they get more insight into both of them and they both fall in love with each other. This is the twist in the whole movie. Then as usual the story moves on to tell us how they both unite.

People if any have seen kollywood's Pammal K Sambandam Jodi breakers would not be a great story for them. The only thing is Madhavan and Bipaasha break up many jodis in here.

There is not much of Humour which could have been there and also the Director does not have a grip on screenplay. But however Madhavan and Bipaasha both glamorous like anything keeps us occupied for most of the time.
 Few songs are nice and have been visualized greatly.

Overall the Movie is watch worthy once for all its Glamorous visual elements.

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Ghost Rider 2 Movie Review

Poor Nicolas Cage, his career just keeps on going downhill. At least in the past when he made B action movies he would intersperse them with something worthwhile. Now it seems he just makes one bad movie after another. ìGhost Rider: Spirit of Vengeanceî is in keeping with that tradition. The original movie in this series was bad but this sequel is worse. Where is Eva Mendes when you need her?

As we know from the first film, and it is repeated here, Johnny Blaze (Cage) made a deal with the devil in order to try to save his father. Now he is human at some times and a demon at others. When he is in his demonic state he is all afire and skeletal. Not a pretty sight to see.

Now it seems that the devil had a son with a woman named Nadya (Violante Placido). His name is Danny (Fergus Riordan) and he is now thirteen years old. At the bequest of a man named Moreau (Idris Elba), Johnny agrees to help find and protect this Danny. Moreau says he will free him of his demon if he does.

The rest of the movie concerns Johnnyís efforts to protect Danny and also to confront the devil (Ciaran Hinds), or Roarke as he calls himself in this movie. This leads to some fairly good action sequences but not good enough to make the movie entertaining or enjoyable.

Cage, Hinds and Elba are all too good to be in a movie like this. They are slumming big time as they play these roles. Cage goes all crazy on us in his role, Hinds plays his tongue in cheek, and Elba plays his straight. Three actors in movie hell and these are the choices they make.

The special effects are fairly good and it is exciting to see a skeleton on a motorbike burning up the highway literally. You also get some other gory effects with a character who can cause anything and everything to decay and rot. He is called Carrigan (Johnny Whitworth).

The movie is rated PG-13 for profanity and violence.

Hopefully this is the end of this series. I wouldnít want Cage to have to betray his talent in another ìGhost Riderî film. Better he go make ìNational Treasure 15î or something like that. Or maybe go way back and revisit his ìMoonstruckî character.

"Ghost Rider" is a movie that might appeal to fans of the comic book, but all others will want to sit this one out.

I scored "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" an ungodly 4 out of 10.


By Jackie K Cooper

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Tit Bits About Billa 2

The Ajith-Chakri toleti Project has been going on for nearly 8 or more months now and the talk is that the  Billa 2 team is gearing up for a May 1st release, coinciding with Ajith's birthday. Shoots are in full swing in Ramoji Rao Film city in Hyderabad owing to the FEFSI strike happening in Chennai. The movie's cast including Parvathy Omanakuttan, Bruna Abdullah, Prabhu, Rahman, Sriman, Jayaram and Vidyut Jamwal are participating in the shoots.

There is also news about Billa 2's audio release. Yuvan, when he was recently contacted, confirmed that he has finished tuning up the movie and that the audio is now in final mix stage. With this, expectations are abuzz for the movie's audio.

It is also notable that the Previous Billa Music by Yuvan created a wave Among Ajith fans. Particularly the Billa theme !! So can Ajith Fans Expect a astounding Billa 2 theme This time too ?? Lets wait and see

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Muppozhudhum Un Karpanaigal review

Production: RS Infotainment

Direction: Eldred Kumar

Star-casts: Atharva, Amala Paul, Santhanam and others

Music: G.V Prakash Kumar

The review needs some finest introduction as it boasts of whole lot of specialties. The film arrives from the most acclaimed producers of big hits Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya and Ko. Today, it’s a special occasion as the production house has couple of releases in Tamil and Hindi each. While Gautham Menon’s Ek Deewana Tha is receiving mixed reports there, Muppozhudhum Un Karpanaigal is sure to great welcome in all centres.

Well, the title should have given a clear view that it’s gonna be a beautiful love story. But again, glimpse through the title again and you’ll get a different view after watching the film. Muppozhudhum Un Karpanaigal – I dream about you is a roller-coaster thriller in parts with equal proportions of romance, glamour and comedy. Fine! The film carries minute traces of Ilayathalapathy Vijay’sKannaukkul Nizhavu, where the protagonist is taken by some misconceptions on his imagination.

The film marks the debut of producer Eldred Kumar as a director and his writing is really brilliant that it keeps the audiences focussed on the screens throughout the show. To be precise, you won’t get distracted even for a scene. It is worth mentioning that Eldred Kumar has been a part of script team in almost all the movies he has produced and his work is appreciable here.

The first half moves with some suspense that it has all entertainment quotients in right blend. The film revolves around Ramachandran aka Ram (Atharva), who holds a prominent position in an IT company. Though Latha (Amala Paul) hails from a rich family in USA and daughter of Kingpin in IT Empire, she comes to India for establishing her potentials on own strength.

During a special project competition, the two come as a team to work on a project to create software to prevent the radiation generated from Radioactive machines and instruments to prevent the human race from hazardous diseases. Everything goes fine and they start sharing special likeliness for each other. But story takes a different turn when she goes missing and Ram chases a bunch of baddies as Charu had some problems with her.

Breaking more will become a spoiler and it’s a roller-coaster ride from now with intense romance and action.

It’s all about performances of actors and directorial skills of Eldred Kumar. Atharva might be just 2-films old, but his performance is completely unmatchable to his debut film Baana Kaathadi. He has improvised a lot and lot. Doubtlessly, he is sure to make big time and with Bala’s project ready to strike, this guy has a promising career here now. This should have been his debut movie.

His body language, emotions conveyed through eyes, suiting apt to the role of sophisticated IT chap is extraordinary. Ditto to Amala Paul, who has worked a lot and put up more efforts to get her role well sketched. Atharva’s dancing skills gets us awestruck. To be precise, this film is more likeShankar’s Jeans for Prashanth. Santhanam’s comedy tracks are so enjoyable and his take on IT professionals is a real fun. Watch out for his lines – INAIKKU PAENJA MALAILA MULACHA KAALANTHAANA NEENGA.

Cinematography is top-notching and it’s far beyond excellence with the visuals of Las Vegas. Eldred Kumar deserves all praises for spending good amount of money for best effects. G.V Prakash Kumar rocks with songs and especially the background score. Mazhai Poliyum is loosely replicated from a song in Ranbir Kapoor-Priyanka Chopra starrer Anjana Anjani.

Muppozhudhum Un Karpanaigal will Atharva a position in the nominations for Best Actor 2011. This is a perfect film that will keep the audiences engaged from beginning till end.

What works: Brilliant performances of actors, Visuals, screenplay, Music, Cinematography

What doesn’t work: Nothing specific to mention except few confusing moments in first half.

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Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi Movie Review

Film: Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi

Starring: Siddharth, Amala Paul, Suresh , Ravi Ragavendra

Director: Balaji Mohan

Producer: Sashikanth Shivaji, Siddharth, Nirav Shah

Banner: Y NOT Studios,Etaki Entertainment

Music: Thaman S

Story

The story takes off with Arun (Siddharth), who is an engineering student describes about his failure relationship with his girlfriend Parvathi (Amala Paul). He narrates how he has seen Paravathi, fell for her and the following consequences like ego clashes that led them to go for break up. Arun later sees similar incidents in his close pal’s life and in this regard he realizes his true love for Parvathi and the way he is missing her. How does Arun realize what does he do to get back his love is all about Kadhalil Sodhapuvadu Yeppadi.

Performances

Siddharth looked young and energetic and he has sleepwalked through the urbane lover boy role in the movie. He is admiring and maintained the seriousness and confused attitude throughout.

Amala Paul looked perfect as Parvathi. She looked cute and has delivered her best when it comes to the performance. Her chemistry with Siddharth has worked well.

Suresh and Surekha Vani are apt for the roles while the rest of the cast did their bit as required.

Technical Analysis

Cinematography by Nirav Shah is an asset for the film. The songs have been neatly pictured and Thaman’s melodious tunes are good and hummable. The background score is elevating. Dialogues are apt and at times hilarious. Balaji Mohan direction is good. Kadhalil sodhapuvadu yeppadi story is unique but the screenplay could have been better in the second half.

Analysis

Director Balaji Mohan has come up with a unique and fresh storyline that youngsters get connected. The director has looked into the way the present youth are thinking about love and how they are ending up relationships with the silly issues and ego clashes. Balaji Mohan has stuck to the script and did not add any illogical content to embellish it as commercial entertainer.

The presentation is appealing, script is novel but the screenplay and narration could have been better in the second half as it seem to be dragging. The protagonist speaking directly to the camera is a novel idea to Telugu cinema and Siddharth does it effectively. The first half of the film goes on a lighter mode with romance and comedy as engaging moments while the second half moves on a slow pace with a couple of twists and sentiments.

Final Verdict

Kadhalil Sodhapuvadu Yeppadi is urbane romantic entertainer that connects well with the youth!!!

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Ekk Deewana Tha review

Cast: Prateik Babbar, Amy Jackson, Sachin Khedekar

Directed by Gautham Menon

Rating: Minus Ek

Pain and pleasure have the same facial expression. This is why you will share the same face with the lead cast of ‘Ekk Deewana Tha’ through the entire runtime. Love stories that curdle, portray societal and familial tribulations. But here, there is a far graver issue beyond the usual jaat-paat, rich-poor etc: The lead duo can’t act to save Tibet. And as dismissive as it may sound in the first paragraph of this review, it is in fact the iceberg that makes this painful love story crash as we endure the burn.

The film is about an aspiring filmmaker and unemployed dreamer Sachin (Prateik Babbar) who gets knocked out of his world when he bumps into a celestial Mallu-Catholic girl Jessie (Amy Jackson). Following a bit of cutesy stalking, he proposes. She rejects on account of avoiding inter-caste hassles and for their age difference (she’s a year older). He refuses to give up and takes stalking to epic heights by landing up in Kerala, her native place. A lot of dancing, a few digs at Kerala-ites and some storming punches later, we’re left with lot of broken noses and few tattered nerves. By now, you get restless for Amy to give in or at least take a firm stand on anything so that we can get on with our lives. But Amy won’t give up before playing runaway bride, leading him on yet not consenting and making it suffocating for Sachin, the audience and everybody involved. But this is just half the agony for we have the second part to go. After you have braved 70% of the movie, Amy finally accepts and admits to Sachin’s lure only to call it off minutes later over something as trivial as Sachin ignoring a couple of her phone calls. And while love can be a painful feeling, this amateurish attempt at heartbreak can be only worse.

Prateik and Amy are equally challenged in their speech and overall ability to portray joy, suffering, betrayal and most other suitable feelings. So often, an intense dialogue muttered with certain amount of lisp and an air of lazy indifference only reduces cinema to a reality show featuring extras. And while low expectations usually ensure one isn’t disappointed, this one puts you down even when you’re betting on nothing.

Mr Bharat Bhagya Vidhata, A R Rahman is yet another party pooper who seems to have stopped reinventing and his work here sounds like a remixed version of his earlier tunes with heavier bass notes. ‘Hosanna’ may be an instant hit but the bizarre hip-hopping that the video features as the song breaks in abruptly in the movie makes it difficult to enjoy the composition.

After remaking Gautham Menon’s Tamil blockbuster ‘Kakha Kakha’ in Hindi as ‘Force’ last year, Fox Star Studios decided to let him re-jig his own ‘Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa’ as this insufferable cinematic blot. Reinstating my stand on remakes, they cannot avoid being compared to the original. And it’s a fail-fail case, since changing the plot means that you’ve lost the fans of the original and if you don’t, then you’re a mere photo-copier.

In a world where any shooting location is a prospective tourism plug, this one does very little for Kerala. For this, all fingers can be confidently pointed at the DOP and the cinematographer who make the lord’s native country seem a little less inviting than the last music video/ love song picturised there.

Through his struggle and strive to win his lady love, Sachin keeps ranting one line, “Duniya mein itni ladkiyan hain par mujhe Jessie se hi pyaar kyun hua?” Perhaps, because Jessie Jaisi Koi Nahin? But the question you will find yourself pondering over through the film will be, “Multiplex mein itni movies hain, phir maine iss movie ka ticket hi kyun liya?”

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Nee thaane En Ponvasantham Trailer

Valentine Special:Neethane En Ponvasantham Trailer

Neethane en Ponvasantham is another romantic flick of famous Director Gautham Vasudev menon. This is the first time the director joins in combination with Isaignanei Ilayaraja.

The Teaser of the Film was released on Feb 14th as symbol of love and Romance.

The Movie has Jeeva and Samantha in it. and is Expected to be an April release.

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Ek main aur Ek tu - The romantic comedy

He's cream cheese. She's white chocolate. What a peculiarly milky combination, I thought at first. What I didn't realise is how these two pasty ingredients can combine to create a light, smooth-textured cheese cake.

EMAET is neither on the epic side like Dharma Productions' great, grand ancestors nor weighed down by an overload of pop culture references of those that define the genre. Instead the confection's appeal lies in its underplayed wit, quirky within plausibility protagonists and a refreshing disregard for conventional conclusions. 


Shakun Batra's Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu is a coming-of-age film. Not for Kareena and Imran's characters, though, but for the industry and the audience. It's okay to say b-u-m without the beep. And talk sex among friends, without a beep. Admit it.


Rahul Kapoor (Imran Khan) lives to please his parents. Riana Braganza (Kareena Kapoor) has dumped six boyfriends and lives life on her own terms. They meet in Vegas but the movie is not about What happened in Vegas.

Instead, Imran Khan as the vulnerable Rahul evolves in front of your eyes. From uptight to edgy, he grows from boy to man.

Kareena takes up from where she left off in Jab We Met. I thought this was better. She adds just the right amount of pep to Riana Braganza. Rahul and Riana don't walk off into the sunshine. The movie has a surprising climax. 


Grab your munchies ahead. This one is superbly edited – there are no extra moments in the film and it compares easily to any Hollywood flick, for being a good-looking film.

Amit Trivedi, the young music director comes with an impressive record. You'll remember him for the tracks from Dev D which earned him the National Film Award for Best Music Direction or for Aisha. My favourite is Iktaara from Wake Up Sid. 


In a smart conversational excerpt from the film, the hero downplays himself as an ordinary guy who doesn't excel in any particular domain. But the heroine finds uniqueness in his commonplace conduct since he never overindulges into anything. She tags him with the paradox - 'perfectly average'. That precisely defines the film as well. It's perfect in whatever it offers. But what it offers is quite average in volume. 

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Rampart(2011) -Movie Review

Nothing fascinates like a dirty cop. In real life they're terrifying, but in the movies their upending of law and order can open deep explorations of psychology, morality and violence. So meet Dave Brown, Brown is a cop long ago unleashed from the rules of the Los Angeles Police Department. Roving the streets in his black-and-white cruiser, he governs and punishes at will.  


Anyone familiar with the TV series The Shield already knows the basic premise of the James Ellroy-penned, Oren Moverman-directedRampart, a movie that—like The Shield—is based on the real-life case of a corrupt division of the LAPD. Woody Harrelson plays one of those dirty cops: a pill-popping, self-proclaimed fascist who won’t let public shaming, federal investigations, or alienation from his family stop him from using excessive force on suspects, or from orchestrating his own crimes.


Brown is a man of many vices, a hard-drinking, heavy-smoking, pill-popping, womanizing, racist sexist cop who hides his hatefulness under a veneer of fearsome intelligence and charisma. He's a law-school grad who failed the bar, but the ease with which he quotes legal precedent on the job suggests that he failed only because he lacked the motivation to pass.


Brown is exactly the sort of hard-talking tough guy one would expect in a film with Ellroy's name attached, but Harrelson suggests his heart isn't entirely calloused over. The actor, in one of his finest performances, delicately finds the shred of humanity in a man capable of great inhumanity. He's too far gone for us to feel much sympathy for him, but somehow he recognizes that he's destroying things he legitimately cares for — not least his connection to his daughters — and it's those stakes that become paramount for the viewer. Moverman gets away with a protagonist who it's impossible to root for by making sure we care about the fallout of his meltdown.

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Dhoni Movie Review

 Dhoni, written and directed by Prakash Raj is a well-intended and sincere film with a good message. The film illustrates the conflict of interests of a father and his son; as their aspirations clash.

This film also deals about the problems with the current education system and a middle class father’s fight for his son’s better future.

STORY:

Subramaniam (Prakash Raj) is a lower middle class widower with two kids. He always runs for money doing all sorts of works right from dawn to dusk to bring up his daughter Kaveri (Sriteja) and Karthik (Akash). He wishes to give them good education. He wants to see his son to be an MBA graduate.

Karthik is a 14-year old son of Subramaniam. Karthik wants to become a good cricketer. His inspiration is Dhoni and like him, he wants to be an attacking wicket keeper- batsman.

While Subramaniam joins him in a good school, Akash fails in most of the subjects. However, his cricket coach (Nazar) is in all praise, as Karthik played the major role in winning a cricket tournament.

Kaveri often spends time with Nalini (Radhika Apte). Accidentally, Subramaniam gets to know that Nalini earns her living through prostitution and strictly orders his daughter to stay away from her. As Karthik was poor in studies, the principal tells Subramaniam to take his son out.

Immediately Subramaniam takes Karthik away from cricket coaching and made him to go a series of tuition classes. Karthik fails to cope up with studies even after leaving cricket, which makes Subramaniam to lose his patience and beats him up and injures his head for which he gets arrested. What happens next should be seen on-screen.

PERFORMANCE:

Prakash Raj has given one-man show with an electrifying performance. He has excelled in every scene. He carries this film completely on his shoulders.

Puri Jagannath’s son Akash is the hero in the film and he is extraordinary. He is fine within his limitations.
Radhika Apte, who is seen as his neighbour, is good.

Murali Sharma’s role is interesting as a teacher.

Nazar have done equally important roles to Prakash Raj in this movie as a cricket coach.

Mugdha Godse has played her part well.

Gollapudi Maruti Rao, Melkote, Talaivasal Vijay have done justice to their roles.

Prabhu Deva is seen in a special song.

Dhoni has made a guest appearance.

Prakash Raj adds to his credit that he balances his role as the protagonist and director. He should be praised for not only doing his best, but also for taking excellent job out of his technical team.

The film benefits from Ilayaraja’s inspiring background score which lifts the film. The special song with Prabhu Deva is cute and it goes with the narrative.


Technicalities:

Concept of the film is good. Screenplay in the second half is pretty bad. Dialogues are natural. Cinematography is fine. Editing could have been better.

Ilayaraja’s background score is an asset. Songs are in sync with the mood of the film. Production values are up to the mark. Prakash Raj’s direction is good in parts. He should have handled the second half in a better way. Talk show scene is crucial from the subject point of view, but Prakash Raj failed as a director in that scene. Even the climax scenes highlight his shortcomings as a director.

COMMENTS:

There are no commercial trappings like fancy camera angles, unwanted songs or clichéd sentiments. Undoubtedly, the film will entertain the audiences and they will get a feel that the money spent on the tickets is worth.

The beauty of the narration is that the message applies to everyone and it might change your life.

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Prakashraj's Dhoni- Movie First look

The veteran actor who recently got a national award for his acting in the Movie " Kanchipuram" has directed a movie for first time. Talks are that the actor having been inspired from a marathi movie has brought the script for a considerable amount and has directed the movie in Tamil and telugu.

The Movie is about a middle class widower who struggles hard to bring up his child who are interested in other fields than just academics. The trailer gives us a brief insight into the story of this film.
  Another Most Important thing to Note is the Music of the movie has been done my Musical Maestro Isaignani Ilaiyaraja. The songs are really Sooth full to hear as usual.

Let us hope that the actor Proves himself to be a good creator too. The movie is slated to be released on 10th February of 2012.

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Big Miracle- Movie Insight

Title: Big Miracle

Director: Ken Kwapis

Screenwriter: Jack Amiel, Michael Begler, from Thomas Rose’s book “Free the Whales”

Cast: Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski, Kristen Bell, Dermot Mulroney, Tim Blake Nelson, Vinessa Shaw, Ted Danson

The success of last year's "Dolphin Tale"proved this theorem: Imperiled marine animals + true-ish story + workmanlike sincerity + happy ending = a hit. Will the equation hold for director Ken Kwapis' whale movie"Big Miracle"?

Politics makes strange bedfellows. Who would have thought that so many individuals with different cultures and conflicting ideologies could unify in the remote northern regions of Alaska, all working toward the same goals albeit for different reasons? Ken Kwapis does a great job in recreating what must have been covered in one way or another by the National Geographic Channel, employing the big screen to milk audience emotions in a movie that bears some of the tensions you might expect in a thriller. The film boasts a PG rating from the MPAA (there might of been a time that “hell” and “damn” would not have garnered such liberality). “Big Miracle,” with a screenplay by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler from Thomas Rose’s “Free the Whales,” is inspired by a true story that allegedly riveted an international TV audience in 1988.

The screenplay by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler takes what it likes from Thomas Rose's nonfiction account "Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World's Greatest Non-Event" and cooks up the rest. (Per Rose's "non-event" subtitle, whales being trapped under ice was nothing new; in this instance, however, the media machine was around to sell it.) The result is more about heart than the human comedy, but the script is cleverly balanced and structured.

What does a local newsman do for warmth in this sort of weather? This allows director Ken Kwapis to trot out Drew Barrymore’s Rachel, a Greenpeace volunteer who is less than diplomatic toward the people with the power to save the three whales–a woman who was dumped some time back by newsman Adam and who will obviously connect once again with the woman who, he says, drives him crazy. As for the whales, they look realistic enough but are animatronic creations made a world away in Auckland, New Zealand, but who have too many worries about survival to remember their names–baby Bamm Bamm, mother Wilma and daddy Fred. Why do Eskimos, who spear and eat whales (although not the gray whales in the cast); an fellow for whom Alaska means nothing more than a place to drill for oil; a Soviet barge during the icy days of the Cold War; the President of the United States; and an environmentalist all doing working together? Only Rachel Kramer is sincere in her love for the big creatures: for the others, it’s all PR, but who cares? As long as they get the job done.

Overall Verdict: Watch Worthy once

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Marina-Movie Review

For director Pandiraj, his debut and super hit movie ‘Pasanga’ proved his writing and directorial talents. And, ‘Vamsam’ came next to tell his professional handling of a big budget film.

Direction: Pandiraj

Cast: Siva Karthikeyan, Oviya, Jayaprakash, Pandian, Gautham Purushoth.

Music: Girishh G

Camera: Vijay

Lyrics: Na. Muthukumar, Yugabharathi

Banner: Pasanga Productions

Release Date: 03 February, 2012

Overall Review : 3.5/5

The acclaimed director is back to his forte, a simple, small budget film with an intense storyline, and ‘Marina’ takes Tamil film to another level of unusual onscreen storytelling.

The film depicts the life and story of the snack seller kids we find on the sands of Chennai’s own beach, the Marina. Each small kid has a big story behind them.

Ambikapathi (Pandian), a run away from home, comes to Chennai in search of his dreams but lands in selling water packets at the Marina beach. He gets the friendship of Kailash, another kid who already has his own kingdom in the beach. For an offence Police comes in search of Kailash to the beach… another kid, who is a habitual petrol pilfer, helps the police to spot Kailash.

In between these stories Pandiraj weaves the silk thread love story of a young couple. Senthilnathan (Siva Karthikeyan), who always dreams of romancing a girl on the sands of Marina, gets Swapnasundari (Oviya) finally, and the young couple nurtures their love on the beach of Marina amidst their friend circle and the kids.

The casual acquaintance between the couple and the kids becomes an emotional bond. What happens in the end to the stories of Ambikapathi, Kailash and the couple ‘Senthinathan – Swapnasundari’ is movingly told in the climax.

TV host Siva Karthikeyan debuts in films with this movie. The actor has given lot many improvisations to the director’s instructions. A good debut act for him, yes, he definitely gets something more than a pass mark with his look and performance.

Oviya has again done a neat work like her performance in ‘Kalavani’. A director’s actress, who fits herself in the role she is offered. Her body language and expressions through eyes speak a lot.

And, the kids get the biggest pat among all artists in the film. What a splendid performance? Each one make us get into their stories with their very natural act. Especially, Pandian puts a stupendous show of acting skills!

Jayaprakash has again given a wonderful performance.

Vikram, Prakash Raj, Sasikumar, Sneha, Ameer and Vimal do a special appearance in a song.

Hats off to Pandiraj for his daring act of scripting this concept and choosing a cast that is not so commercially viable. This shows his confidence in the script. More such scripts and directors should come to Tamil industry.

Music is by Girishh G. The debutant composer has delivered a good work with his tunes and background score. The young talent has helped the director to bring out emotions with his subtleties. Girishh is a promising talent for future Tamil cinema.

The song ‘Vannakkam Chennai’ is worth mentioning.

Camera is a big plus for ‘Marina’. The natural lighting is been used well and the angles also speak volumes about the skills of the new comer Vijay.

Lyrics are by Na. Muthukumar and Yugabharathi.

The film is made from the inspiration of Mira Nair’s critically acclaimed film ‘Salaam Bombay’! But, Pandiraj has managed well with the setting and script that ‘Marina’ no way resembles the award winning 1988 film.

The director is largely successful in depicting the lives and stories of the uneducated children who are deprived of their basic needs and bring out a sense of responsibility in everyone.

‘Marina’ is a film that should be watched by everyone at least to understand that behind those beautiful smiles of those kids those we see on the sands of the beaches of Marina have many sad stories to tell. Next time when we go to Marina sure we would see it with a different eye, watching this film!

And, ‘Marina’ is not only just an emotional film; it is also to entertain us. Those tidbits of comic situations definitely put big smiles on our faces and cheers in our heart.

That’s the big success of Pandiraj’s ‘Marina’ script!

Come make an entertaining emotional beach walk on the sands, through this film, ‘Marina’!

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