Kanthaswamy. It is the buzz word in every mouth for the past few months. There was immense hype and hoopla around the movie. Touted to be Tamil cinema's ambitious project. Kandasamy hit the screens yeasterday. In a single sentance the review of kasndasamy is a total waste of time and money. There is nothing in the film as expected. Susi Ganeshan, director of Kandasamy just tries to imitate the master director Shankar. Also the movie's basic concept is very similar to the Shankar Film Gentleman. Kandasamy takes a long time period of about 2-3 years to complete its shooting and the budget of the movie was the record budget in the Indian Film Industry.The Kanthaswamy (one of the names of Lord Muruga) in the temple catches the rage of people. Soon a super hero Kanthaswamy (Vikram) emerges to help people solve their problems. A modern day Robinhood, he provides them with money. Soon the growing name and fame of the temple and serious of events in the city results in a suspicion among police. A tough cop (Prabhu), who happens to be the DIG, starts investigating the issue.
Enters young CBI officer Kanthaswamy (Vikram) with a zeal and dedication to bring out black money from rich and wealthy men. A man of great skills, he sets out on a mission. He comes across Ponnusamy called as PPP (Ashish Vidyarthi), a rich man in the town. He conducts a raid and unearths unaccounted cash and documents worth over Rs 1000 crore. In a bid to revenge Kanthaswamy, PPP's daughter Subbulakshmi (Shriya ) pretends loving him. It is all but a cat and mouse game between PPP, a few other villains and Kanthaswamy.
A fantasy film may seem to have a clichéd storyline. But it needs to be supported by a racy screenplay to sustain the interest of the audience. Susi Ganeshan has mastered this trick with Kanthaswamy. He is at his best coming with a free flowing script that provides interesting moments in almost every scene (though apparently inspired by Shankar).
The movie reminds Amitabh Bachchan's ‘Shahenshah’ and the character that Vikram plays is more of ‘Anniyan’ meeting James Bond.Shriya sizzles throughout and carries the glamorous role with élan and the attitude. Prabhu fits the role of an investigative cop, while the villains are a bit clichéd.
Cinematographer N K Ekambaram, who enthralled the audience with a splendid work in ‘Iyarkkai’, comes up with a topnotch work. He captures the foreign isles and lush green locales of
Cutting-edge editing by Praveen K L adds more pep to the movie while costumes by Chaitanya Rao - is nothing but a carefully crafted expensive extravaganza (Rs. 3 crore was spent for costumes alone, according to reports). Kanal Kannan's stunts, including the blindfolded action scenes in Mexico and the police station scene are no doubt an asset for the film. Popular Radio Jockey cum singer Suchitra has lent her voice for Shriya’s character and the dubbing has come out well, adding liveliness to Shriya’s role.Malayalam Movie World Rating : 2/5
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