Kanthasamy (2009)

There are some things which you can not change in tamil cinema and its directors .One is Learning from experience and the other is repeatability ! If there is a big budget movie then its going to be only Robin Hood type movie ! How much years we are experiencing the same story line and the same old climax before the court with the hero supported by masses.I am fed up with this type of story line.A blend from Shivaji and Anniyan looks really funny and I had thought Susee Ganesan as a intelligent director after watching his previous movies but he has fallen as the same victim.Kandasamy is not a movie which you don’t know nor its going to give you a new experience .Kanthasamy doesn’t live up to expectations and hype.

Kanthasamy IPS( Vikram) is the CBI officer who targets filthy rich industrialists for IT raids.In the mean while prayers of devotees in Lord Kanthasamy temple gets answered in a unique manner.Kanthasamy with his team of his friends help the poor people prayer in a super hero avatar.CBI prompts its team to find the truth behind the Kanthasamy temple.Every thing narrows down to Kanthasamy and it’s a ride from India to Mexico and then back to India .

There is no suspense in the movie and its not a spoiler that I said the story line .There is vikram every where in the movie.Kanthasamy doesn’t look different in screenplay or in its presentation.Its good to see Vikram on screen after some years and he should seriously think about acting in these kind of over hyped movies.Vikram is amazing as Kanthasamy IPS but he doesn’t get help from the story line! Movie moves fast but the problem is we know how the investigation would go and how Kanthasamy is going to evade the investigation.

Kanthasamy is a man who had a fighting younger days and aspiring days to become an IPS officers ,He hunts the big fishes of Money world and puts them behind the bars .He knows what he is doing behind the scenes as the super hero Kanthasamy but we are left with no clue about the motive of the cause.Prabu easily narrows down that super hero Kanthasamy is CBI officer Kanthasamy ,its possible only in movies.

Intelligent movies are movies which have intelligence applied in every sense of visuals and script.Susee Ganesan tries to project this movie as an intelligent movie through his rich visuals and jargoans which is actually ridiculous.He has used some idiotic assumptions and logic to show twists in the plot.

Vadivelu is a big let down for this movie and every body wants Prabu in their big budget movie.Camera has done lots of interesting work which is encouraging and entertaining ! Susee Ganesan’s choice of locales ,but I wouldn’t accept a CBI office looking like a IT park.Lots of reality is missing in many of the scenes,which looks exaggerating.

Kanthasamy would entertain many people but it a average movie which will survive through Vikram’s energy.Movie wouldn’t be a big trendsetter as it was hyped as there is nothing new in the movie.The movie could have been a good movie if the treatment was good .Sadly we don’t have it here.I don’t know I don’t feel like applying my mind to write a review for this movie even.

Rating :**