Yogi (2009) **

I sometimes get carried away by the eminence ,Yogi is one example.I expected a fresh movie from Ameer,who claims that he has written the story of Yogi.Yogi is a out and out copy of Book by Athol Fugard / Academey award winning movie Tsotsi,just that the climax is just remade to Tamil sentiments.Yogi is a discontinous ,slowpaced movie which never picks the pace and never lets us get involved with the movie.

Yogi is written by Ameer and directed by Subramaniam siva ( Thiruda Thirudi).Yogi is the guy who has a troubled past due to his father ,he grows as the ruthless ,drugged arrogant man.The story is told in the slums of Thiruvanmiyur.Yogi when he robs a hotel he finds himself with a infant whose mother is meets with an accident when Yogi tries to steal her car.Yogi decides to live a new life with the baby but odds makes his life difficult and even worse.

Ameer as yogi is good but I don’t understand why Ameer was so fascinated by this story.Why he wants to give a heroic image ? I assumed that he should have been impressed with Tsotsi novel as a whole.Ameer has a perfect physique and eyes to give an alarm as a gangster but just that some times it looks so cinematic with the stunts.Some times its very difficult to understand Directors .Paruthiveeran was a cult classic and I trusted from that on Ameer movie wouldn’t have any exaggerated stunt sequences nor a repeated sequences.Even Ameer would have worked on that.But some how the final product lacks the grip and it abides to the commercial formula as a copied tale.

Sequences which were told as Ameer’s past were irritating though its not exaggerated. Some how I felt there was some kind of compulsive dreadfulness showered for the sake of thrusting on his present behaviour. But sadly it was predictable. The baby which has acted should have had a terrible time.The scenes where a snake enters in to the box and the scenes where the ants crawl over the face of the kid makes us feel distressed.Truly there wasn’t any natural intensity which was evolving .Yuvan shankar raja and Ameer make great music but here I find Yuvan’s work with no representation.Madhumitha and Snehan has delivered a neat performance.

If this is Ameer’s influence on a movie where he has scripted and acted then I wasn’t comfortable and I was totally disappointed with it. Subramaniam siva is not known for attempting these kind of movies,There is no point in attempt unless you deliver with clear chords.My friend used to say I hate the word ‘Good attempt”.I am slowly getting inclined to that saying.Good attempt is a failure.I doesn’t work with the movies.
Rating :**