Paiyya (2010) **


Linguswamy is always lucky .He gets a good hype and expectation for his movies before its release, but he fails off late . Be it Ji,Bheema or now paiyya.What would you expect from a director who gave Run and Sandaikozhi; an action bolt but not similar to his earlier ventures.Paiyya is a technically superior movie but we don’t have a plot here to support it.Paiyya fails in the midway due to lack of logic and substance.

Paiyya is a ride from Bangalore to Mumbai in a sexy Black Lancer with Karthi and Tamannah.Tamannah wants to escape from the people who are chasing her due to property issues,Karthi a guy who stays with his friends falls in love with Tamanah from the moment he sees her in Bangalore.Karthi helps Tamannah to escape from Blore ,in the mid way both face the Gundah power .The fun part and the only different part is there is a different group who searches Karthi and different one who searches Tamanah.It gets usual with Bad guys searching Good Guy,Scorpio,chases,Songs,Love,Stunts.climax.

Why in the whole world Lingusamy is so fascinated with this story,A guy who is new to the city unknowingly messes with a Gundah and the Gundah searches him.Fed up…totally fed up.He should think different .At one point you don’t know what he is up to .If its just the journey he wanted to project then there should be interesting subplots ,but sadly the movie travels with Karthi looking at her through the mirror.What an interesting plot he took but sadly he leaves with his usual stuff of Toll plaza searches and road side fights .If he would have made this journey a interesting one with totally different plot then this journey would have been a memorable one for every body.

Karthi the usual Tamil cinema Hero who is slapdash, totally helping everybody, cant stand injustice, falls in love at first sight, misses interview for a girl, typical lover boy ,has the power to finish even 50 professional Mobs .We don’t have to define him ,his introduction scene defines completely.Sadly he falls in the trap of this commercial masala.But a fact is he has all capabilities to become the macho action hero.Tamannah is beautiful in the movie and she remains just being beautiful in the movie. There is no relevance why people were chasing her.

Technically the movie is a great watch,it brings a beautiful drive along the Mumbai highway ,capturing the whole beauty of Indian Roads and Karnataka.Intense visuals brings a gripping mood for the action scenes and Lingusamy could have brought more difference in action sequences.Songs are already at top of the charts and its been shot very well with Karthi and Tamannah.What makes this an average watch is its technicalities,Typical example of how editing,BGM,Camera helps a director to cover up his incapability.The movie some how pretends to move fast because of these people who had handled Camera( Mathi ) and Ediiting(Anthony Gonsalves)

For some time last year Tamil cinema had forgotten this Good Guy - bad Guys chase story but Lingusamy wants to bring that hangover again.Movie is not a bad watch but it doesn’t worth the expectation or the hype.It can entertain for its technical brilliance and of course you will fall in love for the sexy Mitsubishi Lancer.

Rating : **

Comments

anniyan said…
Karthi a guy who stays with his friends falls in love with Tamanah.where did tamanah fell "in a highway or down in to the cliff"
April 2, 2010 at 12:37 PM
Eswar said…
"What makes this an average watch is its technicalities" and
"It can entertain for its technical brilliance"

Quite contradicting isn't it?
April 5, 2010 at 11:35 PM
Bharathy said…
Missed to read your review...watched the movie last week in Sathyam..:)
April 27, 2010 at 10:18 AM
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