I too watched this movie only couple of days back and hence Hema’s piercing review sparked me to divulge my take on it.

A Simple story with a magical touch of Maniratnam either was it for locatings, Cinematography, crew selection, dialogues or screenplay. Only Climax lacked astuteness and looked straightforward for the viewers to assume it in an advance. Karthik’s acting was fantastic and he made a perfect second entry to the big screen. His own conviction to establish a new variety of character acting for the audience looked evident and promising. Vaiyapuri’s character was also solid and sought positive attention immediately. Subashini’s attempt to fill the boots of Sugatha for dialogue writing is well taken but don’t fit the bill this time. Short dialogues sought attention inappropriately more than once. Certain scenes from the movie reflected recent tamil movies screenplays made it look like a mediocre.

Understandably, Ranjitha’s role was short and unfocussed and contrastingly, Priyamani’s role was short, radiant and cut through the main stream that took the movie forward with added pace after the interval. As usual Pritiviraj made sure, his selection to the role was necessary.

Anyway, What is Maniratnam’s message at the end? Deity Sita fell for Raavanan? But screenplay lacked conviction to imagine that way or just showed variation from the actual story?

I am interested to watch it once more to see if anything extraordinary was overlooked earlier!