Maarraan

Maattrraan was marketed as a technical wizardry.Conjoined twins concept was amazing.Suriya's looks were also dashing.But in the trailer itself one can see the disjoint not-so-perfect Suriyas..........every one is praising "Performance Capture",but it was major flop in the movie.The opening half with 2 Suriyas ,we can clearly see one Surya match very abnormally which increasingly became a glaring joke.Shanker got it wrong when he prolonged VFX scenes(Endhiran fire and climax scenes) Which no Hollywood studio would do.Kamal got it wrong with the tall-afghan guy in Dasavatharam.Why use a technology/Technic when we cannot make perfect output like our Hollywood counterparts.

I very well belief this technical mess got KV Anand sir distracted and as a result he could not churn out a perfect entertaining flick such as Ayan and Ko.Comedy was forced and there were numerous predictable draggy scenes 1)Anniyan Ambi like love letter 2)over- overstretched fight scene at MGM Dizee world-made no sense.It was too long.3)that long drive into that cave at climax scene and a even longer speech session.these are just 3 examples.

2nd half has so much research,but it was a pointless ordeal.the moment Surya shatters the dining table glass we roughly know what will happen in climax.All the twists became clichéd.as Preshanth of Desimaritini mentions "the second half is a big chore, no matter how you look at it. There's not an ounce of suspense and everything that you see here doesn't matter at all. It becomes very evident how things are eventually going to pan out, but we are made to sit through a very long, pointless exposition". Foreign military were made to look stupid.And again we see hero,heroine missing bullets at close range.

I also thought there was no real need for the conjoined twins.It seem more of a marketing purpose only,just to draw the hype.Except the fact that they were a result of their father's experiment(gone wrong).To me it does not add much literature value other than an eyesore whenever i see the badly matched Cut-n-paste Surya.they could have played another actor(Ajmal?!) as the would-become-dead twin.

Well, this was a film which was expected in south of India most this year because of the crew and the entertainment that it gave with the last film.KV Anand's mind twisting story, Surya's hard work, Harris's songs in the last film was perfectly mixed and screen played which gave an truly seat cornering film the before time and for the next film with the same crew, everyone expected more for their value in money. Hence all like other's I also went to the movie with high expectations and from the starting, a two way plot went up. One, the comedy and usual romance scenes with the actor and an another with a very serious mysterious killings. Nearing to the end of the first half, another twist stating that one of the conjoined twins died and with the intermission everyone went to the coffee with the confused mind that what would happen after this like in the previous film. In the second half, the plot was very strong and it happened to take us to a new country with a very twisting story and we was given that the father of the twins was the antagonist and he is the master mind behind all the work and Surya killing him by leaving him alone in the dark cave surrounded by rats. This ending wasn't a usual Tamil film ending but this was a different one but the climax forgot to complete the film fully and all were left out of the Theatre confused with some incompleteness of the film.

Let's see the positive's. KV Anand drove us to a world where a complete selfish man to become the most powerful and wealthy man and to stop his dreams, his twins stand in his way. Amazing cinematography with S.Sounder Rajan and Kajal's work as the translator's doesn't keep her role out of the film and Surya, as always performed quiet neatly for what he signed for. But this wasn't enough.

The negative's. The first half was a two way fast pace and the second half was somewhat bored with the lack of Humour which died with the death of one of the twins. Only story was given it's importance leaving other departments, the less one and hence it resulted in an unusual way at the end. the use of rocket launcher to stop Surya's car and the escape of only the hero,heroine and the military officer with bullet missing in a close range led us to the days of the old Tamil films.

Overall, Maattrraan had a high expectation and a superb twisted story and but the lack of screenplay and Humour in some parts has the film led to a mixed reviews.