Kanagavel Kakka Movie Review
Star-casts: Karan, Hari Priya, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Sampath, Raj Kapoor
Banner: Akarshini Theatres
Production: R. Saravanan
Direction: Kavin Bala
Music: Vijay Anthony

‘Vengeance and seeking retaliation’ by eccentric means of protagonist have remained as the heart and soul concept of Tamil cinema filmmakers. It started right from the period of MGR and Sivaji Ganeshan period followed by Rajnikanth in ‘Naan Sivappu Manidhan’, Kamal Haasan’s ‘Indian’, Ajith Kumar’s ‘Aalwar’ and so on.

Karan steps into their shoes now merely for

seeking revenge, but with a different characterization…. We have got to appreciate Kavin Bala for showcasing his protagonist in the role of a court Tawali (yeah! The same guy we see in courts calling out the names 3 times).

Tawali Velu (Karan) has been employed for over a long period of time. His experience over that place is all about witnessing justice replaced by injustice with judges taking advantages over poor and unprivileged people. On the very next sequence, we see that Velu has gained a new avatar of killing those baddies out from crime suits.

Shifted in flashback, we tend to witness that Velu had a bitter experience as his family was killed by a cruel minister (Kota Srinivasa Rao).

Now, rest of the film is all about Velu settling scores with the minister and his son.

The problems faced by working class families across various parts of society have been well depicted by director Kavin Bala. But this newcomer seems to have been very much inspired by his mentor Saran, as most of his films are based on seeking revenge with an illogical narration.

Narration wise, Kavin Bala loses out badly on coming up with a good narration as there are lots of absurdities found here and there. Just imagine the lines where a character says – ‘Ippo Avan Enga Iruppan Theriyuma’ (Do you know where the hero will be now?) and the next shot is cut to a foreign location song. Hari Priya is good for nothing as she just appears as commercial actresses appearing for song and disappearing on the next minute. Kotta Srinivasa Rao is the only person, who deserves good appreciations for his usual performance.

The complete film has some repetitions from the yesteryear movies we have mentioned and hope it would have been nice if Kavin Bala had invented some new idea. Some audiences, who have strong dislikes against the societal injustice, may have something to relish as the hero eliminates such things.

Vijay Anthony’s musical score is very poor and pathetic while Cinematography and editing is yet another disappointment.

‘Kanagavel Kaakha’ has nothing special for the audiences and maybe those in rural areas may like it.

Bottom - Line: One man’s outcry against injustice

Verdict: Below Average

Star-casts: Mithun, Vivek, Yamini Sharma, Thenmozhi, Nasser, Saranya, Meenal, Prabhu and others
Production: Raj TV Network Pvt. Ltd, Muthulakshmi Movies
Direction: T.P. Gajendran
Music: Dheena

Aiyo! How do producers afford to make such non-sense films, when there is lots of ways to meddle around with other interesting themes? T.P. Gajendran has been such a poor filmmaker, who cannot evoke laughter at any extent and precisely he and his crew would keep laughing out for the irritating comedy tracks they spell.

‘Magane En Marumagane’ is one such film that annoys you badly putting you restless all throughout the film. The very basic presentation of this film itself looks like a village affected with plague as every character on the screen looks like dullards.

Oh! Vivek tries to pull him up as a lead actor by standing on different shoes, but most of his worst double meaning dialogues are like diamond on pig’s snout.

The film is about a Zamindar (Nasser) and his wife (Saranya) caring a lot for their children Ponnarasi (Yamini Sharma) and younger song Raghu (Mithun). Enters Sringaram (Vivek), a good for nothing person, who spends most of his time gambling and exploiting his money over it. He manages to marry Ponnarasi, by impressing her parents and receives a pessimistic approach from Raghu. It gradually leads to alienation amongst family members and Sringaram is imprisoned for a murder case. Meanwhile, tiff breaks out between family members with the intrusion of evil uncle (Livingstone).

Soon after getting released from prison, Sringaram sets an ambitious goal of becoming rich. His overnight success in Real Estate gains him a new revival and he immediately rushes to announce the happy news to his in-laws, only to find their lives are devastated.

What forms next is the earnest efforts of Sringaram to reunite the family members that ends with a climax inspired from real life heart transplantation story.

Vivek tries to emote properly even at sentimental sequences, but has to improvise a lot on those aspects. His encounters while searching the proper houses during second half is a good show while Paravai Muniyamma is annoying with her close-up shots. Nasser and Saranya can be better honored as best father and mother for having performed the same role over and again in more than 100 films.

Mithun looks so sick and maybe he wanted to give that feel for the role he played. Yamini Sharma doesn’t evolve for a good show.

Prabhu’s cameo role is good and enhances the feel during climax. The film looks like a serial in small screen due to poor and pathetic presentation of technical aspects – Music, Cinematography and Editing.

There are few chances for this film to be received well across the C centres in villages and towns, but not definitely in cities.

Bottom - Line: Not a Son or a Marumagan

Verdict: Poor and Pitiable family.

Kola Kolaya Mundhrika’ is one such film that has ‘treasure hunt’ as its central concept and yet looses out the track with a flimsy screenplay. But the interesting part with the film is that it has lots of characterizations laced with funny elements.

Apart from the lead characters, M.S. Bhaskar, Jayaraman, Anand Raj, Vasu Vikram and others have played their best parts on rendering comedy liners.

The film starts in Madras during 1989, where a Zamindar family (Siva and Deva Darshini) is running out of money. It’s Krishna Jayanthi and they have dressed up their kid Krish as Krishna. Accidentally, the parents get killed by Anand Raj, the step-brother, who claims for the precious diamonds.

Immediately, the story is cut to 20 years later, where Krish (Karthik Kumar) and Veni (newcomer Shika) are playing con tasks against many people. They are contenders at first and later join hands together for the sake of hunting the treasure of precious diamonds hidden inside 4 chairs. But the step-brother (Anand Raj) and his sidekicks are also on the pursuit of this treasure. Each chair has a piece of paper that clues or the next chair that may lead to find diamonds. Meanwhile, there is cop Mathrubootham (Jayaraman) running behind a seashore slum goon Doomil Koppam Thulkaanam (Radha Ravi), who is carrying the details about black money deposits of various big shots in City.

Soon as the three gangs come across each other, it’s going to be a fun-filled ride of treasure hunt, which has some rib-tickling sequences and below average ones as well.

Karthik Kumar lives up to the expectations. But he has to come out of his preexisting linguistic skill of American accent over Tamil. Newcomer Shika is okay though she hasn’t got anything to brandish with. Her facial expressions are good and can look out for better offers in her upcoming films. Anand Raj as hilarious baddie steals the show with his sidekicks adding more momentum to this film. Though at many parts, they seem to be uttering overdosed Mokka lines, it’s okay to a certain extent.

Madhumitha terribly makes herself fail by adding unwanted songs. The film could have been better even without it as none of the songs sound better. Jayaraman’s comedy tracks are highlighting and Sarath Kumar’s cameo role is a special surprise.

The second half seems to be slightly illogical as the connections between each and every chair is ludicrous. There isn’t enough solidity to prove the connectivity; especially the last chair in prison is quite unconvincing.

Crazy Mohan’s dialogues are same-old type and at some time the sense of humor works out at best.

You can watch this film without any expectations built upon it.

Bottom - Line: Not so-interesting game, can be done better

Verdict: Below Average

Kola Kolaya Mundhrika
Star-casts: Karthik Kumar, Shika, Jayaraman, Radharavi, Sarath Kumar, Anand Raj and many others
Production: Giriguja Productions
Direction: Madhumitha
Music: Selva Ganesh

From the ancient times of Tamil Cinema, films based on ‘Treasure Hunts’ have been one such genre that is liked by everyone as the story will have lots of twists and turns. Be it the very old ‘Pudhaiyal’ and the other film with the same title starring Mammooty and Aravind Swamy in lead roles, they were really interesting as it involved fun, frolic, adventure, romance and action as well.

‘Kola Kolaya Mundhrika’ is one such film that has ‘treasure hunt’ as its central concept and yet looses out the track with a flimsy screenplay. But the interesting part with the film is that it has lots of characterizations laced with funny elements.

Apart from the lead characters, M.S. Bhaskar, Jayaraman, Anand Raj, Vasu Vikram and others have played their best parts on rendering comedy liners.

The film starts in Madras during 1989, where a Zamindar family (Siva and Deva Darshini) is running out of money. It’s Krishna Jayanthi and they have dressed up their kid Krish as Krishna. Accidentally, the parents get killed by Anand Raj, the step-brother, who claims for the precious diamonds.

Immediately, the story is cut to 20 years later, where Krish (Karthik Kumar) and Veni (newcomer Shika) are playing con tasks against many people. They are contenders at first and later join hands together for the sake of hunting the treasure of precious diamonds hidden inside 4 chairs. But the step-brother (Anand Raj) and his sidekicks are also on the pursuit of this treasure. Each chair has a piece of paper that clues or the next chair that may lead to find diamonds. Meanwhile, there is cop Mathrubootham (Jayaraman) running behind a seashore slum goon Doomil Koppam Thulkaanam (Radha Ravi), who is carrying the details about black money deposits of various big shots in City.

Soon as the three gangs come across each other, it’s going to be a fun-filled ride of treasure hunt, which has some rib-tickling sequences and below average ones as well.

Karthik Kumar lives up to the expectations. But he has to come out of his preexisting linguistic skill of American accent over Tamil. Newcomer Shika is okay though she hasn’t got anything to brandish with. Her facial expressions are good and can look out for better offers in her upcoming films. Anand Raj as hilarious baddie steals the show with his sidekicks adding more momentum to this film. Though at many parts, they seem to be uttering overdosed Mokka lines, it’s okay to a certain extent.

Madhumitha terribly makes herself fail by adding unwanted songs. The film could have been better even without it as none of the songs sound better. Jayaraman’s comedy tracks are highlighting and Sarath Kumar’s cameo role is a special surprise.

The second half seems to be slightly illogical as the connections between each and every chair is ludicrous. There isn’t enough solidity to prove the connectivity; especially the last chair in prison is quite unconvincing.

Crazy Mohan’s dialogues are same-old type and at some time the sense of humor works out at best.

You can watch this film without any expectations built upon it.

Bottom - Line: Not so-interesting game, can be done better

Verdict: Below Average