I guess what he’s doing makes business sense since his stardom seems to be growing. Srivatsan, yeah its definitely a good time for Siva. As for the emotional scenes, I think he is yet to give us the opportunity to see how he does them! The few, unoriginal laughs would’ve been good for a 30 min sitcom. Even putting aside the lack of originality, I just didn’t find it funny either.Ĭhandramohan, since it was a hit, I was surprised it came out so quickly. Sandya, knew that you liked Siva but still a bit surprised that you enjoyed this one. Kumar, yeah that was bad and I kept going back to Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu where Suseendran got so many laughs from the same scenario. And he has a key revelation and a sob story about his past, though the story is eventually employed in the service of a rather cheesy cameo.ġ4 responses so far 14 Responses to “Rajini Murugan” He gets to talk about moving on permanently with his friend(who splits his time between his children’s homes). His sons have settled down in foreign lands, allowing him to lament about sons who have abandoned their parents and lost touch with their homelands. This leads to some weak confrontations and ho-hum Panchayat scenes that shuffle between comedy and drama. But the real drama mostly comes from Ayyankalai. So we have Mookkan(Samuthirakani, who has turned into a fine actor) who first tries to extort money from Rajini Murugan and when that doesn’t work, comes up with an elaborate plan to get a share of his ancestral home. But barring his character trait, the romance, like the rest of the movie, offers little that is new.ĭirector Ponram wants to add some drama but doesn’t want things to get too serious. Her dad, a hardcore Rajni fan who was responsible for Rajini Murugan’s first name, is a nice character who refers to old Rajni movies(we see pertinent scenes from Annamalai and Padaiyappa) when advising his daughter. His love interest is Karthika(a cute Keerthy Suresh, daughter of yesteryear actress Menaka). The long comedy sequences have a few chuckles(like an offhand comment about Rambha during a drama put on by Rajini Murugan and his grandfather) but little more. I mean how many times have we seen old songs being played to comic effect, scenes from old movies being recreated and someone adding salt to tea for some good-natured revenge. The comedy is generally gentle and inoffensive but laughs are hard to come by because there is a sense of deja vu attached to the goings on. He plays a good-for-nothing son who whiles his time away with his friend(Soori) and dotes on his grandfather Ayyankalai(Rajkiran).
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Rajini Murugan is exactly the kind of movie we have been seeing Sivakarthikeyan in. He has resolutely stuck to light-hearted comedies and it has reached the point where when I see clips from his movies on TV, I struggle to figure out which of his movies they are from(I eventually do based on the heroine). But from a performance point of view its quite sad since among our younger stars(Vijay Sethupathi and Atharva come to mind, probably because they’ve been in the news recently), Sivakarthikeyan is definitely the most stereotyped. That observation was made based on the BO performance of his films, all of which have apparently made a hefty profit at best and broken even at worst. I recently read something to the effect of Sivakarthikeyan leapfrogging over actors who have been around for a decade or more and ascending rapidly to the topmost rung of Tamil cinema stardom – the place occupied by the likes of Rajni, Kamal, Ajith and Vijay.