Silambattam – Dissatisfactory showy spell
Banner: Lakshmi Movie Makers
Production: K. Muralidharan, V. Swaminathan, T.S. Rangarajan
Story, Screenplay, Dialogues and Direction: S. Saravanan
Star-casts: Silambarasan, Prabhu, Sana Khan, Sneha, Santhanam, Nirosha and many others.
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cinematography: Mathi
Editing: Don Max
Art: Prabhakaran
Stunt: Kanal Kannan
Choreography: Tarun, Ashok Rajan, Robert, P. Bhaskar
PRO: Johnson
Indeed, it's a film seeming to be the sequel to 'Kaalai' as the storyline and screenplay carries off with the same traces. Post moderate shows of 'Vallavan' and 'Kaalai', Simbhu had all his hopes on 'Silambattam' that was supposed to be a commercial entertainer. However, after watching the film you are sure to feel that it's been hell-ridden show.
Smutty jokes, ridiculous stunts, flimsy screenplay and inadequate performance by all except few makes the film fall a line below mediocre. Overall, it's a great dance by Silambarasan and a peppy glam-show by Sana Khan that grabs the interests of young audiences. But, for sure this isn't a film to watch along with your family.
Vichu (Silambarasan), a young innocent temple priest is coward by nature as his grandfather (Nedumudi Venu) wants him to be. He takes such an interest that even the food prepared doesn't contain spicy stuffs as it may affect the sense of anger and frustration in his grandson. However, situations urge Vichu brimming up with new avatar that's completely contrastive to his nature. Couple of incidents reveals of it so well, where one among them saving a handicapped innocent from clutches of henchmen set on butchering him takes us for a great surprise leading to latter half.
Is Vichu really an innocent? If so, why did the innocent who got saved by Vichu call him 'Tamizh?' With these questions we get to watch the second half where it's revealed that Tamizh (played by Simbhu) is father of Vichu who passed away years ago in a family-community conflict.
Rest of the story is filled with more and more stunts that will get your heads filled with giddiness, nausea as cameras and editing works make you feel so.
Silambarasan delivers a matured performance on certain extent, but it's so pathetic to see he's still glued on with imitating styles of Rajnikanth. With his body nature, it's unbelievable to see him bumping off 20 hefty men at a time. He's great at dance and showing his token of honor for his favorite star Ajith Kumar, he does makes his fans feel entertained during penultimate sequences.
Sana Khan is just good on skin shows and nothing to appreciate on her performance. She keeps overacting that gets us annoyed at many extents. Her gestures in dance sequences aren't sensuous, glamorous but vulgar. Especially watch her dancing for the remix version of 'Vacchikava'.
Prabhu with his clichd stupendous performance offers delightedness but his portrayal in character role isn't as powerful as in 'Thamirabharani' (where he played similar role of protagonist's relative). Santhanam and Manobala add to the humor quotient especially in 'Billa' sequence while Karunaas sparkles smiles on our lips with his minimal role. Kishore reminds us of Telugu movie villains yelling like King Kong.
Yuvan Shankar Raja's musical is average in both songs and background score. 'Where's the party tonight?" had great expectations, but director and choreographer have failed visualizing it perfectly. Most of the dance steps are so clumsy that doesn't get us enjoyable.
Mathi's cinematography is colorful in few sequences while it's so disturbing in action scenes. It's an amateurish editing work by Don Max as he keeps playing around with lots of immediate cuts that disturbing our attention.
Debutant Saravanan should have penned a powerful screenplay to get the audiences' attention aren't scattered. Moreover, it would have been nice if he had cut unwanted shots. It's a very lengthy film that makes us yearn for the final credits.
On the whole, Silambattam is a film well-tailored for Simbhu's fans while elite groups may not opt for this one. B centres and frontbenchers will love watching it.
Verdict: Not worth watching…
This movie is really not the type of wanted to hear from.....expected more but after hearing the songs was in total shock they were crap.......music being horrible moving movie then being good can expect from simbu this time......oh well not a movie that i am goign to watch!
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