sagi · @_0sagi
2nd May 2015 from TwitLonger
உத்தம வில்லன் #UttamaVillain
I almost gave this film a miss. That would have been a big mistake. This film has Haasar returning to form and how.
I am going to save the Uthama Villain that KB makes in this film for last. There were several characters in the film and Haasar has carefully constructed each one of them. Even the ones that appear for just one scene, like his car driver. Now that's something he last did in the 90s and its so heartening to see the writer in him at the top of his game.
I don't remember the last time a film portrayed relationships [be it father-son or father-dauther or man-lover] so brilliantly. The louu relationships did invoke Woody Allen for some reason. And Kamal's detailing was amazing too. Parvathy has a short hair for a reason. Those two letters and the way they get read, especially the second one with Haasan removing make-up. The quirks of various characters. You will love every single character their behavior and the actions they do not withstanding.
And the casting, never knew that I would be convinced by Andrea's performance in a film ever. I mean the last time we saw her was in the same Kamal written Vishwaroopam where her character provided absolutely zero value to the story. Here everyone did extremely well and was critical in moving the story forward. The best performance by an ensemble cast in quite a while. Kamal was fabulous. There were so many close-ups he was just magnetic. Thoroughly arresting performance. KB invoked Nagesh and the meta'ness was too much. I think this will be a very very personal film for Kamal and his fans.
Now to the most boring film that KB makes in this film - Gawd, that was awful. If you liked the mokkai comedy of Manmathan Ambu [last 20 minutes], you will hate this. If you hated that, this will be unbearable. I did understand the connect with the present day story but those episodes were too long, extremely boring and very unfunny. And very unimaginative too, that he had to resort to toilet humour. This was such a major irritant for me in the film. If only he had made 'that' film a little interesting this would have been an outright classic. And hated Pooja. She was annoying. Can't fault her since Kamal was probably smoking weed when he wrote 'that' uthama villain script. Badly acted, poorly staged and the vfx did not help either. And perhaps with a better composer those scenes might have worked. Ghib's music was boring.
To be honest, I did not think Kamal could pull of such a thing at this stage of his career. Virumaandi was more than a decade back and didnt like any other film of his after that, save for flashes of brilliance in the much maligned manmathan ambu. But what he has done in the present day portions of Uththama Villain is as good as any of his best ever. That's obviously saying a lot but I am not exaggerating. I was putting my money on the new wave like Vetri or Bala or Mysskin and this was Kamal saying 'தள்ளிப் போயி விளையாடுங்க'. Bring it on Haasar. Time's running out.