Kanthaswamy - Review

Direction: Susi Ganeshan
Star-casts: Vikram, Shriya Charan, Vadivelu, Prabhu, Krishna and others
Music: Devi Sri Prasad

So, you’ve been waiting for a long time for the most expected biggie of this year. Well, was this wait worth? Actually, it’s not really big. With a running length of 3 plus hrs, the film lacks solidity in conceptualization of script and screenplay. The film’s script reminds us of Vikram’s previous films ‘Anniyan’ and ‘Samurai’. Susi Ganeshan seems to have strongly focused on technical aspects, but drops off instantly when it comes to narration.

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The film starts-off well on a good note, but as the suspense is broken in the early moments; you lose your interests. The film is all about Vikram and only Vikram. The actor stuns us with his top-notch performance in all characterizations. Especially his physique and gestures have been stupendously delivered.

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The film opens with needy and underprivileged devotees raising their prayers to God Kanthaswamy through a note of petition. On the very next day you’ve their petitions granted (monetary aids in particular). There comes the Superhero Kanthaswamy– a superhero taking the baddies to task and delivering justice to the innocent souls.

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And then comes a sincere CBI officer Kanthaswamy (Vikram), tracking the top-on-list of big shots possessing excess black money. He comes across a leading tycoon (Ashish Vidyarthi) and seizes his property worth billions. The tycoon’s daughter- Subalakshmi (Shriya Charan) vows to seek revenge on him and gradually that turns to be a different story, of that of a love affair. But, now the biggest question arrives. Who’s actually Kanthaswamy? Is he the super-hero, or is there any link between them. What unfolds next is a series of incidents where the suspense is broken at early moments slightly diminishing our interests. As mentioned earlier, Vikram spells a fantabulous job on his performance. He is so zippy as a romantic guy and well on a superhero role. But, in the part of superhero, his performance seems to be mediocre. Blame the stunt department In most of the sequences, it looks slight amateurish. And again, over the in ‘Thai Chi’ stunt in Mexico, the complete drama is absurd. What’s the reason behind blindfolding his eyes and taking him into tasks of fists? We’ve got to ask Susi Ganeshan. Even, if it falls into the category of commercial cinema, this isn’t something that we expect from such a brilliant team. Shriya Charan just falls off shorter in expectation. Looks like she had a no idea about exposing skin shows, and win applause of audiences… Nay The filmmaker could’ve opted for someone else for the female lead. In most of the parts, Shriya strongly imitates Angelina Jolie, which turns out to yield different results, some that she may not be expecting. Prabhu, Krishna and Ashish Vidyarthi have done justice to their role. Vadivelu does entertain us in few parts with his rib-tickling comedy tracks. Mansoor Ali Khan is okay.

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Musical score by Devi Sri Prasad sounded good enough on tracks, but nothing seems to be appreciative on the screens. All throughout the background score, we hear nothing but loud-sounded percussions of signature song ‘Kanda…Kanda… Kanthaswamy’. Ekambaram’s cinematography has eye-catching visuals, especially in Mexico. Nevertheless, the dark yellowish-orange tone blurs your eyes after certain extent. Editing could’ve been crisp without random cuts.

As mentioned earlier, very soon we get to hear the suspense broken down that gradually scatters the audience attention in later moments.