Man(nar) Madhan(agopal) Ambu(jakshi)

I liked it.
Warning: Spoilers present below...

Lot of kamalhassan stuff, if you have seen his movies, the way i see those. Cant believe thats Ramesh Aravind ! Madhavan's characterization was made unnatural towards the end. Not good. Urvashi dint get a chance to show her timing in comedy. Sangeetha does her job in "the matrimony was bad, but the alimony is good". May be Sangeetha and Urvashi's role should've been exchanged. Trish looks fresh. Usha Utup is a surprise. Kids do it well. Kamal could do this role in his sleep. Some typical crazymohan dialogues and aal maarattam climax. If you are not that types, you will feel the drag.

Songs are ok. People wowing Neelavanam song havent seen coldplay scientist. The controversial poetry was removed, but one can make out where it fits.

Europe is beautiful. Evoked memories of my trip to Venice.

Some entries like the opening fight or the bull taming you see in the posters can be excused because there are no other forceful masala. The driver character was unnecessary as if srilankan tamil had to be brought in. A typical film would have brought ex-hubby of priya in the climax.

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I really liked the scene where Mannar forgives Ambu. But there weren't enough justification on why he would love her. It was like indha vayasaanavana paathu Trisha vey ok sollitta, Madhavanum venam nu sollittan, french kaariyum poita, idha vitta padathula vera character illa, appo ivalaye love pannalam. Similarly why would Madhan love Deepa, just because...
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Ending wasn't convincing at all. Definitely not expected from K.S.Ravikumar, Kamalhassan, crazy mohan.

Dialogues on truth and honesty are good. But unlike Anbe sivam where though kamal and madhavan disagreed, their characterization were justified, thats not the case here.

This is nowhere near the top list of kamal-crazy combination. But I liked it, except for the end.

past, present and the extensions...

The music in my car stereo resumed after I hung up the call that I was attending in a solar powered bluetooth speakerphone.

I was driving my father back from a place where he performed his yearly rites to his deceased father.

We were listening to some song through FM, transmitted from my mobile phone which downloaded it to a microSD card smaller than my nail, through wifi on my 1Mbps broadband.

He was mentioning how my grandfather would not have accepted some of the things about the ritual that day, on which he had no option today.

The dot in my mobile updating sincerely with the help of 5 of those GPS satellites, as we moved through the map it was downloading through a slow GPRS connection.

He then reiterated what he already told me several times, "I have seen both worlds - a life without any device that needs electricity and the world I see today. I dont think there was ever a human lifeperiod or there will ever be one with such a massive change to human life."

Impressed by the touch interface, as he took my phone it changed its orientation from landscape to portrait, while he continued, "My contemporaries have witnessed it all. We are the luckiest."

I argue with him whenever he says something superlatively, "Oh they havent witnessed a live lifelike 3D holographic video of a person or a car you fly without a driver".

He was getting closer to what Charles Duell dint say, "That would not be as much amazing the first time as it did flying an aeroplane or a remote controlled toy car or seeing you live on a webcam from USA. They are only extensions of what we see today".

What say you?