This is an interesting post I found on this blog.
he's a Chennai based blogger who calls himself 'ada-pavi'.This review of Sivaji the boss actually tells what I wanted to say 2months ago when I saw Sivaji.
If you feel the same do post in ur comments.
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In one word, Sivaji sucks. The movie can be divided into the post interval and pre interval portions. When Rajini romances Sherya it sucks, its plain unwatchable. And the movie is loaded with Rajini’s usual style. He has lost it, his style too now sucks, its unwatchable.
Now there is a 60 year old man. As is the case with any 60 year old man, Rajini’s face resembles Indian roads. To make him look younger, extensive make up is used, the make up sucks. For two reasons, first every time a close up of his face is shown, it looks like a wall which has been painted with cheap whitewash. Now this wall if it rains will absorb water and some portions will be lighter than the others. That’s how Rajini’s make looks.
Another fall out of this make up is that his face becomes expressionless. How is it possible to express when one has white cement on their face? When Rajini romances Sherya, he uses his trademark style. To carry it off it requires his face to be expressive. He is an expressive actor, but with white cement on his face, none what so ever is visible. Its terrible and plain unwatchable. In Pudhu Kavithai, Thambiku Endha Ooru, Nallavanuku Nalavan, even Padayappa there are closeup shots of Rajini’s face, and the expression is visible. This is even in scenes where he sight-adichifies the heroine, that expressive face is now missing. Rajini is a shadow of his former self.
Pre-interval, its not even worth writing about. This movie has one of the most pathetically scripted comedy scenes ever in a Rajini movie, plain torture.
In the post interval it’s the usual masala chase sequences. That is entertaining, its watchable. But the hype over Rajini and his style in the movie makes me want to puke. There is too much emphasis on Rajini and his Superstar status. Every bloody scene reinforces Rajini’s super star status, and the need show his style. The beauty with his style, be it the swagger or the smoking or the punch dialogues was that it seamlessly blended in with his character, Rajini’s status never stood out, here his status as superstands out in every scene, it kills the movie. The previous movie where Rajini’s status stood out was Baba, and we all know the status, with white cement on his face, Sivaji might follow Baba’s status. What is even more audacious is Rajini comparing himself to MGR. Mottai Boss says M G Ravichandran, MGR, clearly indicating he is as big as MGR. That is audacious, MGR even today, 20 years after his death can win elections. The only reason JJ wins in some areas of south TN is because voters vote for the “Rettai Elai” the symbol of MGR, not for JJ. Rajini can never match that feat. Both MGR and Rajini share some common traits, their loyal fan base. Towards the later end of his career, only MGR fans could sit through his movies, Rajini now is in that stage of his career, only those who want to see him on screen can sit through his movies, apart from this they have nothing in common. Rajini is no MGR.
Songs? Shankar’s grandeur has killed them. I feel like puking, the picturisations suck.
Unless one is a Rajini veriyan, stay away. Even for a veriyan, my advice would be get a DVD of Rajinis 80s movies, and watch them. Rajini rocks in them. Now he should stop acting and play with his grandchildren. Or else if he acts, he should act as an old man. That’s what makes Padayappa rock, Rajini with the beard and Kurta rocks. None of that is there in Sivaji.
Actually, a long time fan of Rajini, who has seen his movies from the Aborva Ragangal, would feel let down. Ratha kaneer varum. Sivaji magnifies all the short comings of Rajinikanth. The Rajinikanth who acted in Padayappa, Baasha, Annamalai, Mr Barath, Nallavanuku Nallavan, Naan Maahan Allai, Thani Kattu Raja is dead. The Rajini in Sivaji is a pitiable shadow of his former self, yet he tries to act like his former self. Its sad. Rajini’s time is up, he should ideally pass the baton onto the next generation of actors, still carrying the baton is terrible. Or else he should accept his age and act in movies as a 50 year old, a-la Padayappa where in second half, as an old man he rocks. Now as a young man, Rajini Sucks, plain sucks.
I wonder whether the Executive Producer S.P Muthuraman must have been sleeping while working on this movie. This guy knows how to write a good script, and he has directed some memorable Rajini movies like Muruttu Kalai and Netrikan. He should have had the sense to read the script and clean it up, because the script is by Shankar. Shankar is an idiot who restricts to just one issue and recycles his script, so its understandable he will write bullshit, but Muthuraman is no idiot, the bugger should have cleaned up the script, the only explanation for him not doing so is that he was probably sleeping or Shanker being arrogant decided not to use Muthuraman's knowledge during the making of Sivaji.
In one word, Sivaji Sucks! Its Terrible and Plain unwatchable. Sivaji is just one notch above Baba, it has to be amongst Rajini’s worst movies. This movie is strictly for those who just want to see Rajinikanth on screen. Im sure a two hour documentary tracing Rajini’s career released in theatres would be more watchable than this crap.
The movie is an insult to the vibrant tamil flim industry which churns out movies like Mozhi and Chennai 600028. The producer and director assumed that with Rajini on screen and a pre-release hype, there will be enough idiots willing to watch the movie and therefore it will make money, and issues like script, dialogue acting dont really matter. I strongly believe that any creative venture has to be driven by the burning desire to engage in that venture. Movies should be made because the all the parties involved have the burning desire to make the movie. Once it is driven by money, the quality drops, actually there is no quality. Using this logic, one can conclude that the driving force to make Sivaji for all those involved was money and not the desire to make a good movie. This clearly is visible in the end product, which sucks.
PS: If one wants entertainment, and can stand TR on screen, Veeraswamy is way more entertaining than Sivaji, Sivaji is torture. If you want to kill someone, and the person is not a Rajini Veriyan, buy them a ticket for Sivaj
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