Film: Mankatha
Starring: Ajith,Trisha,Arjun and others
Director: Venkat Prabhu
Producer: Dayanidhi Alagiri
Banner: Cloud Nine Movies
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Starring: Ajith,Trisha,Arjun and others
Director: Venkat Prabhu
Producer: Dayanidhi Alagiri
Banner: Cloud Nine Movies
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Mankatha Story:
The film opens with police officer
Vinayak Mahadevan (Ajith) who gets suspended for helping a smuggler
Faizal (Aravind Akash) to escape from police encounter. After getting
suspended he starts leading life in his own way.
A serious issue regarding bookies and
match fixing evokes Maharashtra police and makes them stand on toes.
Meanwhile Vinayak falls for Sanjana (Trisha), daughter of a powerful
local gangster Mahadev (Jayaprakash) in Mumbai. Mahadev who is powerful
in Mumbai plans to steal 500 crores, which was used for gambling during
Indian Premier League. He appoints a gang of four men Sumanth (Vaibhav),
Prem (Premji), an IIT graduate, Mahat (Mahat Raghavendra), Ganesh
(Ashwin Kakumanu), a sub-inspector at Dharavi in Mumbai to steal this
money. On knowing the plan made by Mahadev, Vinayak get into this
project and starts leading the gang.
On other side, Prithviraj (Arjun) CID
officer who handles this case chases Vinayak and his mission. From here
the rift between both Vinayak & gang and Police takes place.
Will Vinayak and his gang succeed in
their mission? Who will finally get the 500crs? How they execute the
plot? Will Ajith get his lady love Sanjana? Will he join back as a
police officer? All this is shown in very interesting manner with loads
of twists in every frame in the second part of the movie.
Performances:
Ajith gave his best out of best
performance in the film. His fans could not have expected for more from
their star. His acting, salt and pepper look with the negative shade in
his role are treat to watch out. The audiences will thoroughly enjoy the
action sequences and hair rising car and bike stunts done by him. One
can’t stop praising his performance! Way2go Thala!!!
Arjun has fulfilled his title Action
King yet again with Mankatha. He is brilliant and Venkat Prabhu’s
choice should be appreciated fro roping in Arjun. He has perfectly
fitted the bill. In fact he got a gets a meaty role much equivalent to
Ajith and is over the top with his performance.
Trisha though being the leading lady
doesn’t have much scope for performance. But whatever she can do for
Sanjana’s character, she has done it pretty well. She looked beautiful
and pretty charming.
Lakshmi Rai has appeared in just more
than 5 scenes while Anjali played Vaibhav’s partner and Andrea played
Arjun’s wife, both of them are just used for romantic portions.
Premji Amaran scores well with his Black
Humour but he repeated the same what he did in Goa and Chennai 28.
Vaibhav got a meaty role and he utilized it to the surpassing degrees.
Mahat, Ashwin and Ganesh are okay with performances.
As usual Jayaprakash has given his best in the supporting role. Rest of the characters has done their job well on their limits.
Technicalities:
To convey straightly Venkat Prabhu has
succeed in his first ever film with a big star. It looks like Venkat
Prabhu being a fan of Thala has understood the pulse of the audience and
his fans well. He has undoubtedly given perfect entertainer, where
Ajith rules the game of action but the overdose of action scenes played a
spoilsport. Shakti Saravanan's photography is brilliant, choreography
is simple but energetic. Editor Praveen KL could have been bold in his
work, as few scenes are dragging at parts and gives feel of boredom.
Yuvan’s Music is apt as the songs are at its best with ‘Machi Open the
Bottle’ turning to be the cherry pick of the album and so is title song
‘Vilayaadu Mankatha’.
Analysis:
Mankatha has all the entertaining
elements like Mystery & Suspense, Drama, Action and Adventure. The
film is especially for Thala fans and the people who love
action-oriented movies but family audiences who like to have a whole new
experience from regular stuff can give their try on Mankatha. The first
half of the film has passed away with just establishments of the
characters and was on a slow pace while the second half is just a roller
coaster ride with lots of twists and turns.
The positive points of the film are
Thala’s performance, BGM by Yuvan, Camera work, Dance - simple but
energetic choreography and the scenes between Thala & action King,
especially the climax scene. On the negative side we find lengthy action
sequences, misplacement of songs, dragging first half and too much of
characters. However, Ajith mouthing dialogues like 'I am a mad man' and
'money money money' during stunts are will be enjoyed by his fans big
time.
Note: Don’t miss the behind the scenes bloopers during final credit that will throw huge surprise for all you fans!!!
Quick Take: High voltage action entertainer for Thala Fans!
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