NAAN KADAVUL MOVIE REVIEW - From a man shocked beyond limits

Naan Kadavul is the extreme. It is a stunning shocking vayatha-perating ( i mean gut-wrenching) master cut from a director who is at the peak of his film making powers. It is a film that for me marks the zenith of tamil film making. A movie with so much detailing deserves an equally thoroughly detailed review. But the author is in no mood. He is just back from the theatre and carries his uneasiest-est feeling ever. Still he manages to write as much as he can...

Anyways , Here we go.

THE DIRECTION - Its a text book. Its a reference book. To make a film dealing with such a complex issue and make it look this simple on screen. To make so many differently abled, disabled and differently psyched people ACT. To curve out of an inexperienced lead cast a performance of their lifetime. To induce into the audience a rough feeling of uneasiness immediately followed by free laughter.To do all this within just 3 years is seriously a film maker at the very EXTREME. This is the film making heights. Bala is right up there among the best directors this author has experienced.

THE STORYLINE - looks weak from a bird's eye view. But it is actually a deliberately simplicised act of a very complex concept. Still it takes the whole of the first half to introduce itself and the goes out at breakneck speed in the second half. Making every stomach twist and turn in pain, agony, shock and anticipation.

THE PERFORMANCES - Arya has the brightest future in tamil cinema. The bala stamp is all over him. U can literally see him mature as an actor in the film... The scene just before the interval is probably his best act in the film...The dialogue where he declares himself as GOD... I wonder how Kamal would have acted in the scene... It would have looked so much Truer!

Pooja's performance again takes Bala to a new level in making people act... She has given her absolute best in every frame of the film. A wonderful act.

The beggar crew - This is what makes the film Great. A group of faces which u would not even see twice in normal life is made to be loved by Bala... Humour from unexpected corners, Emotions galore... The gang rocks...

Everybody else - IS super-mystic and super talented.... Its like watching a hundred people each giving his/her best performance ever....

THE CINEMATOGRAPHY :- Stands out tall. Arthur Wilson has magic lens... There are so many unused effects and camera tricks and they are real obvious... Super work - especially with the opening scenes of KASI.

THE ART WORK :- I never knew some one could recreate so realistically and yet so beautifully the southern part of tamilnadu and the areas where the beggars beg and live... SUPER WORK

THE B---G---M -AH my RAJA. Ah the MAN. Ah the music SPOKE A MILLION WORDS... An effect thats beyond explanation... There is simply no one else who could have made music for this film...

Overall Naan Kadavul is the showcase of an absolute genius of a director called BALA. A man whose class simply stuck on to everyone else who worked in the film


Don't watch it if u are okay with missing THE experience of Your Lifetime....