Rajapattai BO β How Will Vikram End it All?
Tamil film star Vikram’s new movie Rajapattai is the latest infantile nonsense to emerge out of Kollywood.
Rajapattai has nothing going for it.
Zip. Zilch. Zero.
Bizarre Story
Sickles fly every three minutes, an old man in his 80s eagerly gives lessons to young men in the art of wooing girls, land is grabbed morning, evening and night, the heroine looks like she drifted out of a retard home when the security guard was AWOL on a tea break, the hero makes the Terminator look like a wimp and the arch villain has the rather incongruous name of Akka (elder sister).
We swear on Vikram that we’re not making up any of the above.
Insane as it might seem, they constitute the central elements of Rajapattai.
Truth be said, insanity is the leitmotif of the film.
Folks, the story credited to a weirdo named Seenu is insufferable.
It’s with difficulty we restrained ourselves from plucking out the few hair left on our body as the movie progressed. By the way, this bozo Seenu is also co-director (along with Suseenthiran) of this train wreck of a movie.
It’s not merely the hopelessly written story and screenplay (by Suseenthiran) that gave us grief.
The music is harsh on the ears, the acting of the heroine is hopeless, the villain Akka sports a constipated look throughout the film, the fights are comical and the overall effect at the end was sheer disbelief.
Yes, utter disbelief that movies made in 2011 can be this bad!
Not Landgrab but Moneygrab
The movie’s central theme of land-grabbing by politicians is a topical subject in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
After all, several DMK politicians have been arrested in the last few months for allegedly snatching the land of lesser humans for a pittance.
But the important subject is handled so maladroitly that it seemed to us land grab was just a fig-leaf for the film makers’ real goal of grabbing the money in the audience’s pockets.
Vikram Kennedy plays Anal Murugan, a young man struggling to make a career in films as a villain.
But the movie aspirations of Anal Murugan soon recedes into the background after he saves an old man (K.Vishwanath) from henchmen hired by his son to grab prime land on which an orphanage stands.
How Anal Murugan defeats the villain-politician Akka’s machinations, beats up scores of bad guys in fight after fight, successfully woos a pretty girl and ultimately restores the orphanage to the good guys forms the rest of this silly, amateurish exercise.
What prompted the respected Telugu director K.Vishwanath, who’s directed gems such as Sankarabharanam, Saagara Sangamam and Swathi Muthyam, to associate himself with such offal as Rajapattai is a mystery only the old man can address.
Vikram Falls So Low
There’s no question that Vikram Kennedy has turned into a mercenary and a Judas who’ll lend his name to any trashy movie for the sake of a few silver coins.
The audience and his fans be damned.
Vikram’s last movie Deiva Thirumagal was outright theft of the Hollywood film I am Sam.
Rajapattai is, of course, original. Hey, a Tamil movie this bad can only be an original. π
Guys, don’t fall for the hype about all the different getups Vikram dons in the movie. The whole effect of that exercise was nothing short of ugly and silly.
Overall, Vikram leaves no positive mark on the film.
What about Deeksha Seth?
Pretty face Deeksha Seth can’t act.
The girl wouldn’t recognize acting if it whacked her on the face.
Lack of acting talent, of course, makes her an ideal candidate for a Tamil movie.
Like so many Tamil heroines (Shriya Saran, Reema Sen, Richa Gangopadhyay, Sonia Aggarwal. Jyothika, Nagma, Simran etc), Deeksha Seth too is a North Indian who’s strayed into Tamil films with the utmost confidence that moviegoers in the state will accept any trash as long as the girl has a fair complexion and is willing to show skin.
Predictably, the first appearance of Deeksha’s character in the movie is under a shower!
Music – Sheer Torture
Every song in the film starting with the first one Podi Paiyyan Polave to Paniye Panipoove and the final Laddu Laddu number during the end credits featuring (Vikram, Shriya Saran and Reema Sen) is so horrible that they beggar belief.
No one can claim that this trash is music with a straight face.
As for the picturization of the songs, they’re of a piece with the rest of this nonsense.
Poor Response to Rajapattai
At a theater on the East Coast in the U.S., there were only about 35 people.
The audience didn’t seem enthused with the movie.
During the interval, we could hear folks sneering at the movie.
Well, who can blame them!
SearchIndia.com Rating
Unless you have a desperate craving to squander your time and money on trash, stay far away from Rajapattai.
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its pretty disappointing to see a director like Suseenthiran who directed “naan mahaan alla” superbly, is doing rubbish like “Rajapattai.”
As for as vikram, he is a good actor, but now a days he is choosing bad films than acting.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Should Rajapattai ever be screened for an audience of non-Indians, the Indian film industry would become the laughing stock.
The film is so awful.
Ahh! After a long time, you have reviewed a Tamil movie π But why this one?
I didn’t even know this movie was coming. I didn’t see Naan Mahaan Alla, but after reading your review, I saw it and enjoyed it. But didn’t expect this from Suseendiran.
Try watching Mayakkam Enna..if Naveen or someone else hasn’t already reviewed it.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. You write: But why this one?
We had high expectations from Suseenthiran after seeing his previous film Naan Mahaan Alla.
But he’s done a terrible job with Rajapattai.
Worse than the usual Kollywood trash.
2. We doubt Mayakkam Enna is still playing in any of the theatres here.
Vikram is pretty much Anal Murugan – i mean the English Anal π
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Well said! π
Thanks for the review.
I skipped this and went for Don 2 π
Did you like this ‘Asku Laska’ song from ‘Nanban’?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhBVtlnRFhY
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Songu, Notu badu, notu badu.
But Ileana, Lustu Lustu ! π
Yesu Ileana is so much hottttu π
Whats your opinion on the two trailers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9mRY1daewE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1YaqEIIQL8
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Both are SICK.
And what are the semi-nude White girls (at 2:25 in your second video) doing in Nanban?
We hate the book and we hate the idea of stars in their 30s playing 19-year-old students.
Next, we’ll have Rajini playing a kindergarten kid!
What’s a Tamil movie without semi-nude White girls? π It must be from some song.
It looks like inch-by-inch copy of 3 idiots and Vijay’s same old acting style is a big turn-off. But I liked the trailers though.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Once unique only to Hindi movies, now these semi-nude White babes can be seen even in those Godawful Telugu films.
Must be desperate Ukrainian, Russian or Eastern European gals.
Another Thollai.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTyryGJnulM
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Wonderfoool.
shiva84 checked out that trailer and had to stop laughing so much in office, goodness…..i think i’m going to look for this DVD just for the sheer stupidity of this …. what’s with the stupid bear chasing the car…ha ha ha
Hilarious crap! Very Thrilling BGM!!:-D
That power star fellow looks like TR on steroids. Some funny comments on the video
Thalaivar padam Hit, thalaivar padam Baygon, thalaivar padam Allο»Ώ out.
thalaivar tucker doi… oscar awardlam ivaruku ethuku… ivar paerla oru awarda arivichi hollywood kum ulaga cinemavukum…. namma puncture star cheο»Ώ sorry power star koduparu…
aanandha thollai releasing this pongal..!! gonna compete with nanban…!! goyalla, vijay’ku pottiya oruthaan vandhutaan da..!! powerstarο»Ώ da..!!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
We remember reading somewhere that this Power Star joker is an acupuncturist!
What he was doing in retail (putting the needle into people one at a time), the fella is now doing in wholesale via films.