Hello,
Don’t be surprised if you did not get an email from me that I
have updated my blog with Linga movie review. This review must not come as a
news or shock to most of you – whether you’ve seen the movie or not. But I
still wanted to register my view of the movie as a normal movie watcher.
Straight to the matter:
I feel that the flashback portions are the actual movie. As
there is absolutely nothing before or after it. Within 20 minutes into the
movie, the flashback starts. The interval arrives at a crucial portion in the
flashback. 2nd half begins with flashback continuation. Once
flashback is over, within 15 minutes, movie is over.
Any commercial mass masala movie is good only when there is
a cat & mouse game between Hero and Villain. Here, there are 2 such scope – Old Rajni Vs
Britishers, New Rajni Vs Politician. The second one lasts for hardly 10 mins. Better, they could have released this as a period film
instead. Successful dam opening should have been the climax.
Songs By A.R Rehman are simply pathetic. Despite playing
1000 times a minute through TV trailers, one can’t remember even a line from
the lyrics or music. Have you heard the original Spanish Gasolina song ?
Santhanam and Karunakaran are relief to some stupid things
in the movie. Sonakshi Sinha & Anushka Shetty just behave like commercial
movie heroines. The latter has some role to play, but the former was not at all
required actually. Cinematography is too good. This compensated the lag in
editing.
Despite all these depressing factors, Rajni looks stunning
throughout the movie – infact, out of his last 10 movies, this is the best he
has looked. But all that is wasted by everything surrounding it. If it was for
some other hero, this would have become like a Perarasu movie. But they will
for sure do the collections, using the Rajni mania as a trump card.
(The best punch dialogue in the movie was the one from Britisher to Rajni" Unna paatha Dam katra maari therla, andha ponna katra maarithan iruku") :-)
(The best punch dialogue in the movie was the one from Britisher to Rajni" Unna paatha Dam katra maari therla, andha ponna katra maarithan iruku") :-)
Linga is purely for “hard core ISI AGMARK BIS 916 Hallmark ISO
9000” Rajni Fans.
Note: That blog i promised in end of Kathi review, is still on its way.. Potti varala, Potti varala, Potti varala...
