Except a countable number of examples, the ideas usually expressed in Tamil movies are way too cliche with very predictable endings. Very, very few directors tried too hard to think outside the box in order to set a new trend. One such privileged member is Director Selvaraghavan, whose magnum opus "Aayirathil Oruvan (AO)" is one of the best movies I have seen in my life so far. I was virtually dumbfounded when I saw the trailer and could not hold the breath to see the movie. And when I did see the movie I was like "Wow!!!". Selva made a daring attempt and went beyond what any director would have never even dreamed off. Hats off to Selva for his wild imagination, wonderful execution and top of all for elevating the level-of-intellect required to watch a Tamil movie.
AO is NOT just a movie. It is a "compendium of extraordinary research" carried out on various topics like Cholas, Archeology, Classical Tamil, Music, creating 12th-century like specimens, lyrics in chaste Tamil written by Kavignar Vairamuthu, synchronizing the acts of several 100s of people in every frame and that too for more than 60 mins, etc. It truly amazes me how Selva single-handedly extracted work from people of various departments. I truly felt that almost every scene in AO is watchable more than twice or thrice or even more. Very very few directors (including the ones from Hollywood) can make a movie like this.
There are lot of scenes in this movie that hit my nerves really hard. Let me describe a
Except a countable number of examples, the ideas usually expressed in Tamil movies are way too cliche with very predictable endings. Very, very few directors tried too hard to think outside the box in order to set a new trend. One such privileged member is Director Selvaraghavan, whose magnum opus "Aayirathil Oruvan (AO)" is one of the best movies I have seen in my life so far. I was virtually dumbfounded when I saw the trailer and could not hold the breath to see the movie. And when I did see the movie I was like "Wow!!!". Selva made a daring attempt and went beyond what any director would have never even dreamed off. Hats off to Selva for his wild imagination, wonderful execution and top of all for elevating the level-of-intellect required to watch a Tamil movie.
AO is NOT just a movie. It is a "compendium of extraordinary research" carried out on various topics like Cholas, Archeology, Classical Tamil, Music, creating 12th-century like specimens, lyrics in chaste Tamil written by Kavignar Vairamuthu, synchronizing the acts of several 100s of people in every frame and that too for more than 60 mins, etc. It truly amazes me how Selva single-handedly extracted work from people of various departments. I truly felt that almost every scene in AO is watchable more than twice or thrice or even more. Very very few directors (including the ones from Hollywood) can make a movie like this.
There are lot of scenes in this movie that hit my nerves really hard. Let me describe a few s
AO forms the pinnacle of indian cinema... those who criticised this film r really NOT-Fit to watch any film...the film portrays human emotions and mainly our south indian culture....how many of us do really know about our history.??? Hats-off to selva for making this project a dream-come-true...extra-ordinary research work and hard work can be seen transparent on the screen...i request every1 to plz try to undrstnd the director's vision and the essence of the story...Thnx to selva for making this film !!! U really ROcK !!
AO forms the pinnacle of indian cinema... those who criticised this film r really NOT-Fit to watch any film...the film portrays human emotions and mainly our south indian culture....how many of us do really know about our history.??? Hats-off to selva for making this project a dream-come-true...extra-ordinary research work and hard work can be seen transparent on the screen...i request every1 to plz try to undrstnd the director's vision and the essence of the story...Thnx to selva for making this film !!! U really ROcK !!
AO forms the pinnacle of indian cinema... those who criticised this film r really NOT-Fit to watch any film...the film portrays human emotions and mainly our south indian culture....how many of us do really know about our history.??? Hats-off to selva for making this project a dream-come-true...extra-ordinary research work and hard work can be seen transparent on the screen...i request every1 to plz try to undrstnd the director's vision and the essence of the story...Thnx to selva for making this film !!! U really ROcK !!
