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Review: Mankatha works only because of Ajith


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Vip
Love it-Hate it!
by Vip on Sep 05, 2011 05:40 PM

5/5 if you are an Ajith fan
1/5 if you are a neutral movie-goer

As an Ajith fan, it doesnt get better than this. Ajith oozes style in every frame of the film and carries the film through from start to end. The music by Yuvan enhances the impact of Ajith's charismatic screen presence. Venkat Prabhu shows his class in stand-alone sequences such as the chess-board scene. Having watched it in a packed theater one is more than satisfied and proud to be a thala fan. Venkat Prabhu deserves praise for letting us see Ajith in a bold, new, fantastic avatar.

As a neutral movie goer, the greatness of a movie is in its ability to pull the viewer into its plot. Sadly this one keeps kicking the viewer out, repeatedly breaking the 4th wall. To enjoy the puch dialogues in this movie, you need to know that Ajith is called 'thala' outside this movie, Arjun is called 'Action-King' outside this movie, Ajith generally dons the role of a good guy etc. This consistent destruction of the 4th wall bars this movie from being one of international standards. The ill-advised placement of songs hinder the movie irritating the viewer. Several of the sub-plots are hair-brained, such as the one with the truck-container, such that only a die-hard Ajith fan, whose ego of being an Ajith fan just about defeats the logical reasoning portion of his brain, can enjoy it.

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Praveen
Pavithra Institute of Film Industry Gold Medalist!!!
by Praveen on Sep 05, 2011 01:40 PM

I bet that if you are watching movie first time u cannot predict until the frame in which thala laughs (in phone in climax).
may be then u must hav made some random guesses.
but u konw what!!!???anyone can say i predicted the climax in opening 10min after watching the climax actually...
even i would say i predicted the climax in the first frame and u can't ask he how because my reply would be "i guessed the same way u guess"!!!:p


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Rajagopal P
Watch the movie for Ajith.. the story sucks
by Rajagopal P on Sep 05, 2011 10:44 AM

Venkat Prabhu disappoints second time in a row after Goa.
Looks like director depends only on Ajith to make this watchable and which he has done it.

If you look for story,logic stuff, then this movie is not for you.

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Veeraraghavan Chandrasekaran
Another Comedy by Ajith
by Veeraraghavan Chandrasekaran on Sep 04, 2011 08:44 PM  | Hide replies

I don't understand why Ajith acts like a Villian. Drinking, Smoking, using 4 letter words for all the sentences in second half doesn't show Ajith as a Villian instead as a Comedian. Interval scene is the best example of his humour. Also the climax fight just continues for nearly 15 minutes and I am sure Venkat had no idea how to finish this movie...Still there are lot more to discuss. I don't want to waste my time.

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sundar pandiyan
Re: Another Comedy by Ajith
by sundar pandiyan on Sep 05, 2011 10:38 AM
I guess u r thalapathy fan.. Because the crictics have given rave reviews about Ajith's acting & looks... not like u few funny people out there.. i could see a lot of smoke flowing around ur belly after seeing the success of this movie... he he he.. :)

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kamal kumar
Re: Another Comedy by Ajith
by kamal kumar on Sep 05, 2011 12:07 PM
what the hell!!!! who r u man to review Thalla film. if you don have time then why should you come and write this few idiotic feedback.if you have more Expectation level then go to the field and work on it.making commands is easier one instead of doing the same.

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BALA MAHESHWARAN
Thala rulezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
by BALA MAHESHWARAN on Sep 04, 2011 01:29 PM

thala rockz in mankatha.......

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sanjayshakthi
Dont consider this trash review
by sanjayshakthi on Sep 04, 2011 11:25 AM  | Hide replies

Guys not at all consider this trash review....Aprt frm rediff another 1 trash website is siffy. Except both all other websites like India glitz, Behindhood, chennaonline etc applauding the efforts made by mankatha crew...Even newspapers like Hindu, Times of India and deccan chronicle praising the efforts made by each one of them....This useless website always praise useless films like Manmadhan ambu, Adhvan n all other worthless movie....She's telling she'll be able to predict the climax at first 10 minutes itself....My question to her is " Mudhala padatha pathiya neenu?"

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abiramakrishnan
Re: Dont consider this trash review
by abiramakrishnan on Sep 08, 2011 06:33 PM
very good answer.. I thought d same..

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ROOPESH KUMAR
bad movie
by ROOPESH KUMAR on Sep 04, 2011 06:27 AM

I went for the movie only for venkat prabhu. But the movie turned out to be a dud. Ajith was stylish and tats it. Poor screenplay and music as well.

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Santosh
this is a bad movie, doesn't worth watching
by Santosh on Sep 04, 2011 06:07 AM  | Hide replies

this looks like a modified movie of Chaos theory. not worth seeing even once

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sundar pandiyan
Re: this is a bad movie, doesn't worth watching
by sundar pandiyan on Sep 05, 2011 10:40 AM
i would suggest u better study the basics of CHAOS theory... This movie depicts a sequence of well planned act not something of a chaos kind.

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satish kumar
MANKATHA HIT
by satish kumar on Sep 04, 2011 12:04 AM

Just saw mankatha in Mumbai.It's good film.Ajith is smashing good in the negative r�le.The reviews in SOME WEBSITES are very much biased against south indian films.Watched the film after reading the reviews.It's superb.

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