Si Si Va Va Ji Sivaji.............


Last weekend I watched the movie "Sivaji"; or should I say the mega blockbuster of all Indian movies - so far produced and hyped up - with two big shots - Shankar and the Super Star of Tamil Movies Sivaji Rao Gaekwaad aka Rajnikant - in the modernday Indian history?


Guess what? I saw the movie and all I saw in THAT movie was Rajnikant. Before you start throwing things at me, let metell you this.. The movie has two super stars - super star of action and super star of direction - and I have the need to write fromtwo different perspectives.


To begin with, Rajni proved again that he is the star of style, star of the masses and star of action. Needless to say his "chewing gumtossing" gimmick or the "rolling of his shades" or "bouncing the one Rupee coin" or "tapping on his mottai thalai" are the few examplesof his styles (should I say the novel ones?), his main job in the movie is to kick the ass of the bad guys (plural; because, I didn't seein any shot other than the climax that Rajni deals with one person at once. Thanks to Peter Hain). Good God, he is out of the MGR formula where only one bad guy would deal with the hero at once (those who know partial differentiation would love MGR formula though).


Story? Well, you have all read the story one way or the other from the media right? You guessed it right.. Rajni is one NRI whohas earned 250 Crores by working as a Software Architect in the US (geez... I would like to make shit load of money like that too) andwants to open up a University to serve poor and the needy. As always, there will be a businessman/medical college owner (Suman) who wouldn't like this idea of providing free education to poor creates problems to Rajni in every way and how Rajni is raising as a Phoenix from death (courtesy Sujatha, there comes Raghuravan with CPR and defibrillator) and beating the crap out of the villain is the story. But again, the villain is not just Suman. Black money is the other villain in the movie. Well, for the first one, Rajni can give kick ass treatment. How about for the other? Read the rest.


The idea that Rajni gets hold of auditors and car drivers to snoop on black money is a stupid idea. First of all, no auditor deals withblack money. He/she deals with only vouchers. The idea that car drivers would know the black money is also another stupid idea.Most - if not all - of the times, the car driver wouldn't even know what is in the box that he is carrying in his owner's car. I guess this kindof stupid/idiotic thinking should stop and instead the issues need to be addressed directly. Alas, the kind of treatment the auditors andthe car drivers get if they don't cooperate with Rajni! God, please save us from this kind of silly ideas. Before I continue bashing the idea,let me finish up what Rajni does to deal with his second (or the most important) villain in the movie: he gets hold of auditors & car driversand with their help, he shares the unaccounted money from big shots and sends them to the US - how else? hawala - in Dollars therebyconverting black to white and brings the money to India and opens up schools/colleges in every part of India so this time Suman cannotmess with the way he acquired the permission to open up the University. Pretty slick, huh?


Apart from Rajni, Vivek is another saving grace in the movie. His comedy especially the punch dialogue is too good. Shriya is justanother Shankar's heroin where before she gets married with the hero, would dance with little clothes; but after marriage, would justwear kungumam all over her face and cover all parts of her body with sari (kudumba ponnu types). She has no scope for acting and whocares if didn't? Suman is good for his role and has done as demanded by the script. Likewise everybody.


Sujatha's dialogues are not as good as the earlier movies (am I getting old or he is getting? Or both?). Camera is super good likewisethe editing and stunts. Minus those scenes where Rajni flies in the air to beat up guys big time. It's gotten boring these days and wouldlike to see it stop. ARR's songs are really good and I think they are the ones that is saving the movie (Kamal, are you listening?).The BGM is too noisy and I don't know why only Tamil movies have so much of noise!


In all, it is a good Rajni movie to watch - no logic, no strong story - but his style, gimmicks take the movie through the finish.


Did you notice I forgot one thing to mention? Actually, I did not forget. I just don't have anything to mention about it.Clue: Indian movie. Gowndamani looking down and saying "Ingey, Chandru'ngara maanasthana kaanum. Adhaan thedaran".Change the name from Chandru to Shankar. It will be more appropriate in this case.