Muthuraj is another backbone for this film with his market and palace sets impressing the most Vivek Harshan's editing is slick and keeps the film at a lively pace. Balasubramaniam's camera takes in all the colors and presents it to the audience as a visual treat. Compared to 'VVS' or even 'Rajini Murugan' the entertainment and engagement factors are a notch lower.ĭ.Imman's lilting melodies punctuate the narration with "Onnavitta yaarum" getting top honors and his background score as usual is a big plus. The story narration goes on in circles and never moves forward.
The computer graphics both in the cheetah and the period sequences are found wanting.
Siva is already shown as a capable fighter in two sequences in the first half and the question arises where the need for inspiration from his forefathers arise to manage the climax fight. On the downside the second half takes a nosedive and sadly the most expected historical portion is placed at a wrong moment in the screenplay robbing it off its value. The deep insight into the ancient Tamil weapon "Valari" is well documented. The director has cleverly embedded current politics in his screenplay like justifying the protesting nature of Tamils and warning against threats for the language and culture coming from the "North". The first half though giving a been there seen it all feeling is quite entertaining with the right mix of all the commercial masala elements of comedy, romance and some mass buildup moments. The actor playing the sidekick of the villain scores the best laughs in the film and it is commendable the way he delivers his dialogue deadpan. Manobala in his brief appearance is funny while Mottai Rajendran is wasted. Napolean as the hero's father and Lal as the fuming villain are apt. Keerthy Suresh puts in a special cameo appearance as the ancient queen but does not have the scope to make any impression. It is amazing to see him sporting a six pack but the effort could have been complimented better in the scene. Soori after a gap is back to form in his trademark brand of comedy which works in most of the scenes with the cheetah sequence taking the cake. She excels as Kaleeshwari and is a worthy opponent for the hero though at times the voice actor dominates. You have seen Simran as an eternal beauty so far but kudos to Ponram for bringing out the hitherto unknown dark side of her. Watch out for her silambam show which gets the applause in the climax. Samantha in a rare rural role looks very pretty and her expressions are apt in all her scenes. The best surprise in this film is of course the ancient King get up where Siva's demeanor and Tamil diction are impressive. Siva also shines in the romance portions with Samantha especially when he tries to woo her in different avatars and gets disappointed when they dont work. His chemistry with Soori brings laughs every time the two appear on screen together.
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Sivakarthikeyan has grown leaps and bounds as far as handling the mass hero role with ease and cleverly making sure to crack self deprecating jokes on himself. The rest of the story is the cat and mouse game between the two warring parties with the usual twists and turns and how the Seemaraja emerges the victor. There is the arrogant Kaleeshwari (Simran) and her husband Karikadai Kandan (Lal) who harbor enemity on the hero and vow to finish him off. He falls in love with the local silambam wielding PT eacher Suthanthira Selvi (Samantha) and dons various getups to woo her. Seemaraja (Sivakarthikeyan) is a youth who belongs to a royal jameen family who loiters around with his friend Mathsu (Soori) an accountant for namesake. Is their third collaboration 'Seemaraja' one step higher in its colorful entertainment and engagement factors as promised by them remains to be seen. Sivakarthikeyan and Ponram along with Soori and D.Imman have given two rural entertainers 'Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam' and 'Rajini Murugan'.