Krishna's Sojourn

Kaala - Review - is it black or white!

Kaala is Rajini! The movie is layered with many intriguing ideas and it will take time to understand what the director is trying to tell in each scene! For those who are expecting Rajini of Baasha days they will find it difficult to see very little of that firepower. Baasha is classic it cannot be remade! This Kaala is purely director Ranjith movie..no doubt in that! He uses superstar's image to showcase the ideology...even the poster where in Rajini sits on the Jeep indirectly says so! Jeep is director's story and Rajini is on that to attract audience to that story!! Rajini is the star vehicle which director uses to portray the oppression being given to people of Dharavi in Mumbai!

Rajini's screen presence is awesome. He enacts the role of leader of the oppressive class to it's perfection. Mass scenes are here and there to keep his fans hooked. The rain fight scene where he kills a politician in a vendetta is one for the ages! It takes us back to the days of Baasha!!

If you are a fan of Rajini and love his acting and style, you will love this movie. His interludes with his wife Selvi and his first love Zarina is superb. His acting here is so good and matured you will enjoy it. Eshwari Rao as Selvi and Huma Querishi as Zarina prove good in their roles.

Nana Patekar is very good in the role and his encounters with Rajini are well taken. The dialogues of Rajini meeting in Nana Patekar's house is intense and both show great acting skills in that scene. Same holds true in the interval block, which is one of the highlights of the movie. Santhosh Narayan's BGM is a plus.

Story wise Ranjith strikes another good target. A faster screenplay would help him. At times movie tends to be slow as one felt in Kabaali. But this one is one better than Kabaali as Kaala has good scenes to treat Rajini fans. This is another movie where Rajini proves he is director's actor.

Overall I will give 3.5 out of 5 for this movie.

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Kabali Review - Rajini is all Mass & Class!

I am not a big fan of watching movies in Cinema Theater for the past few years. I used to watch movies during Rajinikanth's prime years. But the hype and hoopla around Kabali made me try to get a ticket to watch it in first 3 days! I tried in vain for hours and days and finally gave up looking at the demand for it and the online sites not allowing booking a ticket so easy! But by sheer chance of luck on Friday, the day of its release, the Cine Gods smiled on me and I got one booked for 23rd (Saturday) through ticketnew.com site and I could not believe it for real!

I believe I had the effort's worth! The intro is awesome with Rajini silently reading a book with a great pose and body language! His gait and subsequent scenes where he says "magizhchi" to the police officer calmly and later runs riot on screen with style and flourish! wow Thalaiva you are back!!

For the lakhs of fans out there....this movie is not wholly Rajini's but it is director Ranjith's! Rajini has acted in a director's movie, so to say. Otherwise would you see our thalaivar loosing his family and going in search for them. His emotions towards finding his wife and daughter, his reaction upon knowing who his daughter is, his search for his wife and thinking and emoting as if she is around him are some of the scenes that made me think "have you ever seen Rajini doing this!!!!" Wow he is showing how good a performer he is in these scenes.

Once he knows where his wife is and comes to the place his reaction upon seeing her and his wife's (in the movie Radhika Apte) reactions are superb to say the least. The family reunion scene made me say "wow thalaiva I am really happy you have taken a different way in this movie!" This movie perfectly fits his age and he has essayed the role pretty superbly. If you love Rajini you will surely love this movie.

Don't just look for mass also look at the class of his performance! Mass scenes are there: now famous "kabalidaaaa!" dialogue, his style in that scene, then the way he shows is fingers to his two companions to get in car and that he will drive to smash the villain, his superb dialogue in the climax to the villain (Winston Chao) will make his fans go in raptures.

Equally good are the scenes with Radhika Apte and Dhansika if you see the class performer in him! Radhika Apte and Dhansika have essayed their role superbly despite the presence of a Superstar in the movie!

Bottomline: For a long time Rajini fan, myself, I loved the way Rajini showed that he is a class actor and I repeat his lines here "vandutennu sollu....thirumba vantutennu sollu" :) I will be really happy if Rajini sticks to playing characters displaying emotion and he is really capable of such kind of acting!

Kabalidaaaaaaaa!