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Movie Review: SIKINDAR (By Hapra)
By: Tupaki Desk | 15 Aug 2014 8:40 AM GMT
Movie Review: SIKINDAR (By Hapra)
Rating: 2.5/5
Cast: Surya, Samantha, Manoj Bajpayee, Vidyut Jamwal and others
Cinematogrpaher: Sanotsh Sivan
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Story- Screenplay-Direction: Linguswamy
Producer: Tirupathi Brothers, Lagadapati Sridhar
Release date: 15th, August 2014
Heavy crazy enfolded ‘Sikander’ ever since the first look of Surya and Samantha has hit tinsel town. As director Linguswamy’s recent flicks like Awara and Tadakha (in Tamil) have hit bull’s eye and raised the expectations bar. Surely this combination is expected to take on Tollywood box office too. Let us see how the movie is.
The CONTENT
Krishna (Surya) comes to Mumbai in search of his missing brother Raju (Surya). After meeting couple of his brother’s former allies and henchmen, Krishna comes to know that Raju and his best friend Chandu (Vidyut Jamwal) used to do gold smuggling and extortion business. Also Raju has a love affair with Police Commissioner’s daughter Jiva (Samantha). Meanwhile Raju and Chandu enter into a tiff with Mafia don Imran (Manoj Bajpayee). By the time Krishna starts inquiring some other key aides of his brother, he also receives threats. What happens then? What happened to Raju and Chandu? What is the involvement of Imran? You need watch that on silver screen.
The EFFORT :
On-Screen:
Surya got the best look of his career for this Raju role in Sikander. His other look as Krishna is just convincing. Like all the time, Surya did best work in all scenes including action, romance and sentiment. Without much etching in the character and plot, none would have asked him to do more than this.
Vidyut Jamwal got a decent role after shining in Vijay’s Tupaki earlier. This time too he mesmerizes with handsomeness and gets some dialogues too. Talented actor like Manoj Bajpayee is wasted in a don role, where he just walks in wearing suits and utters couple of dialogues.
Nothing much to perform for Samantha, but she filled the whole screen with her glamour quotient. In any give scene, her tempting cleavages and cute expressions tickle youths. Her ravishing appearance in songs is also hot. Brahmi is there for a scene, and that is a big time-killer.
Off-Screen:
Director Linguswamy is a master of screenplay, but he missed the mark this time. Also he hasn’t extracted terrific performances from any of his lead actors. Not stopping there, he failed to get even cinematography right despite having Sanotsh Sivan on board. Things haven’t happened like earlier for Linguswamy, as comedy tracks and romance sequences failed to evince interest.
Yuvan Shankar Raja scored three good songs for the flick, including Bang Bang, Ek Do Theen Chaar and that Samantha’s bikini song shot in Goa. Also he has given good background score, but with there is no stuff in movie, we can’t ask him more.
Popular and award winning cinematographer Santosh Sivan hasn’t really made his mark. There are no stunning compositions, neither terrific visuals. Except for that stylish yellow rim light he used whenever Samantha appeared, rest is just like a work of an average camera man.
Editor Antony is famous for his slick editing, but this time his scissors lost the sharpness. He should have trimmed the movie’s length from 165 minutes to around 120 minutes. Art director Rajeevan has come up with nice setting for Ek Do Theen song, while the rest of posh locations like bars and clubs are a regular.
Also Chitrangada Singh’s much hyped item-song hasn’t clicked well. The hype and hoopla around the song are high, but her curvaceous looks and song-tune are not energetic to excite masses.
The PLUSES:
· Samantha’s glamour – two piece bikini
· Surya’s looks and presence
The MINUSES:
· Very Predictable Story
· Length of movie (160) minutes
· Poor Climax
· …and many
BREAKDOWN:
Flicks like Awara and Tadakha have huge screenplay twists and adrenaline rushing moments. But Sikander has only one such moment during interval and rest is all predictable. Linguswamy picked up a routine and failed to stuff if with surprises.
From the starting of the movie itself, there is no good pep and the car-driver comedy sequence (we have seen similar thing in Awara) failed to bring laughs. Though some major twist is expected by audiences, every character is introduced in a cool way. Saving grace of the boring first half is Samantha and her glamour show. There is that awe moment when she displays her plump figure in a two piece for a couple of seconds. That whole song opened eyes of youths bigger, as she changed five to six bikinis. And again, when the song ends, the graph falls. Interval has given little kicks, but by that time audiences know how second half is going to be. Beating the intelligence of audience is the game, but here audience wins as they know every next scene including with dialogues.
Neither scenes nor any dialogues are as interesting as Surya’s Singam and Singam 2. In a bid to create something like a Rajni’s Basha, Sikander falls flat on its face. Many boring moment and clichéd scenes affected the pace of flick majorly. Except two songs that feature Samantha’s glamour, rest of the movie is a pop-corn pass kind of stuff. Rather touching depth of emotions, Linguswamy made this action movie travel on a lighter note. At a time when cine lovers desire to see something surprising and new, this regular stuff will struggle to fare. And, why is the movie named ‘Sikander’ with a tagline ‘Bang, bang, bang’?.. Only the makers should tell.
The FINISHING Line: The Downward Bang
Review By: Hapra
Rating: 2.5/5
Cast: Surya, Samantha, Manoj Bajpayee, Vidyut Jamwal and others
Cinematogrpaher: Sanotsh Sivan
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Story- Screenplay-Direction: Linguswamy
Producer: Tirupathi Brothers, Lagadapati Sridhar
Release date: 15th, August 2014
Heavy crazy enfolded ‘Sikander’ ever since the first look of Surya and Samantha has hit tinsel town. As director Linguswamy’s recent flicks like Awara and Tadakha (in Tamil) have hit bull’s eye and raised the expectations bar. Surely this combination is expected to take on Tollywood box office too. Let us see how the movie is.
The CONTENT
Krishna (Surya) comes to Mumbai in search of his missing brother Raju (Surya). After meeting couple of his brother’s former allies and henchmen, Krishna comes to know that Raju and his best friend Chandu (Vidyut Jamwal) used to do gold smuggling and extortion business. Also Raju has a love affair with Police Commissioner’s daughter Jiva (Samantha). Meanwhile Raju and Chandu enter into a tiff with Mafia don Imran (Manoj Bajpayee). By the time Krishna starts inquiring some other key aides of his brother, he also receives threats. What happens then? What happened to Raju and Chandu? What is the involvement of Imran? You need watch that on silver screen.
The EFFORT :
On-Screen:
Surya got the best look of his career for this Raju role in Sikander. His other look as Krishna is just convincing. Like all the time, Surya did best work in all scenes including action, romance and sentiment. Without much etching in the character and plot, none would have asked him to do more than this.
Vidyut Jamwal got a decent role after shining in Vijay’s Tupaki earlier. This time too he mesmerizes with handsomeness and gets some dialogues too. Talented actor like Manoj Bajpayee is wasted in a don role, where he just walks in wearing suits and utters couple of dialogues.
Nothing much to perform for Samantha, but she filled the whole screen with her glamour quotient. In any give scene, her tempting cleavages and cute expressions tickle youths. Her ravishing appearance in songs is also hot. Brahmi is there for a scene, and that is a big time-killer.
Off-Screen:
Director Linguswamy is a master of screenplay, but he missed the mark this time. Also he hasn’t extracted terrific performances from any of his lead actors. Not stopping there, he failed to get even cinematography right despite having Sanotsh Sivan on board. Things haven’t happened like earlier for Linguswamy, as comedy tracks and romance sequences failed to evince interest.
Yuvan Shankar Raja scored three good songs for the flick, including Bang Bang, Ek Do Theen Chaar and that Samantha’s bikini song shot in Goa. Also he has given good background score, but with there is no stuff in movie, we can’t ask him more.
Popular and award winning cinematographer Santosh Sivan hasn’t really made his mark. There are no stunning compositions, neither terrific visuals. Except for that stylish yellow rim light he used whenever Samantha appeared, rest is just like a work of an average camera man.
Editor Antony is famous for his slick editing, but this time his scissors lost the sharpness. He should have trimmed the movie’s length from 165 minutes to around 120 minutes. Art director Rajeevan has come up with nice setting for Ek Do Theen song, while the rest of posh locations like bars and clubs are a regular.
Also Chitrangada Singh’s much hyped item-song hasn’t clicked well. The hype and hoopla around the song are high, but her curvaceous looks and song-tune are not energetic to excite masses.
The PLUSES:
· Samantha’s glamour – two piece bikini
· Surya’s looks and presence
The MINUSES:
· Very Predictable Story
· Length of movie (160) minutes
· Poor Climax
· …and many
BREAKDOWN:
Flicks like Awara and Tadakha have huge screenplay twists and adrenaline rushing moments. But Sikander has only one such moment during interval and rest is all predictable. Linguswamy picked up a routine and failed to stuff if with surprises.
From the starting of the movie itself, there is no good pep and the car-driver comedy sequence (we have seen similar thing in Awara) failed to bring laughs. Though some major twist is expected by audiences, every character is introduced in a cool way. Saving grace of the boring first half is Samantha and her glamour show. There is that awe moment when she displays her plump figure in a two piece for a couple of seconds. That whole song opened eyes of youths bigger, as she changed five to six bikinis. And again, when the song ends, the graph falls. Interval has given little kicks, but by that time audiences know how second half is going to be. Beating the intelligence of audience is the game, but here audience wins as they know every next scene including with dialogues.
Neither scenes nor any dialogues are as interesting as Surya’s Singam and Singam 2. In a bid to create something like a Rajni’s Basha, Sikander falls flat on its face. Many boring moment and clichéd scenes affected the pace of flick majorly. Except two songs that feature Samantha’s glamour, rest of the movie is a pop-corn pass kind of stuff. Rather touching depth of emotions, Linguswamy made this action movie travel on a lighter note. At a time when cine lovers desire to see something surprising and new, this regular stuff will struggle to fare. And, why is the movie named ‘Sikander’ with a tagline ‘Bang, bang, bang’?.. Only the makers should tell.
The FINISHING Line: The Downward Bang
Review By: Hapra
