Ashley

“Soooooperstar”, “Mega star”, “Most popular Indian Star”, “Shehenshah of Indian Cinema”, “Highest paid star”, “Our own superman”… If you have been reading newspaper these days, you know who I am talking about. The one and only Rajnikath aka peoples’ beloved ‘Rajni’!!! No movie page is complete without description of his latest movie ‘Sivaji’; the budget, the location, costumes, different get-ups and the man himself. I don’t remember reading about so much fanfare for a movie recently. This man is worshiped by his fans! After reading about it for a month, I decided I should also watch it and see what it is all about. I don’t understand Tamil, neither I am fan of Rajini nor I have even seen any of his movies save ‘Chalbaaz’ where he plays very small role. But they say curiosity drives human beings and I am no different. Even theaters in Gurgaon and Mumbai are overflowing; it is obvious that I too get little bit of ‘RajniMania’ :).

Do you know that the tickets were being sold at the rate of Rs 1000, well into second week of opening? We never ventured near cinema hall till this week and were lucky enough to get tickets for Wednesday night. Though it was a weekday and late night show, there was huge rush. We were standing in the queue for half hour just to get in! The atmosphere was building up with people hooting and whistling, waiting for the previous show get over. The show started well behind schedule. Once they opened the door, we rushed fast to our seats and there was one more round of hooting and whistling. I can only imagine how the scene will be in small towns.

There is nothing great to talk about the movie. The movie minus Rajni will be just another masala movie; story, actors, cinematography etc are ok. But the man makes all the difference. He has awesome energy and all the “estyle” still there. The way he flips rupee coin, the way he shakes his hair, he eats menthos mint, the way he says ‘Cool!’ are great. The director couldn’t resist having one of his famous Goggle flipping scene. But I think they should not make him dance anymore. And yes, 10/10 to the makeup artist; Rajni looks just like he used to look 10-15 years ago. The layers of make up are pretty obvious but you won’t mind them. Watch out for the much talked about blond hairdo, what a style! He must have had at least 50 getups in the movie from blonde to complete bald head! And there are few scene where he enacts heroes of yesteryears. That’s cool too. There are fight scenes, in matrix style. I am sure fans will be thrilled to watch them.

There is the comedian Vivek, who makes you laugh just with his presence. There is the heroine alright but she is no more significant than songs. Guys were drooling on her. Ok, She looks good and dances well but acting is ok types. The voice over for her is bad. It was very obvious that she was using someone else’s voice. I liked Rajini’s parent’s characters. They are very cute people. When they discover that their son is after a girl, they won’t mind starting the marriage talk in the police station

Do watch the movie for experience of RajniMania. Why do we need Superman, Batman, He Man when we have all of them rolled into one!!!

PS: The title is the song from movie which I liked a lot. It means ‘Sivaji is my life’. If you don’t know Rajni’s real name is also Sivaji and that’s what makes the movie more special or so I am told by my Tamil friends.