Sithanai Sei Tamil Movie 2009
Cast And Crew
Production- RMA Factory
Direction- Yuvan
Star-casts- Yuvan, Madhu Sharma, Shesanth, Nitish Kumar,
Shabi, ‘Kadhal’ Dandapani, Mayilsamy and others.
Music- Thamman
Reviews
The theme of "Sinthanai Sei", directed and enacted by newcomer Yuvan, is like a bolt from the blue. But the amateur handling of the screenplay mars its overall impact.
What begins as an emotional tale slowly settles down to an action-flick about a bank robbery. The humiliation caused by failures of five youths manifests into violence and forces them to chart a different path in their lives.
Adhi (Yuvan), who is considered useless by his parents, comes to the city to eke out a livelihood. But to his surprise Gayathri (Madhu Priya), a rich girl falls in love with him and they get married within a month. But they get separated in a matter of days.
Yuvan, humiliated and shattered, goes in search of his lost life and meets his four friends who studied with him in school. All of them are sailing in the same boat as all are struggling to make both ends meet.
Ethics and morality are the last thing on their mind as they struggle to make a living and so they have no qualms in indulging in criminal activities as well.
Aiming big, one fine day these petty thieves plan to rob a bank. They execute the plan well, leaving the police clueless and confused. They decide to share Rs.5 crore (Rs.50 million) they stole from the bank and here begins all the troubles.
Mistrust crops up between them. Friends get killed one after another and a blame game follows. Yuvan finally manages to survive and the climax tells you what he did with the money.
Debutant director Yuvan has to be commended for his efforts to build a story based on the psychological aspect of one's life. He has effectively shown how humiliation caused by failures gets manifested in youth taking to crime and violence.
He has presented the movie with a brisk pace till the intermission. But the second half, with some predictable turns, is relatively slow. Moreover, the director takes too much of time to reach the climax, which lacks punch despite the many twists and turns.
Thaman, a member of the group Shankar's Boys, scores the music for the film. A couple of songs are racy and foot-tapping.
Yuvan is impressive in the acting department too as he brings out the right emotions at the right time. The rest of the cast, including Sashanth, Bala, Madhu Sharma and Kadhal Dhandapani, do the job entrusted to them well.
On the whole, the movie begins with a promise but fails to maintain the momentum in the second half.
The bank robbery of Rs.5 Crores is carried off perfectly. But sooner begins the big roll of twists and turns where double-crossings and betrayals become the order of the day leading to unexpected bizarreness.
Yuvan has well-depicted the bank robbery plan that turns to be the highlight of this show. Although, the scenario reminds you of Al Pacino’s Dog Day Afternoon, it is ‘picture perfect’. But the latter part has been completely copied from Johnny Gaddar (Directed by Sriram Raghavan with Neil Nithin Mukesh , Dharmendra in lead roles) where the evil-minded gang members are on the greedy run.
Yuvan makes a convincing debut as a filmmaker and well as an actor. Rest of the star-casts Madhu Sharma, Shesanth, Nitish Kumar and Shabi have exquisitely delivered their parts. Kadhal Dandapani hardly appears in not more than 3 scenes, but spells an awe-inspiring show. Humorous quotients have been crafted by Yuvan that keeps you entertained during the first half.
Musical score by Thamman is laudable in both songs and background score. But Yuvan should’ve avoided depicting the symbolization of ‘Kannagi’ in fast-beat Kuthu song as it looks absurd. Dialogues are quite amateurish in few parts and it could’ve been trimmed. Cinematography has been stupendously done with rich tone while more ‘cuts’ on editing slightly diminishes the look.
Though, Sindhanai Sei seems to have been inspired from a long-list of flicks, Yuvan does a brilliant job in modifying them to the tastes of Tamil audiences. With most of this week releases failing to make it big, Yuvan is sure to strike jackpot at the box office with this engrossing film….
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