Ananda Thaandavam - You can give it a miss

Ananda Thaandavam - easily one of the bad movies I watched(comes in the league of Oru Naal Oru Kanavu, Dindigul Saarathi)

I went for Oru Naal Oru Kanavu, just because it is a Fazil's movie and was completely let down by the mediocrity of it.

Although warned by my friends, I still went in for this movie for the only reason that I may like it(I have a different taste to cinema ;-) and for Tamannah :-)

However, to my disappointment, my friends were right and I really got pissed off seeing this one.

Now, to the so-called story.. The story seems to be based on writer Sujatha's Pirivoem Sandhipoem.

I have not read the novel, however, I am sure that the director has done enough damage to it, if he has not done anything good for the novel.

Raghu(played by debutant Siddharth), a mechanical engineer, comes to his hometown, Thenkasi. He meets Madhumidha(played by Tamannah) and is bowled over by her innocence(?!), immediatly falls in love with her.

Her parents too are ready to get her married to Raghu, and things happen too fast. But, then, Radhakrishnan(good job done by the Villain) comes in the middle and her parents decide he is the best, since he says he will take her to America :-)[Gosh... these NRIs are always villains to the guys here :-)]

Heart-broken, Siddharth, attempts suicide, hospitalized, goes to America for higher studies. There he meets Madhumitha again and another girl Rukmini(remember the girl in Bommalaatam movie), who too is attrated to our hero.

Things go awry in the life of Madhumidha and if Siddharth gets married to Rukmini/Madhumidha forms the climax.

Not for the average Indian Audience-la.. :-)

In any case, blame it on the screenplay or the lead actor, nothing seems to have worked out for the movie.

I just could not believe this is the director who made Chellamae earlier, which had a wonderful screenplay and a superb cast.

Siddharth proves that he is new to Cinema in each and every frame - his mannerisms, smile, dance - everything is against for this debutant.

Madhumidha(Tamannah) loses sympathy of the audience the moment she says she loved Raghu just becoz her mother asked her to, and rejects Raghu the same way. Then on, even if Madhumidha suffers a lot, I could not feel any sort of sympathy for her.

Kittu as Raghu's father has done a neat job. Rukmini is the one who gives a good performance in this otherwise boring movie. The other notable character is that of Kittu's friend, who helps Raghu in America.

Go for the movie, only if
- you have no other movie to watch out and want to badly see a movie
- you have bought a new headache pill and want to test if it works or not
- you do not have A.C at home, and want to sleep in A.C for at least 3 hours


Ahh yes, at least a few positives from the movie
- G.V.Prakash's soulful music(especially, Poovinai, Kana Kangiraen)
- Camera work(especially the ones in Thenkasi)

Best Regards,
Dharma.
P.S:
Hope, I will save at least one of you from watching this movie.