Guru

I wanted to watch this movie for long. It was in my ‘to do’ list for some time. For some time I didn’t get tickets in PVR then I was busy playing cards in Gopi's place. Whatever it got delayed than I thought it would... Last weekend Gopi and I went to PVR to book tickets. We got tickets for 5 (Gopi, Sush, Ulu, Kavya and I). Only first row was vacant. Gopi gave his funda that watching from 1st row is like watching in 140mm theater (some crap like that) and it is worth the money. Anyway I was also desp to watch it.

Plus

Mani can get good ating from anyone. He got the best from Abhishek and Madhavan in past (Abhishek in yuva, Madhavan in Ayutha Ezhuthu both did the same role) and he has got good performance in Guru from both. Art direction, sets were good. They recreated the mid 19th century of Mumbai (Bomaby??) pretty well.

Minus

Screenplay is a big minus. Abhishek getting away by giving a lecture in the commission is too much. Songs were not in sync with the flow of movie. For Rahman's standard re-recording is very mediocre. Songs are ok (merely ok).
Rating: 3/5

This is the second movie Mani is making based on some true life story. First one is Iruvar (Tamil). Though Iruvar didn’t do well commercially it didn’t have any of the minus I mentioned above. He beautifully conveyed the friendship between the two rival party leaders (DMK head Kalangar and ADMK supremo MGR). Prakash Raj and Mohanlal gave memorable performance. Rahman gave some good melodies. Another thing in common between these two movies is Aishwarya. Surely she has improved in her acting skills (who expect acting from her by the way)... After watching crap movies (last 2 weeks), I felt lot better watching Guru. Though this falls short of usual Mani’s standard Guru is lot better than other (at-least most) of the movies out there.