Finding a good movie to watch is always a challenge. I don't know how many of them face this challenge but for us, it consumes a lot of time to pick a movie and watch that. A few days back we remembered this movie and started watching this movie. I have watched this movie multiple times. My wife said that she had not watched this movie and that's why we wanted to watch this. This is one of the classic directions of the director and story writer Selvaraghavan. Most of his movies are a big hits and this movie was not welcomed very well during the release but later it created a huge sensation among the people.
Everyone started asking for Part 2 of the movie. The Director actually planned for a part of the movie but just because the first part did not go well as expected, the second part was not a possibility. The music director and the actors who acted in the first part lost their interest and did not sign up for the second part. But whenever someone is interviewing the director, they always ask him when the next part will be.
Storyline
The movie covers some facts as well as fiction. Some of the representations of historical characters are true but the story itself is fiction and has no real events from history. But the way the story movies is really amazing and shows the effort made by the director in the movie. The concept of the movie is the battle between Cholas and Pandiyas. Even though there is some relation to this, the story itself is fiction. A major part of the movie happens in a secret place in Vietnam and the story is about how the Pandiya who have lived for generations after generations go in search of their ancestry idol of their god and try to get it back from the Cholas who have also survived for several generations.
Every character in the movie had done justice to their character and the acting was amazing. It used to be a great sensation back then. The BGM and the songs in the movie were a super hit. The only problem with the film was that it had lots of places that were not suitable for kids. There were many sexual elements in the movie and dialogue suitable only for mature audiences. This was one of the biggest drawbacks of the film. When the movie was released, the length of the movie was over 3 and a half hours but the version of the movie that is available right now on the OTT platforms is only 2 and a half hours. Almost one hour was removed from the movie for this very reason.
I watched this movie on the very first day and I did watch everything in the movie I felt that it was helpful for understanding the movie but the version that is available right now without all those elements does not make it a complete movie. I would recommend watching the full movie if at it is available by any chance.
Overall I would say that it is an amazing movie and anyone interested in watching Treasure hunt movies, exploration movies, and historical movies should watch this movie. Mostly people from Tamilnadu will be able to personally connect with the movie because they know the history of Cholas and Pandiyas and this movie will give them a good feel about Tamil history even though nothing much is covered in the movie.
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