RajiniMurugan

2015 2h 39m TA

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5.3

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★5.3TMDB · 27

ComedyAction

Synopsis

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Rajini Murugan locks horns with Yezharai Mookkan who tries to get a share of Murugan's ancestral property by defaming his grandfather.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Sivakarthikeyan
Rajini Murugan
Keerthy Suresh
Karthiga Devi (K.D)
Soori
PK Soori
Samuthirakani
"Ezhrai" Mookan
Rajkiran
Rajini Murugan's grandfather
G. Gnanasambandam
Rajini Murugan's father
Robo Shankar
Politician
Dheepa Ramanujam
Murugan's mother

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Ponram
Writers: Ponram, Ponram
Languages: Tamil
Countries: India

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RUNTIME

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Clocks in at 159 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 11 years ago.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Ponram, shot by Balasubramaniem. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by D. Imman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Vivek Harshan shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Sivakarthikeyan and Keerthy Suresh and Soori carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt5332502 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 27 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Ponram directs. Balasubramaniem behind the camera. D. Imman scores. Vivek Harshan cuts. Produced in India. Dialogue in Tamil.

Trivia

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1Clocks in at 159 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.
2Released 11 years ago.
3Directed by Ponram, shot by Balasubramaniem. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by D. Imman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Vivek Harshan shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Sivakarthikeyan and Keerthy Suresh and Soori carry the top of the cast.
7IMDB entry: tt5332502 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 27 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Balasubramaniem
Original score: D. Imman
Editing: Vivek Harshan
Runtime: 159 min · 2h 39m
Status: Released
Original language: TA
Certification (US): M
IMDB: RajiniMurugan (2015)

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timesofindia2016-02-01
★ 6/10
Rajini Murugan reinforces what we had learned from Varuthapadatha Vaalibar Sangam — director Ponram has a flair for entertaining us even with a story that sounds dated and cliched. The film actually feels like more of what we had seen in the earlier one (the director even finds a way to link the two films in the climax), but posses a sense of joie de vivre that lifts it up and keeps us amused. As for the plot, it revolves around Rajini Murugan (Sivakarthikeyan), a happy-go-lucky (Tamil cinema slang for wastrel) youngster, whose only care in the world is to marry Karthika (Keerthy Suresh), his childhood sweetheart. Unfortunately, their once friendly fathers are now not on talking terms. So, with his friend Thothadri (Soori) in tow, he starts wooing her. Meanwhile, Yezharai Mookkan (Samuthirakani), a thug (of sorts), tries to get a share of Murugan's ancestral property by defaming his grandfather Ayyankaalai (Rajkiran). Of course, everything ends well. And no, this isn't a spoiler. Something for everyone seems to be Ponram's philosophy here and so, he gives us romance, songs, villainy, family melodrama — all laced with a touch of comedy and presented to us in eye-poppingly bright visuals (the cinematographer is Balasubramaniem). Rajkiran has fun playing the patriarch and also gets a scene in the end to get us all emotional. Yezharai Mookkan does not come across as the kind of villain who needs to be feared and Samuthirakani plays this role with the right amount to seriousness so that we don't discount his threats entirely either. As for Sivakarthikeyan and Soori, they seem to have picked up from where they left off in Varuthapadatha Vaalibar Sangam. True their shtick is a bit predictable but they manage to deliver the laughs. And, of course, the film is overlong with innumerable songs and comic scenes that could have been left at the editing table. It is also utterly unambitious, content with clearing its low bar, but this unpretentiousness is also what makes it work to an extent.

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