Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Saroja

Saroja, second movie of director Venkat Prabu after a big success Chennai – 600028. This movie is a comedy thriller. You can laugh from the start to the end of the movie. Jagapathi (S.P.B. Charan), Ajay (Shiva) , Vijay (Vaibhav as Charan’s brother) and Ganesh Kumar (Premji Amaran) are all friends. I really don’t know the reason behind why they are addressing each other as sir. I guess thats probably because they were working together.
The movie starts with cheeky cheeky song with the intro of the heroine Saroja (Vega), daughter of a wealthy business man Viswanathan (Prakash Raj).

Introduction of Shiva was hilarious. You wonder what the hell is happening, Shiva is found telling horrible dialogues. Later it happens to be a some stupid mega serial shoot. Shiva is getting engaged to Kajal the same evening and there goes my favorite song in the movie Aja mera soniyae…. The song was not that great as the audio and lyrics is. Too much of fast cuts make u difficult to involve in the song. I really felt they could have avoided too much of fast cut in the songs.

Next day the gang gets ready for a trip to Hyderabad to watch cricket match live in a so called caravan. Another friendship montage song (Dosth bada dosth) from the director after yaaro in Chennai 600028. Till this movie is very slow. On the way the road is blocked by an accident of a chemical tanker. They debate whether they should wait for the traffic jam to get cleared or they should return back to Chennai. Finally they turn back and take a short route to reach Hyderabad in to the back woods. On the way they have all weird discussions about ghost and hit a personby mistake. They get caught in big haunted factory with a gangster, headed by Sampath who had kidnapped Saroja for her money. Jayaram as an asst commissioner who helps his close friend prakash raj to find saroja back. So the climax is how the group of friends escape from the gangster and saves the girl caught by them.

The movie is a serious of events in a night. So mostly it’s darkly lit. Camera man and the art director have done a great job. You really feel the darkness and fear in the movie. Even the shadows of the objects in the factory are neat.There are also funny jokes by premji. The movie is made light with these jokes and the fight amongst themselves. Dialogues like 'nan venumna spare purse tharaen... edu vaa irundalum paesi thithukalam.... evalovo panrom edu panna matoma.... ' make u laugh till your stomatch pains. Premji falls in love almost every girl he sees and angels start singing for him surrounding the girl thamthana namthana namthanna namthana………
He even falls in love with saroja. Lot of famous old songs are used brilliantly in RR by Yuvan.

There are no big fight sequence for the heroes flying and jumping from post to pillar. They neatly use their brain and try to escape from the gangsters. Charan’s failure engineering helps them to escape, nimirindu nil song is inspiring inthe background.
Nikitha comes as Sampath’s girl friend. There is an item song for her ‘kodana kodi’ with a funny step. That step becomes the theme step of the movie. The song reminds me kathala kannala song from the movie anjathey.

Venkat Prabu has actually kept up the expectation of the audience after his first hit movie. Saroja is a neatly packaged thriller comedy and it surely RockzZ!!!!

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