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Every time when you watch a K.V. Anand film, there’s something beyond
entertainment. His earnest ability to pick the contemporary social issues as the
backdrop makes his films more engrossing. Water scarcity in Kana Kandein,
Smuggling in Ayan and Youth-Media role in transformation of society in Ko. This
time, K.V. Anand picks up a much sensitive issue that is graveling the globe now
– greedy corporate companies involved in the production of Health Drinks that in
turn has become a health spoiler for many.
The film opens at Government Hospital, where medial scientist Dr. Ramachandran (Sachin
Khedakar) is informed that one of his newborn conjoined twin sons doesn’t have
heart organ and cannot survive. While the father nods to doctors’ insistence to
mercy kill the one, the mother (Tara) strongly objects and decides to raise
them. The song ‘Rettai Kathire’ is more than enough to transit the twin brothers
– Agilan, a rational thinker and Vimalan, a devil-may-care guy (both played by
Suriya) from babies to 22 yr old chaps. With Dr. Ramachandran establishing his
business in Child nutritious drink, there are several other competitors trying
to shatter his market. Then arrives a Russian Lady with an orphic mission
pretending to be a journalist and is inquisitive about Dr. Ramachandran’s
company. However, she is backlashed by the tycoon as a foreign spy trying to get
the nutrient drink formulas. Meanwhile Agilan and Vimalan come across a
beautiful girl Anjali (Kajal Agarwal). Mysterious murders one after the other
keeps happening and at a point, an unexpected tragedy strike the twin brothers.
Now one of them bitten by the sense of vengeance sets out to settle scores
behind the death of his brother. His flight to Russia unravels more mystery,
especially the chain of link between the death of 39 Russian Gold Medallists of
92 Common Wealth Games in air crash and the involvement of his father.
As mentioned earlier, K.V. Anand with his team of writers SUBHA throw more light
into the unexplored arenas of societal problems that the world is facing today.
Suriya as conjoined twin brothers Agilan and Vimalan showcases his potentials
with different mannerisms and body language. Be it his emotional outburst due to
the loss during intermission and the infuriating thought of retaliation, he
remains on the top of everything in the film. Kajal Agarwal is comparatively
beautiful than her previous films and indeed gets more scope to perform. Sachin
Khendarkar scores brownie points as the ambitious scientist, who lives only for
his dreams and is ready to do anything. The writers SUBHA don’t follow the
stereotypical narrative style of revealing his true colours as his character is
revealed right in the first shot. Tara as Suriya’s mother doesn’t get much to
perform, but is always found emotionally bound. The Russian artists give a best
performance, especially the one as Russian journalist.
On the flip side, the film’s duration is quite lengthy and the writers could
have kept it little crisp and short directly getting into the theme. It really
takes 90mins for the actual conflict to commence. Nevertheless, the second hour
has lots of twists and turns. The episode involving Suriya investigating demise
of 1992 Common Wealth Games Gold medallists in Russia and his father involved in
it makes the screenplay more gripping.
Harris Jayaraj’s background score is just mediocre and the background score
could have been better. The songs are pictured with panache by cinematographer
Soundarajan and Anthony gives crisp transition with his editing.
On the whole, ‘Maattrraan’ is one more feather to KV Anand’s cap and carries a
controversial issue that is leaving the people in dwindling status. Suriya’s
colossal performance and adequateness of commercial ingredients stand out as the
intriguing part of the show. If the lengthy duration, certain illogical factors
were avoided, the film would have been more engaging.
PLUS: Basic Theme, Screenplay, K.V. Anand, Suriya, Climax
MINUS: Lengthy First half, Background score, Song, Logic missing in few
scenes.
Verdict: A KV Anand Trademark Film
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