Gentleman

Just Wow!

It's been quite a while since I saw a movie from the motherland. And I've always been a fan of Shankar but I missed out on many movies of his.

This movie is sheer brilliance, how can a first time director create this monumental film with its high stakes emotional drama so masterfully?

Can't forget the absolutely stunning performance by Arjun aswell. These two relative newcomers at the time, gave us such a power packed movie. Holy hell.

The Music Maestro A.R.Rahman giving his colorful tunes to this, although I'd argue it wasn't needed in this movie but still the tunes are A+ Bangers.

Just overall, I'm not surprised that Shankar has become the No.1 Director of India now. Even seasoned directors would find it hard to do what Shankar masterfully created in his first movie with his iron grip on screenplay and pacing. JUST AWESOME!

I love the moral of the story. I truly wish India shines and gets rid of the corrupt politicians. Well a Man lives with hope. Jai ho!

This is one movie which everyone saw without any fanfare, nor with any preconception, which proved to be a great asset for the movie. I strongly believe that this movie changed the trend of all the other Tamil movies later. This brought light to the career of Arjun, who did a GREAT JOB as the education deprived youth, hence goes on looting Rs.50 cores to build a Engineering + Medical + Law college for the deprived youth. the concept was very ideal in the prevailing situation. The lead lady of the movie Madhoo ( all the heroines of Shanker's earlier movies lead lady were Maniratnam Movies Lead ladies - except Nagma) also did a pretty good job. This movie brought the emergence of Indian Michel Jackson Prabhu Deva ( who was later cast as the hero in Shanker next movie "Kadhalan"). The music and songs were added highlighted of the movie. The Climax of the movie was very touching. A great movie indeed. The sad part is that all the other Shanker's movie which involved politics had a great resemblance to this movie. So I still emphasize that this is Shanker's Best movie.

The flashback scenes and the last act of gentleman is only worth watching. Script is mediocre, bad comedy, too long and lots of drag. Songs are good except that one between arjun and the 2nd heroine. There are lots of raw scenes which made me wonder how could the censor pass it with U certificate.

The film has so many layers like an onion. Affirmative Action in India is practiced in educational intuitions in a worst way possible. There have been instances where students who got negative marking got in to medical colleges because they are from a particular community. There are instances for entry in to Masters in medicine (specialization education) where in if you are from a certain community, even if you are the topper(1st rank in the whole state), you cannot get in to a specialization of your choice. The second layer is the virulent anti-brahminism perpetuated by politicians in Tamil Nadu. The movie shows the actual conditions of Brahmins in reality. I have even read that after the release of this movie, some brahmin associations have honored the director for showing the reality of their lives. Now including the above said two items in to a movie and making it successful super hit movie in whole of South India is a great thing and that too a director with his first outing is great.

Excellent Movie. Everybody acted very well in the movie. Songs and BGM in the movie were excellent. The comedy scenes in the movie were excellent. The movie was so interesting and thrilling. This is one of the Best Movie of Arjun and Shankar Combo. Excellent Movie.