Samar

The movie was good. Vishal and everyone acted very well in the movie. Songs are not good. BGM was good in the movie. The movie was very thrilling and interesting. But the 2nd half was so boring.

I have watched worst movies but this one,top it all!Worst movies ever! OMG!Worst movie ever!Cant believe they make these kind of movies even today 2013! Audience reactions were like what the crap??Crappy YUVAN SHANKAR RAJA ripped OFF Red Hot Chili Peppers -Can't Stop music every time VISHAL makes an entry! Poor Sunaina had nothing to do with the entire movie except Say I LOVE YOU-WE WILL BREAK UP-I MOVED ON!!Crappy love story-Usual INTRO With FIGHT sequence that has no purpose-Followed by 4 min SONG to answer a question(Who are you?).

I will not suggest anyone to watch it, even on TV not even to my worst enemy!For God sake!Pls stop making Crappy movies!Message to this movie director if you are out there WATCHING this comment-FIRST PADAM EPPADI DUKURATHUNU KATHU KOO! Basic shot composition itself is missing!!Still living Under the ROCK AVE-AND YOU STILL ASSUME AUDIENCE AS NUTS!Worst CINEMATOGRAPHY-Over lighting!ACTING- OVER THE TOP!! MOVIE-UNWATCHABALE-watch it to believe it!

I started watching this movie after a lot of hesitation but no regrets - for the most part.

The initial pace is a little slow until Vishal reaches Bangkok in search of his (ex) girl-friend. Soon after he gets attacked by what appears to be a mob-hit but gets rescued by another group. He is made to believe that he is a multi-millionaire which leaves him in a very confused state. A couple of days later he suddenly loses his multi-millionaire status. Along the way he meets Trisha and they fall in love.

The story begins to unfold and it turns out the whole thing is a setup. A reality show staged by 2 people (who have nothing else to do in life!!) The rest of the movie is all about how Vishal deals with all the confusion around him.

The overall concept and story is quite new to Tamil cinema & I enjoyed it.

Here is what I didn't like (enjoy):

1. Over the top acting by JD Chakravarthy & Manoj Bajpai 2. Too much explaining of the story (please learn from Steven Soderbergh in the Oceans 11/12/13 series) 3. The ending turned out to be a bit short-lived. Would've been better if the background story of the bad guys was incorporated into the climax. 4. What was the need to have a fight sequence between JD/Manoj & Vishal?

Overall - worth a one time watch.

On watching so many Hollywood movies. I really expected that this is the movie we all waiting for in Kollywood. But???? The movie opens in a forest and Vishal entry scene as a forest ranger's son. And some love scenes with Sunaina. Then comes the twist when Sunaina break the love of Vishal and leave for Bangkok, few months later a letter from Sunaina to Vishal with air ticket and asked Vishal to come to Bangkok. The first half of the movie is well narrated and every audience at the edge of their seats. Really every viewers expected some twists and turns in the second half of the movie but it not to be. Failed to meet the audience expectations in the second half. Little bit a head ache came by UN-situation songs. This movie need to be a cracker but happened to be a Bushvaanam in the second half. First half 8/10. But second half is 4/10. Average 6/10 for the whole movie.

In the recent past, I was feeling better about Tamil Cinema as a result of really good movies like Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kanom , Pizza and FEW others. That was because the bad aspects which always persisted in the past bad Tamil movies were starting to disappear. By bad aspects I meant, 1. Songs in the very inappropriate parts of the movie 2. Too much time wasted in introducing the male lead actor in the movie. 3. Unnecessary violent fight sequences for the male lead actor with slow motions and heroic musical background THROUGHOUT THE MOVIE. 4. VERY UNNECESSARY English lines (Mostly for the negative role character) 5. Too many characters in the movie just to create a twist in the end of the movie. 6. Only 20% of the movie tells about the story in the movie. (IF there was a STORY :P) 7. Etc Etc Etc

All these aspects which I thought were starting to disappear from Tamil movies, appeared in this ONE SINGLE MOVIE - SAMAR

I would have even given 0/10 as my rating but there is no such option. Even if there are some good aspects in the movie, those will never be noticed because these kind of movies are unhealthy for Tamil Cinema.

We do have good story tellers. Don't make them get unnoticed because BAD always reaches places and stands forward than GOOD. LET THE GOOD STAND UP !