Rasavathi

The first & only reason to watch this movie is director santhakumar. Coming to the movie, it's a usual crime drama that was presented in the directors unique film language. The whole first half was taken for the set up and the major plot of the movie reveals in the starting of the second half. Though the first half was slow in setting up characters and story, it wasn't boring. But the second half, where the major plot is revealed engages us better. But, it gives a feel of unsatisfactory, as the first half has built a huge curiosity over the audience. Coming to performances, Sujith who plays the antagonist role delivered a stunning performance as a bad cop with childhood trauma. But his character with good potential had been underused. Sujith's parasu is the main character of the story with more depth than the hero Arjun dass's character. Arjun dass who played the role of Sadhasiva Pandian, a sidhdha doctor is the typical protagonist of santhakumar movies with some past pains and a silent nature. His performance was neither great not worse. Reshma venkat's "Chandra" was good enough but Tanya ravichandran's "Surya" was an usual Tamil cinema heroine. Technically this movie was good. Cinematography and framings were excellent in many scenes, but the grains in some sequences irritates. Thaman Background score was a pillar of the movie, but the songs weren't good. Santhakumar's writting had been led down, compared to his previous works. Though the dialogues were good, but it was too preachy in many scenes. Villain's role was written well but haven't used well. On a whole, it's a one time watchable crime drama with a slow narration & some major flaws.

Great narration, another beautiful story with amazing performances! Thank you for this wonderful creation.

Effective story telling and creative writing and stellar cinematography.

Inspirational and feel good movie. Do not miss it.

Make sure you look out for simple yet powerful dialogues referring to current events in TN/India.

On point with casting! Music was decent. The director similar to his previous films was extremely good in narrating this story.

The ratio of Antagonist vs Protagonist was perfect.

The director made sure the story traveled as smoothly as a river.

The geography and timeline also matched the story line and its character's. Thanks you, once again for this marvellous movie.

Negatives: Some scenes may come of as amateurish , Tania(Surya) flashback,

Positives: Way better movie than any other main stream Crap Kollywood is churning lately. Dialogues as usual are top notch ,typical for Shantakumar, .Hero a Deep ,philosophical character and their views on nature, society are fantastic. Both hero and villain are victims of past in some way and their paths cross resulting conflict that could have been explored more. Dialogues and visuals keep you hooked through the slow but strong pace.

Some political thoughts: Overall great movie. As some say this is not directly a political movie, taking/supporting one side of the argument , but suggests you to pick what is right for your situation.

Director did a brilliant job and the screenplay was really good. Cinematography and scenes selection from Kodaikanal was really wonderful to watch. All the movie cast did a great job throughout the movie. Even though we can predict what is gonna happen next the movie was not at all boring from start to end. Songs was not that much great but BGM was good. Never expected this movie will be this good. Usually low budget crime thriller will be boring and there won't be a good story in it but this movie proved it wrong, even a low budget crime thriller can be this good and worth to watch. Congrats to the director and whole caste. Overall movie is really good and worth the watch.

Rasavathi means alchemist who can be expert with chemicals but this does not fully go with the story. No harm but the movie is very good in other means.

There are just 3 main characters in the story Hero, heroine and villain.

The villain character is very well and neatly designed from the scene 1. His character arc was shown with his life problems and his actions to solve his problems. Also his mannerisms during his mental health changes is also clearly shown and lot of symbolic representations are excellent in story making.

The heroine character was very simple and her flashback was also shown in just 5 mins which was super excellent.

Hero character plays the next vital role as his character arc was tried to be delivered in very much detail. Starting from his lifestyle and his mannerisms are very much nice. His capacity to his profession and his knowledge on medicines are neatly placed on the story. Hero's flashback is very depthful and more of his skills are shown there and in that 30 min story, I felt like why the hell is this much detailing shown. Truly that could have been trimmed and it might be bore for a lot and definitely deviating from the present plot. Once we know the hero flashback does mean good relation to the present plot, mindset of audience may change to get involved.

Other noticable characters like the psychiatrist Ramya and SI character by Sundar also gel with the story when required. Music is a real good addition to the movie. There are 2 songs and one long musical scene of hero's flashback which was great.

Director Shantakumar presented this in a very critical story telling manner where this could have either been a very dark movie from the start. Out of his 3 movies, this is my personal favourite. If the director is ready to give us these range of similar movies, I am very much ready to visit the theatres....