Maattrraan Movie Review

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        Maattrraan is a combination of action and science – fiction genre. A KV Anand film after his super hit film ‘Ko’. Maattrraan is about conjoining twins Vimalan and Agilan who love each other very much but having different mentality; one were killed in a fight and the story begins once another one start to find the truth behind his brother’s dead. As always, KV Anand has put effort to explore new technologies in visual quality in his Maattrraan also. Maattrraan script also got minimum similarity with KV Anand’s ‘Kanaa Kanden’; creating scientific formula to get a new liquid product. Surya did double roles as Vimalan and Agilan in this film; Kajal Agarwal as Anjali.

          Maattrraan is a good concept taken by KV Anand. Touching social issues is also his style to make the script more realistic and logic and also to create social awareness among the audience; Thailand’s conjoining twins issue was very famous few years back. Another part, producing poisoned children milk also was very hot issue at China few years back. So, creating social awareness in films is KV Anand style as always for an example, youth politics in Ko; method of international smugglers and the effects in Ayan. At that part, Maattrraan is very good social awareness film which talks about poisoned children milk, producing by some company for their own benefits. At the same time, nowadays parents also easily get influence by this kind of products just to make sure their kids perform well in short term period which really effect coming generation.

          First part of the film makes the audience to understand the subject. KV Anand as a good twist maker purposely showed some characters oppositely to the audience. The Ukvania journalists Volga showed like spy and brings negative influence which actually not. Same things goes Energion milk powder owner Ramakrishna (Surya’s father). Another big twist in this film is what were happened to the conjoining twins, Vimalan and Agilan and Agilan’s self-transformation is another big plus point in the screenplay.

At the second part, the script needed more action sequence to create more impact to the audience. Agilan’s easy enter inside Ukvania’s army territory were less of logics. An army territory always surrounded with tight security system but Agilan easily crossed them and pulled down some of their soldiers. The team should include some large scale action sequences in this scene to create more logics and also to bring the climax impact to the audience. ‘Kaal Mulaithe Poove’ song and also Agilan’s romantic scenes with Anjali at second part is unnecessary at that point; those sequences destroying Agilan eagerness to find the truth; also allow the audience to come out from the screenplay temperature which is not good.

Director of Photography of the film S. Sounder Rajan has done a great job. His shots gave fresh feeling to the audience. S. Sounder Rajan as KV Anand’s assistant before should get his full guide to be succeed. The climax fighting shots was very impact. Most importantly, should have put extra effort make the conjoining twins scenes because that needs very good camera works to create very firm VFX over the shots. Song visualization and the location selection was wonderful especially ‘Naani Koni’ song; KV Anand frequently like to choose mount top locations. At VFX site, Indian Artist has contributed very good work for Maattrraan especially the conjoining twins shots in same frame; the scenes looks very firm and realistic. He used Performance Capture Technology as basis to show both Suriya’s acting and motions in same frame. VFX Supervisor, Srinivasan Mohan as one of the famous VFX creator in India, really support a lot to make sure Indian films especially Tamil films keep on improving visually and also technically.

Harris Jayaraj music and background scores really makes the audience to go along with the story. ‘Rettai Kathirey’ as intro song is cream of the cake in this album. Maattrraan is creating social awareness in entertain coming action form. Maattrraan  is produced  by AGS Entertainment and distributed by Eros International. 

I wrote this review to share my views towards the movie and also to improve my film knowledge. Please forgive me if you feel I have written something wrong. Thank You.