Vishwaroopam Review

Vishwaroopam is Kamal sir’s latest flick. Vishwaroopam was written and directed by Kamal sir. The film cast by Kamal Haasan as Viswanath and Kashmiri, Pooja Kumar as Dr. Nirupama, Rahul Bose as Omar, Andrea  Jeremiah as Ashmita, Shekar Kapur as Indian Officer and uncle and many others. Vishwaroopam is a story about Indian Army officer who initially get into al – Qaeda terrorist group at Afghanistan as detector to reveal their activities and plans; later on settled down in New York to prevent the city from major bomb blast planned by terrorist. How they going to prevent New York and that’s the story is about.

 Kamal sir penned this story after his research to get the fact especially about the al – Qaeda training and their environment at Afganistan and also about the chemical such as cesium which related to bomb designing. Kamal sir also really concern about Muslim religion in this film that the script should not bring negative thoughts about the religion to the audience. The screenplay is really interesting and fast without any draggy; this adds points to the film by make sure the audience never feel boring. As usual, very less direct lessons in the film but Kamal sir has explored many indirect lessons to audiences like value of a life and also about dreams of children who living with terrorist. Vishwaroopam story line is designed very well without any splits or out of topic sequence; from beginning to end the story moves on same track and that’s a big advantage to impress the audiences.

           Sanu John Varghese makes his debut as Director of Photography in this film. The visuals of Vishwaroopam are really impressive and impactful. Especially the Afghanistan sequences which shows the warriors fight with American force and fill with gun shots and rocket and bomb blasts. For sure the John Varghese has put more effort to make such visuals. All the fight sequences has captured amazingly with detailed movement. Other than that, car chasing sequences at climax also gets great applause from the audiences. John Vargese really gave a very good opening to the Tamil cinema via Vishwaroopam.

              Mahesh  Narayanan as editor of this film, amazingly created such a wonderful compact. The audiences never feel bored at any scene or sequence and of course this credit goes to the editor. The stunt sequences are showed to the audience very detailed. Some more the flash back scenes were handled very well by Mahesh Narayanan to make sure the audiences never feel confused at any point.

              Another major part in Vishwaroopam is the location sets which refer to the Art Director of the film Ilayaraja.  Ilayaraja has done a great job in Vishwaroopam as Art Director. Great credits go to his terrorist environment sets which gave a dessert feeling which comes with sand and dust. It’s really unbelievable that the environment is specially designed for the film because its looks very realistic and original like Afghanistan. All the other sets in film look very firm and suitable to the film; such as Unnai Kandathum Naan song set and the meat factory fight set are really impressive.

         Shankar Ehsaan Loy handled songs and background scores for Vishwaroopam. It’s noted that Kamal sir’s previous big release Aalavanthan also scored music by Shankar Ehsaan Loy. All the tracks are nice and suitable for the subject. All the tracks come along with screenplay and Unnai Kandathum Naan song visualized with choreography. Vishwaroopam song comes Viswanath intro song really add credits to the film. The background scores and sound FX are wonderful especially for the fight sequences. Anu Vidaitha Boomiyile song is very truly; even the song not used fully in the film but still the song gave the heart fully feeling when listening it with the film especially with the warriors death sequences and never the less, the song contains very deep lessons.

            All the characters are played well by the casts. Rahul Bose really performed well as villain in Vishwaroopam. He handled his character very realistic and it’s noticeable that the character is heavy with some disability and Rahul Bose brought that well. Pooja Kumar makes her debut in Indian cinema via Vishwaroopam as Dr. Nirupama and she successfully gave what ever the character needs. Shekar Kapur, Andrea Jeremiah and all others really gave life to their characters and this credits also goes to Kamal sir as the director of the film and this review is not qualified enough write about Kamal sir’s performance, just can say it’s simply awesome as usual. It’s noticeable that Hollywood Stunt Director Lee Whittaker has roped I for this film.

             Vishwaroopam produced by Raaj Kamal Films International and Chandra Haasan been as producer for Vishwaroopam. PVP Films as distributer for this film. Vishwaroopam is a milestone for Indian cinema and should appreciate Kamal’s sir effort and his creativity for this film. Whatever struggles comes against Vishwaroopam, still the film is a great success.