With early reviews reflecting extreme poles of film experience coupled with extremely mismanaged financial issues, Uttama Villain opened to tremendous response among the audience Saturday afternoon (finally).
Before going into the film, let me put forward a much-needed cliche - This requires patience - a lot of that - to sit, gaze and feel the emotions etched out with masterclass performance by Kamal Haasan.
'A star at the end of his life' is the one line story. He tries to convince his guru - of course, K. Balachander (Marghadarsi) to do one last movie.
Breaking down on hearing that his ex-lover was carrying when circumstances forced an abrupt end to their relationship, describing his health condition to KB, portions with his son, running away from a tiger, Uttama Villain captures Kamal Haasan at his very best.
Again superb handling of the support cast by Ramesh Arvind. Andrea Jeremiah (Aparna), M. S. Bhaskar (Chokku Chettiar), K. Viswanath (Poornachandran), Parvathy Menon (Manonmani), Jayaram (Jacob Zachariah), Urvasi (Varalakshmi) make this a complete package with natural acting. Then there is Nasser (Muttharasan). Not one among them were underused and definitely not overused.
Perhaps the first part could have been shortened a bit and the song involving Pooja Kumar (Kadhalaam) song in the later half could have been trimmed. Barring some portions that slightly gave a hint of a stretch, the overall output is well composed one by the editor Vijay Shankar.
Perhaps the first part could have been shortened a bit and the song involving Pooja Kumar (Kadhalaam) song in the later half could have been trimmed. Barring some portions that slightly gave a hint of a stretch, the overall output is well composed one by the editor Vijay Shankar.
Music by Ghibran, man what a performance! The composer brings all his intellectual knowledge into the picture and completely makes us gel into the scenes. Shamdat's close-up cinematography excels at capturing the feel and doesn't experiment too much.
On Kollywood standards, the visual effects were very good. One does not need any introduction for Kamal's dialogues.
On Kollywood standards, the visual effects were very good. One does not need any introduction for Kamal's dialogues.
Pooja Kumar (Karpagavalli) is a surprise package to be honest - the lady shines as a princess. Having said all it was Kamal Haasan all the way. Just one question - If marriage was not in his hands, what about Andrea then?
If there was a movie that could be watched for a single person, Uttama Villain is one.
If there was a movie that could be watched for a single person, Uttama Villain is one.
Marks: 8/10
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