Review of Lingaa

 

Lingaa has been the talk of the town over the past few months of its release and now of some plagiarism issues which the director has been facing. In fact, the trailer, the audio release, the posters and of course RajiniKanth has increased the excitement and expectation by all fans of Thalaivaa who had been eagerly waiting for a couple of years after Director Shankar's big blockbuster, Endhiran, Even though Kochadaiyaan came along the await with it's own reviews and critics.

Has K.S.Ravikumar satisfied us with his movie, Lingaa?

Well, to start off with, it was a sweet treat to all die hard fans of Thalaivaa as it was his birthday as well as the release date of Lingaa. Lets get into the plot.

PLOT

Rajinikanth plays a dual role; as a grandfather raja in the British era in the flashback and his grandson in the modern times who is a thief. Yes, you read it right, he is a thief who is a disrespect for his grandfather.
Sometimes, even the unbelievable scenarios and dialogues would be accepted by our crowd of Rajinikanth fans. We cannot blame them for that. On the other hand, the biggest unrealistic spoiler is when a great king gives away his beautiful (real, not a graphic work) palace, jewels, gold coins and so on to build a dam for the people of a village and becomes a beggar where he has to start from scratch to become in that position again. Isn't that all unbelievable? Not practical, but his punch dialogue of being happy is not in the state of wealth but in the state of mind and heart was a winner in that circumstance.

Apart from all these, the lengthy 175 minutes movie stands a bit boring when the flashback drags and gets stretchy with some unnecessary scenes. Of course you are free to disagree.

MUSIC

The background music was appealing and the song which A.R.Rahman himself sang was the best out of the lot.

TECHNICALITIES 

Randy's camerawork, Sabu Cyril as a production designer and Samjith Mohd who did all the editing did their best. Even though the graphic team has not brought the best they could in the climax fight which was in the hot air balloon, we should not forget the Kollywood budget does not match with the Hollywood budget, one must not compare in that case.

OVERALL VIEWS

After all, it's Rajinikanth's movie, which fan would ever miss it?! And for the others I must say it is an excellent time pass.