Vishwaroopam

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Vishwaroopam (2013 - Tamil)

Director: Kamal Haasan

Producer: Chandra Haasan, Kamal Haasan, Prasad V. Potluri, Jude S. Walko Music: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

Main Cast: Kamal Haasan, Pooja Kumar, Andrea Jeremiah, Rahul Bose...  more

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller

Banner: Rajkamal Films Intl., Rajkamal International, PVP Cinemas

Release: Feb 07, 2013

Vishwaroopam synopsis (Story)

America 2012, Vishwanath(Kamal) alias Wiz, a Kathak exponent and Nirupama(Andrea) get married. Each have an agenda and seem to have achieved their wishes in three years of matrimony.

Nirupama gets her Phd and Wiz runs his dance class in New Jersey unhindered by each other. All is fine till Dr. Nirupama aspires for more and wants to opt out of the arranged marriage.

She cannot cite any specific reason to leave Wiz as there is nothing much to complain about him. Every male according to Nirupama must have a flaw.

So she decides to find out something about him to feel better about her decision to part. She hires a detective to rake up something on him. Wires gets cross connected and all hell breaks loose.

Vishwaroopam reviews

(Arun Sundar wrote on 03 Apr 2013)

Cast:Kamal,Andrea,Pooja Kumar,Shekhar Kapur.

Music:Shankar Ehsan Loy.

Art: Lalgudi Ilayaraja.

Story,Screenplay and Direction: Kamal Hassan.

Plus:Story,Screenplay,Action,Art,

Cinematography, Background score.

Middling Effort:Acting performances esp. by heroine.

Minus: Lengthy song sequence,Villain character,resemblances to various hollywood films,lack of clarity towards end, logic missing some times,emotional touch.

There are certain good sequences in Vishwaaropam.Kamal shows he is a good director than a actor. The set pieces are good.The cinematography is on par with Hollywood films.

The dialogues are well weaved into the narrative.There is lack of logic when terrorists induct a spy without questioning.Excessive gore(like Kill Bill) should have been avoided.

The investigation sequences resemble Dasavatharam and same with the dove-radioactivity link.While in Dasavatharam, the vial concept was explained with simplicity, here complex terms like Faraday shield are introduced.Also the heroine character is not well-defined and the way she suddenly grows admiration for hero is funny to say the least(Again True lies inspiration)!!Also the film seemed rushed at some points with various unexplained sequences.The screenplay and direction is some notches above Dasavatharam.

KAMAL disappoints as an actor but impresses as a director!!Vishwaroopam makes for a decent one-time watch!!