The most awaited movie for the past two years got released at last. Like everybody i was also eager to watch it and at last i watched it on 15th. Now here is a review of this movie

Story:
A  group of people headed by Reema Sen go in search of the lost chola empire. They are accopanied by a group of labourers whose leader is Karthi. Andrea plays the role of a archaeologist who accompanies them.
Now the travel and adventure of this crew makes up the first half. The second half is about the lost empire headed by parthiban(the present day king of cholas) and their encounter with the crew. I dont want to spoil you by telling the story.

Positives:

• Story. ( Hats off to Selvaraghavan for bringing up such a story. Its a brave attempt in tamil cinema )
• Reema Sen ( Both for her acting skills and glamour)
• Parthiban ( As usual he rocks with his performance.)
• Karthi ( Keeps the movie going with witty dialogues and humour. Proves his worth yet again after paruthi veeran)
• Music (Both the songs and bgm are superb)
• Cinematography
• Art 

Negatives:

• Graphics ( Its definitely of low standards)
• Screenplay ( Its crappy at some parts, certain parts defies logic)
• Gore scenes towards the end (needless, should have been avoided)
• Length of the movie( It runs for 3hours + some min. Many sitting besides me in theatre felt the movie was dragging)

In total first half is like a masala movie with Reema and Andrea oozing with glamour, Karthi with humour,songs(Oh eesa, un mela aasadhan), action, and adventure. Watch out for adho andha paravai(from MGR's Ayirathil Oruvan) song remix.

Second half is completely a different movie with lots of twist and turns, and unpredictable climax( Many loved it and many hated it too).

The songs Maalai Neram, Indha Paadhai , Penmaane are not in the movie. I don't know why Selva always misses out the best songs in the movie( In 7G he left out Ninaithu Ninaithu Parthal, in Pudhupettai it was Oru Naalil and now Maalai Neram).

This movie is strictly for adults. Thanks to karthi's dialogues, Reema and Andrea's glamour and a cat fight between them(it covers almost all the filthy words in English),violence,brutality towards the end.

Lots of research has been put by selvaraghavan and its a valiant effort. He has taken tamil cinema to a higher level. Many may tell that the movie is similar to apocalypto,troy or some other English movie. But it doesn't matter, no one has taken this kind of effort till now in tamil films and he has to appreciated for this. Three years of hard work is clearly shown in the movie.Its some thing like a Kamal's movie. A bit complex to understand, but if you succeed in that, then the movie will be great, else you may feel it is just another crap. In my opinion this movie is worth a watch, so go and watch it.

சோழர் பயணம் தொடரும்............... ;-)