Isai - KAMASUTRA 2015
Cast: S.J.Surya as A.K. Shiva, Sathyaraj as Vetriselvan, Sulagna Panigrahi as Jenny, Gibran Osman, Jayaprakash, Thambi Ramaiah, Ganja Karuppu and others
& Crew: Director - S.J. Surya, Music - S.J. Surya, D.O.P - Soundarrajan, Editor - K.M.Riyas
Producers: S.J.Surya, Victor Raj Pandian, S.Subbiah
Distributed by: Annai Mary Madha Creations
Running Time: 190 mins
Let me make one thing very clear when I watch a film I review it as a complete film and not in parts. Secondly as far as possible I avoid comparisons and stick to the premise of each film while reviewing it! Now let me get to this film:
Cast: S.J.Surya as A.K. Shiva, Sathyaraj as Vetriselvan, Sulagna Panigrahi as Jenny, Gibran Osman, Jayaprakash, Thambi Ramaiah, Ganja Karuppu and others
& Crew: Director - S.J. Surya, Music - S.J. Surya, D.O.P - Soundarrajan, Editor - K.M.Riyas
Producers: S.J.Surya, Victor Raj Pandian, S.Subbiah
Distributed by: Annai Mary Madha Creations
Running Time: 190 mins
Let me make one thing very clear when I watch a film I review it as a complete film and not in parts. Secondly as far as possible I avoid comparisons and stick to the premise of each film while reviewing it! Now let me get to this film:
The premise of this film is based on a music director's Vetriselvan (Sathyaraj) absolute hatred towards his student A.K.Shiva (S.J.Surya) owing to his understudy's phenomenal rise and popularity and the mentor losing his market to the sheer genius of his student. Supposedly a take on Illyaraja's downward slide and A.R.Rahman's phenomenal rise! Other than a vague similarity S.J.Surya's comeback film 'ISAI' is really a cheap 'sex' film. Look!
Yes! The veteran Sathyaraj plays his role of a villain with ease and aplomb.Reminds you of the vintage villain Sathyaraj. In my opinion he should have continued in the same vein and that would have made him an integral part of Indian cinema. But can u ever think of a 'Kollywood' music director leave alone Illayaraja acting the way Sathyaraj is characterised in this film by the director or for that matter S.J.Surya own characterization. In my opinion never! It simply baffles me how a director could tie himself into such impossible knots. This is solely because of a wafer thin storyline. Since there is very little credible content in this film the director resorts to lust and desire which I would like to simply classify as soft porn or sleaze. Surya goes on a trip to a hill resort to compose tracks for an album. Here he meets the love of his life a village belle in Jenny (Sulagna Panigrahi) dressed in chiffon and nilex saris and half saris (mainly transparent). A glamourous, fair and sexy village transported from Mumbai to a remote village in the hills of Tamil Nadu. Wow! Now let me highlight some of the scenes and how craftily the director has used her as a sex symbol and at the same time hoodwink the censor board by allowing them to enjoy this brief 'sexapade' . After all poor them how long can they go on watching 'dry' content and cutting 'juicy' sex scenes!
1. The hero sucks at the fingers of the heroine and uses both his hands in a symbolic gesture of fondling her breasts.
2.The heroine fills her mouth with medicine mixed with honey and both she and S.J.Surya are locked in a open mouthed lip lock. This supposedly symbolizes a tunnel of love! I leave the rest to your imagination.
3. S.J.Surya asks the heroine to slide her hand down her breast with words of encouragement and even threats asking her to express what she feels beneath her hand and then quickly corrects himself with the usage of the term 'heart'. All these 'physical' actions of pure lust is broadly termed as pure romance by this director.
4. At the slightest pretext S.J.Surya keeps fondling the heroine. This kind of content which can only be termed as crass and obscene. You could probably rename this film Kama Sutra 2015.
The entire drama is a S.J.Surya's constant shift from dream (imagination) to reality. Finally S.J.S finally decides that he has become a mad man (lunatic). Naturally! With this kind of obsession with sex one would probably turn more into a sexual psychopath or a rapist. The absurdity of this whole film culminates when S.J.Surya rushes to his wife to complain about her brother kissing a girl in the car park and smoking pot! The instances conceived by the director to highlight his progress from a sane man to an insane man is totally devoid of logic and totally absurd and unbelievable. This film is a constant switch from dream, imagination and reality and finally the climax reveals it all as one big fat 'dream' to the director and the viewers.
1. The hero sucks at the fingers of the heroine and uses both his hands in a symbolic gesture of fondling her breasts.
2.The heroine fills her mouth with medicine mixed with honey and both she and S.J.Surya are locked in a open mouthed lip lock. This supposedly symbolizes a tunnel of love! I leave the rest to your imagination.
3. S.J.Surya asks the heroine to slide her hand down her breast with words of encouragement and even threats asking her to express what she feels beneath her hand and then quickly corrects himself with the usage of the term 'heart'. All these 'physical' actions of pure lust is broadly termed as pure romance by this director.
4. At the slightest pretext S.J.Surya keeps fondling the heroine. This kind of content which can only be termed as crass and obscene. You could probably rename this film Kama Sutra 2015.
The entire drama is a S.J.Surya's constant shift from dream (imagination) to reality. Finally S.J.S finally decides that he has become a mad man (lunatic). Naturally! With this kind of obsession with sex one would probably turn more into a sexual psychopath or a rapist. The absurdity of this whole film culminates when S.J.Surya rushes to his wife to complain about her brother kissing a girl in the car park and smoking pot! The instances conceived by the director to highlight his progress from a sane man to an insane man is totally devoid of logic and totally absurd and unbelievable. This film is a constant switch from dream, imagination and reality and finally the climax reveals it all as one big fat 'dream' to the director and the viewers.
Sathyaraj and Ganja Karuppu combination is the only high point in this film. The scenes involving the two are totally hilarious with faultless comic timing. Other than this the viewers are taken for a ride with loud performances by S.J.Surya &
Thambi Ramya followed by ameture perfomamces by the rest. (Though they are classified as 'actors')
Thambi Ramya followed by ameture perfomamces by the rest. (Though they are classified as 'actors')
The heroine's performance is acceptable after all her role in the film is mostly reduced to skin showing, kissing and crass lovemaking. Thambi Ramaiah in the role of a priest (even though he once again is portrayed as an actor) has more or less been reduced to a christian priest playing the role of a glorified pimp! The young boy around 14 to 15 years old is introduced to live soft porn by the director. Which in my opinion is appalling. Even in the film 'Graduate' a college going boy is the lead character. Here S.J.Surya has bettered all records in using sleaze and lust to entertain the viewers.
Climax: A damp squib! The directors feeble attempts to justify the lack of logic in this film is totally unacceptable.
The only plus points in the film are the locations , cinematography and editing, though the film requires a 45 minute cut.
Bottom line: The censor board has totally failed to play it's part in this film. In fact the present board of late seem to have developed a penchant for sex, sleaze and derogation of women. They seem to be enjoying passing films with pure adult content! It is a disgrace to this august body which is supposed to monitor offensive and demeaning content. In my opinion they have totally failed in their duty here and have exposed their own weakness for such content!
Finally a quote: "The beauty of a woman and romance reduced to slut and sleaze!"
My Rating-
1.5/5 plus .5 for Sathyaraj's performance.
Total - 2/5
Until Next Time
Director Haricharan
31/1/2015
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