7/10
A great attempt to give a magical experience, but lacked somewhere
13 November 2022
I was impressed with many shots of this movie. Clearly it had a magnificent cinematography. Some of the action sequences got me engaged. VFX was not that bad, but the SFX was a little bit off. The beauty of Nandini played by Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Kundavai played by Trisha Krishnan stole the show. I wish it had a little bit of violence and gore. I feel this was not at all an action drama, rather it was a political drama. It was all about Nandini v/s Kundavai and how they play these political games with the lives of people and kingdoms.

This movie really gave a great experience for sure. But any movie has it's flaws.

Anyone, including who doesn't know about the history will not understand his movie. I felt there was flat characterisation, infact too many characters to even remember. I didn't get attached to main characters at any point of the movie. Also, it had very bad screenplay, slow plot and jerky camera movements. I felt this movie missed a great chance to become one of the biggest movies based our history. Everyone can agree that, audience get attached to the movie or a particular character with its BGM, and it was missing in the whole film. God know what A. R Rahman has done.

On that note, films like Baahubali, Baajirao Mastaani and Tanhaji succeeded. All these films either had a very simplified story or the screenplay was so good that it could be understood very well. And obviously who can forget their iconic BGM's.

But seriously, great attempt by Mani Ratnam and Team. Definitely one time watchable.
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