Poda Podi Movie Review

Poda Podi Movie Review

Poda Podi is a Romantic Musical Movie. Film was started in 2008, but due to various issues, it got delayed and was released today.

Story: There are only 4 Characters in the Movie - Simbu, Varalaxmi, VTV Ganesh and yesterday actress Shobana. 90% of the scenes are between Simbu and Varalaxmi only. It is about their love, ego, breakups, reunion, marriage, kid, breakup, reunion and kid again. Does it sounds like Engeyum Kadhal? Yup, the first half was quite similar to Engeyum Kadhal and it look liked Part 2.

Varalaxmi is a very very modern girl who lives in London and follow London's culture. Her ambition is to win Dance Competition as she is a very good Salsa dancer. Simbu, on the other hand, though he lives in London, respects our tamil culture and wants Varalaxmi to follow our culture. Fight starts because of this difference in opinion and it goes on and on testing our patience.

Simbu had done the role with ease as he used to play this kind of role quite often. Movie starts with the song "Love Pannalama" and ends with "I am a Kuthu Dancer". Simbu had danced well in both the songs and those two songs are the highlights of this movie. Simbu had really acted well and tried to carry the movie on his own shoulders.

Varalaxmi is daughter of Actor Sarath kumar. She dances well and comes in glamorous costumes. She looks fat in most of the scenes. Did I mention "most of the scenes"? Yes, both Simbu and Varalaxmi's 
weight differs in the movie as the shooting went on for nearly 3 years. 

VTV Ganesh is the only comedian in the movie. Santhanam and Premji comes for 3 - 4 seconds in "Love Pannalama" Song. VTV Ganesh had tried his best to bring laughter, but it works only occasionally. 

Music is by Dharan who had an excellent debut with Bhagyaraj's Parijatham. He is really talented and didn't get much opportunities. All the songs in the movie will be liked by Youngsters. Love Pannalama and I am a Kuthu Dancer are the best songs in the movie

Director Vignesh, it is debut movie for him. He took a short film based on the same story and made into feature film with the help of Gemini Films and Simbu. He had tried his level best to give a FEEL GOOD Movie to Tamil Audience. But due to very average story and below average screenplay, he couldn't succeed in it.

Rating for this Movie by Common Man will be 2.4 / 5

Poda Podi -- STRICTLY FOR YOUNGSTERS WHO WORSHIP DANCE

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Story: Vijay is an Army man who comes to his native Mumbai for his vacation. Bomb blasts happen in Mumbai. What Vijay does forms the story of the movie. Story may look simple but screenplay of the movie was handled intelligently. Movie runs for 2 hours and 45 minutes and you will never get bored mostly.

Vijay's Intro Song was "Kutti Puli Kootam"..Though the song was average, Vijay's extraordinary dance moments adds great value to the song.

Vijay looks very Stylish in the movie. He is really BACK with a good movie. He has acted really well. He had underplayed a lot in this movie when compared to his recent movies and that is really great for him. Shankar said that People who doesn't like Vijay also will start liking him after Nanban. I am quite sure that few Vijay fans who changed after his consecutive movies with similar stories will start loving him yet again.

Scenes between Vijay and Kajal are the major highlights of the movie. There is lots of comedy scenes between them and it was really too good. Kajal really looks very beautiful in the movie and had done a wonderful job.

Vidyut is the Villain in this movie. His first movie was Billa 2. His initial scenes resembled Johny in 7 am arivu. He had done a fantabulous job and thereby makes the movie much more interesting as the full movie revolves around him and Vijay only.

Sathyan is the Comedian in the movie. But, Jayaram easily wins the crowd's heart as a Comedian. Each and every scene he comes, there was huge roar in the theater

Fight Scenes in the movie had really come out very well and it is very much believable.

Kutti Puli Kootam: Even Vijay fans were teasing him when 7 am Arivu got released as Velayutham released along with that movie. Vijay fans will be PRAISING him like anything after watching this movie and he truly deserves the credit. What a SCREENPLAY...He has believed in INTELLIGENCE much more than GUN. Instead of Vijay shooting the enemies with Gun, he plans everything cleverly and wins against them.

Music by Harris Jayaraj was very average. But, surprisingly back ground music of this movie was much better than his recent movies. Google Google song was the highlight of the movie and people who watch the movies in first 3 days will not be able to hear the song for sure. Poi Varava was nice melody and it had been placed at right place. Vennilavae Song picturization was good but it was misplaced in the movie.

Santosh Sivan is the 1st cameraman in Asia to get into the elite club of American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) membership. Each and every Indian should be proud of him. What else can I say about him. He has rocked in Cinematography.

Overall ,it is definitely the biggest DIWALI TREAT for Vijay Fans. They will get much more than what they expected from this movie. Vijay fans will watch this movie atleast thrice.

For Common Man, due to wonderful screenplay and Vijay's stylish acting, they will like it.

Rating for this movie as Common Man - 3.5 / 5

As hardcore Vijay fan - 4.5 / 5