SHIVAAAJI !!!!!!!!

thats one word that's been doing the rounds in the recent past...
a whats-the-story, much awaited, delayed several times, media hyped,madly booked for weeks, movie....
after all it stars none other than the cigar flipping, coin tossing, goggles swirling superstar rajnikanth!!!!

managed to see the movie on the day of its release.... bought a ticket worth 35 for 150, a reasonable steal considering the fact that elsewhere in the city where i live the same 35 rupees ticket was sold for as high as rupees 1500 !!!

this is the second time i witnessed a movie with all the fan frenzy that such super stars enjoy.... hooting, whistling and paper throwing... must say that the frenzy wasnt as much as it normally should be... probably because it was the third screening in the day ...

so now to the main movie... well honestly,i personally think the movie's been over rated...the first half of the movie is rather slow... the second half revs up the viewer...the storyline i thought was similar to another runaway telugu hit....anyways...
what surely takes the cake is rajni's experiments with his hairstyles...simply awesome... at his age i must say he carried it off with elan! be it the blonde or the streaked, the curly or the bald, the long or the short, almost all the hairstyles suited him prefectly... his costumes too were nice... some of the floral and random prints shirts he wore were real nice :)

the actress was good too... though personally i liked her indian look better than the her western look... most of her western attires were horrendous!

music was a real disappointment.... all the more because A.R.Rehman was the music director... it must be his worst music ever!

mmhh all said and done quite worth a watch... atleast for the hairstyles and costumes and some very novel creativity... for instance the painting of a pot, or a tigers face on the pot bellies of the dancers... looks quite nice :)
personally i would not mind watchin the movie again, preferably from the second half :)