Topic started by Vijay (@ 61.11.80.115) on Thu Jun 12 12:05:09 .
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The movie is not newly nice but its nice like tenaali, PKS and P5trick. anyway it wont flop.it will do well. for standard kamal fans like us, no doubt this film is a treat.for others it may be a treatment(or may not be!)

but one thing, the film goes dead fast that some scenes dont get understand, also some dialogues. in the last reel thalaivar is Kalaachifying in sandiar getup, with a ARUVAAL also.this is the films highlight.nice ending!!!!
songs are ok to see in teatre, kamals english song, both audio and video is a different try. overall, thats Kamal.everyone perform their level best and all's acting is natural.

Responses:

• From: ravi (@ ppp-219.65.96.165.chn.vsnl.net.in) on: Thu Jun 12 16:25:45 EDT 2003
  
  thanks for the review vijay. i am very eager to watch it and now that kamal is doing a guest role makes one even more eager.
  
  
• From: Roshan (@ 203.115.13.90) on: Fri Jun 13 03:08:32 EDT 2003
  
  Vijay,
  Thanks for the review. I'm confident it's going to be a Hit!
  
  
• From: forum (@ 203.189.174.3) on: Fri Jun 13 05:11:18 EDT 2003
  
  I have not seen the movie, but from what I heard from my friends, the movie seems to be good and the appearance of Kamal as Sandiyar is EXCELLENT. Now they cannot wait for Sandiyar to be filmed and released.
  
  
• From: Nane than (@ 203.197.138.194) on: Fri Jun 13 05:45:58 EDT 2003
  
  after reading the reviews, i feel that this film might run like PKS and PT
  
  
• From: Surya (@ 61.11.85.245) on: Sat Jun 14 03:11:03 EDT 2003
  
  "for standard kamal fans like us, no doubt this film is a treat."
  
  hee hee, how modest!
  
  
• From: RK (@ bbcache-16.singnet.com.sg) on: Sat Jun 14 09:50:27 EDT 2003
  
  Madhavan did very well in this movie. Melboure downtown (and Sydney downtown as well) shot beautifully, It would have been much more eye-cathcing if the Camera roamed around Great Ocean road and Phillip Island etc., Songs are avg., and so as the Heroine.
  
  My guess is that it would only turn out be a 'A' center movie because of the theme and subtle comedy. At times too much repeated dialogues by Madhavan. Since there is no standard tamil spoken by any main character, the origionality is missing in this movie because the hero speaks in PhalGhat Tamil and the other main characters come from Srilankan back ground so bit hard to observe this combination through out the movie.
  
  There are sequence of lover & husband hoping, Screen-Play Kamal 'Aache'.
  
  Looks like Sandiyar with 'Aruva' & exagerated appearance at the end of the movie proving to be in favour of Krishnaswamy claims.
  
  
• From: Sanj (@ 202.67.69.14) on: Sat Jun 14 21:05:17 EDT 2003
  
  It wasn't a great movie but it wasn't bad either.
  
  As I am living in Australia, it was funny to watch some of the scenes...they are one minute living in Melbourne and going on trams the next minute they are riding a motor bike through Sydney Harbour Bridge.
  
  Australian police force was made to look really silly. About that car chase...in five minutes of the chase a Helicopter will be tracking them from the air. They couldn't have got away that easy, secondly the person who drove the car would have been locked up as soon the police saw him again.
  Which they did but left him alone.
  
  Our heroine accepted to marry Mathavan because of cash problems...I think it was $10 000 she was in need. Coming close to the end of the movie she kicks out her ex boyfriend from the car he was driving and says it was her car. And that she bought it for him. Funny thing is that...that car would be worth about $28-30 thousand in the market...and she is insured...(if you live here and have a car worth that much and you are insured then you will know what I mean).
  
  Plus the guy who became her ex in the movie is a lawyer. He would have had about 10 bank accounts. And nine of them will be full the 10th will be 2/3 full. But he was shown as a dependent on his girlfriend.
  
  Well these were some of the negative points with all the songs except "Enna ethu".
  
  
• From: Vijay again (@ 61.11.76.109) on: Sun Jun 15 05:40:11 EDT 2003
  
  Mr.Sanj,
  "But he was shown as a dependent on his girlfriend"
  
  No, he becomes angry at the reason he loses her as a lover. And you see today all movies are Gupsaa, you CANT CANT imagine the story in real life, so dont see this movie deeply, just see lightly its a different masala thats all. i accept that this movie ( as usual) will reach well with A class audience.
  
  
• From: Dhanya (@ 202.9.149.226) on: Sun Jun 15 05:56:12 EDT 2003
  
  I didnt see the movie as yet...but from what I saw from the TV...I feel Madhavan doesnt fit this role atall...Kamal would have done the role a whole lot better....
  
  
• From: RK (@ bbcache-16.singnet.com.sg) on: Sun Jun 15 09:27:39 EDT 2003
  
  I don't think so, Madhavan has very natural Charm & innocence so it's just fit well for his character. Kamal at his 48 can't imagine that he play this role. He may need a extra fittings or need a change in story line here and there.
  
  Heroine and Music is the biggest disappointment of this move, some money could have spent here to bring in best available rather than choosing newcomers for cost of peanuts.
  
  
• From: supermen (@ 219.93.29.130) on: Mon Jun 16 13:41:17 EDT 2003
  
  the movie is going hit
  
  
• From: Nane than (@ 203.197.138.194) on: Tue Jun 17 00:28:22 EDT 2003
  
  http://www.tamiloviam.com/html/Thiraioviam54.Asp
  
  
• From: Rajini (@ 203.145.161.141) on: Tue Jun 17 01:23:53 EDT 2003
  
  Excellent Movie. The climax was excellent.
  
  
• From: ravi (@ ppp-219.65.96.26.chn.vsnl.net.in) on: Fri Jun 20 08:50:29 EDT 2003
  
  i saw the movie yesterday thursday night show
  at santham and the theatre was HOUSE FULL. I went at 8 pm and just managed to get tickets..can we say that the movie is a hit?
  
  kamal in his chandiyar cameo is excellent and is a treat to kamal fans.
  
  
  
• From: Dhanya (@ 202.9.148.165) on: Tue Jun 24 07:20:14 EDT 2003
  
  The movie is running to houseful theatres in Chennai.Tht too all are big ones like Satyam cineplex,Sooriyan...& the most surprising one was Mayajaal...coz this is the first time the theatre is running houseful.Tickets were available for big hits like Run,Dhool,Saami even after few days after their release(in Mayajaal I mean)...its surprising to see Nala...running houseful...tht too all the 7 shows....even after a week!!!
  
  
• From: forum (@ imsbbcf06.netvigator.com) on: Tue Jun 24 10:04:13 EDT 2003
  
  Nala Damayanthi has turned out to be a big hit. It is doing extremely well in the A & B centers of TN. It is doing above average business in the C centers.
  It is definitely a hit for Raaj Kamal Films International, a good sign for things to come like Sandiyar
  
  
• From: xxx (@ 210.195.128.30) on: Fri Jun 27 09:56:43 EDT 2003
  
  this movie s*c* b coz kamal hassan is the director....
  
  
• From: Info_giver (@ ppp-219.65.118.98.chn.vsnl.net.in) on: Fri Jun 27 12:41:49 EDT 2003
  
  Hey XXX,
  Kamal hasan didn't direct ,Mouli is the director.
  
  
• From: misai_mandoor (@ 210.186.150.212) on: Sat Jun 28 07:32:40 EDT 2003
  
  I saw the movie. It is a mild comedy, nothing compared to Thenali, PKS or Panchathanthiram. Very simple story. Do not look at the logics but simply enjoy the comedy. Nothing great about Kamal's get-up as Sandiyar, about 1 minute or less, promoting his next movie. I will give 5 out of 10.
  
  
• From: ffrt (@ 219.93.29.130) on: Sun Jul 6 15:32:05 EDT 2003
  
  the movie was dame nice 100% over 100&
  
  
• From: boi (@ toronto-ppp217129.sympatico.ca) on: Wed Jul 9 12:42:00 EDT 2003
  
  i didn't enjoy the movie. sorri
  
  
• From: er (@ 219.93.29.130) on: Wed Jul 9 14:08:50 EDT 2003
  
  hit movie
  
  
• From: Priya (@ cache.zyberway.com) on: Sat Jul 12 09:17:22 EDT 2003
  
  The movie was average but it certainly had its funny moments. Madhavan and Geetu portrayed their roles well. Kamal's appearance was unnecessary and cliched. For that matter why did Mouli and Anu Hassan have to appear? Anyway, the film is worth a watch.
  
  
• From: Shakthi (@ 203-195-199-244.now-india.net.in) on: Mon Jul 14 05:31:55 EDT 2003
  
  Good..........over all!!
  
  STORY line is not bad...
  
  The innocence of madhavan is over portrayed (like prabhu in chinna tambhi)
  
  Geethu has done 'not bad'
  
  Dialogues and script not bad
  
  Anu hassan's kid talkin and showing improvement with madhavan's entry is toooooooooooo fairy talish to believe
  
  The ending is abrupt..
  
  The acceptance of sister's lover as her second husband is tooo hard to digest in a normal rigid orthodox middle class family
  
  comedy is good and subtle with no absurd or vulgarism
  
  STRONGESTTTTTTTTTTTT POINT IS
  
  MADHAVANNNNN......!!!!!!!!!
  
  HIS ACTING
  HIS INNOCENCE
  HIS PRESENCE
  HIS SMILE
  
  
  
• From: indian (@ 219.93.29.130) on: Mon Jul 14 10:42:02 EDT 2003
  
  dame blockbuster movie in india
  
  
• From: kamalbhakthan (@ 210.18.90.1.sify.net) on: Thu May 13 03:45:39
  
  hey guys,
  Nala damayanthi is a hi? U must be joking. It ran for about 1 month in chennai & even less than in other centres.
  
  U know 1 other thing. Whoever acts with kamal is doomed after that. It happened to the following actors :
  
  1. Arjun who was giving a string of hits like jaihind, karna & saadhu acted with kamal in kurudhipunal. After that, all his movies have flopped till date(mudhalvan was an exception).
  2. Same with madhavan. After anbe sivam, all his movies (priyamana thozhi,nala damayanthi, jayjay) have flopped.
  He is now banking on ethiri & ayutha ezhuththu.
  3. Prabhu could not deliver a single hit after vetri vizha (with kamal).
  4. Prabhu deva totally disappeared from the tamil film scene after acting with kamal in kadhala kadhala.
  
  Kamal's raasi is like that.
  
  

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