Taking
a breather from site reviewing, I’ve compiled a list of 10 worst tamil films of
2012 released until Q3 ( Jan – Sep). To stay clear I’ve omitted some movies
like Anbulla
Manvizhiye,
Asthamanam, Thootuvan, Mye etc, because to say the truth, without Wikipedia I
would have never come across those titles, I think you too would be scratching
your heads to recall those titles. Leave them and lets go straight to the worst 10.
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CAST : Jiiva, Pooja Hegde, Narain
MUSIC
: K
DIRECTION
: Myskkin
RELEASED
ON : 31st August
Probably
the first Jiiva starrer which went under massive promotions, hype and
everything. But the story is too weak for a super hero fare with a shaky
screenplay , stereotype portrayal of many characters also didn’t help the
movie. Viewers never connected with those characters due to dodgy editing.
There were two action sequences and suddenly Lee is considered the only savior of all the peoples out there. Narain
was good until climax and heroine was never there. Three good things to write
home about is undoubtedly Jiiva, cinematography and music by K.
PROS:
Jiiva
Music by K
Cinematography
CONS:
Editing
Weak story
Drama inspired screenplay
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MUSIC:
Pravin Mani
DIRECTION
: Madhesh . R
RELEASED
ON: 2nd August
Vinay’s
first tamil release after Modhi vilayadu, that is 3 years back, he could have
chosen a better script than this. The film is woven with only ray of hope-
Santhanam, but it became too much of a burden for him to carry forward. Average songs, no expectation, 20 year old story
line are the things the movie came with.
PROS:
Santhanam, obviously
CONS
Dated storyline
Music
8. 3
MUSIC:
Anirudh Ravichander
DIRECTION:
Aishwarya Dhanush
RELEASED
ON: 30th March
“
Why this kolaveri di?” can be seen as the exact one line review of this movie.
Chartbuster songs, great casting, fine cinematography are the three pillars of
the movie but it is let down greatly by Snail speed narration and a negative
climax. Negative climax in the sense is not about a sad ending but conveying a
wrong message to the society. In a country which is cursed with 15 suicides per
hour, these type of endings should not drive further more youngsters to a
mortal mind set.
PROS:
Dhanush
Music
Cinematography
CONS:
Negative climax
Déjà vu feel with Mayakkam Enna
Screenplay
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CAST:
Vimal, Nisha Agarwal, Santhanam
MUSIC:
Thaman
DIRECTION:
Prem Nazir
RELEASED
ON: 25th May
Remaking
telugu movies are quite fruitful in this past decade, they offer a minimum
guarantee. But remaking a super flop telugu movie does not make any sense at
all. Vimal as a modern youth is quite not acceptable atleast for now and Nisha
Agarwal was as charmy as her bigger sister. Music was too average and the film
was released all the way during the success run of Kalakalapu and it failed miserably
at the box office.
PROS:
Nisha Agarwal
Santhanam
CONS:
Vimal
Music
Poor Story & narration
MUSIC:
Srikanth Deva
DIRECTION:
K. Selva Bharathi
RELEASED
ON: 15th June
It’s
the remake of 1980’s Superstar Starrer of the same title. The film has to hold
the massive expectations during the shooting phase itself. But the film bombed
at the box office, reason being that it doesn’t had the nativity feel of the
original and the songs were mediocre. On the whole of the earth the producer
cant find a better music director other than Deva Jr. who holds a 90% track
record of mediocre songs.
PROS:
Story
CONS:
Music
Artificial screenplay
Poor direction
CAST: Johnny, Gayathri
MUSIC:
Charles Bosco, Dinesh Kanagaratnam
DIRECTION:
R. Paneerselvam
RELEASED
ON: 24th August
It generated some hype
prior to its release due to a new theme of a mentally affected youngster
falling in love. But it failed in the box office due to poor handling of
characters and story. Protagonist Johnny did a good job portraying as a mentally
affected youth.
PROS:
Johnny
CONS:
Direction
Screenplay
Cinematography
CAST: Arjun, Archana Gupta
MUSIC:
Dhina
DIRECTION:
Kicha
RELEASED
ON: 16th March
Arjun’s
first direct tamil release after the wild blockbuster Mankatha. His films
generally have some hype surrounded during the day of release and that would
evaporate on that very evening. This film is also a prototype Arjun film, with
a poor story. Arjun has to believe that he cant handle the movies successfully
by himself here after. His charm is faded and his glorious days are gone. Support
cast is the right direction to our first action king of tamil cinema.
PROS:
NIL
CONS:
Direction
Music
Screenplay
CAST: Vidharth, Sanchita Shetty
MUSIC:
A. L. Johan
DIRECTION:
Tamil Selvan
RELEASED
ON: 13th January
Vidharth’s super flop in a row after Mudhal Idam. Mynaa had definitely shown the
talents of this man but these kind of movies like Kollaikaran, Mudhal Idam are
making everyone to lose interest to watch his films.” Veliore Kiziyae” sung by
Vijay Prakash and Shreya Goshal is the only thing and other than this there is
absolutely nothing good to write about the movie here.
PROS:
‘Veliore Kiziyae’ A Single Track sung by Vijay
Prakash & Shreya Goshal
CONS:
Screenplay
Story
Direction
CAST: Ganesh, Kalpana Pundit, Shobana
MUSIC:
Agnel Roman, Faizan Hussain
DIRECTION:
Natty Kumar, Dr. Jay
RELEASED
ON: 10th August
Everyone
was wondering who’s this guy Ganesh after Unnai Pol Oruvan and Abiyum Naanum.
Then he’s given the role of a protagonist prematurely and the result is
negative criticism and poor business at the BO. But he’s not the only one to
blame, direction and music are the things needed an immediate uplift in the future.
PROS:
Polished Cinematography
CONS:
Ganesh doesn’t fit as a protagonist
Awkward direction
MUSIC:
Dhina
DIRECTION:
N. T. G. Saravanan
RELEASED
ON: 15th January
Most
probably a ‘Disaster in the making’. From producer to lightman everyone knew the
result of the movie from day 1 of shoot. The producer had the infinite guts to
release the movie along with Nanban- a ‘Blockbuster in the making’. Saying it has a poor story means adding a
great honour to this film, No story will be the apt word. Ramarajan still has
the balls to portray as a lead and the producer could surely be his proxy or
ally. Power star films boasted a decent script comparing to this crap.
Technically the movie is shooted in 21st century but it actually reminds
us of some century old movies. Cinematography will look good when shooted with
a mobile camera in contrast to Medhai’s cinematography. Probably the director
& cinematographer would have come from a parallel universe to say the
least. Any youngsters dreaming to be a filmmaker would suddenly quit his
interest in cinemas after watching Medhai. One thing is clear, Medhai has the
eligibility to be a worst movie for many more centuries to come.
PROS:
(JUST KIDDING)
CONS:
ALMOST ALL, this film is considered as a black
spot for tamil cinema.
Medhai shouldn’t be even made at first, which
vitally injures the image of tamil cine industry.
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dude, what are u an abuot, mgamoodi was good, it it wa something new and the story is perfect for a sequel. and 3 there are no words to explain, by far one of the best of 2012 and dhanush (apart from phuthupettai)
ReplyDeleteMugamoodi is a reguar masala fare with a Kung - fu coating, 3 never took off and it conveyed entirely a wrong message good enough to be in Worst 10. But these are purely my own views and i adore your take on Mugamoodi and 3.
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Mugamoodi and 3 were not so bad as to be here.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Mugamoodi was not that good, but definitely 3 was a watchable film.
But surprised to see Saguni missing.
some movies cannot be placed at good or bad, 3 falls in that category. its a movie which is only for certain people. people who have gone through similar face in their life... i would this movie will not be a life lesson to people but a deja vu to whom have experienced it other examples are vinnaithandi varuvaraya and neethane enn ponvasantham. can someone pls tell me why saguni is bad? apart from the love story and the climax what is bad about the movie?...mugamoodi was not up to expectation, but i,m sure there are other bad movies...
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