When was the last time we saw an adventure, fantasy genre in tamil cinema, here we have selvaraghavan's Ayirathil oruvan. The story starts with pratap bothan - an archaeologist who goes missing in a remote desert region.
Q.1 Why he goes there?
He goes in search of chozha's who were refugees to this place some few hundred years back.
Q.2 Who is his daughter?
Andrea.. as simple as that..
So a team headed by our reema along with andrea and alagam perumal heads there. Mission starts...
Meanwhile karthi and his gang are helpers who are taken in ship with the crew. The difficulties they encounter before reaching the chozha province should have looked good at least in script but not on screen, felt sorry for some poor vfx, which has made things really worse for selva.
Parthiban's acting surely deserves an applause. the whole chozha empire there is said to be waiting for an informer from tanjore(home). The scene where the women shows her open breast and spills blood instead of milk to fetch her food from the king is sensational. That depicts the famine of the province. Vairamuthu's words are worth a mention (nelladia nilam).
Surprise! Reema shows her tiger emblem and tells she is the informer. Many scenes towards climax reminds me of the elysium from gladiator, war sequence from 300, and deporting the tribes from apacalypto. Making the queen dance for some kuthu song is terrible imagination.
Did the chozha's last, what happens to the king, who is the man in thousand?
All takes us to a thrilling climax..
On a whole it looked as if there is an hidden intrusion relating to the sufferings of tamilians in Ealam. Especially the final portion of the movie had the flavours of their cruel tortures and the way the women were treated. If that was the intention hats off to selva.
