Mangkatha or Mangatha is a Tamil movie starring Ajith Kumar. Like other stars of Tamil cinema, Ajith Kumar is also another superstar but with only one difference; he is jaw-dropping handsome!
The experience of watching a Tamil movie for a Bengalee girl in a theatre itself is an experience. The hero obsessed Tamil people flock in the theatre with all enthusiasm and to add on to their obsession the movie directors plan for separate scene and separate music piece for the ‘Intro scene’ of the hero! So the euphoria of cheering, clapping and whistling you hear when Ajith gets down from the police jeep in police uniform with his salt-and-pepper hairstyle (Oh my god! He is so handsome!) envelopes also you and before you realize that, you are also clapping and cheering along with the crowd! So, you don’t really mind the weak editing, weak usage of slow-motion and fast-motion of scenes or even the small bulging paunch of Ajith.
The ‘Intro scene’ ends with a killer look by Ajith which forms one brick among the 50 Ajith-faced bricks slowly forming a mosaic-painting of Ajith amidst the ear-bursting cheer from people and then the movie introduces ‘Thala 50’as Mangatha is Ajith’s 50th movie.
The movie is about a corrupt cop Vinayak Mahadevan played by Ajith Kumar who can go to any extent for money. He uses the heroine Trisha to reach to her father and after he robs 500 crore rupees in The Italian Job fashion, he ditches her ruthlessly. I found the way the director showed Ajith dumping Trisha to be the most innovative sequence of the movie. Ajith then plans to kill his five allies and leaves dumbstruck when he comes to know that the two comedian allies of him actually took the money and ran away. Mangatha is a multi-starrer movie and it stars another super star of Tamil cinema – Arjun. He plays an honest cop who tries to catch Ajith. Though this person Arjun looks fit and slim, but his tendency to over-style kills all his scenes. In the climax Ajith dies in the hand of Arjun and when everybody is awestruck as how it happened we come to know that Ajith and Arjun are actually buddies and they staged everything that we saw in last 2 hours and 45 minutes and both of them are fine and staying in pent houses after sharing those 500 crore rupees.
If you keep the style and the extreme good looks of Ajith aside, the movie Mangatha would be a below average movie considering the director’s inefficiency to handle scenes, lack of attention to details, weak editing, gimmicky-but-not-well-thought-of picturisation of the songs and very very shockingly poor acting by Ajith and the gang.
But I must say that it is a good time pass to watch a Tamil movie in theatre flanked between two Tamil friends.
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