KO-A complete entertainer.

It is not often that a film comes along that highlights a range of social issues relevant today and still manages to include time-tested commercial elements to keep everyone happy.KO manages to do just that.Barring a few instances lacking logic, the film manages to keep the audience hooked and how!

The film begins with Ashwin(Jeeva), who is a photo journalist working in a tamil daily, happening to chance upon a bank robbery, gives chase and helps the cops nab the culprits.What follows is the daily's coverage of elections in the state which is so much reflective of the recent elections in our state, interspersed with the love triangle between coworkers in the newspaper.With such brutal honesty in portraying the elections as it happens today,one really begins to wonder if the film was deliberately delayed in its release.

The film has enough twists to keep us in the edge of our seats and the director should be lauded for his screenplay.The unexpected twist in the end makes it a worthwhile story.The social responsibility(or irresponsibility) of the media personnel and the politicians' hypocrisy are well emphasised in the sequences.Kudos to the director for handling it with such honesty.With no separate comedy track,the film has just the right amount of humor without going overboard.The hero runs around shooting pictures from impossible positions and not giving a damn,typical of a journalist.And he has a knack of appearing in the right place at the right time!

As for the performances, Jeeva does a neat job and the two girls(Karthika and Piaa) are just adequate.Praksh Raj and Kotta Srinivasa Rao as political bigwigs at loggerheads are convincing and Ajmal,as the face of youth in the election has done a great job.

Now come the no brainers.How does the director expect us to believe that someone can win a clear majority the first time they contest?As if that was not enough we have our hero escaping from two bomb blasts without any serious injuries!The songs(Harris Jeyaraj) fail to make an impact except for Ennamo Edho which is humworthy.The two songs in the second half are ill placed and really hampers the speed fo the movie.The length of the movie(a tad too long) would have been just right if the songs had been done away with!On a scale of 10, the movie would just cross the 7 mark!

A movie worth watching indeed!

Kulla nari kootam

A good movie after a long break for the world cup! Its a good deal for your ticket money..Want a break from ur regular life? Want to see something funny? Then go for it. It is a light hearted banter!

The story is, as always very simple. The hero falls in love with a girl for whom he does recharge by mistake! The girls dad wants him to become a police officer whereas his own dad hates the entire police force..So he is forced to lie to his dad and go for selections where he makes good friends and also sees a lot of foul play happening. The entire kootam exposes the foul play of the recruitment process and get their dreams fulfilled. The heroine looks refreshing and one particular song 'vizhigalil' fails to leave your head even hours after the movie. the plot is simple, no punch dialogues, the hero doesn fly from pillar to post and kill people. The vennila kabadi kuzhu has gelled really well. No separate comedy track but the entire movie will keep tickling your bones. The dialogues are hillarious!

Indeed at the end you will feel slightly odd to see a hero whi becomes a police officer without 6 packs or a thoppai!! I would give it a 3 on 5 and will tag it as a nice weekend getaway!!