Iraivi – Not Great

I have been watching lot of movies but for some reason did not feel like writing my review. I watched Iraivi last weekend and thought I should write about it in my blog. I know there was a mixed review for this film and anyways I decided to watch to give my side of review J.

Thought the director Karthik Subburaj had good intentions to make this film but was not successful in conveying it to audience, in contrary to what he did with his last 2 films Pizza and Jigarthanda.

This is supposed to be a women centric film, but felt the picturisation were more on male characters and their struggle and feelings. This movie is more about what the male characters do and how it affects the female characters around them. But the way it has been portrayed was not clear. Also on top of it, I felt that all the male characters in the movie had lot of negativity and not sure why the director chose to project it that way. May be to show sympathy on female characters? I don’t know. At some point I felt very annoyed/irritated about the male characters like don’t they have common sense to handle things?. I wish Karthik could have showed a positive & good male character in the movie who is loving and respectable towards women. And too much of liquor in the movie. I am not sure whether someone can drink this much in their lifetime J.

The only saving grace of this movie was SJ Surya. He was a complete surprise package in this movie. He acted so good and gave a power packed performance. He should continue acting rather than directing non-meaningful movies. He really carried the movie on his shoulder and did a 100% justice to his role. Vijay Sethupathy was ok and I did not like Bobby Simha as well as his characterization. Anjali was good in her role. But there is not much to say about the movie. Felt it was not that great.

Expected more from Karthik Subburaj L.

Iraivi – Not Great! Watch at your own risk.