Superstar Rajini’s yet another solid block buster movie. Sivaji simply rocks without a story but with its grandeur and style.
Director shankar has really taken much of his effort in his songs, and super stars makeup, but forgot to add a baseline to the story. Story kicks of with the scene by rajini got arrested and put behind the bars. The story then goes with the flashback of US return shivaji has an aim to startup a college , hospital for the poor people. As usual anti characters will try to block that and how shivaji overcomes it is rest of the story.
Shreya, a commercial element in the story who looks as a family girl in the movie, but when she hit the songs, she becomes the gorgeous girl out. Few parts of story was attacked by sentiments, and vivek’s comedy which was not the best fit to the story.
For a US return sivaji, the first song “ballerakka ballerakka “was meaningless,that too from the sequence scene from 5 star hotel to a village. Probabaly that would be for rajini’s sentimental value.
Vaaji Vaaji song cleanly shows how much money would have been invested for the setup as well for the costumes. Good lyrics and few good dance steps performed bysuperstar.Costume desgins and hair styles does really well placed in the song.
Next comes sunlight song, This song gives us the “WOW” effect. An effective work was done to show our superstar absolutely as white man. Hats of to the make-up woman who had put her wonderful effort throughout the film. Shreya’s few dance steps was actually imitated from shakira’s album. Her slender body make her dance steps more graceful and cute looking.
Sahana, one of the most beautiful raagam in carnatic world, which has taken part in this movie. Lyrics are really good, and indeed the second version of sahana was sung by hariharan which is even too good. First part was sung by our bollywood singer udit narayan who has sung well with even more good clarity of proununciation of words. The second part of this song was sung by A.R itself with chinmayi.
Last but not the least, i should not forget to appreciate the art master totta dharani, who had made his wonderful efforts in setting up for each and every scenes.
PS: As a lot, shivaji can be seen for our super star, New looks, various sunglasses, different hair styles. But definitely this movie cannot be watched for story or even for screenplay.