MAYAKKAM ENNA ?? - POWERFULLY SUBTLE WORLD CLASS CINEMA

This is a story which tells the tale of a budding photographer and how his career affects the lives of people around him and how the lifestyle of people around him has an impact on his career.

Coming to the technicalities of the movie - 

If Dhanush received a national award for Aadukalam then Dhanush should/Will get one for ME, hands down. Dhanush hardly has any dialogues in the story, most of his dialogues have been conversed through his expressions which were never seen from Dhanush in his past movies. Scenes where Dhanush requests for a chance with his aspired Photographer couldn't have been any more expressive. His performance is so very powerful that we forget to look at Dhanush and start feeling for Karthick in the movie, It is such a powerful character. Dhanush is getting very closer to becoming more versatile actor from just an actor.

Richa though looks very arrogant and lacks some expression in the initial scenes, proves us all wrong in every other successive scene. She too doesn't have too many dialogs to speak but had to emote all her dialogue which even seasoned actresses find it very difficult and she has proved it in her very first movie. 

The scene where Sundar's father tries to console both Dhanush and Sundar is amazing. He has no dialogues either but his actions were so powerful. Here, Selva has made us expect this character to speak in so many instances but he maintains his silence and finally makes him speak a few words. 

Selva has broken the norm of having the heroines on the scene 5 minutes before a song sequence and then forgetting about them for the next 20 minutes before another song approaches. 
Richa's character is so powerful at times I felt like she was the core of the movie. Dialogues in the movie are so very less and hence had to be so precise in what each characters say. A very good example is the apology of Dhanush to Richa in the second part of the movie and Richa's call with Dhanush in the end of the movie ( Richa's expression in this scene is so very powerful it might definitely moisten your retina ). I've seen people in real life who are not mad but are a bit disturbed or deviated from their original character and Selva has exactly portrayed that through Dhanush making him express a 50% sane and 50% unstable person. 

Ramji's camera captures nature beautifully in a never before seen manner in Indian Commercial Cinema and travels with each character and doesn't seem like a different entity at all. Lighting could have been a bit let down in a very few places but given that the story asks for it, you can't complain. 

Like already said the movie doesn't have more dialogues and to fill that silence the BG score needed some deep feel and that was very well churned out by GV Prakash. Had ARR/Raja sir or Yuvan handled the music they'd have gone for a symphony orchestration for the Background score but still I was able to feel that Symphony effect in the score. It was amazing how the music played such an important part in this movie where at times you feel so involved due to music that you forget that its carrying you into the scenes. Silence in many places has clicked for GV, this is something Raja sir does in his movies where there's silence in some scenes and that means a lot(Guna, HeyRam ).

Overall folks,If someone's looking for a movie with 3 fight sequences, 6 Songs , couple of heroines and a Cut-throat Villain, then this movie should be avoided. 

WATCH-O-METER RATING : 9

Its a movie about life, love, friendship and career from a small niche of friends in a very cliche`d manner.