Poor direction, Poor Acting, Inappropriate music.

At 5.1 surround sound, AR Rehman’s BGM music does sound spectacular - but very inappropriate. I am giving the benefit of doubt to our madras maestro as Director ‘Ping He’ seems to be asleep at the wheel half the time. He is no Ang Lee, so if you expect a ‘House of Flying Daggers’ (poetry in motion) or a ‘Couching Tiger’ you would be very disappointed.

The acting is pathetic, the editing cuts jarring and director’s touches are plain pretentious (Villain playing some sort of violin, and camera slow tracks from the back - while he delivers his punch lines.. please!). And the coup de grace is that silly f/x sequence.

Coming to Music - the music video sounds great with all the usual Rahmanque touches. But when the movie starts, neither the scripts nor the story offers any definitive moments for our maestro to exercise his magic - so he uses it whenever and wherever possible resulting in a missmatch.

2.5/5