Unnai Pol Oruvan aka A Wednesday!

It was drizzling here in Bangalore on 21/09/09. I was going to Pushpanjali Theatre in K R Puram with Praveen to see Unnai Pol Oruvan. So had a cool drive the whole way. Reached and we bought the tickets and settled down inside the theatre well before the movie started.

All the time what was running in my mind was how different Kamal Hasan would perform compared to Naseeruddin Shah and Mohanlal compared to Anupam Kher. All the 4 actors are really superb. If we made a comparison then I feel we would give them all the same marks. I was also curious on what plot they have taken for Unnai Pol Orruvan. In Wednesday they had used the serial suburban train blast as the main theme.

Ok now the movie started. They have followed the same script with just changing the Mumbai train blast to Coimbatore and Meenambakkam blast. Somehow did not feel the punch in it which the Wednesday had.

Kamal's performance.

I had no choice but to compare it with Naseeruddin Shah. What I felt is Kamal has just performed the same way Naseeruddin Shah had done. I was a bit disappointed because I was expecting a difference from Kamal. But the climax scene was just Kamals trade mark Performance. The way tears roll down his eyes and the way he wipes it with the revolver are simply superb.

Mohanlal’s Performace.

Sure Mohanlal had acted as a Malayalee who he himself is. I was very happy to see the difference in his character. Both Anupam Kher and Mohanlal have acted differently and both where very good. Look out for the scene where he teaches a cop to say something in Tamil to the press. I was literally laughing.

Surprise:

Ganesh Venkatraman who acts as a cop. Man I should say he was so refreshing to watch. Really smart and tall. He looked much different from the sardar which he had acted in Abhium Naanum. He was much better than Jimmy Shergill. I am sure he will be there for quite sometime in Tamil Industry.

Mr. Vijay there are many good looking people coming and also performing much better without the image battle. So if you know only to dance I guess the best job would be to become a judge in Jodi No 1 or to enter into politics. What say?

There are no songs in the film and the back ground score was good for the first timer Shruthi Hasan. The music changes with the camera angles as the angles progress the music intensifies.

The director.

I think he did not have much a challenge than to manage the top actors from south. Because there was no new thinking going in the process.

The final verdict.

For people who have not seen A Wednesday!

Unnai pol oruvan will be a better movie.

For people who have seen A Wednesday.

UPO is a good movie.

My rating would be 3/5. That’s because I have seen A Wednesday!.

Wednesday had the punch which UPO does not have.