Kochadaiiyaan (2014)

Only Rajini Fans LOVE this CARTOON !!! (this is NOT 3D !! ) Anyone who calls this 3D GRAPHICS is BLIND AS A BAT or just plain liars !!Comeon guys please be honest and just say that this is a CARTOON !!!Even Deepika Padukone (Actress in this movie) is FURIOUS WITH RAJINI for making her FACE LOOK WEIRD in this movie. And so she has NOT SUPPORTED THIS MOVIE, after it was released (her face really looks weird!!!).Rajini's daughter thought that 3D GRAPHICS IS SO EASY !! Well its NOT. It took JAMES CAMEROON's AVATAR(2009) $US200++ MILLION to make a REALISTIC 3D ANIMATION, Because PERFECTION IS VERY EXPENSIVE. Rajini's daughter must have used some lousy/CHEAP GRAPHICS companies to make this... thats why it LOOKS LIKE SOME CHEAP CARTOON. This Kochaidaiyaan CARTOON looks like the quality of the USUAL MAHABARATA CARTOONS that India has been making for YEARS!!After ENTHIRAN, Rajini had some good name... but NOW KOCHADAIYAAN has made Rajini into a JOKE. My NON Indian friends are REALLY FUN OF THIS MOVIE. I'm really SAD FOR RAJINI.

The story is purely opted for Rajini kanth. Excellent work by K.S. Ravi kumar. But If you watch it for Rajini, you will miss something in the film. (I will say it is feel that what we are seeing is not real Rajini). In climax Rajini had took a javelin kind of weapon which lay on the floor in a styled manner. If He acted in this scene(without motion capture). It will definitely made the audience for an immediate next show.But if you watch the movie for story, you need not to worry about how motion capture has worked in the film. it is such a good story. I felt fatigue only for the romance scenes.During Sarath kumar's Intro, it would be better if it is told that "This is Sarath Kumar". And the same for the heroine. Its the effect of animation. If the cast and crew is not revealed by the production team. No one can identify that Sarath and Depika had acted in the film.Anyhow Appreciation should be given for the first attempt as well as the first success of a Tamil motion capture.

When first announced, it came under several film titles/projects - from "Sultan: The Warrior" to "Rana" (to which is now a prequel/sequel) to finally "Kochaiidaiyaan". It was a brave attempt into a completely unknown territory.With this, comes the risk one the project being a complete success or a complete failure. I am now thinking of it heading towards the latter, unfortunately. With a beastly budget of $21 million which for a Tamil/Kollywood film is unprecedented, it would mean that the film would have to perform admirably at the box office the world over to even break even. At this moment in time, it is looking somewhat dim ; $7 million gross since release.Let's get to the story - the story is, by movie standards, quite standard. Nothing the movie world has not heard before. I found the story quite interesting and with the usual 'love story' we always have in Tamil movies, this is quite refreshing. However, as the movie progressed, the story can be quite coagulated/rigid with little room for one's own interpretation, but thankfully at the end of it all, it does hold up just fine. The story is about kings/kingdoms and quite honestly, is not that often we see it in Tamil movies, so kudos to that. Unfortunately, the 'pitfalls' of a typical Indian movie is here - don't want to sound too harsh but the 'ridiculous' moments does occur. Riding a dolphin and being propelled into the air onto a ship ; really? Haha, quite hilarious but it is moments like this then make you go "What did just see?!" Potential meme in the making. There are other cringe- worthy moments as well, but I'll spare them.The music - quite possibly the best part of the movie. A.R. Rahman did a brilliant job here (he narrate the Tamil version too). The songs are really good and worth listening over and over again. Highly recommended to purchase the audio CD. The movie paces itself just fine. However, I felt that instead of a near 2 hours runtime, it should have been trimmed to just over 90 minutes, as with most animated feature movies. I didn't feel the movie 'stretchy' or 'overly long' for an animated movie. Now comes the hard part - and the most talked about aspect of the movie - the CGI. Has anyone seen 2007's "Beowulf"? If yes, then anything less than this is going to draw criticism. Movie goers are not easy to please these days, and I consider myself highly critical of '...it could have been better' movies. "Kochaiidaiyaan" fails quite squarely in this regard. The CGI is easily 5-7 years behind the tech of the most advanced animated movies - I'm not talking "How to Train Your Dragon" or "Toy Story", but rather the more human-involved/realistic 3D animated movies - the easiest example would be Robert Zemeckis' motion-captured films ("A Christmas Carol", "The Polar Express", etc.). The opening sequence of the movie on the boat - it should have been either removed or simply redone. Not a good way to start the movie. Even video games have better visuals than that. There are certain areas that the CGI shines, Rajini looks the best with little dead eyes compared to other CGI rendered characters. The motion capture technology is there but there are some clunkiness to it. Compared to the ultra high budget "Avatar", the motion capture in "Kochaiidaiyaan" is about half way there. Facial expression and such only effective works in some scenes while others seem more generic/standard. Nothing special about the motion capture here. It's here, it's okay, and nothing to shout about. More work needs to be done to improve the CGI and the director, Soundarya needs to rethink how to do so - either an even bigger budget (which means a higher box office risk) or hire more skilled visual effects work force. "Kochaiidaiyaan" is an entertaining yet flawed movie. It is a defining moment in Indian cinematic history. Any other full fledged animated movie will always be compared to this movie, for better or for worse. This is a great starting point, but the results isn't that good. Watch it if you are a fan of Rajini or someone who wants to see Indian cinema do something unique. You might be surprised if the movie induces tears in you - as in actually feeling for the characters. This is the part where no amount of tech can achieve, and it comes from the heart of the story. A good attempt. Keep up the good work. I still wholeheartedly prefer live-action to animated. While it is Super Star Rajini doing the acting, you still want to see him in live-action. On a side note, I really did appreciate the inclusion of a 'making of.../bloppers' at the end of the movie.

I hate his movies. N this one too. I don't know why people like his movies. His action films are comedy. His acting is as worst but still people like his movies. There are many nice actors in South compared to this actor. Actually his all movies are animated including this one. Go watch Hollywood. Or comedy. South films are good for nothing.They just have huge box office collection. I think fiction are nothing but south movies. Learn acting from Ranbir, Aamir, Irfan khan,Rajpal Yadav. Actors like Dhanush has acting sense learn something from him Rajni. Besides acting I know he is very nice man living simple lifestyle. Hope you will retire soon So that south movies would get a chance to level up their movies