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Mankatha Movie Review

By Siddhartha
Director Venkat Prabhu has not deviated from his usual style of film making in spite of this "Mankatha" being Actor Ajith's 50th film. He begins the film with a song and then he brings in comic overludes in the middle of something really serious and post interval there is another song which stamps the Venkat Prabhu mark all over.

Ajith on the other hand has made a good decision by selecting such a script for his landmark film. The movie might look like a deja vu to "Oceans Eleven" but in a true sense, "Mankatha" is a well made film.

Vinayak (Ajith) is a police officer under suspension in Mumbai for helping a gangster escape an encounter. He falls in love with Sanjana (Trisha) who is the daughter of Armugam Chettiyar (Jayaprakash). Chettiyar is a disguised don who is making big money in betting.

IPL cricket season is in and it is about to rain money in his den when suddenly four unassuming boys in Sumanth (Vaibhav) who works for Chettiyar, Ganesh (Ashwin) a police officer, Mahath (Mahath) a bar owner and Prem (Premgi) an IIT graduate plan to loot the bounty.

Vinayak invites himself to the gang of four and they all plan to perfectly lift the bounty worth 500 crores. In comes Prithvi (Arjun) who is the ACP special branch in charge of unearthing the betting racket. Prithvi follows Vinayak and his gang closely and tries to nail all of them. In the end does he get to nail the culprits or is it the culprits who turn out to be triumphant is to be watched in the remaining part of "Mankatha".

The film predominantly male dominated leaves very little scope for the leading ladies. Trisha disappears from the scene abruptly. Anjali has a song sequence for her. Andrea hardly comes in a scene or two while Lakshmi Rai who apparently has a concrete role compared to other ladies comes for a longer duration of time and in that time she does her part in skin show.

Ajith has played the role with class and so is Arjun as a strict police officer. The four guys have played their roles with conviction. Jayaprakash does a neat job as an unassuming don.

Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja could have been better as few songs fade away without making an impact. Editing could have been crisper but the later half of the film makes up for the pit falls in the first half.

This "Mankatha" might not be the best film for Ajith but it will be for Venkat Prabhu. The movie has a running time of 2 hrs and 40 minutes and is sure to be a winner at the box office.

"Mankatha" is a good entertainer and also a jackpot for Ajith's fans.

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