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Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Story of two people happening in two different eras sharing nothing in common except their names. The entire movie seems to be very slow and so much loop holes on screen play (no trace on what happened to the passionate profession of the leads suddenly on the story).Another horrible thing about the movie is its re-recording. In so many areas we could see Vikram merely dubbing without lip sync. The reason is it's made in two languages at a time. So obliviously many parts where dubbed. So we lose interest on the story line because it fails to connect really. And coming to the star cast we have Vikram and Jiva as the leads. Then we have Tabu, Isha, Laura Dutta and Nassar on supporting roles. Out of which Isha as a deaf and dumb girl stays on our mind since she looks picture perfect for the role. On the whole this movie was definitely a boring experience. It is not really a good kick start film of the year for vikram and jiva.Sivakumar Balachandran ([email protected])

If you want to get the feeling of a Connected Anthology Hollywood movie like "21 Grams", then David is your thing. It is only a curse to such Director like Bejoy that good creations and movies doesn't get enough attention and somewhere the Indian moviegoers have pushed them backwards. David is just a brilliant piece and very bravely directed. It is not easy to hold the audience through 3 stories of 3 Davids of 3 different Eras. The best thing about this movie is the last few minutes when it ends. I won't write any spoiler and I hope every movie lovers watch it and appreciate it. Hats of to Bejoy Nambiar. From the very beginning it keeps your attention connected. Neil Nitin Mukesh just have given his career's Best Performance and so does others. The slowly uncovering Twists and Plots just leaves you awestruck. The only cons is that this movie moves a bit slowly. The story of Vikram especially proceeds very slow which might make you to skip it but that's where the movie has the final twist. Just watch this piece :)

David (tamil) ( 2013 )The making. That was the main attraction of director Bejoy Nambiar's previous project : Shaitan. I was so excited to see that movie in a totally new making style. Bejoy Nambiar was added to my favorite film maker's list and I don't miss my favorites' creations. That's how I got in for 'DAVID' , the tamil version.Watched this in a local theatre near to my house. The main advantage of this is that there wont be a 'mass' presence to disturb the peaceful movie watching. It was released quite a few days back and I went for a noon show on a Tuesday. So there was no chance of a disturbance and I like it that way at times.'DAVID' is a sleek n simple tale of two persons with the same name. though their life is shown on a parallel mode, it happens during 2 different times(1999 & 2010). Jiva as the aspiring guitarist and Vikram as the so called 'unlucky' fisherman of goa, tabu as his friend,his mother,his dad; all were great delight to watch. Isha Shervani does her part decently and the good moments in this were in the Vikram's story.The album is awesome and I loved all the tracks in this. The film opens up with the theme song of 'DAVID' and that's very exciting to watch. The unconventional 'khoya khoya chaand' style (of Shaitan) is repeated in this also in a fight sequence. The way I understood , 'DAVID' is about the identity that each one of us have and why its not possible for one to be someone else. We all have a name, a soul and a character and we are supposed to do certain things which only we can do. So we shouldn't be trying to be someone else. If we did, then who is gonna do our part?? I felt that's what the movie is all about. The name 'DAVID' was just a random pick ; it could have be anyone , any name..

I went for this movie with fairly high expectations...considering that it starred Neil Nitin Mukesh, Vikram and Tabu. However this movie is a classic example of great potential being let down by a weak script and gimmicky direction.The movie is made of 3 separate stories, each about a man called David, played by Neil Nitin Mukesh, Chiyaan Vikram and Vinay Visrmani in each of the segments. It is the style of great movies like Traffic and 21 Grams, where three seemingly disparate stories come together. But that is where the comparison ends. While Traffic and 21 Grams had some great acting and a seamless integration of stories, David is all style and no substance.The movie begins interestingly enough, with a brief glimpse of each character near the end of their story, and then works backward. Each segment has its own distinct style, look and feel and is also set in different eras. The best segment is easily the one starring Neil Nitin Mukesh, set in London in 1975, about a powerful Muslim family with its own internal strife and secrets. NNM is a sleek and stylish actor with a very certain talent for inhabiting his character and making it his own. The same cannot be said for the other actors in the segment. Milind Soman, supposed to be reciting the Koran even while killing someone, looks like he is reciting a shopping list. He does look suitably menacing though. Monica Dogra stumbles and fumbles her way through scenes that are about as romantic as scaling a fish.The other two segments are set in Mumbai and Goa, and star Vinay and Vikram - and are both very weakly written and directed, with the actors in those segments clearly "phoning it in". Vikram's segment especially plays to all those stereotypes about Goa - the place where everyone is perpetually drunk, wears the rosary around their neck and constantly makes the sign of the cross. Seriously??!!! Vikram is consistently terrible, not knowing where to draw the line between acting drunk, and acting like an escapee from the loony bin. Tabu, that incredible actress who gave us Maqbool, is wasted in a role completely unworthy of her talent.The Mumbai segment had a lot of promise, but that fizzled out as well, via some cardboard acting, and some inexplicable situations that lead quickly to nothing. Lara Dutta, what are you doing in this movie and why? The overall direction is choppy, with very haphazard editing - yes, I get it, this is new-age cinema - but it just reinforces my belief that the director felt he could get away with a crap movie by using the shaky-cam and in-your-face-cam technique everywhere possible. The dialogue in the London segment is totally studly and glorious, to the point where there must have been a collective ovary explosion in the multiplex. The rest of the movie is a big fat MEH.