Too much of everything

Just perfect...

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Watched Lingaa Here is my take.In short the movie showed up lots of flaws as a crash project mega budget movie. Direction I would say 3/10 didn't expect this from Ravi Kumar. Superstar in the flash back portions rocked with his calm and polite acting. The starting 30 mins of the movie I felt really boring and dragging. Introduction song of super star showed too much efforts by Rajini to dance along with the foreigners. But watching the song I felt that he can stop acting as hero and move on doing roles like Big B. VFX was so poor in the movie. Our heroines looked almost alike in their built were just used as dolls nothing much to do. Songs of ARR was disappointing. Except 2 OK kind of duets. Not his best. Overall treat for those who waited long for seeing his presence on screen. But I wouldn't buy superstar's magic in this movie this time -Reviewed by Balachandran Sivakumar

If you think you are a Rajini fan and your standard for Rajinikanth film is Sivajii or Endhiran and if you think that Lingaa is bad, I can only feel sorry for that, you are not even as gifted as some Japanese and French people who started experiencing Rajini from Muthu and hope you u read this and understand that you are minority.There is a revolution taking place in criticism of films because of social network. I remember the old days when we wait 1 or 2 weeks to read the reviews of films in Kumudam or Ananda Vikatan and guessing what marks they will give, even getting 45 marks from Vikatan was considered prestigious, then came the internet age and we used to get reviews in one or two days, and then the raise of social networking sites and everyone became reviewers and there exists the biggest problem.There is nothing wrong in expressing your views about the film which might be that "you like it or hate it or its kind of average"; that kind of opinion is OK but reviewing a film is another new level.The reviews in magazines were used to be done by a professional group not by an individual, because an individual's opinion can be affected by expectations and personal mood swings but we all know that's not the case anymore; anyone can be reviewer of any film if they have internet and seen some French or Korean films to compare it with world cinema. And they also launch personal attacks against the director or hero of the movie they are reviewing. These reviewers are so intelligent that they will promote some films as world-class cinema just because there is no commercial scene in it and will dump Lingaa as garbage because it had some unbelievable scenes. And most of the new age fans are influenced by these reviews.I am a Rajini fan and usually I don't care about them because it's been always your choice to read those or not; I did that for Sivaji, Endhiran and for Lingaa too. I always have my judgment and check some authentic sites for reviews only after seeing the film or if I have a dilemma to watch a film, then I read a letter by a so-called Rajinikanth fan in which he says that Lingaa is bad and he hope that Rajini will come back. I was surprised to see that a Rajini fan can say that because I know for ardent Rajini fans it's kind of comeback film for him after Padayappa.Then I kind of understand that he probably became Rajini fan after seeing Sivaji, Endhiran and what I would call new age Rajini fans who don't realize that they are actually more of Shankar fans than Rajini fans and I am sure that they never experienced the magic of Rajini in theater before Sivaji and sorry guys Lingaa was never intended for you.I am one of the Rajini fans (also as a Shankar fan) who were disappointed to see Sivaji for the first time because it was neither a Rajini film nor a Shankar film; it's kind of half-baked but making and dialogs were awesome and gathered new age fans for Rajini and we were just happy about that.Then came Endhiran. I just loved it's an out-and-out Shankar film (I was expecting it to be) and Rajini took it to a whole new level and still sure this too never was a Rajini film and sure Rajini fans would have satisfied by that and I will leave Kochadaiyaan out of the equation (it's a good film nevertheless).Leave the fans, I am sure even Rajinikanth would not have been personally satisfied with that film and after his health issues he wanted to give a film that his fans were waiting for and story of Lingaa was perfect for that who other than K.S. Ravikumar to execute that and bang we got Lingaa a perfect Rajinikanth film completely satisfying his fans, women, children and moreover the THALAIVAR himself.The only disappointment we had was that rocking Rajini background score was missing (may be Rahman was busy with other things) which let down some mass scenes. And to the new age fans, I perfectly understand why you didn't like Lingaa; it's because you didn't get what you expected, hope you will be satisfied with "I" else you should wait for another Shankar-Rajini outing.

Watched Lingaa!! Well, the first 20 minutes was really unbearable, after which some respite, came with the nicely done slow motion fight scene on top of moving train. Though the movie is watchable once...it doesn't have the energy of a Padaiyappa, nor it induce pathos like Muthu, and definitely not the style and masala like Shivaji or Robo if one wants to draw a comparison. Can call it an average Rajni movie. One thing very evident through out the movie was clearly the star has aged. I think after this he should accept roles which matches his age like Amithabh does, take for example Sarkar, Baghban or even some thing like Drishyam etc, where the roles demand a more dignified star power. ARR's music is also nothing to write about. Nor the production quality. In fact I can say the production quality is below average, no single scene looks like it was set in pre-independence era. The Slow motion fight scene is brilliant, looks like cut and pasted from some other movie. May be they outsourced that bit..who knows.

This is an excellent movie.All the scenes are very beautiful and well presented.It runs 175 minutes, but you will not feel headache at the end!It has two heroines in their 20s, but all conservatives can also watch this movie with friends and family without any discomfort!I suggest you to go and watch this movie in the theater atmosphere and am sure that you will not regret it!Views may differ, so go and have your own!To me and my family, this film is excellent and I would rate it 8/10.Hats off to the entire team and Thanks to Rajinikanth sir for his sincere efforts. Everyone, including Anuska, Sonakshi, Santhanam did their part extremely well. Very happy to watch the movie on the opening day!!