Rating: 3.5/5
Cast: Ajith, Arjun, Trisha, Vaibhav, Lakshmi Rai and others
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Editor: Praveen KL, NB Srikanth
Cinematographer: Sakthi Saravanan
Screenplay, director: Venkat Prabhu
Producer: Dhayanidhi Alagiri, Vivek Rathnavel
Banner: Cloud Nine Movies
Release date: 31/08/2011
Distributers: Sun Pictures, Ayngaran International (Worldwide), Radaan Mediaworks (I) Ltd (Tamilnadu theatricals Rights)
Well well well, Thala Ajith's 50th Film Mankatha is releasing after many doubts of the release date and much talks about the movie. The film had been in news ever since the film was supposed to go on floors. Directed by Venkat Prabhu, produced by Dayanidhi Azhagri's Cloud Nine Movies and distributed by Sun Pictures.
Story:
Here we give you the insight of the story. Ajith as plays the role of Vinayak Mahadev, a police officer, who gets suspended. Vinayak and Prithviraj (played by Arjun) are friends who also is a police official. Vinayak however stars working against the police department and forms his own gang. He poses threat to the police officers and Prthviraj ends up chasing Vinayak.
Vinayak along with Sumanth and Prem (played by Vaibhav and Premji respectively) forms a team and they stars stealing money. As time passes by the gang of Vinayak gets caught one by one by Prithviraj. Although he wishes to catch Vinayak and plots ways he wouldn't be able to catch him.
We got introduced to Sanjana (played by Trisha), who just appears in few scene in the movie as the love interest of Vinakyak, who is the daughter of the Villain, a Casino owner. Sanjana is used as bait to win over the casino owner and get the money. Vinayak who wins over lot of money and escapes with it. But there is a twist in the plot. To watch out for what the twist is all about one need to go the theater to catch Thala Ajith in action.
Overall :
Mankatha film will appeal to all Thala fans for sure and will definitely be a hit among the masses. Thala Ajith in an all new 'Salt & Pepper' avatar is set to rock the screen and is doing so. The thala fans are going crazy to catch the Ultimate star in a stylish negative role, who uses a lot of bad words and steals money. Ajith entertains his fans unlike his previous duds. Seems like Venkat Prabhu as a fan of Ajith has understood the pulse of the audience and fans of Ajith that he has given such an entertainer, where Ajith rules the game of action.
Finally:
Thala Ajith, not just steals the money in the movie but – steals the show completely!