Sorry, this movie sucks

Good concept, poorly executed.

Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

This is the best Tamil movie I have ever seen!It is surely one of a kind.If you are an ardent movie fan,this is a MUST WATCH MOVIE. Hats off to Selvaragavan!India has got her own Christopher Nolan.The first half makes you wonder if you are actually watching a tamil movie or not.My friends warned me that the second half was a bit confusing.But you have my word,the second half is even better than the first.The biggest plus is that the movie has an awesome script and a very good story.But anyway it ain't a Hollywood movie with budget in billions.So there may be some technical flaws in animation,Graphics and the like.But this is compensated by the mind blowing music by G.V.Prakash.He is another plus to this movie.To conclude Selvaragavan & Team have done a great job in taking Tamil Cinema to new standards.Am eagerly waiting for the sequel to this movie.CHOLAN PAYANAM THODARATTUM!!

I wish I could give it less than 1 on 10. This movie is disgusting to say the least. Right from the screenplay to the post production stuff like graphics and special effects, everything is absolutely poor. Selvaraghavan , who built himself good reputation with romantic movies like 7/G Rainbow colony and Adavari Maatalakku Arthalu Verule and dark movies like Pudhupetai and Kadhal Kondein just loses it all with this movie. You definitely don't expect a movie which was in the making for over 2 years to be this bad! Selvaraghavan challenged that if someone could prove that Aayirathil Oruvan was inspired/copied from another movie, he would quit directing movies. Well, if Aayirathil Oruvan is going to be the kind of movies he is going to make in the future, then he might as well quit cinema right now. Accepting his challenge, I can prove that this movie was copied from not just one other but at least 3- 4 other Hollywood films (The Mummy, Mackenna's Gold, Apocalypto, Gladiator to name a few) The screenplay is poor in the first half and gets worse and worse progressively with every scene in the 2nd half of the movie. The movie beats logic completely. I would have bought the idea of time travel (which was what the movie was initially said to be based on) to this uninteresting idea where the writer wants us to believe that Cholas lived as cannibals feeding on each other in a far off land for 1000 years completely unaffected by the external world. One particularly funny scene (which was obviously not intended to be funny) was that Reema Sen, a lady from the Paandiya clan converses with the Chola King Parthiban in ancient Tamil but suddenly starts singing in Telugu. And graphics; this movie scores the all time low in the special effects department. Having spent so much money on unnecessary and badly choreographed war scenes, the producer could have forced the director to give better special effects by chipping in a little more money, at least to make serious scenes look serious and not funny or disgusting. Worst graphics you'll ever see. And after giving the worst movie in ages, Selvaraghavan actually had the audacity to call James Cameron's Avatar meaningless and devoid of a plot. Avatar is a zillion times better than this crap that Selvaraghavan has given. GV Prakash's soundtrack is impressive and it gives u a feel of the movie. It was definitely an important element that created expectations before the movie was released. However, Selvaraghavan fails to utilize the best song of the album "Indha Paadhai" sung by Prakash himself. This movie is bad. Very bad. Very Very bad.

well...the much awaited movie of the year is here and it surpasses all the hype it has created.one of the best movie ever made in Indian cinema.No other director, other than selva would have even dared to make an attempt.the movie starts with an intro about the history ON the cholan n pandian empires and shifts back to present . From there its a roller coaster ride.Karti steals the show from the first scene.karti,reema n andrea get past 7 obstacles to reach the lost cholan city.each one of those obstacles is perfectly pictured.The natarajar scene is the high point in first half.Reema's character is perfectly shaped n her too.From the second half it ain't karti,reema , andrea or even the awesome partiban awes you , its just one man selva, selva, selva.the second half is the masterpiece.G.V has rendered some out-of-world music. Parthiban fits perfectly as cholan king.Pros: G.V 's music Reema's acting. Karti's timing in 1st half n his perfect looks in 2nd half. The whole of 2nd half.Cons: Movie doesn't fit well with ordinary viewers.As all, the perfect movie. If any one tells you "this movie is not good" just say them 3 words "GROW UP MANNNNNN"....ADIEU...

Selvaragavan has made a bold attempt in making an historic movie without the usual clichés of Tamil cinemas. I also want to mention that this movie is a complete fantasy and no records suggests the authenticity of the facts mentioned in the movie. As i've established the movie is a pure fantasy there are places in the movie where you are bound to see various clippings from Hollywood movies like the war scene where the tactics were taken from last samurai and also the famous gladiator scene.But apart from that the movie's first half has some awesome visuals and settings which is a revolution in Tamil cinema. The first half of the film while make you sit on your edge and also it is made in an adventure type. But the second half of the movie was ridiculous, first of all showing the Tamil people as cannibals was not good and also there were some silly magic present in the second half. If Selvaragavan would have concentrated more on the cinematography rather than the visual settings the movie would have been a perfect one. There were lots of plot holes in the second half, and as the movie progresses you get irritated in Reema Sen's role and also the director pathetically copy the Lara Croft, yes, thats true. Andrea's character has no real importance and it was totally eliminated at the end. Some scenes were really unbelievable and not in a good way, the scene were Reema Sen's blood poisons the soldiers made me laugh.The most foolish character was the leader of the mercenary team. The Indian army or the mercenaries were just crawling at the end war scene. Apparently the director didn't think about the amount of opposition in just moving a single gun. would sanction the massacre of all those people at the climax war. The guy was not even holding his gun correctly and made a very foolish attempt at the scene were he was wearing a traditional Pandian dress and giving orders. Also I didn't think professional soldiers would behave in that way at the end and this proves that the guys were mercenaries and not the Army. In reality no government would allow the recruitment of mercenary and it is done only as a last resort, but i'm going to let go of this logic as majority of the audience would not notice it.Karthi made a memorable performance at the beginning of the movie but his character was also reduced at the end. Also I think the director had so much confidence in himself, he believed that the movie would be a success and a sequel would be taken later. I'm hoping the sequel would be much better than this.