Kanthaswamy (2009) User Reviews

More quantity than quality!

[timesquare66 · 6/10 · 14 May 2010]

Nice exotic locations for songs. Songs lyrics were silly especially meow meow song. The best thing about this movie is vikram's coolness from start to finish and he never has looked more handsome,fresh and fit than this. The heroine is similar to the padayappa(rajni film) character except this time they both end up liking each other.

There was one scene where the men in suits(with guns) were hit by a car and escapes but then they choose to fight the hero with their fists when they could av easily used guns to finish him off. They took such a long time pointing their guns to the hero(who was blindfolded)and refused to shoot him straight or take his left arm as ordered.Instead they wanted to play with him. The action and plot has many loopholes.

Does prabhu always like be a cop in every movie?

About songs, they were so boring....and no wonder the movie did not do well. A tamil movie has chance of doing OK or superhit if it either has a decent plot or nice appealing songs for Tamil as seen in vijay movies.

An actor like Vikram should not be misused like this. They have good chemistry but the plot is a let down for his fans. We expect superb performances or dialogues in vikram's movies.The director should keep that in mind.

Is this tamil cinema's answer to bollywood krissh? If so it failed.

This movie has more style than substance.

Interesting superhero movie ruined by a disastrous editing... Still watchable for its action scenes and plenty of interesting moments.

[Achyut_Prashast_Singh · 6/10 · 13 July 2015]

Movie: Kanthaswamy (U)

Rating: 3/5

I called this film a regular Vikram fare because of two reasons - First being the fact that every Vikram film deals with social issues, and the second, it's entertaining like all his films. This film just adds to the greatness of Vikram sir, whose previous entertainers like Anniyan have won over the people.

It's really amazing to see Vikram sir as a superhero. His getup as the superhero is really fantastic. His performance is the best. Prabhu's role is like a regular officer, but even he does well. Susi Ganeshan arrives in a small but fine role.

The best part of the film which I felt was realistic approach. This happens even in case of fight scenes. If you see superhero style flying action, you have the justification in the following scene. The action scenes are really amazing and the film hardly has any disturbing scenes at all.

However, the thing I didn't like was the vulgarity by the heroine Shriya, though she tries to look glamorous. The editing is not at all crisp as the film's runtime goes beyond three hours and that's pretty patience testing. The comedy track looked forced and it would have better been chopped off. The music was fine. It means the editing of the film stands been Kanthaswamy and a huge victory.

But overall, it's not a disappointment, for you get to see a new kind of a superhero. On the whole, if you are a fan of Vikram as well as realistic social superhero films, watch Kanthaswamy. It's not very perfect but then who in this world is able to give a 100% always?

Kanthaswamy (2009)

[santhosh-10290 · 5/10 · 29 May 2018]

The movie was not so good. There are many vulgar scenes in the movie. Songs were bad in the movie but the BGM was good in the movie. This is not the best of Vikram.

Mindless stupid movie

[harshavardhan-in · 1/10 · 30 September 2011]

Stupidity at its best ....

Complete injustice had been done to vikram in this movie.... This is not what you expect put of Vikrams movie..Forget Vikram this does not deserve to be called at least a decent action movie.

Movie had nothing but loopholes. Why did not the Mexicans shoot him right when they got him? Were they waiting for him to kick their ass later ..After the Jeep hits them ...they have plenty of chance and time to shoot him..instead they start fighting fists with him...NOw thats exactly what I called DUMB....

A Millionaire AP Business Magnet , spending all his time in his stupid bus,with chicks around all the time and his money comes out of no where ...oh yeah ..that makes sense ..

In the climax , the hero walks into his BUS ..smashes everything and then .....Wallaah...he finds all his documents, black money in the BUS...Thats Brilliant..... What a Wonder place to hide money ..I never thought millionaires were so stupid ...

Shreya was useless as usual in the movie ...but she did looked pretty..she did her part..

And why the hell is the screen play so fast...I mean calm down a bit , let the people know whats going on .. I felt like whole movie was fast forwarded ...why SO Hurry ...

Horrible Songs .. AWFUL... I am not supposed to speak bad words here...but let me tell you ..they S***********************K

I wish I could give this movie (-10) rating ...I am sorry I cant..

Even action sequences were pretty bad. They tried to make them look real by showing all the wires and stuff, good effort but not enough. They looked very very unnatural. I never saw vikram throwing one proper kick.All I see is that when he faces the bad guys , they suddenly speed everything up and later you see the bad guy dead...I am supposed to assume that in the mean time vikram would have kicked them bad....Oh yeah thats true action sequence ..thank you very much

All in all.. an AWFUL movie

An epileptic suizure waiting to happen!

[rohonnag · 3/10 · 28 November 2011]

There is no doubt that this is a bad movie, so why bother writing any more about it? well for on thing, the editing is the worst kind possible, the screen is flickering and flashing ALL the time, not just for special action scenes, but for every scene, the brightness is out of control and the flicker is introduced to make the movie seem interesting and fast...

the editing is also choppy, the cuts are in milli seconds throughout and the comedy track just shoved in forcefully....

vikram has a good look in this movie, but for decent movies in the same genre see, aparichit (vikram), nayak (anil kapoor), hindusthani (kamal hassan) (all the above are by shankar)

Ruined By Editing And Screenplay

[IPyaarCinema · 1/10 · 9 April 2022]

Review By Kamal K

The movie is unreasonably stretched, for no rhyme or reason. The choppy editing also makes one feel that any scene could be placed anywhere inside the movie. Picture this: after what one thinks to be the climax, the movie heaves for another half-hour with a comedy scene, an item number and then culminates into conclusion .

Worst movie

[akshay-only · 1/10 · 6 September 2020]

The is garbage movie and don't watch even you have a lot of ideal time.

Astonishing! Felt really bad after seeing the spoilers given negative rating!

[avskapil · 10/10 · 5 January 2022]

I am still shocked. This movie is one of the best movies of vikram and i have watched the whole movie today also and for many times. The above ratings are wantedly given by the spoilers.

Very different tamil movie

[sagheero · 8/10 · 29 November 2009]

Awesome finishing, original plot line and stellar acting makes this a treat to watch. A longish movie, 3hrs plus in length but you never leave your seat to miss out on any sequence.

The plot is not very original, Robin Hood, man robs from rich and give it to the poor kind of a story line, but the take is very different. The lead role by Vikram is played out well though his literal take on Kandasami in a rooster avatar is a bit over the top. Shreya Saran finally has a role more meatier than just being eye candy. Other actors like Tiwari also have supported well.

The virgin locales were a breath of fresh air (Mexico) and the action sequences were quite different. All in all, a entertaining movie!

A great movie

[its-me6611 · 9/10 · 15 July 2011]

I didn't expect much from it sill watched and was surprised.

Good story-line and awesome acting have made the movie 1 of the best Tamil movie I've ever watched. I liked the movie because it has all that a spectator can ask. Super action sequences .... sensible actions to be exact. It is clear from the beginning why he(Kanthaswamy) is fighting and how he is fighting. Super songs and awesome location. There is comedy too. Actress(Shriya Saran) is as usual great looking and played an important role in the movie plot.

Its a movie where u think that u know whats gonna happen next...still get surprised.

A must watch if u ask me.