Sikandar Movie Review

Cast: Suriya, Samantha, Vidyut Jamwal, Manoj Bajpai, Soori, Brahmanandam

Story, Screenplay & Direction: N. Lingusamy

Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja

Cinematography: Santosh Sivan

Editing: Anthony

Art: Rajeevan

Banner: Thirrupathi Brothers Film Media Private Limited , UTV Motion Pictures , RamaLakshmi Cine Creations (Telugu)

Story:

It is the story of two brothers Raju bhai and Krishna. Raju Bhai (Suriya) is a mafia don in Mumbai. In search of Raju Bhai, Krishna (Suriya) comes to Mumbai from Vizag. Krishna gets to know about Raju Bhai and Chandu (Vidyut Jamwal) friendship and their mafia business. Imran Bhai (Manoj Bhajpai) a powerful mafia don kills Chandu. And meanwhile, when Raju Bhai gets to know that few of his gang members have backstabbed them and killed Chandu, he also gets fired by the same gang. What happens to him? Who is Krishna and why does he come to meet Raju Bhai.Will Krishna find out the murders of his brother and the rest of the revenge saga forms climax.

Performances: 

Surya looked quite stylish and handsome ,Sikandar is his one man show all the way. He did his best to do justice to dual roles in the movie.

Samantha is cute and apt. The love portions almost work. Samantha is very glamorous and she surprises us with a bikini in a song. All the romantic portions between Suriya and Samantha are a decent watch. They have danced well and all the songs are colourful.

Vidyut Jammwal performs well while Manoj Bajpai has a limited role. Soori was not offered much length, but he has done his parts well. Others namely Brahmanandam, Rajpal Yadav, Manoj Bajpai, Dalip Tahil are okay.

Analysis :

Sikandar has been released with high expectations just because of Suriya and Lingusaamy combo. Except for couple of twists [pre-interval bang], the film has a routine story and predictable screenplay.  Sikandar failed to reach audience expectations with routine & predictable story & screenplay .

The run-length and pace of the movie will leave the audience feel boring. Better editing would have been needed for such a Big project. Sikandar starts with good pace but after plotting all the charachters it slow downs gradually till the end of first half. Pre-Interval bang is succeeded to raise the hopes on 2nd half but it failed to keep up the expectations with too much of action sequences , guessable twists & routine and dragged scenes .

Because of too much action sequences it may not survive at ‘A’ centers , only the lead pairs performances will save and decide Sikandar Box-office run.

Verdict : Sikandar for SS – Surya & Samantha.