The official teaser of I, the much-touted Vikram starrer, is out, and director Shankar's labour of love lives up to the pre-release hype at least in this one. Whatever the final outcome, the rushes of this fantasy certainly impress.
First the positives. Kudos to Vikram for possessing this man-beast with all his heart and soul! Playing a body builder preparing for the Mr Tamil Nadu contest, some kind of 'power' is pumped into his body and he transforms into a beast. Ahh, the beast! This creature is, like most on screen creatures, shifts between being a werewolf and a grotesque avatar of Hunchback of Notre-dame. It is said that Vikram put in no less than two full years into this project, sometimes putting on weight, and at other times, knocking off the added adipose. Happy to see Indian cinema pushing the boundaries to make believable movies!
Without doubt, I's special effects are great by any standards. Now, whether or not, they have been indigenously put together or have been outsourced from the West, the producers alone will know, but just the desire to make a film that gets its production value right yet doesn't overdo it, is good enough. Here's hoping it will ignite a desire among Indians to go for the skies.
Even the scale at which the story unfolds is stunning. Spectacular landscapes, edgy camera angles, believable action sequences that still stun and maintaining that delicate balance between native locations to fantasy shoots abroad so that the narrative remains rooted in its Tamil Nadu context. Indeed Shankar has put in a lot of effort to make this magnum opus worth a watch if teasers are to go by.
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