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Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Suman Roberson It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Austin Benjamin This movie is for, those who are always compare Indian movies with Hollywood cinema. Even Hollywood movie makers can not made movie like this in this budget. Movie is well crafted from start to end. There is no lag in the movie. If you feel lagging then you are not watching movie with your full concentration. Some people claim, AO is the movie for genius movie watchers? definitely not. This movie tells story in a layman's language. If you are still confused then you are watching this movie for name sake. After 5 years I am writing this review in IMDb. Because this movie is worth to talk and write for another decade. Some people says directors like S.S.Rajamouli and Sankar are the two directors who raised the Indian movies to Hollywood standard. But I would say that is utterly false statement. People admired about Naan E and Sankar's so called worthless expenses as Hollywood standard. But real fact is, why we are giving much important to Hollywood movies is, that is because of the concept and beyond level of thinking they have it in their BRAIN. AO is the answer to that THINK BEYOND concept in Indian cinema. If you watch this movie without any distraction you will feel what I felt. The reason I am dragging Sankar and S.S.Rajamouli into this context is, these two directors are worshiped as demi god of making Hollywood standard movie in Indian Cinema. But the truth is Selvaragavan done that without making much noise by giving Aayirathil Oruvan to Indian cinema. So please stop making Sankar and S.S.Rajamouli as big directors in Indian, they are giving masala movies with mix of some gimmick technology.If someone ask me which movie you can select, if you compete with Hollywood movie, I would say without any second thought "Aayirathil Oruvan" is the movie which would challenge the Hollywood film makers.Atlast the bitter truth is, this movie is the one real unsung movie in Indian cinema history. My heartiest thanks to real Hollywood thinker and director Selvaraghavan.

ebenezer-prince 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!!

subramanian1408 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.

shanu ek Im feeling Really sorry that i went to watch this movie. I had great expectations, I'm totally disappointed. The guys who are praising this much must be from tamilnadu... i don't know what did u guys see in it. I saw a mixture of too much things, i cannot explain what,may be visual circus... awful graphics especially that red things from the sea(what on earth was that), poor script. it was a clear try to make movies like the Hollywood ones. In the cinema hall I felt the movie was lasting forever, and suddenly it end.. a very disappointing ending.Even though I'm not from Tamilnadu, I know ur language and i luv ur movies, this is totally not ur cup of tea... plz be more realistic or at least try something like KamalHasan.