Billa 2007 - movie review

Sometimes you have to trust your instincts and if you don't, you pay a heavy price. Today was a bad day for me and I didn't trust my instincts and ended up watching...NO NO staring at this movie.For those who don't know any background of the movie, this is the remake of famous hindi movie 'Don'. It was remade in tamil in late 70s or something into a Rajnikanth starrer 'Billa'. Since Amitabh's 'Don' was remade recently starring SRK, some wise guy in Tamil filmdom came up with the idea of remaking Billa. Wow, isn't that innovative and creative.

Seems everyone in the movie crew was infected with Madras eye or Conjunctivitis. Everyone in the movie had to wear sun glass religiously and I believe the movie definitely made some optical store profitable. Wearing sun glasses is another regular ritual that has to be followed rigorously in a gangster flick and this movie is no exception. And wearing big sun glasses helps the actors too, you comfortably shield the eyes and half the face and there is very lil they have to express. May be I am living in some 82nd dimension, I don't understand Haute Couture.

Another interesting thing in the movie is that you can see many co-actors to acting as Human Statues (??) or Body guards. Having Malay body guards and damsel with weird hairdo doesn't raise the standard of movie. In total the movie was more like ramp walks by the lead cast in blazers and sun glasses than acting.

This movie proved once again the time tested theory that villains are morons, they go in groups when there isn't any need for it and when someone is going to meet someone they go at it alone and without even proper backups. I think thats the reason they are international gangsters and I am a code monkey.

The songs were absolutely pathetic and I don't see any reason why I should even mention it. The song 'My Name is Billa' reminded me of some one pulling a patients rectum through his mouth without administering anesthetic. Ripping OST of Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions for the background music doesn't make a Tamil Movie close to a Hollywood flick. This is surely one of the worst scores from YuvanShankar Raja.

Since I had seen the old flick couple of times during my summer holidays as a kid, there wasn't anything to look forward to in the movie. Only thing that this movie proved was Nayantara has a good Mid Riff and she doesn't mind showing it. The movie comes close to B-Grade hollywood flick and fails miserably. Stay away if not suffer.