‘Mark Antony’ Review: SJ Suryah is the heart and soul of this mindless time-travel film – India Today

Mark Antony is a reputation that each Tamil movie fan can keep in mind within the blink of a watch. Due to Raghuvaran’s iconic efficiency in Rajinikanth’s ‘Baassha’, he makes Mark Antony one of many deadliest villains. Minimize to 2023, we’ve got Vishal and director Adhik Ravichandran making an attempt to money in on the celebrity that the character Mark Antony has created through the years. Like ‘Baashha’, ‘Mark Antony’ can be remembered for a superlative efficiency from SJ Suryah.

Antony (Vishal) and Jackie Pandian (SJ Suryah) are greatest mates and gangsters in Chennai. Collectively, they management Chennai by means of their rowdyism. Nevertheless, their enemy Ekambaram (Sunil) decides to take revenge in opposition to Antony for killing his brother. He plots and kills Antony in a bar. This makes Jackie turn into the only real gangster and he brings up Antony’s son, Mark.

In the meantime, Chiranjeevi (Selvaraghavan) is engaged on a time-travel machine, i.e., a cellphone on this case, which finds Antony. He decodes the time-travel cellphone to make adjustments to his previous life, so he may carry again his mom and query his father. When Antony and Jackie pay money for this cellphone, they categorical their want to alter the previous.

Adhik Ravichandran created a reputation for himself within the Tamil movie business. After scoring successful with ‘Trisha Illana Nayanthara’, the director failed to attain success of that magnitude. However, ‘Mark Antony’ may simply carry him that success. The time-travel gangster movie is a whacky and loopy trip. What works in ‘Mark Antony’ are SJ Suryah’s sensible efficiency, GV Prakash’s music and the comedy bits.

The movie additionally has its personal share of flaws. A lot in order that it retains reminding us to not count on logic in a movie like this. The time-travel cellphone has restricted features and Chiranjeevi writes them down in a diary. However, the principles and features are so handy that they alter based on the screenplay.

‘Mark Antony’ has a stable story in its rating and Adhik has laced it with a number of theatrical moments at frequent intervals. Be it the interval sequence, Jackie’s interplay together with his son or the climax, the movie retains you entertained together with his quirky one-liners. The screenplay goes wild and it may have been a bit crisper in the direction of the second half.

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Whereas Vishal is the lead hero, it’s SJ Suryah who steals the present by miles. He’s credited as ‘Nadipu Arakan’ (performing beast) and he really lives as much as the title with the variations he has proven within the movie. Although Vishal has tried his greatest, his efficiency isn’t as efficient as Suryah’s. Sunil, in his function of Ekambaram, proved why he is likely one of the greatest performers in Telugu cinema.

That mentioned, there are some problematic bits in ‘Mark Antony’. Be it the therapy of Ritu Varma’s character, the cliched approach wherein Silk Smitha’s character behaves or Y Gee Mahendran’s act, these stereotypes may have been averted these days.

‘Mark Antony’ works nicely due to its (un)intentional comedy. Generally, you chuckle on the dialogue and typically you chuckle on the movie itself. Both approach, you chuckle whereas watching the movie and that’s in all probability the movie’s success.

Aside from SJ Suryah, it’s GV Prakash’s music that takes the cake. The cinematography by Abinandhan Ramanujam wants particular point out because the frames are fastidiously crafted and take us again to the 70s and 80s.

That mentioned, ‘Mark Antony’ is a valiant effort and, with sure shortcomings, it nonetheless manages to interact the viewers and depart them in splits.

2.5 out of 5 stars for ‘Mark Antony’.

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