Kaadhalan

Starring Indian Michael Jackson Prabhu Deva and Nagma in the lead, the movie is the story of a couple in the midst of political turmoil. The movie was directed by Shankar (of Indian and Jeans fame) and music by A.R.Rahman.
Nagma is the daughter of a politician, who is in power by crook. Prabhu is the son of a police constable. After seeing her during one of his field trips, he falls in love, as he thinks she is the woman who comes in his dreams. He pursues her and they fall in love.
As guessed, the politician dad doesn't like it and they arrest Prabhu and put him through lots of torture. These scenes were disgusting and nauseating. It was almost seeing an Indian version of fear factor. Director Shankar has to show some extra scenes that just make you turn the TV off.
Prabhu is released when Nagma pleads with her dad and they manage to get together at the politician's native village. What happens after that would be a mystery to me cause I stopped watching.
The movie was just downright masala and it wasn't worth continuing. Except for A.R.Rahman's music and Prabhu's dance, there wasn't much incentive to watch the movie. The music was exceptional, especially yennavalae, kaadhalikkum pennin kaigal and urvasi. There was one useful bit of advice from the movie when S.P.B. (who is the father of Prabhu) advises him to hold the expression of any forceful emotion for 5 minutes. It was a pretty good thought, except sometimes, the moment to say might just melt away.
Nagma looked fresh, but very stuffed and overacted for much of the movie. I don't understand why directors pick the topic of the girl knowing nothing and they don't seem to be thinking of ideas either. In one of the scenes, Nagma was dressed with the sari blouse and slacks in front of the guy and the next moment she is telling him, she is shy to bathe in river cause a sparrow was staring at her. I was like, "take a gun and shoot me". Where do such women exist anyway?
Except for the music and the dance, the movie is probably a torture to watch.