"Mayakkam Enna" is a movie scored well by director Selvaragavan along with music director GV Prakash ,actor Dhanush and actress Richa.This is yet another film that made me blog after my first Tamil review "Aezhaam Arivu".Dhanush as Karthik Swaminathan is a freelance photographer who aspires to become a best photographer but all his efforts becomes wastes.He is surrounded by friends , his only well-wishers who nickname him as genius .They are his only support and guidance.His best friend Sundar introduces his girlfriend Yamini (Richa) to Dhanush .She is shown as a daring and beautiful girl. At first the two don't get well with each other but slowly they are attracted to each other .As you might guess, Dhanush finally ends in marrying his best friend's girlfriend .The first of the film is humorous as in all Dhanush flicks .It  is based on his love of photography, his love and his friends .The other half of the film shows his life after marriage, his efforts and failure in getting recognized .He lands in emotionally disturbed condition after an accident making his whole family life sick.And as the saying goes, the wife is the backbone of a husband's career ,Dhanush wife Yamini tries her best in helping her husband Karthik (Dhanush) to come out of his depression.And finally the time comes when he achieves his dream in his life after a long struggle.  

The movie had three things that I would appreciate from my point of view.

1. Never give up.Love what you love to do and there comes a point in your life time that you will achieve your dream.Till then ,keep trying and never give up
2. Drinking habits.In one scene, when the director showed two friends (one being Dhanush) to drink to calm themselves and speak out the truth from their heart ,my first impression was "Is the director promoting drinks" but in the other half of the movie ,the director and the movie both scored to show that "Drinking is not good for both health and life"
3. Never cheat.The movie showed the black truth of cheating.The truth that is happening in many industries and many innocent talented people deprived of their limelight.The final end of "Mayakkam Enna" says it all.However you get cheated by the big and small sharks in the industry , the trying soul will definitively achieve in his life.

And even Dhanush friend who played bad wooing his wife , finally catches up to be a part of the best friends circle in the ups and downs of life.Last but not the least ,I have to appreciate giving a thumbs up for a particular scene wherein the director (along with Dhanush) captures the beauty of Photography : the sun rays  peeping from the holes on between the trees, the bird suddenly raising both his wing up and the slow descending leaf from the tree branches everything showed the beauty of life and nature.The songs and background music was also good.Overall,I felt that the movie had a slight brush effect of the big Blockbuster "Beautiful Mind"...this is what came in my mind first when I'm done with the movie.

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I am not a usual movie reviewer of the kind.I blog in order to satisfy the need of my mind being used fruitfully. Like I have said I have always been attracted to nature's magical ways and mysteries that lie hidden behind the universe.But this time I had to change my decision because this Movie had something that made me proud and also think twice as much.So I hereby pay a tribute by writing  a review about it.

Aezhaam Arivu or the seventh sense in English translation is another blockbuster movie starring actor Surya ,actress Shruthi Hassan ,directed by A.R.Murugadass and photography by Ravi K.Chandran.The film was a science fiction thriller involving Bio-war, Hypnotism controlling minds , Genetic Engineering and ancient revival of the history of Monk Bodhidharma, a greatest Zen master who happens to be a Tamilain.(Hats off Tamiza!).I was hooked from the beginning of the movie to its end .The movie had a important message of creating awareness of  reviving the ancient cultures of India.It also stresses on learning our history and teaching the same to our generations.

The movie starts with the introduction of Bodhidharma (Actor Surya) , a Buddhist monk of 5th/6th century who taught martial arts of Zen and Shaolinquan in China.He was said to be born in Kanchipuram , Tamil Nadu, India.The  director tried to show some proof of this facts in his film.Bodhidhrama leaves his motherland to China in order to save its people from the forthcoming danger.At first, the people of China thought him to be dangerous and did not accept him.Later when he saved the people from the danger of a deadly disease and human invasion, Bodhidharma was worshipped as their savior.Then Bodhidharma stayed their and taught the people of China all his martial arts.And during his death, he accepted the people's wish to be buried in China itself in order to keep their country safe from future hazards.

The fact above and the consequence of what happens if and only if the Chinese people turn sides with those teachings from Bodhivarma towards Bodhivarma's own people is the continuation of the movie.

Thousands of years later,we are introduced to two groups of people.One group are the bad people who wants to start a Bio-war called Operation Red in India by spreading the same deadly virus that had its presence in Bodhidharma period .By doing so, they make millions of people in India get affected by the disease and there is no medicine to cure them yet.And then when the need of something to cure increases, the Chinese Bad guys would demand India billions of money just to give them the medicine it had already made as planned (from the teachings of Bodhidharma ).The other group are the good people, basically a group of five Genetic Engineering students(one of them is our Heroine) along with the descendant of Bodhidharma  (Actor Surya as Arvind, a circus player) .They together fight back the evil and save their country.

The heroine Sruthi Hassan (as Subha,genetic engineering student) finds about Arvind lineage of Bodhidharma  and follows him.The Chinese bad guys send Dong Lee, a Chinese to start Operation Red in India and also to kill Suba from recreating Bodhidharma from Arvind through his DNA.All the three (Arvind, Shuba and Dong Lee) get to meet and every time Dong Lee tries to control some one mind to kill them.Both Suba and Arvind escape ,and finally settle to transform Arvind's DNA to Bodhidharma 's DNA sequence so that Arvind can revive the martial arts through his genes in order to stop the spreading virus and to kill Dong Lee.

Again,Dong Lee finds out their hiding place and in the final fight, Arvind transforms himself into Bodhidharma and kills Dong Lee and saves his country.The movie ends with a final note from Surya about the revival of our cultures through reading History and passing out to our generations. The Actors and the directors did justice to the movie and I had a satisfied feeling of watching something worth.As for the songs, the starting Ringa Ringa song was very nice and others could have been better .After a long time, this movie was something that made the Tamil people proud of what they were and also made them to think of how they got to be. Don't get surprised if you google about Bodhidharma after watching this movie :)

Plus(+)

1. Worth Watching Script 
2. Fighting 
3. Photography 
4. Made all Tamilians to look back and remind their strength .Made them proud to be from such culture and also made them to think of reviving or preserving it.

Minus(-)

1. Background Music and Songs

Over all Rating : **** (Four stars) for reviving the ancient culture and giving out a good message

Some facts of Bodhidharma

1. Shaolin Temple is known in the west for the Kung Fu movies and it is here the teachings of Bodhidharma
2. Bodhidharma was the First Patriarch of Zen who advocated the method to attain no mind straight-away .This means in normal meditation techniques we reduce countless thoughts to one thought, and then using the resultant one-pointed mind we realize "emptiness" or no mind attaining Nirvana.Zen's method on the contrary aims at no mind straight-away meaning through non-thought.
3. Bodhidharma was accustomed to doing exercises by imitating a tiger, monkey, scorpion and mantis during the intervals in his meditation.

The book version of Bodhidharma Anthology

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