When I watched this movie in theater in 1991, I was a 6 year old kid. This movie was one of my favorite movie in those days. I watched it more than 20 times in various occasions during 90s. After I grew up I forget the movie, and I thought I was overrated the movie as I watched it during my childhood days. Years roll on, Yesterday(29/May/2018), nearly after 25 years I suddenly happen to see this movie in Youtube. Firstly I thought of watching only the highlighted good scenes of the movie. But, when movie title card was started, I was not able to fast forward movie only to highlighted scenes. So, ended up seeing this movie frame by frame. Once movie completed I was not able to realized that I watched 25 years old movie. I became astonished and I started admire Director R.K. Selvamani as one of the great legendary director of tamil cinema. And my good thoughts towards Vijayakanth was increased to next level.
Below are some of the greatest path breaking techniques or mindblowing facts about this movie,
1. Title card starts after 30 mins of movie. So, you have to wait 30 mins to see the main protogonist of this movie. Which gives you more weigtage to the Character Prabhakaran.Even though you are not a Vijayakanth fan, this techniques creates mammoth expectations on the hero entry.
2. Mansoor Alikhan introduction. First few minutes, camera was behind the villain. You would get furious to see villain's face. But, director reveals villain's face when villain slice man's head and blood was splashing in to villain's face. That how you should see blooded face Mansoor Alikhan.
3. Cuts(Editing) - Especially in all the scenes when Vijakanth doing enquiry in different forest areas with illayaraja's bgm and Vijayakanth's attitude makes those non-dialogue scenes really awesome.
4. Illayaraja's bmg. I think, this movie's bgm was one of most under rated illayaraja's bgm. some times it feel like illayaraja's best.
5. Vijayakanth - wow wow..what an attitude, he graciously carries himself in all the scenes. One of the finest and under rated actor tamil cinema ever produced.
6. At last, the real Captain Mr.R.K.Selvamani. His idealogy and his way of narration and many political satire scenes makes this movie watchable and content is still relevant to the current Indian politics which feel like watching a new movie.
Am giving 9 starts as rating because most of Vijayakanth's rivalry actor's movie got good ratings for their average films. But, Captain Prabhakaran movie was under rated.
This movie was most successful and highly grossed movie when it was release. But it lost it's charisma as this movie was not telecast in major tamil channels.
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