KollywoodMix rating 4/5
Language: Tamil
Cast:
Madhampatty Rangaraj
Shweta Tripathi
Vela Ramamoorthy
RJ Vigneshkanth
Kabir Duhan Singh
Ravi Mariya
Technicians:
Directed by * Raju Saravananan
Produced by * K. E. Gnanavel Raja
Written by * Raju Murugan
Music by * Sean Roldan
Cinematography * Selvakumar SK
Edited by * Phillomin
Production Company * Studio Green
PRO * Yuvraaj
Among the newer crop of filmmakers, Raju Murugan may be second to none in his love for Ilaiyaraaja. He appears to be working his way through the maestro’s catalogue. If Joker featured Alli thandha boomi, from Nandu, Mehandi Circus — for which Raju Murugan is credited with story and dialogues — has another song from that very film, Manjal veyyil. O paapa laali plays a key role in the scheme of things here, and the narrative revolves around Jeeva (Madhampatti Rangaraj), who owns a recording shop named… Rajageetham. The year is 1992, when a young upstart named AR Rahman has appeared on the scene. (He’s dismissed, at first, because there’s no “thanana thanana” in his music.) And it may be no accident the first song we hear in Mehandi Circus is Vaa vaa en veenaye, composed by Ilaiyaraaja’s brother Gangai Amaran. This film has been directed by Raju Murugan’s brother, Saravana Rajendran.
The forthcoming artist Madhampatty Rangaraj parallel Shweta Tripathi plays in the leading role that she had experienced in a couple of films in Hindi, which was Haraamkhor and Masaan.
The film is directed by Raju Saravananan who is an elder brother of Raju Murugan and he has scripted out the “Mehandi Circus” which contains full of romantic flavor. The other actors like Vela Ramamoorthy and RJ Vigneshkanth support the film. The romantic background effects and the songs composed by Sean Roldan.
Story: “Mehandi Circus” was produced by K. E. Gnanavel Raju with his production banner of Studio Green. The title song holds on a historical love story that a king who protect his loved one, which made an interesting opening suddenly the film move to 1992 period, an old drunker familiar with the Kollywood duet songs at a point the audience could observe that he doesn’t update himself after 92, the reason behind is the man had a love failure flashback.
Meanwhile, Mehandi was counting for her last stage and her daughter decided to fulfill her mother’s wish in the last moment. Now, Mehandi’s matured daughter move towards Ooty to bring back Mehandi’s lover. While Madhampatty Rangaraj (Mehandi’s lover), was traveling along with the screenplay, which fluctuate towards 92 to recollect the past. Once reached Maharashtra Madhampatty Rangaraj met Mehandi, their true love has been accepted or not? Is the balance sequences.
The content flows with different eccentrics, even though the script based on erstwhile format, Madhampatty Rangaraj’s father keen in his Caste and never allows the people in his house and never respects the feeling of his wife and his son Madhampatty Rangaraj. In that area, a church priest who is rude and against to love marriage. But in person he had an opposite character that he is jovial and even supports all the love proposals.
The time decides everything, Madhampatty Rangaraj’s father against with inter caste marriage and strong belief in the caste system, that he realizes when he affects with the paralysis, the caste differences are nothing in front of fate.
For the strong love Madhampatty Rangaraj practices with a tough game, which Mehandi’s father keeps a condition to get married with Mehandi. Initial stage, Madhampatty Rangaraj hopeless with the tough game and years later that he gets success in the tough game and with the love.
This is almost a parallel track in the film, and this 1960s-style melodrama clashes badly with the gentleness of the romance. Towards the end, we get a villain — I saw him coming from a mile away. Mehandi Circus is written more from the head than the heart. It’s been thought through, not felt. I wished it had taken a hint from the music of the composer whose songs are featured throughout, the maestro who effortlessly straddled head and heart.
