Austin Benjamin This movie is for, those who are always compare Indian movies with Hollywood cinema. Even Hollywood movie makers can not made movie like this in this budget. Movie is well crafted from start to end. There is no lag in the movie. If you feel lagging then you are not watching movie with your full concentration. Some people claim, AO is the movie for genius movie watchers? definitely not. This movie tells story in a layman's language. If you are still confused then you are watching this movie for name sake. After 5 years I am writing this review in IMDb. Because this movie is worth to talk and write for another decade. Some people says directors like S.S.Rajamouli and Sankar are the two directors who raised the Indian movies to Hollywood standard. But I would say that is utterly false statement. People admired about Naan E and Sankar's so called worthless expenses as Hollywood standard. But real fact is, why we are giving much important to Hollywood movies is, that is because of the concept and beyond level of thinking they have it in their BRAIN. AO is the answer to that THINK BEYOND concept in Indian cinema. If you watch this movie without any distraction you will feel what I felt. The reason I am dragging Sankar and S.S.Rajamouli into this context is, these two directors are worshiped as demi god of making Hollywood standard movie in Indian Cinema. But the truth is Selvaragavan done that without making much noise by giving Aayirathil Oruvan to Indian cinema. So please stop making Sankar and S.S.Rajamouli as big directors in Indian, they are giving masala movies with mix of some gimmick technology.If someone ask me which movie you can select, if you compete with Hollywood movie, I would say without any second thought "Aayirathil Oruvan" is the movie which would challenge the Hollywood film makers.Atlast the bitter truth is, this movie is the one real unsung movie in Indian cinema history. My heartiest thanks to real Hollywood thinker and director Selvaraghavan.

PD i just don't understand how people gave this movie >5 rating.one of the worst graphical movie, even worse CGI than Dasavatharam.Selvaraghavan has made yet another crap movie. he has tried to depict Reema sen as Lara croft,but it still doesn't impress.bullet fire,snake storming, pit falls etc...nothing sounds original. a freak show right before the interval a bloody fight with the some natives - yuck unwatchable.have u watched Apocalypto Mr Selvaraghavan..?why was the abusive fight between Reema sen and Andrea made..?@ Director Selvaraghavan - Plz watch lot more of Hollywood movies before creating a rip off.Treasure hunt movies which came decades earlier are better than Ur silly movie.a long hunt for some Chola king,The military assisting the group gets supply from helicopters, but doesn't hitch-hike on one.a several century old Chola dynasty right under the open skies, undetected till now in the modern age of satellite technologies.what are u trying to show us Selvaraghavan...? i couldn't watch anything beyond the 1st half.please don't do the 2nd version of the movie.please save the viewers...Final review. - 1/10. u ll love the movie if u have never watched a Hollywood movie before.i have to appreciate the effort of the 150+ persons who rated the movie above 5.

drkvrag Where to start.... Its an amazing film from start to finish.. One of the best in tamil cinema.. It is first of its genre (fantasy/adventure) in tamil cineworld and the director should be appreciated for this bold attempt.. the story is simple and for this genre it should be like that... the cast is superb and their performance is adequate.. The first half is fastly paced... and in second half, the director put in lot of twists and try to justify it and in the process the pace drops down.. But the imagination is praise worthy and looks believable... There are lot of things to be appreciated in this film.. Screenplay, bgm, cast, twists, action scenes etc... Special effects are fairly done considering the budget... It is worth to mention that gore factor, sometimes, reaches beyond limit and thus will not be suitable for young children... On the whole, the film is a treat to watch and should be appreciated for the team's hard work...

sanloyn First of all hats off to the brave attempt by the young director and really an intelligent work to build a script based on the Cholas and the Pandians.This is definitely a first of its kind in India Cinema and let's be proud for it.............. so what if the movie did not turned to be a picture perfect (those who are here to comment on these kinda new attempts, please go watch Avatar), movies of these kind needs to be promoted so that such kinda brave attempts will be taken in future. Am not ready to still sit and watch the same heroic movies with a intro song, fight and romance the heroines and finally fight for love............... We need a break and here is the one. I was quite amazed by the dasavatharam script which was derived from history (Chola king removing the statue of lord Vishnu and the lord bought Tsumani to save the whole world, outstanding thought). This script is one such idea....Keep going selva.The movie has a wonderful first off and the second half is more of a surprise, I feel the movie should not have had so much of depth and concluded the movie in a way our Indian movie watchers find it hard to digest (we need happy ending), but its seeded well for a AO- part2.