Just so...so bad

Disturbing yet enthralling

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Blistering performances.

The movie introduces Indian cinema to a unexperimented idea before in Indian films which is appreciable but i believe kamal haasan should have done more research on psychopath behavior, the movie also had many parts that were simply unrequired or too stretched out.As for kamal haasan's portrayal of the psychopath character is quite good.I agree with to the review by RNJBOND mostly but what i can't stop thinking about is how a psychopath who spent all of his time in a mental asylum since killing his step mother know how to and eventually manages to survive uncaught for days out in the open and especially knows to drive different vehicles form bike, car and even a lorry?? Guess kamal haasan never thought about that and also abhay easily getting access to manisha or tejaswini's room was too convenient. The movies makes cops and simply everyone else in the movie except vijay look too dumb.

I was just looking at the ratings and comments of some of Kamal's bold ventures. A comment above said the rain song was useless. Hello, the rain song is a dream song. It is important because the psycho imagines the (Manisha)lady is asking him to attend the show. He attends the show thinking that Raveena (the women he wants to kill) would also be present as the show is covered by the TV Channel she's working.For some who thought the movie was crap. Well, all i could say is if only you know the language (Tamil) and the original meanings, ul appreciate him. Kamal uses the different Indian languages and finds fun eg: Rao is a typical Telugu name and Rao also means early morning in Tamil. You would never get it in translated versions.To point one, the narration of the kid-Nandhu(Psycho) is brilliant. When the brothers toss the coin to choose which 1 of them stays with father, Nandhu(Psycho) seeing it going against him would say, 'It's perhaps my duty to safeguard my lil brother. Even wen we (Brothers) wer born, I first let the younger one out (science - younger of the twin comes out 1st) and then came to the world. So perhaps this is what I am born for'...huh, who would get this! n then there r several pieces of brilliance in the movie.

This movie is like a mixture of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Silence of the Lambs, and Face Off. But its unique in it's own way and pretty unusual for a Hindi movie. The acting performances are good, and especially the drug trips are great to watch. This movie has cult potential.

This was my first foray into Indian cinema. I was very pleased with their addition of musical numbers into all of their movies, but it makes them that much longer. (The song "Laugh" was very cool I thought). Clocking in at three hours, I was told that this is typical of an Indian movie.The addition of animation was a very cool touch as well, as Abhay goes into drug induced schizophrenia.A lot like Silence of the Lambs, but their is some grisly violence, but the lead actor does a great job as a psycho killer.Overall, a long but at times interesting movie. I would give it a 6 of 10.