Strictly average movie

Excellent, smart action film.

A lot of fun.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Simply KO is one of the best movies of 2011 in India. Thank You K.V. Anand for producing us again a very good movie. Ko has many many memorable moments and some dialogues are such intense that it makes you think really like that. (Spoilers) Like when one terrorist gets shot and Hero asks him why he doing all this, he replies" What is life according to you? Chill Out, Watching Cricket, Movies?." Movie never makes you bore at any moment. It makes you stick to your sit through out the whole movie. Coming to Story, Yes it is inspired from movie "State of Play" as some extent but it is not at all copy of the Hollywood movie. Agreed it is somewhat inspired but Ko is brilliantly written and adapted according to India's perspective. Ko team has done decent research on the movie and its character. Jeeva is charming and he adapted pretty well to the photographer character.. Looks like he did took some lessons from pro photographers about photography aspects which we can see in the movie like proper posture of a photographer while taking a photograph, boosting up ISO for night photography etc etc. Some of the scenes are overdone like the opening bike van chase, Romantic song in the middle of intense situation but it is manageable to watch. Song Enamo Yedho is beautifully written, composed and cinematography..In short Ko is very good movie which has almost everything Love, Drama, Action, Suspense, Good Songs, Good Directing, Good Cinematography.

The film starts at Dina Anjali a Tamil daily newspaper office where Ashwin (Jeeva) is a photographer. Two lady journalists working in the same newspaper Renuka (Karthika) as the investigative reporter and Saraswathi (Piaa) as covers the entertainment section.All the three of them try to break the news and stand up on their toes for all getting the latest happenings news.Next character get introduced Vasanth (Ajmal) as an engineer. Though he is an engineer his aim to become a politician and aspires to change the society. Vasanth (Ajmal) plans to contest in the upcoming elections.Ashwin (Jeeva) has good political contacts he makes his friend Ajmal as a politician for a good cause. But after turning as a politician Vasanth (Ajmal) turns into a corrupted politician like all other politicians and kicks Ashwin out from his camp.Yogi (Prakash Raj) is the Chief Minister of that political party. Vasanth (Ajmal) joins his hands with Yogi (Prakash Raj) and forgets to do good for the society. During some unexpected mishap Saro (Piaa) gets killed in a bomb blast. But seeing all these Ashwin (Jeeva) plans to bring down Vasanth (Ajmal) by using the same political contacts. The rest of the story forms the interesting with twist.Jeeva's brilliant performance is one of plus point of the film. Jeeva perfectly fits in the role of Ashwin and he is stylish in the character. Jeeva dialog delivery and body language was extraordinary.Karthika looked beautiful and her performance is impressive as Renuka. Both Jeeva and Karthika looked as a perfect pair.Piaa Bajopai is fit in her role of Saraswathi and she is looked cool and stylish.Ajmal performance is quite equal to Jeeva. Ajmal did the role of Vasanth extremely well.Prakash Raj's performances is outstanding and one can't blink his eyes while he is on screens. He is back after a long time with a meaty role.Harris Jayaraj's music is outstanding. Harris tunes with visuals are super to view and its great treat for the audience. Background score is racy.Richard Nathan's Cinematography is excellent. Editing by Anthony is speed up the film.After a long time a best movie in Tamil.

After Ayan, everyone has been eagerly anticipating for Ko since the teaser was released. K.V. Anand has done a wonderful job in his third film as a director with a full-fledged political thriller with adequate doses of romance and humour without deviating from the original story. It is not exactly a good-versus-bad theme here unlike most of other movies with political themes. But unexpected twists will keep the audience glued to their seats.Jiiva as Ashwin excels in his role as a photographer. Karthika Nair marked her debut with a decent performance while Piaa Bajpai fulfills the requirements of her role well. The show stealer is undoubtedly Ajmal. His performance as a youth revolutionary leader is outstanding. Stalwarts like Prakashraj and Kota Srinivasa Rao played their characters with their usual finesse.The highlight of the film is the cinematography. Richard M.Nathan did a wonderful job with the camera. Be it the fights or the songs, he shot the scenes with sheer brilliance. The locales of Norway and China are spellbinding and eye-catching, thanks to the cinematographer's efforts.Harris Jayaraj did a superb job in Ayan and he repeated the magic in Ko as well. The BGM is apt for the scenes although it was a bit loud in certain parts. Anthony's editing is as usual, crisp and maintains the pace of the film well. Peter Hein's stunts are a treat for the action buffs. The songs are choreographed perfectly according to the mood of the songs. The nothing-great Gala Gala song does not live up to its pre-release build-up despite a host of well-known faces making cameo appearances.In short, Ko is a brilliantly shot political thriller laced with the usual commercial elements. If Ayan showed us about smuggling activities, Ko is all about political revolution. Hats off to K.V. Anand for presenting us three different films with three different themes.

This was a movie with huge expectations running all over it. This was because of K V Anand's previous venture 'Ayan' and his cinematography credentials and (to an extent) his stint as a journalist. The base story is something which is common in all his movies. What is interesting here is the premise that he had selected for depicting that. Journalism and Politics are two separate things. They are like water and oil. But the exact opposite is what is presented in this story. It runs somewhat parallel to RGV's 'Rann' but with lesser attitude and with more commercial elements. The director could have enjoyed his status of being a smart-ass with this movie also but alas everything falls apart with the first act itself with half-baked characterizations, poor chemistry for the love track, lackluster sound track, average performances and some sloppy direction. Instead he turns out to be just smart and a brilliant ass with this one. The story is solid. The same did not get transferred to the treatment. There are constant ups and downs throughout the movie. As with all the commercial movies this movie is also ridden with cliché's and with a running time of approximately 3 hours it becomes a bit itchy. All in all…it is a commercial movie in a suppressed format in all ways.