Sorry to say, Thalaiva can’t hear the voice within which is telling him to STOP. Right now! It isn’t only because he looks way too old to play Keerthi Suresh’s sister and Nayanthara’s boyfriend. That IS a big problem, I admit. But the bigger problem is, Rajini Sir insists on working with directors who are too much in awe of him to direct him.Resultantly in Annaatthe he keeps going off track with his improvisations which once upon a time were so spot-on they drove the audience wild. Now it’s just embarrassing, nothing else, watching the mighty Rajinikanth trying to look ….what?…45… when he is over 70 and spewing lines that spill out in a wild spin of senseless gallery-wooing.The overall portrait is that of an over-the-hill aged superstar trying in vain to preserve the illusion of youth by working with much younger co-stars. It is painful to watch actresses as strong-willed as Keerthy Suresh(National award winner for Mahanti) and Nayanthra (known in Tamil cinema as ‘Lady Superstar) reduced to helpless props, nodding to every whim and fancy of their Lord, Master & Masterblatser.
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