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KUMKI - REVIEW
A very remote and dangerous village called Aadhi Kaadu is threatened and disturbed every now and then by the wildest of Forest Elephant called Komban. Every year the villagers seem to suffer, either by destruction of houses or by crops and they seem to become even more helpless when the forest officers refuse to help them bring down Komban. To survive and kill the merciless wild elephant, the villagers decide to bring a Kumki, an elephant that is exclusively trained to silence the wild elephants and keep them less harmful and this is where Bomman (Vikram Prabhu) and his innocent, harmless and soft Mannikam ( a temple elephant that has never been exposed to wildness) comes into the picture.
Owing to situations and to favour his business friend, Bomman brings Mannikam to Aadhi Kaadu saying it as Kumki to substitute the original Kumki and plans to leave the village in two days once the original Kumki arrives. In the mean time, Bomman falls in love with Alli (Lakshmi Menon), daughter of the village head. To succeed in his love, Bomman decides to stay in the village longer than he has planned and continues to pretend that Mannikam is a Kumki and that he is a Kumki trainer. Now, does Mannikam ( who is believed to be a Kumki by the entire village) defeats Komban and saves the village and will Bomman and Alli unites in their love is what forming the rest of the climax.
For a newcomer, Vikram Prabhu has given an excellent and flawless performance right from conveying emotions to humor, while Lakshmi Menon perfectly depicts the role of Alli, a silent and homely village girl, who can get funny in every way. Supporting characters played by Thami Ramaiah of ‘Kazhugu’ fame and Ashwin Raja of ‘Boss Engira Baaskaran’ fame indeed scored tremendous applause for their humour quotient as well as their part throughout the film.
The entire film was set in a very natural backdrop, bringing the essence of nature that makes the film much pleasant to watch. Indeed, Prabhu Solomon and D. Imman once again recreated the magic after their superhit ‘Myna’. Some of the best tracks ‘Kumki’ offers are ‘Onnum Puriyala’, ‘Sollitale’ and ‘Ayayyoo’ which not only elicits romance but the visuals are leaving spell bound. Hats off to Sukumar for framing every shot carefully, to make the film talk rather than project. And surely LVK Doss deserves a special mentioning for his precise editing.
Yes, in every way ‘Kumki’ is one among the rarest and finest piece, nevertheless, the climax could have been much more precise to make it much complete. After ‘Myna’, ‘Kumki’ evidently marks the signature of Prabhu Solomon, indeed making him one of the finest directors, making him a gem picked from pins.
MysteRy:
Kumki makes a new record
Lingusamy’s Thirupathy Brothers produced “Kumki” got release worldwide on December 14th. Vikram Prabhu, son of Prabhu and grand son of legendary actor Sivaji Ganesan is the lead and Lakshmi Menon of Sundarapandian fame played the female lead in this movie. The movie was directed by Prabhu Soloman of Mynaa fame and the expectations for this film were really huge.
The movie shows how a mahout and his elephant help farmers in driving away wild elephants in their village. Although the movie had some falls here and there, but it managed to score at the box office and it is running successfully on theatres. Kumki hit over 1000 screens worldwide and collected Rs 8.51crores at the box office in Tamil Nadu in the first three days.
Besides being a debutant actor’s movie, the movie earned a huge response from the viewers and this is shocking to all in the industry. Earlier it was Udhayanithi Stalin’s debutant movie “Oru Kal Oru Kannadi” which earned a collection over 2crores in first three days. But now Kumki has broke the record of Oru Kal Oru Kannadi and made a new record.
MysteRy:
Lingusamy gifts gold chain to Kumki unit!
Lingusamy and his Thirrupathy Brothers are a happy lot as their Prabhu Solomon directed Kumki marketed by Studio Green has turned out to be a super hit.
A visibly happy Lingu and his brother Subash Chandra Bose hosted a success party for friends, well-wishers and the unit of Kumki on Thursday night at a five star.
The brothers were overjoyed as that day evening their Balaji Shakthivel directed Vazhakku En 18/9 had won the best picture award at the Chennai International Film Festival.
At the success party which was attended by the entire cast and crew of Kumki including Vikram Prabhu, Lingusamy announced a special gift for the unit.
The top crew members like director Prabhu Solomon, Vikram, Thambi Ramaiah, Ashwin Raja, cameraman M Sukumar , music director D Imman were gifted with a gold chain.
The others including assistants were given gold coins.
Those spootted at the bash included Karthi, Prabhu, Ramkumar, Venkat Prabhu, Premgi, GV Prakash Kumar among others.
MysteRy:
Kumki is a hit, gets more screens!
Prabhu Solomon’s Vikram Prabhu-Lakshmi Menon Kumki is turning out to be a hit. The film which opened last Friday (Dec 14) in approximately 300 screens is dominating the Tamil Nadu box-office.
Studio Green who is marketing Kumki has now included more screens in its second week starting Dec 21. The screen count in Tamil Nadu is likely to touch 400 plus during the Christmas weekend.
In multiplexes in 3C (Chennai, Chengalpet, Coimbatore)areas, Kumki has been given the bigger screens and more shows for the holiday Christmas weekend. The film is emerging as one of the big winners of the year.
MysteRy:
Kumki makes it big
After making super hits like Paiya,Vettai and Vazhakku Enn 18/9 , Thirrupathi Brothers are is all set for celebrating the victory and success of the highly anticipated film Kumki becomes a super hit film breaking all the records in the box office.
Kumki is directed by director Prabhu Solomon who’s earlier film Mynaa won several awards and honors now.
As per the information Kumki has made a collection of Rs 20 crore in the history of Tamil cinema at all centers. And 18 more extra prints has been made for Tamilnadu alone.
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