Eesan is your typical M Sasikumar movie. It starts on a slow and steady pace and you come to know what the movie is about only a few minutes before interval ! Then the movie picks up pace and ends in a gory, blood shedding climax. Only in the case of Eesan, everything turns out to be a cliche and little is left to our imagination. Once you watch a couple of scenes post interval, you know how things are going to turn out.
If Subramaniapuram - M.Sasikumar's directorial debut which made him an overnight star - brought out the dangerous shades of south Indian village in which the rural youth is misled, Eesan talks about perils of GenY city dwelling youth. It doesn't spare anything from night life to Internet to mobile phones to fashion to drugs and more. I liked the way the director has made some subtle but bold observations about the health care and law and order situations in the city.
Other than the few pivotal characters who appear only during the later half of the movie, others have not been sketched properly, so leave little scope for performance. The dialogues could have been more interesting rather than making the villain cry out loud repeatedly that nothing will happen in the state without his will. Also, it is a big screenplay blunder that such a powerful man could come up with plot changing actions in couple of scenes only after being advised by his side kick. The scenes were also not powerful and looked liked ripped from Sarkar Raj made by the master of underworld movies RGV. Can't Sasi think of some better lead than a suicide attempt to make a father agree to marry his daughter to her lover? And why on earth is the Karnataka guy cast like Mr.Mallaya look alike?? Samuthirakkani and Abhinaya have given their best. Vaibhav and others have no scope for acting. The new kid on the block who plays Eesan has come up with a good performance. A couple of songs by James Vasanthan were good but don't expect anything like Kangal Irandaal. MS Baskar makes a mark with his voice over. There are many loose ends in the plot which show enough research has not been done. For instance, why would a typical mute village girl want to join Fashion designing? How would geek clever enough to a hacker a mail server get caught by just IP trace?
This is a rape - revenge story which you might not want to watch with your kids.
