Kochadaiiyaan
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Plot synopsis:
A young boy named Rana, who hails from the kingdom of Kottaipattinam, leaves his family, despite his twin brother Sena pleading him not to do so. The boy soon meets with an accident while rowing in the river and is eventually discovered by some fishermen from the neighbouring kingdom of Kalingapuri, a rival of Kottaipattinam. Rana (Rajinikanth) grows up there and trains in weaponry, and grows up to be a fearless warrior. Due to his fighting skills and bravery, he soon wins the confidence of the king of Kalingapuri, Raja Mahendran (Jackie Shroff), who promotes him as Commander-in-Chief of the Kalingapuri army. Rana's first job as Commander-in-Chief is to free the soldiers of his hometown Kottaipattinam, who are being treated as slaves, enlist them in the army and train them. He then seeks the permission of Raja Mahendran to attack Kottaipattinam, to which the latter agrees. However, during the war, Rana encounters his childhood friend, crown prince Sengodagan (R. Sarathkumar), the son of Rishikodagan (Nassar), king of Kottaipattinam. Immediately signalling an end to the war, he, along with the soldiers disown Kalingapuri and return to Kottaipattinam, much to the disgust of Raja Mahendran and his son, crown prince Veera Mahendran (Aadhi), who swear revenge on Rana for tricking them and betraying Kalingapuri.
At Kottaipattinam, Rana and Sengodagan renew their friendship. Sengodagan introduces Rana to Rishikodagan, who is alarmed on seeing him. Rana also reunites with his younger sister Yamuna Devi (Rukmini Vijayakumar) whom he last saw as a baby and their uncle, who raised her, but soon learns that his mother Yaaghavi (Shobana) is dead and Sena is missing. He soon learns that Yamuna and Sengodagan are in love with each other. He accepts their relationship and decides to get them married, even cleverly convincing Rishikodagan, who was unwilling to get his son married to a girl of a non-royal family. Meanwhile, Rana also falls in love with his childhood sweetheart, princess Vadhana Devi (Deepika Padukone), the daughter of Rishikodagan.
Soon, Sengodagan and Yamuna get married. But following the wedding, Rishikodagan disowns his son for marrying Yamuna despite knowing that the latter does not belong to a royal family. An unfazed Sengodagan immediately leaves the palace with Yamuna. Later that night, a masked man barges into the palace and attempts to kill Rishikodagan. Vadhana immediately goes after him, fights him and gets him captured. Rishikodagan unmasks the assassin who is revealed to be Rana, and immediately throws him into prison, sentencing him to death. An upset Vadhana rushes to the cell where Rana is imprisoned, where Rana tells her why he attempted to kill Rishikodagan.
Years ago, Rana is the younger son of Kochadaiiyaan, the former Commander-in-Chief of Kottaipattinam's army. Kochadaiiyaan is extremely respected in Kottaipattinam for his bravery and exploits and is more popular than Rishikodagan himself. This made Rishikodagan jealous of Kochadaiiyaan. One night, when Kochadaiiyaan is returning by ship to Kottaipatinam with his army after buying horses and ammunition, they are attacked by the army of Kalingapuri. Kochadaiiyaan defeats them but allows them to return to their kingdom as an act of chivalry. However, the Kalingapuri army, before leaving, poison the food on the ship. The Kottaipattinam army men consume this food, and fall ill.
Despite knowing that he had been tricked by the Kalingapuri army, Kochadaiiyaan immediately rushes to Kalingapuri itself, because it is the only land body close enough to provide medicines to the sick and dying soldiers. He orders Raja Mahendran to provide medical assistance to his soldiers. Raja Mahendran, in turn, cunningly proposes a deal that, if he wants his men to be saved, he has to leave all the horses, ammunition and the sick army men in Kalingapuri as Raja Mahendran's slaves. Only if Kochadaiiyan agrees to this, his soldiers will be nursed back to health. Kochadaiiyan thinks that his men rather be alive as slaves than die from poisoning, and also thinks that when they officially wage a war in the near future, all of them could be easily rescued. So he accepts Raja Mahendran's offer and leaves Kalingapuri all alone. When he returns to Kottaipattinam, the jealous Rishikodagan seizes this opportunity to strip Kochadaiiyan off all respect and dignity and sentences him to death for becoming a traitor to Kottaipattinam by surrendering his army men, horses and ammunition to Kalingapuri. Though all his subjects are dismayed at Kochadaiiyaan being sentenced to death, and Yaaghavi even goes to the extent of publicly rebuking Rishikodagan for his injustice, Rishikodagam stands firm in his decision. Kochadaiiyaan is executed the following morning before Rana's eyes.
The story comes back to the present, with Rana telling Vadhana that he ran away to Kalingapuri, with the intention of freeing the soldiers of Kottaipattinam and to take revenge on Rishikodagan for unjustly killing his father. Vadhana is shocked on hearing about her father's actions and reconciles with Rana. She then pleads with her father to release Rana, but to no avail. Meanwhile, Rana escapes from prison. When Rishikodagan learns of Rana's escape, he immediately arranges for Vadhana's marriage with prince Veera Mahendran after consulting with an astrologer and learning that his life is at Rana's mercy. Despite the enmity between Kottaipattinam and Kalingapuri, he arranges this marriage with the hope that their united armies and their mutual hatred for Rana can subdue him.
On the day of the marriage, Rana arrives just when the marriage is about to take place. He and the people of Kottapattinam berate Rishikodagan for becoming traitor and surrendering the whole Kottaipattinam to Raja Mahendran for his own personal interests and commitments (this was the same charge which Rishikodagan had placed on Kochadaiiyaan years ago). Following this, a war starts between Rana and the united armies of Kottaipattinam and Kalingapuri. Rana successfully manages to subdue the armies of both kingdoms, he kills Raja Mahendran and allows Veera Mahendran to return as he was defeated, reminding him of their friendship. He then fights Rishikodagan and decapitates him.
Finally, as Rana and Vadhana reunite, a young soldier comes towards them riding a horse. This soldier is revealed to be Sena, and a anger appear in Sena as their father asked him to protect the king and Rana killed him so fight awaits.

Review: Yes, this movie really deserves a great applause, ignore about how or what the story is but the attempt and hard work that went into the making of this film deserves an applause.
Kochadaiiyaan may boast of all that motion capture technology, but put side by side Hollywood exploits such as Tin Tin, it comes off as an amateurish, cartoonish effort.The story is a standard revenge drama- in the vein of Dharam Veer, and a million Chinese martial art epics.
There is a double love story lined up post this featuring an "enhanced" Deepika, while Rishikogadan and Mahendra Raj must meet their bloody end.Rajnikanth is virtually in every frame of the film, and as usual he oozes style and confidence.
Even Pogo features better animation!This expensive experiment to immortalize Rajnikanth might be good enough for die hard fans, but still cannot make up for its complete lack of connect, and its technical shortcomings.
After four years of gap, Rajini sir fans and people in India An opportunity to see this fantastic movie that made in Tamil, Hindi and many more languages.
All the film actors,producers and technicians must watch this movie and it attracts children and young and all the people I pray for Rajini sir be in good health and continue to do good for people of India Thank you.
This has been in the reckoning for quite a long time and this happens to be the first ingenuously made graphic movie using motion capture technology in India.
A.R.Rahman is also not up to the expectation.It looks like cartoon film more than the motion capture.Though they have worked hard for so many years it doesn't satisfies the audience.Also it don't have much shots in 3D which seems to be is waste of money to watch it in 3D technology.Movie don't have the commercial elements which the family audience or youths needed.
It is not an easy thing to create a mega budget animated movie with a good marketing status in India.
-Hope in future we can reach the Hollywood movies with a reasonable budget.Cast also includes Bollywood beauty Deepika Padukone which will be a big box office factor in North India.
Remember Kochadaiiyaan is not a Hollywood movie like 'The Adventures of Tintin' or 'Avatar' but it is the best Indian animated movie.Verdict: If you watch the 'Kochadaiiyaan' in big screen defiantly it would be a great experience..
But "Kochadaiiyaan" as an animated feature, which is made using motion capture technology, fails to live up to the expectations of all those who watch a Rajinikanth film just for the sake of entertainment.We have a tried-and-tested revenge story.
Such moments were missing or were limited in "Kochadaiiyaan", which heavily suffered from creating an emotional connect with the characters.Every time Rajinikanth and Deepika hugged, you couldn't feel the passion in their romance.
Come to think of it, "Kochadaiiyaan" would've definitely looked magnificent in live action form than in the half baked animated format that only looks colorful but not legendary.In layman's terminology, motion capture technology is supposed to recreate real characters as realistic as possible in reel.
Actors such as Aadi and Sarath Kumar were the terribly looking animated characters on screen, while the rest such as Nasser, Deepika and Jackie at least had some major references to be related with their real self.
But when I watched the movie there was not place for me to think about the visual effects, Because the story and screenplay was awful.
The CGI is easily 5-7 years behind the tech of the most advanced animated movies - I'm not talking "How to Train Your Dragon" or "Toy Story", but rather the more human-involved/realistic 3D animated movies - the easiest example would be Robert Zemeckis' motion-captured films ("A Christmas Carol", "The Polar Express", etc.).
Coming back to film -- its been ~4 years to see my thalaivar on screen and I want this movie to be all-thalaivar stunts, dialogues, and dance moves.
As its shown in the end credits he has taken a great challenge on understanding the technology and shown a great difference for both the characters on dialog delivery as well as facial reactions.Rest go get hypnotized in theater's A.R.Rahman: Superstar of Music.,The songs as known is so impressive,but the BGM is splendid and very very grand.
Watch out for the title card graphics for the superstar and the war sequences with terrific dialogs towards the end which caters to the masses.On the whole, this movie is a nice experience if you go with the expectation that you are going to watch a film with motion capture technology and not a live Rajinikanth Movie.
i Think Review From My Overseas Friends 3d Format Is Very Impressive First Half Is Good and the Second Half Is Very Good Back ground Music AR Rahman At His Best Over All Rajini Back With Bang Many People Saying Negative Talk Without Watching a film Go and Watch the Film Without Any Expectation Don't Compare All Movies With Hollywood Children Will love the film i Know Thalaivar Film Won't Disappoint audience There are Lot Of Rumors and Pre Negative Before the film got released The Story line is very simple and clear Director Made it Simple To Reach Audience I Hope Indian First Motion Sensor Film Kochadaiiyaan Will Win Audience Heart.
Surely, rajini deserves better.We come to know now that the rudrathaandavam & even some scenes were done by other artists since rajini's health did not permit him to strain himself.The animation in "Chota Bheem" is much better that kochadaiyaan.Music by ARR is OK.KSR tries to salvage the film with his screenplay but he is let down by poor direction by Soundarya rajini.A huge disappointment for everyone.
When I tell you,that,a great warriors' son avenges his father's death,you might not be able to sympathise with the story,but when I visually show it to you with Thalaivar's(another name for Rajinikanth)terrific acting performance,breaking through the poor animation of the movie.Mix,the story with some twists and turns,add a pinch of mind-blowing BGM of ARR,and finally garnish it with some stunt sequences and some poor 1960's video game-like animation and present it you,it is nothing but the entire movie Kochadaiiyan..
Nevermind those people will regret for not watching it in theater.Movie - ***** Music and BG score- ***** Animation Quality-*** Screen play - ***** There was a great effort taken by PentaMedia about 12 years Back...He burnt his fingers first and Thanks to that team of guys who actually helped to grow this Amazing Animation Industry.
Having Super Star Rajnikanth was enough to make the movie a blockbuster but taking a path which was not explored in Bollywood and more so animation movies are not taken seriously in India, for Soundarya to try something out of the box is commendable.But it is not only the technology but the story and screenplay by K.
It could have been a mundane revenge drama but K.S. Ravikumar keeps it interesting with a lot of twists and turns.Rajni as usual is the highlight of the movie with a double role of father Kochadaiyaan and son Rana and Rajni as usual does not disappoint, he is bang on with his histrionics and charisma.
As usual Rajini rocking in the Kochadaiiyan the character.The film has few drawbacks in the technical point of view but Still the best in Indian movies..
His magnetic voice gives life to all those powerful dialogs penned by Ravikumar and the veteran star infests marvelous screen presence even to animated characters.All of us realize that it is a path breaking attempt from a technological perspective but at the end of the day, Kochadaiiyaan has been intended as a quintessential Rajini film, and any such Superstar starrer is invariably expected to entertain with elements such as memorable punch lines, larger-than-life stunts, a racy screenplay, a simple but gripping story, beautiful songs and breathtaking visuals.
We saw it in 3D in Hindi which was not our preference, but it was all that was available in our area.This is a good story, it's well told and yes, the animation is a bit stilted, which is odd considering it's motion capture.However, the highly stylized look of the film works because it is a myth/fantasy/saga.It was also really wonderful to see Rajnikanth in this sort of role again, which he can't play anymore in live action due to his age.
Kochadaiiyaan is the first Indian motion capture film and therefore I was not able to resist myself from watching this superb movie and I found that it was not just a superb animation film,but also a paisa vasool entertainer!Seeing Rajinikanth in three roles for the very first time for me is very amazing experience.
I had never seen him in such a superb movie.The performances, action sequences,animations,music were all the elements that it has utilized very well.I was awestruck how such an animation is possible.On the whole,Kochadaiiyaan is a solid film that will appeal not only to Rajini fans,but to audiences of all ages.Solid entertainer!.
Acting in motion capture technology is big risk especially for person like Rajini as average fans all they wanted is to see his face in the big screen.
Postives: Rajnikanth big asset for the film.K.S Ravikumar's Screenplay and story .Soundharya Rajnikanth Ashwin's direction doesn't looks like debut she done a great job .A.R Rehman Music AND awesome BGM .Films duration 118 Min's where not trying to keep unnecessary scenes like other movies .Late Nagesh sir .Second Half is very good.
Rana (Rajni) the head of the army for Kalingapuri headed by the king (Jackie Shroff)makes a grand entry into the movie with a title song animated in typical Rajni style.
Kochadaiiyaan (Tamil and dubbed): Finally it's here, the first Indian film having the motion capture technology having the best of the grandeur and colours (and definitely Rajini Sir), which actually is worth experiencing for a family or children outing in either of the formats (3D or 2D).
story is fantastic not only a revenge saga its much more than that direction is one of the best in the whole of world watch ditz movie not only for Rajni sir but Also as India first motion capture experiment which I think is successful....Eagerly waiting for next installment.....
Love this movie I want to see this move again and again and I don't think that I will get bore of this movie watching again and again ..this movie really deserve applause .the best thing is that it is not copied for any Hollywood movie .Motion capture technology is not up to the mark but I still give it 10 for the hard work that is behind this movie .
It will definitely made the audience for an immediate next show.But if you watch the movie for story, you need not to worry about how motion capture has worked in the film.
Kochadaiiyaan, movie based on performance capture technology is definitely one of its kind and opens new door for movies which are expensive for real time making.The Strength of the movie is its magnificent plot and witty dialogues written by K.S.Ravikumar.
This movie revolves around the plot that everyone one of us has enjoyed listening or reading to.Having a strong story in hand, Director Soundarya has conveyed it appropriately to audience using best of the techniques, with the help of A.R.Rahman's lively music.Above all, it was SUPERSTAR Rajinikanth's charisma that has helped a lot for portrayal of lead characters in the movie.
All movies that rely on technologies will need improvement.Except for some songs and dragging battle scenes in second half, this movie will keep you engaged and entertained thoroughly.Having watched it thrice already, Kochadaiiyaan will be labelled as HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.!.
I had three reasons for watching this movie the first being Iam an ardent lover of animation and special effects; the second being iam a great fan of Rajini sir and the third being this is one of the first Indian movie to be made using the motion capture technology; these three reasons dragged me to watch this movie with huge expectations and I wasn't disappointed either.Great efforts have been taken to make this movie, but very few efforts have been taken to make the story more interesting and gripping; there are moments where in you would feel like walking out of the cinema hall but at the same time you would like to hold on to your seats just because there are few action sequences which are breathtaking and for a moment you again lose yourself in the movie and this is one of the prime reason you may continue watching the movie expecting more of such scenes and you may not be disappointed either as the movie has some very great action and the scenes have been shot in a very sophisticated way and you may actually forget that you are watching an Indian animated movie.The story lacks the ability to keep the viewers entertained all throughout.
There are few songs which has been unnecessarily injected into the script and is unnecessary; this does more harm than good to the senses of the audience.The motion capture technology and the real life animation is not in par with the International standards but the efforts taken are just worth it, and if one ends up comparing this movie with The Tin Tin and The polar express which were shot using the same technology you may find this shoddy and inferior.The reason you may watch this movie is the great effort which has been put to make this movie to look realistic and some great action sequences which is extremely magnificent and not to forget the dialogues which garners the attention of the public and drives them crazy.
The reason you may dislike the movie is the slow pace by which the story unfolds and the story is far from Impressive and the number of songs which may actually make you fall asleep a number of times.The detailing of the characters is not realistic and there are some minor flaws in the animation as well.The effort with which the movie is made is something to look upon..
I am giving the movie 2 stars because I love animation and I would like to encourage someone taking some initiative to show something new.
I feel unbiased people will feel cheated after watching this movie.Good effort to try something different but DISAPPOINTING..
Kochadaiiyaan is the first Indian Movie, which had been done on Performance Capture Technology.
Kochadaiiyaan teaser didn't create much expectation for the movie as people felt that the animation was not up to the Hollywood standards.
But, the engaging screenplay & awesome dialogues by K.S. Ravikumar makes sure that audiences are engaged throughout the movie.Rajinikanth – No other person can even dream of acting in an Indian Animation Movie with this huge budget.
Only Superstar can do it, as he has dedicated fans following, who will watch movies multiple times for his style and voice alone.
Superstar's introduction scene, his voice & style will definitely give goose bumps for his fans.Animation- The animations in the movie were pretty good for an Indian movie.
Superstar looks stylish with different costumes and the credits should go to Lulla.A.R. Rahman's wonderful music + K.S. Ravikumar's excellent dialogues + Rajinikanth's Magical Voice are much more than sufficient to satisfy Superstar Fan's and makes them watch the movie multiple times.First half has more songs than the scenes.
Movie runs for lesser than 2 hours (118 minutes) with 6 songs.Soundarya Rajinikanth was recently honored with the NDTV Indian of the Year – Technical Innovation in a Film award.
She has made sure that the movie has scenes, which will definitely satisfy his dad's dedicated fans.Though 125 Crores looks like huge budget for Tamil Cinema, actually it is very lesser budget to take a movie with performance capture technology.
Soundarya Rajinikanth Ashwin has pulled two impossible feats, making India's first motion capture animation movie successfully and also achieving a disaster with Rajinikanth-an impossible feat.Kochadaiiyaan, has everything going good for it from the time Rajinikanth gave his nod.
After you finish marveling at the technical brilliance, you start looking for the story, which clearly disappoints and for the first time ever, you have people yawning and stretching in a Rajinikanth Movie.
Kochadaiiyaan - King of Kings The day Rajinikanth's millions of fans have been waiting for is finally here.The Tamil superstar's graphical wonder Kochadaiiyaan has arrived near your theatres in multiple languages.This time, Rajini will be seen in never-before avatars as the film is a historical fiction directed by his daughter.Congrats to#‎SoundaryaRajnikanth‬ for the Brave Attempt, superb Direction.
typical south Indian action which is way too much over the top and we have seen a lot better than this, being a Rajnikant movie you expect something better.There are too many songs which was a very boring part because its not any good to hear but alright to see because of the visual effects.
There enters the second son of Kochadaiiyaan i.e., Sena with a fusion look of his father and his brother making us go awestruck and puzzled.But they freeze with a title revealing Rana vs Sena and a tag stating...to be continued...Goosebumps\m/ Thalaivar | ARR | KSR | Soundaraya __/\__After many years...we fans got a movie that is going to remain so close to our heart].
Kochadaiiyaan, meant exclusively for Rajini fans, fails to impress as an animated movie..
Does the missing brother of Rana ever come into the picture?Although predictable, the movie has a story line, but the much-awaited animation affects fails to create much impact.
* Motion capture Technology : was good ..in a few minutes you will forget that you are watching an Animated movie....WEAKNESSES :- * Deepika padukone graphic work was waste in few scenes....
The others didn't get much scope.This has been in the reckoning for quite a long time and this happens to be the first indigenously made graphic movie using motion capture technology in India.