We've had batmen, spidermen, zebramen, but wait for it.... Chicken Man is coming, courtesy of Kollywood (the Tamil "cousin" of Bollywood, if you will).
Susi Ganesan's fourth feature film கந்தசாமி (Kanthaswamy) is - at least on paper - one of the wildest ideas of recent memory: Kanthaswamy (Tamil superstar Vikram) is a handsome and refined CBI agent by day, and an anthropomorphic chicken (!) superhero by night, complete with "cock-a-doo" war cries and motions which would even overwhelm a b-boy. Spending the night by making sure the needy's pleas to Tamil Hindu deity Murugan are answered by punishing the sinister villains populating town in his fancy chicken attire, Kanthaswamy's matinee alter ego ends up discovering a money laundering syndicate led by the conniving Ponnusamy, which begins a huge complot made of lies, action, deceitful femmes fatales, dancing numbers and enough bling and pizzazz to both completely disarm you, and likely make for quite a fun night.
I'll review the Tamil hit (which released this summer and made huge business) later this weekend, but in the meantime, take a look at the insane trailer. Ahh... we need more chicken superheroes.
Susi Ganesan's fourth feature film கந்தசாமி (Kanthaswamy) is - at least on paper - one of the wildest ideas of recent memory: Kanthaswamy (Tamil superstar Vikram) is a handsome and refined CBI agent by day, and an anthropomorphic chicken (!) superhero by night, complete with "cock-a-doo" war cries and motions which would even overwhelm a b-boy. Spending the night by making sure the needy's pleas to Tamil Hindu deity Murugan are answered by punishing the sinister villains populating town in his fancy chicken attire, Kanthaswamy's matinee alter ego ends up discovering a money laundering syndicate led by the conniving Ponnusamy, which begins a huge complot made of lies, action, deceitful femmes fatales, dancing numbers and enough bling and pizzazz to both completely disarm you, and likely make for quite a fun night.
I'll review the Tamil hit (which released this summer and made huge business) later this weekend, but in the meantime, take a look at the insane trailer. Ahh... we need more chicken superheroes.
Somehow I think I need to own this ...
Don't really know why, but I liked this!
So is this played straight or for laughs? The trailer made it look very serious.
Will delve into this more in the review, but a lot of it is straight (the chicken superhero parts are in no way tongue in cheek, enough to give the baddies nightmares that move some of them to change), but the film goes in a completely different direction post-revelation.
Can't say I really liked it (first hour is loads of fun, the remaining 140 minutes... not so much), but it sure was unique. But the very first encounter of Kanthashwamy and a corrupt local officer is amongst the funniest, most insane 10 minutes in all of 2009's output.
this is so unrealistic, everybody knows a chicken cant fly! Gorgeus images, they actually make Chickenman look really cool. Wonder bout the story though.