MOVIES THAT MADE A MARK IN 2011 & THE REASONS


7AM ARIVU
- Suriya's dedication and hard work
- AR Murugadoss' basic plot and thread of the script
- Grandeur in terms of making and script elements
- Ravi K.Chandran's cinematography and Rajeevan's artwork
- Tamizh sentiments and issues being discussed.
- Anthony's editing (climax fight sequences)
- Peter Hein's stunt choreography

AADUKALAM
- Vetrimaaran's gripping script and making
- Dhanush's National Award winning performance
- G.V Prakash's foot-tapping songs
- Performance of other artistes (Jayabalan & Kishore)
- Velraj's cinematography and lighting (especially in rooster fight sequences)
- National Award winning neat and perfect editing by Kishore.Te
- National Award winning choreography by Dinesh Kumar ("Othe Sollale" song)

AARANYA KAANDAM
- Thiagarajan Kumararaja's pathbreaking script and movie making (in Neo-Noir genre)
- Hard-hitting dialogues and narrative format with beautiful framing of scenes
- Performance of artistes (Jackie Shroff, Sampath, Ravi Krishna, Yasmin Ponnappa, Somasundaram & Master Vasanth)
- Cinematography of PS Vinod (fight sequences)
- Yuvan Shankar Raja's background score
- Stunt choreography of Dhilip Subbarayan
- Praveen K.L and N.B Srikanth's editing (fight sequences)

AZHAGARSAMIYIN KUDHIRAI
- Suseendran's simple and sweet script and casting
- Baskar Shakthi's story and dialogues
- Ilaiyaraja's background score
- Humorous and simple comedy portions

DEIVATHIRUMAGAL
- Vikram's one-of-career best performance
- Baby Sarah's heart-stealing appearance and performance
- Performance of other artistes (Anushka, Amala Paul, Santhanam, Nassar, MS Bhaskar, Y Gee Mahendran, and etc)
- AL Vijay's sweet and heart-breaking script
- Santhanam's comedy sequences
- GV Prakash's melodious songs and background score
- Nirav Shah's crystal clear cinematography
- Anthony's editing (overall of the film)

ENGEYUM EPPODHUM
- Saravanan's simple and straight-forward script
- Characterization of artistes
- The thumping take-away message
- Performance of lead artistes (Jai, Sharwanand, Anjali & Ananya)
- Sathya's simple and sweet songs
- Velraj's cinematography (angles and detailing)
- Audiography by Krishnamoorthy

KAAVALAN
- Siddique's light-hearted and bittersweet script
- Vijay's subtle and effective performance (reminiscent of his beginning years)
- Vidyasagar's hummable tunes
- Vadivelu's comedy sequences

KANCHANA
- Raghava Lawrence's script (combination of horror and comedy)
- Performance of Sarath Kumar as a transexual person
- Comedy sequences (Kovai Sarala, Sriman & Devadarshini)
- Thaman's songs

KO
- Entertaining, logical and racy script by KV Anand and Suresh-Bala duo
- Performance of lead artistes (Jiiva, Ajmal, Karthika & Piaa Bajpai)
- Chart-busting melodious songs from Harris Jeyaraj
- Richard M.Nathan's landscape-style cinematography and usage of Phantom Flex (climax fight sequence)
- Peter Hein's stunt choreography
- Kiran's realistic art direction

MANKATHA
- Ajith.. Ajith.. Ajith... (Charisma & screen-presence)
- Venkat Prabhu's twist-and-turns filled script
- Catchy and cheeky dialogues
- Multiple number of star artistes
- Foot-tapping numbers from Yuvan Shankar Raja and decent background score
- Shakthi Saravanan's stylish cinematography and color tone
- Praveen K.L and N.B Srikanth's editing

MAYAKKAM ENNA
- Selvaraghavan's dark, intriguing and emotional script and screenplay
- Contemporary dialogues and hard-hitting sequences
- Powerful and knock-out performance of lead artistes (Dhanush & Richa Gangopadhyay)
- GV Prakash's chart-busting songs and wondeful background score
- Photography-style cinematograpy of Ramji
- Crisp editing by Kola Bhaskar

MOUNA GURU
- Santhakumar's thrilling and intelligent script
- Simple and straigh-forward dialogues
- Characterizations of artistes
- Performance of artistes (Arulnidhi, John Vijay, Uma Riyaz Khan & etc)
- Thaman's simple and catchy songs and effective background score

MURAN
- Raajan Madhav's thrilling script
- Neat and crisp dialogues
- Characterization of lead artistes
- Performance of lead artistes (Cheran & Prasanna)
- Padmesh's cinematography (highway sequences)

OSTHE
- Dharani's perfect commercial mass masala script
- Bharathan's dialogues
- Silambarasan's screen presence and performance
- Santhanam's rocking comedy sequences and dialogues
- Thaman's chart-busting and foot tapping songs
- S.Gopinath's perfect cinematograhpy

PAYANAM
- Radha Mohan's neat and thrilling script (infusion of comedy in serious sequences)
- Gnanavel's hard-hitting dialogues
- Performance of all artistes
- Kadhir's realistic art direction
- Guhan's effective cinematography and lighting

SIRUTHAI
- Siva's masala script
- Karthi's convincing and contrasting double-act performance
- Santhanam's rip-roaring comedy sequences
- Tamannah's glamourous scenes

VAAGAI SOODA VAA
- Sargunam's neat, thoughtful and detailed script
- Performance of artistes (Vimal, Iniya, Bhagyaraj, Thambi Ramaiah, Kumaravel & etc)
- Immense detailing in art direction by Cheenu
- Fresh tunes and wonderful background score by Gibran
- Om Prakash's cinematography and color-tone usage

VAANAM
- Krish's anthology-style script
- Though-provoking dialogues of Gnanagiri
- Performance of lead artistes (Silambarasan, Bharath, Anushka, Prakash Raj & Saranya Ponvannan)
- Yuvan Shankar Raja's background score
- Neerav Shah and Gnanasekharan's effective cinematography and angles

VELAYUDHAM
- M.Raja's commercial and sentimental masala script
- Vijay's mass appeal
- Heroines' attractive appeal (Beautiful Genelia D' Souza & glamorous Hansika Motwani)
- Santhanam's comedy sequences
- Vijay Anthony's foot-tapping songs
- Priyan's effective cinematography
- Milan's colourful and elaborate artworks (song sequences)

YUDHAM SEI
- Mysskin's gripping and thrilling screenplay
- Strong and in-depth characterizations of artistes
- Subtle and powerful performance of artistes (Cheran, Y Gee Mahendran, Lakshmi Ramakrishnan & Jayaprakash)
- Sathya's cinematography (camera movements and tight angles)
- K's haunting background score


Noteworthy Films:
180-RULES KIDAIYATHU
- Middle class setting
- Lovely casting (Siddarth, Nithya Menon, Priya Anand, Mouli & Geetha)
- Beautiful music by Sharreth
- Wonderful cinematography by Balasubramaneim

AVAN IVAN
- Vishal's stunning performance
- A different rural- world setting
- Yuvan Shankar Raja's background score

KULLANARI KOOTTAM
- Light-hearted script by Sri Balaji
- Good music by Selvaganesh
- Decent comedy scenes

MAIDHANAM
- Realistic plot and script setting by Sakthivel
- Intriguing screenplay with good twists
- Natural cinematography by Vijay

ROWTHIRAM
- Jiiva's characterization
- Shanmugasundaram's brilliant cinematography (fight sequences)
- Anal Arasu's fantastic stunt choreography

UCHITHANAI MUKHARNTHAAL
- Pugazhendi Thangaraj's story
- Good casting (Neenika, Sathyaraj, Seeman, Sangeetha & etc)

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