This is an awesome movie. Great effort. Hats off to Selvaraghavan and GV Prakash for wonderful BG. No directors dare to take this kind of concept. I still don't understand why people say bad about this movie. Movies like this should be encouraged, its not love and action movies I expect. Actors did a good job too. The history says that Pandyas were the real reason for the downfall of the Cholas. Cholas ruled the southern India including Sri Lanka as well as part of Malaysia, Burma and Vietnam. If few directors like Selva can research more on that and create movies on old tamil life and history I would love to see it. I also expect a sequel where in the Chola king takes revenge on the Pandyas.That will be really interesting. My best wishes. I recommend this movie.

I wish I could give it less than 1 on 10. This movie is disgusting to say the least. Right from the screenplay to the post production stuff like graphics and special effects, everything is absolutely poor. Selvaraghavan , who built himself good reputation with romantic movies like 7/G Rainbow colony and Adavari Maatalakku Arthalu Verule and dark movies like Pudhupetai and Kadhal Kondein just loses it all with this movie. You definitely don't expect a movie which was in the making for over 2 years to be this bad! Selvaraghavan challenged that if someone could prove that Aayirathil Oruvan was inspired/copied from another movie, he would quit directing movies. Well, if Aayirathil Oruvan is going to be the kind of movies he is going to make in the future, then he might as well quit cinema right now. Accepting his challenge, I can prove that this movie was copied from not just one other but at least 3- 4 other Hollywood films (The Mummy, Mackenna's Gold, Apocalypto, Gladiator to name a few) The screenplay is poor in the first half and gets worse and worse progressively with every scene in the 2nd half of the movie. The movie beats logic completely. I would have bought the idea of time travel (which was what the movie was initially said to be based on) to this uninteresting idea where the writer wants us to believe that Cholas lived as cannibals feeding on each other in a far off land for 1000 years completely unaffected by the external world. One particularly funny scene (which was obviously not intended to be funny) was that Reema Sen, a lady from the Paandiya clan converses with the Chola King Parthiban in ancient Tamil but suddenly starts singing in Telugu. And graphics; this movie scores the all time low in the special effects department. Having spent so much money on unnecessary and badly choreographed war scenes, the producer could have forced the director to give better special effects by chipping in a little more money, at least to make serious scenes look serious and not funny or disgusting. Worst graphics you'll ever see. And after giving the worst movie in ages, Selvaraghavan actually had the audacity to call James Cameron's Avatar meaningless and devoid of a plot. Avatar is a zillion times better than this crap that Selvaraghavan has given. GV Prakash's soundtrack is impressive and it gives u a feel of the movie. It was definitely an important element that created expectations before the movie was released. However, Selvaraghavan fails to utilize the best song of the album "Indha Paadhai" sung by Prakash himself. This movie is bad. Very bad. Very Very bad.

There are countless ways to end your life.you can die naturally,you can die in an accident and you can try suicide.AAYARATHIL ORUVAN is suicide.Everything about the movie can be described in one word-disaster.I am sure that even I could have managed a better job.this is how frustrated i was after watching the movie. you want to get a sample of the experience.go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. Rating acting-2music-3script-3graphics and direction:-2 after experience wow the best part of the movie is when it ends .its like coming from hell.

Where to start.... Its an amazing film from start to finish.. One of the best in tamil cinema.. It is first of its genre (fantasy/adventure) in tamil cineworld and the director should be appreciated for this bold attempt.. the story is simple and for this genre it should be like that... the cast is superb and their performance is adequate.. The first half is fastly paced... and in second half, the director put in lot of twists and try to justify it and in the process the pace drops down.. But the imagination is praise worthy and looks believable... There are lot of things to be appreciated in this film.. Screenplay, bgm, cast, twists, action scenes etc... Special effects are fairly done considering the budget... It is worth to mention that gore factor, sometimes, reaches beyond limit and thus will not be suitable for young children... On the whole, the film is a treat to watch and should be appreciated for the team's hard work...