After a year of release, I finally managed to catch this movie, just for Jayam Ravi and Aravind Swamy.
Bogan is a movie which mainly revolves around 2 people - ACP Vikram (Jayam Ravi), a honest police officer and Aditya/Bogan (Aravind Swamy), a womaniser and Hedonist. Aditya uses a special technique to loot money and become a millionaire and Vikram takes it upon himself to find this criminal and solve the case. This leads to the usual Hero Vs Villain face off and what transpires in the end forms the story of Bogan.
The story sounds pretty routine, being a good Vs bad story and the director has looked to make a typical commercial movie - with into song and fight, romance portions, 2 love songs, a second half fully focused on the hero Vs villain duel. But what works for Bogan is the interesting subject that forms the base of the story. Especially, the second half is made watchable just because of this theme.
Jayam Ravi and Aravind Swamy have given great performances and this is a major plus for the movie as the movie revolved around them. Their roles are challenging in the way that they would have to perform as more than one character and both of them have come up trumps on that. Hansika is the usual commercial heroine who doesn't have any role in the movie, except for the few minutes in the climax.
The first half an hour doesn't move too much, with the songs and unnecessary romance portions. But post senthoora song, the movie picks up big time and the way director Lakshman has built up the premise till the interval is brilliant. Post interval, it does maintain a decent pace but not as much as the end of the first half and the climax is questionable to say the least. But with the recent trend of Tamil cinema, that was expected.
Another positive for the movie is Imman's BGM. The songs are okayish but the BGM is racy and classy. The score for Aravind Swamy is magnificent. The Senthoora BGM during the romance scenes is also worth a listen. But a slight problem arises when the same music is repeated till the end.
With a subject/theme that is new to Tamil cinema, the fact that the director chose to restrict himself to the commercial genre is slightly baffling to me. The movie has its own share of logical flaws too.
On the whole, Bogan is a normal commercial movie that has its own share of drawbacks. But what makes it worth watching once is the new subject (to Tamil cinema atleast) and the performances of the lead cast.
