Spoofy Sivaji

Watched "Sivaji", 3rd day 3rd show in JB, Malaysia. The movie was fantabulous. Sivaji is a movie made for Rajini by Shankar. Shankar knew Rajini and his fans very well, and he made sure that Sivaji is enjoyed by all.

The thing that I like most about Sivaji is its spoofs. Making parody of Rajini's old movies, existing film dialogues and also calling himself in the names of yesteryear legends of Tamil cinema, was real fun. My film reviews are not like all other reviews, which just analyse the movie on the whole and give comments. My article here is a listing of parodies involved in the movie and analysing it individually.

1- The Title 'Sivaji'

Rajini's name in the movie itself is a parody. First of all his real name is Shivaji Rao Gaekwad. But he bears the title role of Sivaji also being a big fan of the legendary Actor Sivaji Ganeshan. The title first appears with a black and white label of 'Sivaji', and then it changes to 'Sivaji the boss'. In one scene when asked who he was, Rajini replies back "Parashakthi hero", referring to Sivaji Ganeshan. In the climax Rajini comes with a tonsured head and when asked whether if he was Sivaji, he replies back "No I am MGR", referring to the former Tamil Nadu chief minister and former super star of Tamil Nadu. But interestingly he bears the name M.G.Ravichandran, instead of M.G.Ramachandran to avoid criticism from MGR fanatical maniacs.



2- No 8.

A lot of news and predications were made about the importance of No 8, long before the movie was near completion. This is Shankar’s 8th movie to be directed in Tamil. 8th time AVM and Rajini are joining hands once again. Shankar’s lucky number is 8, born August 17, 1963, 8th time A.R.Rahman is composing music for a Shankar movie, and was predicted that the movie would be released on 8th of May. Seems that Shankar was aware of this conspiracy circulating in the media, and there was a reference to it in the movie when, Vivek informs the officer that the arranged prostitute is in room 35, and it’s no 8, a lucky number.



3-Refering to Famous Funny Dialogues and Scenes of other movies.

Rajini was in Shreya's house and asks her to dance for "raa raa" from chandramukhi. And he acts here again saying the jathi but Livingstone jumps in at the right moment and says "lakalakalakalaka". It’s hilarious to see Rajini is there in the movie but not speaking his own famous dialogue.

In the suicide scene Rajini tells Vivek "Enna vachu comedy keemedy ethuvum pannalaye?”
And Vivek responds back with the trademark "awwwhhh" of Vadivelu, although he is not in this movie.

In one scene Rajini says "Enna Kodumai Saravanan Ithu", which was originally used in chandramukhi, but later was popularised more by Chennai 600028 and was so hilarious in YouTube with Vijayakanth fight edited to it.

When everything is lost for Rajini Suman tells him, "I see that you have lost everything now, what are you going to do?? Are u going to milk cows (referring to annamalai), or drive auto (referring to Batsha), or become a bus conductor (referring to Rajini’s past life) ".

Lots of mimicry artists try to open Rajini's Laptop which is protected by Voice Recognition software. When asked to imitate like Sivaji and open the laptop, Sinni Jeyanth imitates Sivaji Ganeshan. Thamu gives the final shot when the laptop warns that if you make one final false attempt, it will self destruct itself. He dramatically says the final word "lakalakalakalaka", only too see the laptop getting self destructed. Was so funny.



4-Dressing up like other Actors

In the first night scene Rajini speaks of different varieties of doing it. He dresses up and dances like Sivaji Ganeshan, then MGR and then Kamalahasan. It’s so funny to see the super star acting like the yesteryear legends and his present competitor.