Agni Natchathiram

This is a wonderful movie. I have watched it several times and never got bored.

Such a great music composition by The Maestro Ilayaraja and every song of this film is awesome. 'Raja Rajaathi Raajanindha' is a peppy song of the time and Ilayaraja's voice suites to the mood of the song.

Karthik and Prabhu had done a wonderful casting. All the fights were shot well and the camera was handle excellently.

PC Sreeram has proved that he is one of the best through this film.

Amala appears as a naughty girl who did her part quite pretty.

Manirathnam has done a wonderful job and professionally and technically he proved his skills and abilities.

I saw this movie on DVD recently and all I can say is "WOW"!!! Ratnam really scored big time when he made this movie about two stepbrothers who hate each other. P.C Sriram's cinematography is absolutely brilliant. It pretty much changed tamil cinema. Prabhu, Amala and the beautiful Nirosha all give great performances. However, Karthik (who gave a memorable supporting turn in Mouna Raagam-another brilliant ratnam movie) gives the best performance in this movie. His role as a street thug really stole the entire movie. I believe he won a filmfare award for it. Rest of the characters also give good performances. Raja's music for the movie is just wonderful. A real classic.

Honestly,when this movie was released,i was a two year old kid.But when i saw this movie....now,it is brilliant!!when compared to the conditions of that time in India,this movie is technically very good.Mani sir used exceptional lighting technique for the songs in this movie.Well,some may call this effect as "steven Spielberg" style,but i think there is definitely something different.All the actors done very well in their respective roles.The songs are superb.Mastero Ilyaraja has given awesome music for this movie.In one line,i think this movie is a worth watching movie.It is said that this movie is a big breakthrough for mani ratnam as a director,it is simply superb!!

Mani Ratnam's "Agni Natchathiram" is poorly written where the screenplay is not coherent and is episodic. It almost follows a sequence like - song, fight, emotion, song,.. But credit should be given to PC Sreeram's unique cinematography where lighting was explored to a great extent to give a different tone and feel to the film.

Vow! what a great movie. If anyone want to direct a movie or compose music or to act, don't go anywhere.. Just watch this movie.

The film starts with a fantastic title..a traffic jam in the background (many thanks to Ilayaraja, the other hero) one of the best title made by ever and with wonderful scenes and songs and ends with a great climax.

In the 90's my dream was to become an engineer but after seeing this movie I had changed my plan to become a director like him.

If anyone says that which movie is best than Agni Natchatiram then I will give all my wealth