The movie was initially titled "Mass" which was later rechristened to "Massu Engira Maasilamani" .
To be honest they should have kept the title as "Mokka Engira Mokkasami" . okay that was a spoiler alert . sorry .
Surya after the debacle of Anjaan and Venkat Prabhu after the debacle of Biryani has teamed up for "MEM" . Did they hit the bulls eye ? In parts I must say . The first half is pretty confusing as in where the story is heading to . In the interval you will be hanging on in the hope that the second half would be a blast but you will be disappointed with the second half too . It seems Dir Venkat Prabhu can't take a decent movie when stars are involved . He was in good form till Saroja and okay to some extent in the Ajith Starrer Mankatha .
Surya is a thief with Premji as his accomplice . They meet with an accident from where on Surya gets the power of seeing ghosts . The ghosts wants Surya to help them as they all are in this earth because some of their wishes are not fulfilled . Now Surya instead of helping them asks them to help him first and he will help them later . Surya loves a girl and that girl needs 3.5 lakh rupees to get a promotion from nurse to head nurse . This girl has total of only 5 to 6 scenes in the entire length of the movie which is equivalent to that of Vidyulekha who has donned the role of comedian . I am not able to remember who the girl is who thought she is playing the heroine's role where in its nothing but a guest appearance . who is that girl who is that girl ? yeah now i remember after a brief research on google . Nayantara . yes . I don't know what Venkat Prabhu and Nayantara were thinking when the role was offered and accepted . Nayan , please don't list this movie in your biodata . I can say the same to Surya also . What was he thinking ? okay now another Surya comes in to the story in the form of a ghost . He also wants Massu's help to take revenge on his killers . Who is this ghost surya and how his human surya helps him out forms the rest of the story .
The one main thing which you shouldn't expect in Mass Masala movies is logic . Those movies have good entertaining story hence few logic voids are acceptable . This movie's basic plot itself is devoid of logic . The ghosts in this film can use their power and throw any object at anyone . If they have this power to handle materialistic objects , then why does the Ghost Surya doesn't use his powers to kill the villains . Just because the story should drag on till second half ? or because normal surya is his son and he wants his son to take revenge hence making his son a murderer ? The story drags and drags and drags that even if you had slept and woke up after sometime , you wouldn't have missed out on anything .
The songs are a dud and so are the fight sequences . The only thing worth noticing is the CG . They have done a decent job . The screenplay if at all there is something as such is not noteworthy .
Venkat Prabhu sir , you have good calibre hence please don't waste it on movies like this . You should have learnt a lesson or two from Lingusamy . It seems Venkat Prabhu and his team must have watched "Apoorva Sahodarargal" one night after a good late night party and stumbled up on the idea "What if we take the same movie by including ghosts into it " . So remove kamal hassan and include Surya , one will be a ghost instead of a baffoon in the circus and the other will be a con instead of a mechanic . add Premji , some computer graphics and hola you have a new movie .
There are few funny moments in the film but that cannot suffice the damage already done .
one question to Venkat Prabhu and Surya .. "Enna Ma Ippidi Pannitingale Ma ?"
Massu Engira Maasilamani - Mokkasami ;)
