Parthiban is a mild-mannered cafe owner in Kashmir, who fends off a gang of murderous thugs and gains attention from a drug cartel claiming he was once a part of them.Parthiban is a mild-mannered cafe owner in Kashmir, who fends off a gang of murderous thugs and gains attention from a drug cartel claiming he was once a part of them.Parthiban is a mild-mannered cafe owner in Kashmir, who fends off a gang of murderous thugs and gains attention from a drug cartel claiming he was once a part of them.
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- 4 nominations
Kamal Haasan
- Agent Vikram
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- TriviaThis film is heavily inspired by the classic graphic novel "A History of Violence".
- GoofsWhile Parthiban is dropping Siddhu to school, he gets the call from Joshy to tame the hyena, he makes Siddhu promise to not tell his mother he was late and then they both go to tame the hyena, but after taming the hyena Parthiban just goes home and Siddhu just magically teleports to school while also leaving the car behind.
- Alternate versionsThe UK release was cut, the distributor chose to make cuts to scenes of strong bloody violence in order to obtain a 15 classification. An uncut 18 classification was available.
- ConnectionsFeatures Polladhavan (1980)
- SoundtracksBloody Sweet
Music by Anirudh Ravichander
Lyrics by Heisenberg
Performed by Anirudh Ravichander, Siddharth Basrur
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Vijay's best performance in a step back movie of Lokesh Kanagaraj
Review of Leo by M. Siraj
Vijay's best performance in a step back movie of Lokesh Kanagaraj.
Mr. Lokesh Kanagaraj, who is the most wanted director in the Tamil Industry after the block buster of Vikram 2, much hype for his joint venture with Mr. Vijay is quite natural, Vijay gravely worked his level best to get out from the hitch of Beast.
Lokesh leisurely starts to concise about Parthiban (Vijay), a café owner who lives in Himachal Pradesh with his wife and two children, Lokesh rebelliously avoids grand entry of Vijay as usual in his previous films with introduction song, he is accentuating an ordinary man's life. Once Vijay came in the lime light through media for saving people from Hyena attack as well as an incident in his coffee shop gets superfluous attention, the situation intensifies, some callous thugs notice him as gangster Leo Das, son of infamous warlord Sanjay Dutt. Parthiban (Vijay) antagonizes various skirmishes to protect his family, as the Sanjay Dutt and his brother Arjun believe sturdily Parthiban is Leo. The rest of the film merely rest on the subject that both Sanjay Dutt and Arjun are trying to prove Parthiban is Leo, is what forms the nub of the story.
As a family man Vijay outshines as a father, a lovable husband. Hats off to Lokesh to bring out a never before emotional performance of Vijay, especially when he burst into tears to his wife Trisha, not to doubt him. The high-octane action sequences in the Car chase, the trademark of Lokesh beguiles the audience with fascinating camera effects and bgm.
Anirudh's music is pleasing, especially in the dance for Vijay with thousands of dancers, Vijay's energy and dancing skill is second to none as well is action sequence in the cafe in the first half is hypnotizing. Anirudh presence is benchmarked with pulsating background score to accompany the explosive action sequence on screen. Leo is engaging because of Lokesh Kanagaraj's improvisations and the innovative methods he employs to recite the story.
In spite of having a galaxy of stars through out in the film, Leo is a one-man show, Vijay is terrific in both characters, to keep audience guessing if he is really Parthiban or Leo, the shots were wonderfully shaped to audience to a certain extent. The absence of a power packed Villain in his earlier film Beast, this time he confronts with Sanjay Dutt and Arjun, both done their job remarkably, but the impact of Ajith and Arjun combination in Mangatha is definitely missing, definitely a setback for the audience who expected much.
The film is solely depending upon the star value of Vijay, preparing the audience to be taken to an action-filled violent story, but Kanagaraj seems to made some compromise for the Hero image of Vijay, the anxious audience who had Vikram hang over in their mind, cannot not digest, as he fights with 100 goons alone, holding the neck of a Police officer at Police station amid other Policemen.
Lokesh has to think new ideas, should give more importance to Story with resounding Screenplay, the novelty of using the same thing over and over again is archaic, for instance, cold blooded gangsters looking to enter the home of Vijay remind a sequence in "Kaithi" where the mobsters enter and take control of the police commissioner's office.
In short, Leo is the first half that can claim 100% Lokesh making and the second half is only an average output. Other than character Vijay, the rest of the film give the audience only a soulless feel.
Review of Leo by M. Siraj.
Vijay's best performance in a step back movie of Lokesh Kanagaraj.
Mr. Lokesh Kanagaraj, who is the most wanted director in the Tamil Industry after the block buster of Vikram 2, much hype for his joint venture with Mr. Vijay is quite natural, Vijay gravely worked his level best to get out from the hitch of Beast.
Lokesh leisurely starts to concise about Parthiban (Vijay), a café owner who lives in Himachal Pradesh with his wife and two children, Lokesh rebelliously avoids grand entry of Vijay as usual in his previous films with introduction song, he is accentuating an ordinary man's life. Once Vijay came in the lime light through media for saving people from Hyena attack as well as an incident in his coffee shop gets superfluous attention, the situation intensifies, some callous thugs notice him as gangster Leo Das, son of infamous warlord Sanjay Dutt. Parthiban (Vijay) antagonizes various skirmishes to protect his family, as the Sanjay Dutt and his brother Arjun believe sturdily Parthiban is Leo. The rest of the film merely rest on the subject that both Sanjay Dutt and Arjun are trying to prove Parthiban is Leo, is what forms the nub of the story.
As a family man Vijay outshines as a father, a lovable husband. Hats off to Lokesh to bring out a never before emotional performance of Vijay, especially when he burst into tears to his wife Trisha, not to doubt him. The high-octane action sequences in the Car chase, the trademark of Lokesh beguiles the audience with fascinating camera effects and bgm.
Anirudh's music is pleasing, especially in the dance for Vijay with thousands of dancers, Vijay's energy and dancing skill is second to none as well is action sequence in the cafe in the first half is hypnotizing. Anirudh presence is benchmarked with pulsating background score to accompany the explosive action sequence on screen. Leo is engaging because of Lokesh Kanagaraj's improvisations and the innovative methods he employs to recite the story.
In spite of having a galaxy of stars through out in the film, Leo is a one-man show, Vijay is terrific in both characters, to keep audience guessing if he is really Parthiban or Leo, the shots were wonderfully shaped to audience to a certain extent. The absence of a power packed Villain in his earlier film Beast, this time he confronts with Sanjay Dutt and Arjun, both done their job remarkably, but the impact of Ajith and Arjun combination in Mangatha is definitely missing, definitely a setback for the audience who expected much.
The film is solely depending upon the star value of Vijay, preparing the audience to be taken to an action-filled violent story, but Kanagaraj seems to made some compromise for the Hero image of Vijay, the anxious audience who had Vikram hang over in their mind, cannot not digest, as he fights with 100 goons alone, holding the neck of a Police officer at Police station amid other Policemen.
Lokesh has to think new ideas, should give more importance to Story with resounding Screenplay, the novelty of using the same thing over and over again is archaic, for instance, cold blooded gangsters looking to enter the home of Vijay remind a sequence in "Kaithi" where the mobsters enter and take control of the police commissioner's office.
In short, Leo is the first half that can claim 100% Lokesh making and the second half is only an average output. Other than character Vijay, the rest of the film give the audience only a soulless feel.
Review of Leo by M. Siraj.
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- Gross worldwide
- $6,978,436
- Runtime2 hours 44 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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