The Legend

Legend Saravanan's big-screen debut as an actor is a laugh riot in the theatres for all the wrong reasons.

Perhaps the ghosts of his popular trolls have followed him to the big screen, and like his previous attempts, this might end up working in his favour given how bizarre it is to watch a campy film as such with no care in the world. In the world of The Legend, after a woman's house is torched down by assailants, she happily walks into the next shot and shakes a leg with our hero. Also, a few duet songs between the heroine and the white knight hero. Perhaps it is with this same confidence, that Saravanan swoops onto the screen in The Legend and shatters the fourth wall with a note of gratitude to audience. Add the tacky set designs, bright costumes, excessive make-up — and Saravanan walking in slow motion — it won’t be an exaggeration to say that the film looks oddly similar to the many Saravana Stores commercials. Exhibiting remarkable confidence, Saravanan decided to take a step further and produce and act in his own movie, with long-forgotten director duo JD-Jerry helming the project.

Legend Saravanan, who is the owner of 'The New Legend Aravana Stores', is making his debut in films at the age of 52 both as an actor and producer.

The music and cinematography have also been lauded. While many have commented that it is a spoof film which can be watched with a gang of friends, there are others who are trolling the movie, especially Saravanan Arul, himself. The movie is directed by JD-Jerry, while the music is composed by Harris Jayaraj. Producer Listin Stephen has earned the distribution rights of the film in Kerala. Arul, known as Legend Saravanan, is making his debut in films at the age of 52 both as an actor and producer.

There is formula. Then there is this film called 'The Legend', where the writing department seemed to have worked blissfully in silos.

Out of the blue, a whole joint family appears at the blast site to console a character who is purportedly sobbing. A blast scene comes in handy to parade the film's entire cast. You have got the entire story with the exception of a scene where a young DNA researcher behaves as though she has just come walking out of the villain's den to honey-trap the scientist-hero, who by the way spends as much time in the lab as Karan Johar spends putting governance-related questions to his guests on Koffee With Karan. Our hero is ultra-talented and can conjure up miracle cures provided someone close to him dies of sickness. This is akin to an onscreen saviour itching to end underemployment because unemployment is no longer vexing the vast majority of voluntarily unemployed youths of India. See, we have to be positive in life, especially when we voluntarily submit ourselves to a comprehensively overconfident film like 'The Legend'. Another writer was told to write scenes between hero and comedian after being given full liberty to copy from the oldest possible movies of every conceivable outdated masala filmmaker down the Vindhyas. Yet another writer was motivated to dedicate himself to writing song situations and this particular writer was mercilessly fooled into believing that the situations he was going to create would be used for a Rajinikanth film.

Legend Saravanan's maiden venture "Dr.S.TheLegend" highly awaited pan-India film has been making noise in all ways possible. It has taken.

Vairamuthu, Kabilan, Pa Vijay, Karki have penned the lyrics. The highly awaited pan-India film has hit the cinema halls & fans from all over can’t stop praising Legend Saravanan for acing the role of a scientist. Legend Saravanan’s maiden venture “Dr.S. The Legend,” a highly awaited pan-India film has been making noise in all ways possible.

Starring businessman turned actor Saravanan Arul, the science fiction movie 'The Legend' has been released in theatres on July 28. Directed by JD Jerr.

Every Kollywood cliche to ever exist is on offer, at each turn. There are not one, but two “loosu ponnu” heroines (Geethika Tiwari and Urvashi Rautela).

At the intermission scene, predictably, a grand tragedy has occurred; a setback in the hero’s path. At a run-time of 2 hours 40 minutes, The Legend starts off laughable and quickly becomes unendurably grating. In Legend, it’s as if the businessman decided his money and a full-fledged Kollywood formula was enough to subject people to a film with himself in the lead. That is definitely a bonus. Unfortunately, the said driftwood doesn’t have a business empire at its disposal to fund a story that has the depth of a school play. The most forthright description would be: The Legend is the result of someone utterly and unfathomably besotted with themself. Oh, and this evil gang is all the way in Toronto, a helpful subtitle tells us. The film’s protagonist is a billionaire genius scientist. He will give this cure to the world for free. The movie’s plot is all about a billionaire scientist called Saravanan on a mission to find a cure for diabetes. The son of Saravanan Selvarathinam, he’s called 'The Legend Saravanan' and became a well-known face in Tamil Nadu after starring in ads for his The New Legend Saravana Stores. The chain of mega-shops along with the ads have become a part of the state’s mass cultural fabric, so the release of his film debut was surrounded by much curiosity. All the character-building required is to refer admiringly to one of the heroines as a “suthamaana Tamil ponnu” (a ‘pure Tamil woman’). And have her chase after a baby goat to sentimental music, while the foreign-return hero avidly watches on.

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Alas, if only had they spent some of the money that they have splashed on the needless songs and stunts for the writing! It doesn't help that the rest of the performances, too, are far from convincing. The hype around The Legend is solely because of its leading man, the entrepreneur Saravanan, who has chosen to become a movie star.

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