After reading some rave reviews written about the movie, I too felt an urge to watch Shankar's I. He had impressed me with "Robot" that starred Rajnikanth and came in 2010. I was also heard a lot about Vikram's acting prowess and so was eager to see him act, this was going to be my first Vikram movie, so I was surely enthusiastic about it. He didn't disappoint me either, I thought apart from the superb VFX effects and some breath-taking action sequences, it was Vikram's enthralling performance as the disfigured hunchback that kept me interested in the movie. He gave the role his all. Otherwise the plotline was very poorly written. They had a beautiful love story built up but I think the script went haywire by the interval. And the revenge part too didn't look that convincing. The characters were too poorly sketched to have any impact. Moreover so poor was their acting that none of the antagonists could hold the viewer's attention. I also felt the chemistry between Vikram and Amy to be quite cold.
The story is about a countryside body-builder Lingesan (played by Vikram) who aspires to be the next Mr. India by winning the body-building championship and so he duly prepares for the competition. He is also obsessed with a model named Diya (played by Amy Jackson). Meanwhile Diya (Amy Jackson) is constantly harassed by her fellow colleague John (played by Upen Patel) with whom she shares a lucrative modelling assignment. So to resist his advances she approaches Lingesan to act in an ad film with her and he reluctantly agrees because he has to forego his dream of participating in the Mr. India championship that year. For the ad shoot, both of them leave for China. To make the ad work, Diya pretends to have fallen in love with Lingesan so that he would let go of his inhibitions and there would be a natural chemistry between them. He also undergoes a complete makeover for the ad film and while shooting, the two fall in love. The ad film too gets successful and the brand climbs up the ladder.
Thus Lingesan earns the ire of five enemies - a fellow contestant from the body-building competition whom he had defeated, the reigning supermodel John who loses all his ad contracts to Lingesan, a gay make-up artiste whose advances Lingesan rejects, the brand owner whose next ad campaign Lingesan refuses to act in and so also his doctor friend who had all the while been eyeing to marry Diya. So they all team up and get the doctor to inject Lingesan with an I virus to terribly deform him. Thereafter it gets all yawningly predictable. How Lingesan avenges his deformation and wins back his love is what follows.
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