He is cool, breezy and brainy. He is trim, fit and fine as engineering

He is cool, breezy and brainy. He is trim, fit and fine as engineering

student. He brings out right emotions and stands a pillar to the

script.

There is Jiiva and Srikanth. They get equal screen presence and does

the job entrusted to them well. Both add strength to Vijay and the

trio rocks. raj as Virus imitates Boman Irani (who played in the

original) at many places, while n as the comical engineering

student tickles the funny bone. Ileana, the skinny actress, shines in

song sequences thanks to her oomph factor.

As like any Shankar's film there are some surprising cameos in Nanban

too. The likes of S J Suryah and Anuya chip in with interesting

performance.

Also, quite like any other Shankar film, Nanban is

technically-brilliant. Manoj Paramahamsa excels with his

cinematography skills. The bright colours in which the campus life is

captured deserves a special mention.

Resul Pookutty's audio recording is clear and clean. Kudos to Editor

Anthony, whose razor-sharp editing skills have made the movie crisp.

Harris Jayaraj's music is good especially the numbers 'En Frienda

pola...' and 'Asku Laska...' But the same cannot be said of the other

numbers.

'Nanban' is a clear entertainer. For those who had seen the original,

there may be nothing new. But for the Tamil audience, it is a whiff of

fresh air from the mindless masala movies. A welcome change indeed for

movie-buffs in here...