As the naive bodybuilder Lingesan, as the stylish and suave Lee and better yet as the hunchback, Vikram just steals the show. This is by far the biggest project of Amy Jackson’s career and she has given her best. Upen Patel is convincing as the baddie. A slim and trim Suresh Gopi is the surprise package. Santhanam’s one-liners are rib tickling and keep us in splits. AR Rahman’s music has already been topping the charts and as expected, Shankar’s visuals captured by PC Sreeram’s camera are fantastic. The movie shows why it took so long to make. The painstaking efforts gone into getting each scene perfect are apparent. Predictability and running time are the two banes for this I.
Shankar’s I is indeed a perfectly made magnum opus tale of love, jealousy, revenge and passion.