Adhisaya Ulagam

<p>Professor Neelakantan (J. Livingston) is a maverick Indian scientist and inventor who develops and constructs a and begins experimenting with it. He realizes that his machine requires a recognized “object” to work, so he seeks to locate such an object that can be transported through time. He jokingly tells his pet dog that he would use it as the “object”. Varsha (Sreelakshmy N. Nair) and Vikas (Mannan Prithivraj) are Neelakantan’s mischievous grandchildren who live with their parents and are very fond of their grandfather. While visiting, the two children enter Neelakantan’s laboratory in his absence and start playing with the dog. Varsha throws a ball that strikes the time machine’s control screen and accidentally turns on the device, which recognizes Varsha and Vikas as transferable “objects”. Neelakantan enters the room and is shocked to see the machine’s condition, but it is too late. As he tries to save the kids, he too is recognized as an “object” by the machine, and he and his grandchildren are accidentally transported to the age of dinosaurs. In the prehistoric world, Neelakantan and his grandchildren encounter animals that are now extinct, including several species of dangerous dinosaurs. At first, they are afraid and struggle to understand what to do. But gradually, they try to befriend the dinosaurs. They wish to return to modern times, but to do this, they need a source of electricity, which does not exist in the prehistoric times they have been transported to. How they survive their circumstances and finally manage to return to their own age is the main plot of the film. “The movie revolves around a scientist who invents a time machine and how his grandchildren accidentally get teleported to the prehistoric era. We have created dinosaurs using computer graphics.” was the first Indian that featured dinosaurs. The film was shot using a Dual Lens Panasonic 3D Camera. The dinosaurs shown in this film were created using computer animation and graphics, and a total of 15 species of dinosaurs were depicted. The film was produced under the banners of Tittu Productions – Dreamgate Animation. Shakti Scott, who directed of the film, also composed its music, wrote its screenplay, and handled editing and graphics. Before working on the film, Scott had worked on visual effects in a few films, including and . The film was released on 10 August 2012 in India. gave the film one out of five stars, saying the director failed as a storyteller and calling it “a bland Jurassic adventure”. They described the film plot as a mix of those from and and found the storytelling and graphic works unimpressive. They wrote, “But when even the five-year-old kids in the theatre get restless, it is a clear sign that the filmmaker has failed as a storyteller.” criticized the director’s filmmaking and the movie’s storyline and graphics. They found the works of the VFX artists “amateurish” and wrote that the film “looks like an unfinished product.” Overall, they rated the film “poor” and gave it half out of five stars,</p>