When it that time of the year approaching a fishing festival, a notorious village in Madurai district creates trouble for its neighbour who won first rights over a common lake, decades ago. This year is no different and the government invokes 144 curfew on the troublesome village. A crooked wealthy man takes advantage of this situation and stashes a booty of gold he had stumbled upon, ingeniously in an idol inside the village. At the same time, a group of greedy youngsters plan to rob him of his booty. The events that follow showing who ends up securing the booty forms the rest of the story.
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Language:
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Tamil
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Running Time:
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133 min
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Rating:
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U
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Release date:
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27 November 2015
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Directed by:
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G. Manikandan
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Produced by:
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C. V. Kumar
Abinesh Elangovan
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Written by:
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G. Manikandan
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Starring:
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Shiva
Ashok Selvan
Oviya
Sruthi Ramakrishnan
Ramdoss
Uday Mahesh
Madhusudhan Rao
Jawahar Sakthi
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Music by:
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Sean Roldan
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Shot by:
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R. B. Gurudev
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Editing by:
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Leo John Paul
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Distributed by:
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Abi & Abi Pictures
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What’s Hot
- The generous dose of laughs provided by the film is bound to entertain everyone who watches. Be it the hilarious one liners from Shiva, or the trademark end phrase “Kandippa” from the cop, or the antics of the mute Ramdoss – there is a plenty of riotous moments in the movie which oscillates between comedy and spoof, but never enters the boring zone for even one moment.
- The debutant director Manikandan has balanced his act quite well by doing a great job on the characterizations – making Shiva talk a lot and play to his strengths, making Ramdoss character a mute and loading him with antics despite being loved for his voice modulations in Mundasupatti, deglamourizing Oviya’s character despite being a call girl being some of the noteworthy mentions.
- The movie features two couples and having practically full freedom to picturise romantic songs on them, a smart decision made to avoid them has made the screenplay tauter and more credible. Just one noticeable song in each half is included. Though there aren’t quite many twists, the movie keeps rolling at a decent pace. The premise of romance between the con and the call girl based on one of Sujata’s novels has been well utilized to construct the movie around it.
What’s Not
- Ashok Selvan’s rural youth character is not given as much space as Shiva and rightly so as his visible efforts to speak the local dialect does not help him much with his acting which is still a touch too upmarket. His pairing with Sruthi Ramakrishnan doesn’t quite help with the humour as well and turns out a little damp.
- The customary climax fight did not make any impact and just delayed the ending to be blunt as the spoofy boss fight between the villains was not so very funny to make it worthy to be featured in the climax.
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