Two young men joining the police force with a lot of hope in a imaginary town, Koramalai, encounter a bunch of quirky characters such as a lazy inspector, a cunning colleague, a crazy forest tribe with a beautiful action queen and so on. When the bumbling duo accidentally get involved in a murder, things go haywire. Their tryst to solve the murders using their common inspiration, ‘Sambasivam Comics’ is ‘Sutta Kathai’ in a nutshell.
Language:
Tamil
Running Time:
106 mins
Rating:
U
Release date:
25 October 2013
Directed by:
Subu
Produced by:
Ravinder Chandrasekaran
Written by:
Subu
Starring:
Balaji Venugopal
Venkatesh Harigopal
Nassar
M. S. Bhaskar
Lakshmi Priyaa
Music by:
Madley Blues
Shot by:
Nissar
Editing by:
Surya
Distributed by:
Vendhar Movies

What’s Hot

  • Balaji plays the role of ‘Kleptomaniac’ Ramakrishnan and calls himself Ramki being a fan of yesteryear Tamizh actor Ramki. He is the more experienced of the two friends and mouths dialogues with good modulation and body-language.
  • Venkatesh plays the role of the ‘Partially Deaf’ Sangilimurugan and calls himself Sangili being a fan of yesteryear Tamizh actor Arun Pandian. His funny running, ‘Step step Mani’ dance, and spoofy dialogues are enjoyable. The female lead, Lakshmi Priya, has good importance in the script and is not there just to make up the numbers. Her performance in the stunt sequences deserve a special mention.
  • The ‘Sambasivam Comics’ parts are excellently made. The radio-like voices announcing the comic series’ name bring a smile each and every time. The animated comic strip narration of the plot at the beginning of the movie with the ‘Kaatukulla Kannamoochi’ number in the background is a delight to watch.
  • Veterans such as Nasser playing the role of Inspector Thirumeni and M.S Bhaskar playing the tribe leader work their magic with ease. Other supporting characters such as Lakshmi Ramakrishnan, Jayaprakash & Shivaji Santhanam also perform very well.
  • Nizar’s work in capturing the dense dark forest and the idyllic town are superb with some innovative shots thrown in. Madley Blues’ have a decent outing and the ‘Dingu Dongu’ number is enjoyable. The make-up and art direction departments also deserve appreciation for the movie’s period setting.
  • The intelligence of the director shows in quite a few instances such as the innovative opening disclaimers, fat belly related dialogues, renaming TASMAC to Bossmark, showing the education minister to be illiterate, wacky character names, mass scenes spoofing etc.

What’s Not

  • Though the film starts promisingly, it loses steam very quickly thereby making the relatively short 106 minutes movie feel like an eternity.
  • The over-usage of the ‘Sambasivam Comics’ interludes in the second half clearly irritates the audience.
  • The main plot, in spite of being riddled with twists, is far from engaging and lacks seriousness. In fact, for a movie having the tag-line, ‘Twist mela twist’, the twists themselves do not sweep us off our feet.

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Verdict

Verdict Stamp

An innovative dark comedy that is good in parts but falls flat on the whole.