Purampokku Engira Podhuvudamai - A wasted, 'useless' effort - either way it's bad!
Cast - Arya -Makkalin Nayagan Balusamy, Vijay Sethupathi, Shaam, Karthika Nair - Kulli
& Crew- Director & Screenplay - S.P.Jananathan, D.O.P - N.K.Ekambaram , Music - Varshan, Editing - V.T.Vijayan
Producers - UTV
My ranting and ravings after a wasted 180 mins!
This film is a ball of crap; If a mad hatter 'google' educated scientist ever made a film even he would have done a better job. This film is all about a so called Indian revolutionary Arya whose characterization is a total failure. He comes across as a tame revolutionist in the beginning and finally ends up being an idiotic, spoofed and a brainless character devoid of intelligence, acumen or spirit in the end. He has a band of nitwit followers (revolutionaries) who keep shouting stupid slogans, speaking garbage in Tamil,English, Hindi and even in Sanskrit; and they are supposedly communists who have become maoists. If Maoists happen to watch this film they will probably protest and probably seek it's banning. We also have the tall heroine Karthika as the 'she' revolutionary; who would be much better of playing basketball for the Indian womens team. The director S.P.Jananathan thrives on his misplaced brilliance by introducing firstly a cop cum jailor who is hell bent on hanging Arya; Why? I don't think even the director knows the answer! Then comes the final black icing on the 'gooey' cake; the special hangman ' Vijay Sethupathi' as per the most contrived judgement only a lunatic confined to a mental asylum would ever conceive off! Definitely not any responsible judge in any court of law! Vijay Sethupathi is a wayward drunk and a kalasi working with the railways. No wonder the maintenance of railway compartments and platforms are so pathetic; employing such good for nothings! off course he has a widowed mother who dotes on him and everytime she gets angry and abuses Vijay Sethupathi you simply want to laugh at the ridiculousness of the whole formula! The entire first half is filled with the visuals of a prehistoric jail; it actually looks like a low budget set; but the jail holds high profile criminals; the most dreaded being Arya who is on a death row and going to be hanged. Why is Arya such a high profile criminal in fact he is compared to Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru! In my opinion he can be likened to a loveable priest! Sham the jailor looks like a bar bouncer in a police uniform. His sole job as a jailor is to somehow convince the drunkard Vijay Sethupathi to take up the job of pulling a simple lever and put an end to the poor constipated and docile Arya! Believe me when I say that he has no other work in the jail! Oh! Let me not forget to mention that the entire police force, commandos and black cats are in full deployment to prevent the 'mouse' Arya from escaping. The director employs hi tech technology (courtesy Google) like encrypted sim cards, tee shirts with printed QR codes, inflated plastic balls, Jamming police surveillance cam footage, digging of tunnels, scaling walls, substituting people with such ease that you tend to think that the entire police force is blind! No scene sticks to your mind; In fact your anger scales such heights that you finally might end up sobbing and crying for watching this film! P.S. I forgot to mention the 'Thar' desert and the grinning camels! this will make you laugh and cry at the same time as Arya and Karthika riding camels mouth slogans in Hindi! Which sounds like children singing nursery rhymes!
& the climax is the most nonsensical, uninspiring climax I have watched in recent times!
Performance: Lets me not waste any more of my time; I have better things to do!
Bottomline: If anyone watches this film and says it's good please stop discussing movies with them!
A quote: "First learn the meaning of the word film before you start to shoot one!" hC
My Rating: 1/5
Until Next Time
Director Haricharan
16/5/2015
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