Sunday, October 26, 2014

The Knife is Sharp.



   .A.R.Murugadoss seems to be inexorably stuck to the soil.In Ramana,it was the struggle of a College professor to relieve the soil from the real estate mafias and corrupt elements.In Thuppaakki it was the efforts of an Officer from the RAW of the Indian Army to retrieve the soil from the terrorists outfit.In Kathi it is an all the more valid crusade against a criminally greedy corporate house bent upon exploiting the rich water resources of a rural soil, for its personal gains.Here, the struggle is carried on with utmost fire and commitment with an atmosphere of grim events governing the narration almost from the start till the end.Though there are certain humorous scenes involving Vijay and the Naan Yee fame heroine,the film compulsorily turns to a course of sobriety to make the narration more authentic and gripping.
    Th ever agile Vijay has put in all his genuine efforts in emoting,dancing,fighting and in articulating dialogues with force and veracity.The stunt scenes are perfectly in fresh form.The heroine is compact and Sathish the hero's companion, does a neat job.The villain performer from the northern belt,finely fits into the Corporate house with all its negative projections. Aniruth's music scores more on the percussion side at times even swallowing the lyrics and dialogues with his background music.Two of his numbers are enjoyable at the theatre but do not compel one to recall later.
   The movie despite the necessitated reduction of the usually rich entertainment quotient of a Vijay film, can not be said to be boring at any stage.But one can not deny the fact that a couple of scenes here and there are reminders of earlier movies like Dharani's Dhool, Aith's Citizen and Ramana of Murugadoss. The exhortation of the hero in the climax scene also seems to echo a few previous films of the same hero and a few others.On the whole the Murugadoss/Vijay combination has really worked hard and takes credit for a solid show, though their earlier joint parade in Thuppaakki contained greater aesthetic components in creating a lasting over all impact on the viewers.The climax takes us closer to the pattern of a Malyalam movie, of this kind. On the whole the knife is sharp and sleek.

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