Maria Ressa & Dmitry Muratov | Torchbearers of freedom of expression /news/internati… 1 month ago Malayalam actor Nedumudi Venu passes away at 73 /entertainment/… 1 month ago Sacrificing logic for the sake of drama, the director has yet again delivered a powerful and emotionally vibrant film.Īmitabh Bachchan terminates contract with pan masala brand, returns fees: ‘Wasn’t aware it falls under… /i/web/status/1… 1 month ago Selvaraghavan has never made movies that are pleasant. But by being this alive to the role and approaching it with such conviction and voracity, the actor does dispel most doubts likely to arise in audience’s mind of his suitability in playing a gangster. By most parameters that define traditional actors, Dhanush can only be rated as pathetic. Thanks to him, portrayal of street rowdyism turns refreshing and believable. Kumar’s impulsive marriage seems to deliver that holy shrine of Tamil moviedom a neat little kick in the ass, the thali sentiment. For a while it looks like Selvaraghavan, entranced with his own heroine, might lead his movie into disaster.īut with a few strokes, this chapter, the movie’s wildest and weakest, is worked into the main theme. Sneha stays within limitations and delivers a credible performance.īut for a few minutes after the interval, with the introduction of Sonia Agarwal, the movie comes dangerously close into lapsing into a family drama. And the love between the prostitute and the gangster is not glorified. Thankfully, Sneha’s Selvi is no such oddity. Prostitutes in Tamil movies are usually pure and untouched when the hero meets them. The last shot before the interval of Kumar looking at the city he has conquered with a bitter expression on his face is perhaps the best in the movie. This sequence is clearly inspired by Godfather’s famous climatic baptism sequence in which Michael Carleone (Al Pacino) ruthlessly kills to establish his power. The first half of the movie ends with Kumar wiping off his enemies and firmly establishing himself as the alpha male among gangsters.
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Starting a career selling ganja on the streets, Kumar, in a series of scenes written with Dhanush’s scrawny body in mind, soon joins the murderous mayhem his gang is unleashing on the city. The story begins with Kumar, who after fleeing home and begging in the streets, joins a gang that controls Chennai’s drugs, prostitutes and politics. But these are somehow reassuring in a film that devoid of them would have been reduced to an oddity. Scratch the surface and you might find that the screenplay is still filled with clichés. Selvaraghavan, at the helm of his third film, makes his canvas, bigger, bolder, and darker. Violence is stylised and omnipresent, dialogue is guttural, and the acting, particularly by Dhanush, who plays Kumar, is both spontaneous and over the top. This is cinema that celebrates the vulgar and the obscene. He has also joined the cast of Thalapathy Vijay's much-awaited 65th movie 'Beast'.Pudhupettai chronicles the life of ‘Kokki’ Kumar, a superhero who single-handedly murders almost the entire cast of the movie in his ascendancy to political power. Meanwhile, Selvaraghavan has finished shooting for 'Saani Kaayidham'. Dhanush is also busy in Bollywood with 'Atrangi Re' with Akshay Kumar and Sara Ali Khan and a trillingual film with Sekhar Kammula. He also has 'Thiruchitrambalam' directed by Mithran R Jawahar and Selvaraghavan's 'Aayirathil Oruvan 2' in the pipeline. On the workfront, Dhanush is currently working with Director Karthik Naren in 'Maaran'.
Sources in the know have also revealed that a big set for the film is erected for the same. The shoot of the film, which was delayed since both Dhanush and Selavraghavan were busy with their other projects, is expected to start early next week. Dhanush was seen stylishly laughing in the poster with a cigar. Kalaipuli S Thanu is producing ‘Naane Varuven’ and Yuvan Shankar Raja, who has earlier worked in many movies of Selvaraghavan is scoring music for this project. The first look poster of 'Naane Varuven' was released during the occasion of Pongal, and raised the anticipation levels among the fans.
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