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+50: Hero is Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) which is the go-to designation for heroes playing cops, TN Police in an unofficial statement said that the morale of ACP aspirants had gone up by 50% since Tamil cinema discovered the post. Jeyam Ravi is the 300th person to don the role. He himself had played the designation a record 12 times.
-12: Hero is honest means it is assured that hero’s family is also honest to the core, sometimes we are confused if this is family or Sabarmati Ashram.
-17: Hero’s house looks like proper Madras type building, inside however the decor looks like some castle in Budapest (are there castles in Budapest? i dunno, Europe is out of portions for me); maybe art director landed up at the different film set.
I wonder.
-81: Supporting characters as non entities, basically I believe characters are written only for top billed actors (if writing is actually thought of value in a film), it is like Aadukalam Naren means father only, and since we have seen him play the same role so many times, same case with Saranya Ponnvanan. Like while writing they just give names I guess.
-10.78: Hansika’s name is Mahalakshmi Azhagamperumal, is like rooted to society in naming if characters, but casting? Oh well, lets not be unkind.
-12: Hansika’s voice seems to have been dubbed by the person who dubbed for Dora in the tamil version of Dora the Explorer , if someone clarifies that this was for comedic effect, we will of course revert the points to positive. Thank you.
-41: This movie wouldn’t have been made, if Thani Oruvan had not happened, which is quite sad because Thani Oruvan is actually quite good.
-31.23333: Director doesn’t realize that characters only came back in their own sequel/franchise model; is not like Aravind Swamy can go on playing Sidharth Abhimanyu (his role from Thani Oruvan) in ever film, here of course he plays Aditya Verma(Varma?) which is just Sidharth Abhimanyu with a different name.
-5: I have signed on Aravind Swamy, so he will always speak in ‘deeeeep’ voice type commitment
+10: Archaeological Survey of India
-107: So Aditya Verma (Varma?) is actually shown as a prince, whose family had lost all their possessions because Government of India took all of it, which at some point seems acceptable, but what isn’t acceptable is that they actually show the Red Fort as one Verma (varma?)’s palaces.
Before you say WTF, they show Mysore Palace as well, we waited till end credits in the hope that they are going to show Marlinspike Hall as Arvind Swamy’s summer home.
Umm..no luck
-120: Maan Karate rule of abuse of spiritual power (or) The Baba theory of kite wishing
In other words whenever in a Tamil film, a character is bestowed with some sort of divine power, they put it to the most trivial tests.
-23: Hero climbing out of helicopter and walking slowly is considered as Masss/Style. Edho
+55: Hansika goes to TASMAC and asks for a drink so that she can be bold and stuff, sensing this is the first portrayal of dutch courage on the tamil screens, yes were are now international #ulagacinema
-7: Even while drunk, heroine will talk about numerology #yeppa
+16: SJ Suryah references! (Is this a positive or a negative, benefit of doubt based positive)
+41: One scene or is it half a scene (are there half scenes? dammit we are so under prepared as reviewers) in which Arvind Swamy speaks to himself in a mirror
+5: For the number of newsminute articles on sexism in the tamil filmdom, this movie will lend itself to as fodder.
-190.59: If you have been seeing movies on a regular basis, twists in a film stop registering or creating an effect on you after a point of time, especially in a film which uses the reviewer friendly phrase of ‘cat and mouse’ type format, where there is a supposed battle of wits and there are crosses, double crosses and railway crosses happening, sleep comes to you automatically. Maybe this should be prescribed to insomniacs.
-21: Second half of movie should have been titled ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Long’
First part should be titled, ‘wait till you get to the second half’
-37: All songs whenever, wherever, special mention to a party number which spells out BOGAN 300 times, troubling.
+11: the fact that Bogan rhymes with Dragon has been used to good effect.
-91: Commisioner of Police Control Room Server maintenance will take 15 minutes only, dei
0: Movie comes close to being actually bold at one point, but never really is. I am guessing the director should have stuck with his Dutch Courage theme.
-151: Some kind of logic this police offer hero has, whenever there is a video evidence, you take multiple copies of it for safety, you don’t destroy other copies, edho da.
-78.91: All commercial movies will end in a pointless fight in Chennai Harbour, and there is this promise of sequel also.
+5: Expected the movie to be troubling, was not disappointed.
All numbers are irrelevant and arbitrary. All spelling and grammar mistakes are intentional, because we dont know grammar only. Semi-colon. LOL;
The FRS team
Subam
The Lowly Laureate 