The latest Mani Ratnam’s directorial ‘Thug Life’ hosts a galaxy of stars – Kamal Hasan, Simbu, Trisha and many other notable actors. It is a very simple straightforward story of revenge and family drama woven in a less than engaging movie.
Spoilers Ahead!!
Highlights
- Music by AR Rahman was quite a highlight with Chingucha and Sugar Baby songs ruling the airwaves in the last few days. Muthu Mazhai song, which opened to rave reviews, unfortunately, did not figure in the movie.
- Cinematography by Ravi K. Chandran was crisp and provided a few amazing shots in the first few minutes of the movie.
- Supporting cast of Abirami, Aiswarya Lekshmi, Joju George, Naser and many others have done their work appreciably.
- De-aged Kamal looked to have come in straight from the Nayagan movie.
The Trouble?
The first half of the movie set up the platform beautifully for the story to be taken to the next stage. Unfortunately the 2nd half of the film was an absolute disappointment like most other Tamil movies that have released recently. With a paper thin story, a complex screenplay with a whodunit thriller would have saved this movie. Instead we get repeated fights (with amazing ARR BGM), senseless drama sequences and Kamal Hasan appearing in every other scene in the movie (with the get up of Shingen Narahashi from Dasavathaaram movie).
Alternate Scenarios
- The simple revenge story between Kamal-Simbu could have been converted with the gang breaking up into two factions, fighting it out and rejoining at the end to take out a common enemy.
- When Kamal suspects Simbu, Simbu’s character could have got murdered, with Kamal going after his killers in a whodunit thriller, with Trisha emerging to be a suspect.
- Simbu’s father could have been shown to be a police informant and Simbu who was after revenge could have been shown to be remorseful, but his sister not so much, with her finishing off Kamal in the final scene.
If one has enough patience and a lot of money to burn, the movie is a one-time theatre visit.
No comments:
Post a Comment