A nonetheless from ‘Mazhai Pidikkatha Manithan’
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Director Vijay Milton is again after six years, and the primary jiffy of the Vijay Antony-starrer, Mazhai Pidikkatha Manithan, seemed that it’s a worthy comeback for each the Vijays. The movie begins with a nice shock that it’s a sequel to Vijay Antony’s Salim (2014), which itself was a sequel to his 2012 movie Naan. The short-paced cuts join the dots swiftly and convey a way of familiarity to the protagonist of Mazhai Pidikkatha Manithan from the get-go; however little did we all know that they can even occur to be arguably essentially the most fascinating a part of the movie.
Karthik (Vijay Antony), who had stolen Salim’s identification in Naan and have become a health care provider in Salim, has turn out to be a covert company agent who misplaced his pals and his girl love in an ambush on a wet day. Now, as a person who misplaced the whole lot within the rain, and slowed down by survivor’s guilt, Karthik makes an attempt to begin afresh. With the assistance of his Chief (Sarathkumar), he reaches the shores of Andaman and finds refuge at an eatery managed by a mother-son duo. However little does our hero know that regardless of touching land, he’s nonetheless in troubled waters when he crosses paths with a neighborhood mortgage shark, Daali (Dhananjay).
A person with a previous wanting a contemporary begin away from the horrors of his previous, solely to be pulled again into it, is a trope that’s something however new to Indian cinema. The thought of a double life is one thing even Vijay Antony himself gave a shot with Pichaikkaran,which turned out to be one in every of his greatest hits. Be it the drastic change within the protagonist’s life — that comes with the heft of getting accustomed to a brand new place, new individuals and new obligations — or the mass transformation the place he reveals who he actually is and what he might presumably do, Mazhai Pidikkatha Manithan faulters in every single place Pichaikkaran triumphed.
Mazhai Pidikkatha Manithan (Tamil)
Director: Vijay Milton
Solid: Vijay Antony, R Sarathkumar, Sathyaraj, Megha Akash, Dhananjaya, Pruthvi Ambaar
Runtime: 133 minutes
Storyline: A person with a bloody previous tries to begin afresh with a brand new identification just for bother to knock on his door as soon as once more
Mazhai Pidikkatha Manithan looks like a hodgepodge of a number of motion movies that includes such a protagonist. The core concept appears to be minimize from the identical material as The Equalizer movies whereas a yesteryear killer looking for vengeance for his pet would remind you of a selected movie collection starring Keanu Reeves. Inspirations are justifiable when used as crutches to assist an in any other case fascinating story, not when become stretchers anticipated to hold an insipid plot.
A nonetheless from ‘Mazhai Pidikkatha Manithan’
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Previous the predictable story, it’s the shoddily penned characters and scenes that water down this movie. Now we have the damsel in misery within the type of Sowmiya (Megha Akash); a gabby Burma (Pruthvi Ambaar), who will get thrashed typically making us really feel that the therapy meted out to him is completely value it; his mom (Saranya Ponvanan), who says essentially the most unrelatable traces in an try and sound profound; and naturally, the ever-threatening villain (Dhananjaya), whose concept of terror is serving poison flavoured espresso. Even reliable seniors like Sarathkumar and Saranya, and a cameo by Sathyaraj, fail to avoid wasting the movie from the shallow waters of mediocre writing.
The streaks of potential you see from time to time, sadden you additional. In a scene, Daali’s ego is bruised after an encounter with a doubtful cop (Murali Sharma) however that sub-plot leads nowhere. The triangular love story between the three main characters doesn’t really feel natural. A bit extra info on the company headed by Captain (Sathyaraj) would have added extra worth to the backstory; as a substitute, the movie settles on placing him in costly garments, inserting him in an embellished underground lair and making him say one thing alongside the traces of the actor’s iconic ‘Thagudu, thagudu’ traces.
The movie’s title tells you of the poetic really feel the makers have gone for, and it’s fairly dramatic to position a personality with an aversion in the direction of rain on an island surrounded by water, however Mazhai Pidikkatha Manithan fails to capitalise on these tropes. What we’re left with is a painfully formulaic plot riddled with uninteresting characters and unsurprising happenings which are certain to rain in your parade.
Mazhai Pidikkatha Manithan is at present operating in theatres
