‘Kadaisi Ulaga Por’ movie review: Hiphop Tamizha Adhi’s ambitious dystopian film bites more than it can chew

Hiphop Tamizha Adhi in ‘Kadaisi Ulaga Por’.

The journey of the musical duo Hiphop Tamizha is fascinating, particularly after Adhi turned actor and gave us a slew of relatable, enjoyable entertainers. Even when he experimented with the superhero style (Veeran), he caught to business cinema. With Kadaisi Ulaga Por, Adhi has made his most formidable undertaking a couple of style recent to the Tamil viewers, mounted on a scale new to him. The truth that he has bankrolled the film other than helming this enterprising undertaking deserves reward, however whether or not that makes Kadaisi Ulaga Por an attention-grabbing, entertaining movie is a special query altogether.

Kadaisi Ulaga Por, set in 2028, begins with the Tamil Nadu CM GNR (Nassar) getting bedridden. His brother-in-law Natraj (Natarajan), who claims to be a kingmaker, strikes his items and makes the CM’s daughter Keerthana (Anagha) his political inheritor. However as she begins transferring away from her uncle and begins making constructive reforms due to the assistance from her beau Thamizh (Adhi), the world involves a standstill when a brand new coalition of superpowers referred to as the Republic replaces the UN and wreaks havoc on these not on its aspect. Chennai is lowered to crumbles as Republic troopers resort to genocide, with many getting caught and some escaping from their clutches. With a brand new world order in place, it’s as much as Thamizh and his gang of patriots to battle for his or her land and freedom.

Probably the most intriguing a part of Kadaisi Ulaga Por — other than its formidable story narrated with some sensible VFX works — is the choice to make Natraj the narrator. Because the grasp manipulator, the Tamil political scene equal of GoT’s Littlefinger, Natraj’s aspirations and actions are the propellors of Adhi’s story. Kadaisi Ulaga Por is a type of tales that may sound terrific on paper as slivers of excellent writing come by to the ultimate product, which suffers from an identification disaster. Arguably, the most important misstep of Kadaisi Ulaga Por is for the makers to take a high-concept movie and attempt to deal with it commercially with components similar to comedy, motion, and romance.

The movie has lots occurring however little or no going for it. It’s as if the makers have a set of packing containers to tick, hoping they’ve one thing for every sort of viewers strolling in. On this means of balancing a number of tropes, the movie sacrifices high quality for amount. The romance angle between Thamizh and Keerthana feels unnaturally rushed, and we spend so little time with the secondary characters that the affect of their loss of life is akin to a firecracker that refuses to go off. Inside a brief interval, the movie introduces a barrage of characters, like a bunch of cops (Munishkanth and Singam Puli), their commissioner (Kalyan), a witless politician (Azhagam Perumal), an actor (Sha Ra), a forest officer (Elango Kumaravel) and a soldier (Harish Uthaman). Whereas all of them get their couple of minutes of fame, none get a strong arc.

Fragments of humour work out due to the veterans at play, they usually owe it to Adhi, who takes the backseat for many of the movie’s runtime. The VFX work is without doubt one of the greatest points of the film. For many who grew up watching a decimated Statue of Liberty and a destructed White Home in Hollywood movies, it could be fairly an expertise to see a bombed Chepauk stadium and a devastated Rippon Constructing. Whereas movies from the West predominantly caught to the post-apocalyptic style, seeing a Tamil movie centred round a state’s descent into insanity provides a recent tackle the style.

For those who’re taking suspension of disbelief as your film associate, Kadaisi Ulaga Por could be addition to the class of movies Tamil cinema has not toyed a lot with. It’s not typically we see a future the place petrol prices Rs 350 a litre (neither are we prepared to). In all probability the most important Achilles heel is why politicians and armed forces heads would take heed to an ex-anti-poaching ranger with zero expertise in a struggle room scenario. However earlier than one can consider it, the movie hits you with melodrama and messages at an RPM quicker than machine weapons. Kadaisi Ulaga Por has fascinating concepts, and a sequel guarantees to take us to a world straight out of Terminator Salvation. That’s a spot I’m extra to take a look at. As for Kadaisi Ulaga Por, its formidable plot executed shoddily falls flat with the drive of an atomic bomb.

Kadaisi Ulaga Por is at the moment working in theatres