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Happiness in poverty: Meena, Pasupathy and the kids in a still from Kuselan |
The movie would have been lesser of a disappointment had it not been hyped so much! Yes, we all loved Rajini, but quoting one of his dialogues from the film 'It's not the actor who makes the movie a hit, rather it is the director, and the whole team working together that makes it a hit.' The movie got off to a bad start with the story dragging till around the 45th minute when Rajini makes his entry as Super Star Ashok Kumar.
The 'cinema-cinema' song that was supposed to be the crowning glory celebrating 75 years of cinema in South India and the entry of Rajini into the film passes, leaving no sense of celebration or excitement.
We're left wondering if the direction went wrong, or was it the music, or was it just bad editing? We still have no clue.
The movie continues with hard to laugh at comedy sequences, badly edited scenes, alien songs that have no place in the screenplay and an overall sense of a thorough waste of time.
We're not kidding when we say that the serious main lead character Pasupathy managed to garner more smiles collectively from the audience than all of Vadivelu's supposedly comedy antics put together.
The songs were easily forgotten and while there is no plot or storyline other than what could have been said in half an hour the movie drags painfully along for three hours!
Rajini was a saver with few comic scenes here and there reminders of bygone hits like Yejaman, Annamalai and Chandramukhi.
The winner however was, Pasupathy for playing a well etched adaptation of a character we could have only imagined in a book we loved him.
It's depressing to see Tamil movies move to an age of commercial trivialism where nothing grounded in reality matters anything anymore. The age of sensible cinema seems to be a bygone era and that is nothing to celebrate about.
