Hero – Movie review

PS Mithran who gave us Irumbu Thirai in 2018, comes back with yet another engaging film on the education system in India. The story relates to system where the kids are overburdened in school and by the pressure the parents give them. The movie starts with young Shakti who wants to become like Shaktimaan the TV super hero, his dreams are shattered when he realizes the concept of a super hero dwell only as entertainment and not in real life.  Years later we see Shakti as a scammer who makes his living by selling duplicate certificates and mediates college seats to public. While Shakti at the lower end in hierarchy, at the top is Mahadev (Abhay Deol) who keeps the education system under control with the help of corporate giants. He manipulates the education system and runs it as a huge money making business. Parallel to this Sathymoorthy (Arjun) an entrepreneur runs a school for students who think out of the box and grooms them. One of whom is Mathi (Ivana) who Shakti considers as his sister, who wants to study aeronautics. Trouble starts when Shakti tries to gets Mathi through scholarship into college using her invention.  Mahadev sees this as threat and eliminates Mathi and Destroy Sathyamoorthy’s school. How Shakti along with the students sheds light on the corrupt education system to public is the rest of the story.

PS mithran once again stars as the hero with his story backed by some solid research on the present education system. Though we can sense repeated preaching of the same content, he does make public, especially the parents rethink of their child’s future. Among the cast Arjun stays clearly on the top and steals the show.  For Siva karthikeyan who still finds it difficult in emotion scenes, falls short in his performance. Kalyani Priyadarshan makes a decent debut, but has less screen space. Music and camera enhance the story and play an integral part. Duration could have been less. Movie loses its nature by promoting it as a super hero film, as the film has none regarding that. The innovations that the students make for the Hero also sadly, it wasn’t put to good use. Hero still manages to raise a voice to the public towards the educational system. I give it 4/10

 

Nerkonda Paarvai – Movie Review

Meera Krishnan (Shraddha Srinath), Famitha Banu (Abirami) and Andrea (Andrea Triang) are three independent working women staying together. After a dance show Meera and her freinds meet up with an old friend accompanied with couple of his mates and hang around for dinner. After dinner they go a resort and start drinking, when the women find that they are in danger, they fight back leaving Adhik a son of a an influential person seriously injured and escape out of the place. But trouble continues as the boys want to teach the girls a lesson. As the harassment gets out of hand, Meera lodges a complaint on the boys, but with Adhik’s influence the case is turned against the girls and they are charged with attempt murder and extortion of money. With no one to support them inside and outside the court, in comes Barath (Ajith) an upright lawyer who takes up the case on behalf of the girls. But will Bharath who is suffering from depression and bi-polar disorder help the girls get justice? That makes the rest of the story.

From the date when the remake was announced, the one thing which was going thru mu mind was how Ajith and Shraddha are going the pull of the characters which was played effortlessly by Tapsee and Amitabh bachchan and how a sensitive issue would be remade to the Tamil culture. But Director H.Vinodh carefully handled this remake, making small changes to Ajith’s role which worked and also made the dialogues powerful and executed this as a worthwhile remake. Ajith owns the whole movie from the pre interval scene to the end of the movie. Shraddha Srinath too as performed well with a well-directed supporting cast. Vidhya balan’s role was overworked but still supported to a level. Rangaraj pandey’s too does a decent job.It would impossible to compare Amitabh’s performance to Ajith’s as both the characters were manipulated to their mode of acting and presence, and that’s what make this film unique and works even for a remake. I give it 7/10

 

Irumbu Thirai – Movie review

 

Kathiravan (Vishal) is a major in the army with serious anger issues, due to his troubled childhood.when he gets into trouble in far too many occasions, his higher officials send him to a psychiatrist for anger management.In comes Rathidevi (Samantha) who gets into Kathiravan’s head and makes him understand he has to get down to his roots and rediscover himself though his family. So Kathiravan returns to his family and sorts things with them.parallel to this a cyber gang led by “white devil” is hacking into people bank accounts and swindling them of their money through various scams. When kathir’s family also falls prey to this gang, his world his turn upside down and cat and mouse game in on between kathir and White Devil. How this ends is the rest of the story.

Irumbu thirai is a hard hitting on the current digital world and how common man is innocently caught in it. it does openly show people how their information is used and circulated without their knowledge and how they are deceived too.More than just preaching, it also educates them to a certain level. Vushal is apt to role and does give a good performance, more than him Arjun takes command and the second half and totally dominates the screen. Samantha does a very subtle role and breezes through. Mithran the debut director has done a decent research and constructed a good screenplay which makes the film strong. Though the first half could do with some trimming the second half is fast and ends decently. Music and BGM plays is good and elevates the important scenes. Irumbhu thirai is a decent cyber crime thriller to watch i give it 6/10