The romantic track is stupid even vulgar, songs a big disappointment (Only Rocket Raja is hummable enough and the lorie somewhat soothing), their picturisations even more drab with more insipid dancing (the item song with the fatty woman is grotesque), the hackneyed fight scenes have some woefully tacky wire work and the film has even worse visual FX thrown in. But barring some good moments in the comedy track, Siruthai offers practically nothing else. Is it too much to ask for a nice romantic track, a genuinely funny comedy one, catchy hummable songs picturised well with zingy choreography and well executed action scenes? These are items good mainstream Tamil cinema revels in. Raja now takes the dead cop’s place, destroys the villains in his own corny way and reclaims Shweta as well.įorget logic, forget coherence of story and screenplay (and there are many, many big holes really not worth going into), one is able to able to forgive a lot if the intended entertainer has the right items at least. The bane of the villains Bhauji and his brother in Andhra, he is also somehow in Chennai but is fatally injured when he comes to Raja and Divya’s rescue when they are attacked.
It turns out that Raja looks exactly like the little girl’s widower father, brave and fearless police Officer Pandian (Karthi again), and hence Divya’s confusion. This causes a misunderstanding with the girl Raja loves, Shweta (Tamannaah), who walks out on him. As she wakes up, she declares Raja to be her father. One day as they steal a trunk, they find a little girl, Divya, asleep inside. Rocket Raja (Karthi) and his sidekick (Santhanam) are conmen in Chennai who cheat people in a variety of ways.
But then it is also a re-make of a Telugu film – Vikramarkudu (2006), a smash hit starring Ravi Teja in the dual roles that Karthi dons here. The film, directed by Siva, is actually cheeky enough to give a disclaimer in the beginning that since the film is set in Andhra, it justifies the loud behaviour of the villains – wonder what the Andhra community would make of that! In fact, the film does have a feel of the comparatively louder Telugu masala film rather than the relatively more subtle Tamil one.
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