At a time when the directors and choreographers are foraying to acting, popular tamil cinema stunt master Kannal Kannan has tried his luck playing the lead role in the movie ‘Satrumun Kidaitha Thagaval‘. It is a murder mystery which begins with promises only to end on predictable lines.
Seemingly inspired by some recent happenings, debutant director Bhuvanai Kannan has dished out a screenplay which unfortunately provokes a movie ‘deja vu‘ feel. An amateur sequence of events which lacks cohesion mars the flow of the movie.
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Kanal Kannan is not new to acting as he had played cameo in several tamil films before. He sticks to his strength (doing acrobatic stunts). He jumps and leaps on screen.
‘Ammuvagiya Naan’ Bharathi plays a pivotal role in the script. Khushboo as doctor is adequate for the role. She manages to leave her screen presence coming out with a subtle emotions.
However, the real scene stealer in the show is K S Ravikumar, The acclaimed director plays a tough cop on investigation trail. He has handled his role with elegance. He spits venom with his looks and handles the role with grit. The rest of the cast is however not familiar.
A sequence of murder takes place in the city and a cop (K S Ravikumar) steps into investigate them. Meanwhile, Shiva (Kanal Kannan) comes out of a mental asylum. It is concluded that a lunatic is behind all these murders. Shiva manages to enter the house of a movie director (Livingston). His wife (Bharathi) is all alone. She suspects him to be the mentally-challenged man on murder trail. Meanwhile, the police zeroes in on a psychiatrist doctor (Kushboo) to be responsible for the murder. In the court, she spills the beans that a young girl who had a disturbed childhood was indeed responsible for the murders. Shiva eventually comes to know that it was none other than the film director’s wife. What the noble-hearted Shiva does to bring her back to normal life forms the rest.
The film had everything to become an engrossing tale. However, lack of apt screenplay and events unfolding at a rapid pace stems the progress.
Produced by Airmedia network, the movie lacks clarity and ends up as a normal, routine and cliched affair.
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