Cast: Mahesh Babu, Sj Suriyah, Rakul Preet Singh
Music: Harris Jeyaraj
Direction: AR Murugadoss
Shiva (played by Mahesh Babu) is working in Intelligence
Bureau. His job profile is to tape phone calls of criminals but he likes to
listen to the conversations of the public. He has even created a software that
will alert him when someone utters words like ‘help, fear’ during their phone
conversation. Shiva loves helping unknown people and in fact he wants to do
only this desk job rather than high paying senior posts. Other than these there
is nothing much in his character.
“That one call come on April 28th “, is the
dialogue that Shiva tells to describe us that the call is going to start the
story of the film. The problem is that this dialogue comes after 30 minutes of
the opening scene. What until then? The same usual hero intro song, actress
introduction, a duet song and fill the rest by yourself. But once the antagonist
character starts to reveal (am talking only about the character not Sj Suriyah)
you get curious to meet this antagonist. I found the story narration similar to
Murugadoss’ previous film, Kaththi. The story doesn’t get interesting until a
flashback. In Spyder, it’s flashback of the Sudalai (played by Sj Suriyah)
which brings back audience attention from aimless story narration.
Sudalai’s character is something like a psycho and the
reason for his behavior was a surprise and I loved it. With Sj Suriyah playing
as Sudalai, the character becomes more heinous and a treat to watch. We start
concentrating on Sudalai more than Shiva. Though Sudalai is the villain, he
becomes the hero of the film. Murugadoss has mastered the art of screenplay.
Even with misplaced songs, love scenes he manages to surprise and entertain the
audience. Interval scene was different hero villain confrontation scene.
The second half of the film has a scene with a few women
helping Shiva. The sad thing is even those women makes impact to us than the Rakul
Preet Singh. If Murugadoss could write wonderful screenplays, why he could not
write a good female character is still dubious. The songs are a big letdown as
the story does not demand the songs. The background music resembles Thuppaki
theme music, but still it works very well for this film.
Verdict: A typical Murugadoss pattern film, entertains.
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