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Sarkar Review


Cast: Vijay, Keerthy Suresh, Varalakshmi Sarathkumar, Radha Ravi, Pala. Karuppiah
Music: AR Rahman
Direction: AR Murugadoss

Sarkar (meaning Government) is where Sundar Ramasamy (Vijay), CEO of GL Corporation comes to India to cast his vote. He finds out his vote has been already casted. He decides to deal this issue in court. He is called as ‘Corporate Monster’ and I loved the way he handled the court scene and the press meet scene. The problem is all these scenes get over in the first 20 minutes. What follows is Vijay's political ambition. If only AR Murugadoss had handled the rest, it would have been a film like ‘Mudhalvan’.

But AR Murugadoss decides to help Vijay in his political campaign. When Vijay and AR Murugadoss joined hands first time (Thuppaki) was dedicated to Indian army, their second film (Kaththi) was dedicated to farmers and this film has to be dedicated to Vijay’s future political party. I am still confused how AR Murugadoss wrote this script. Apparently, he had to fight in court to take full credit of the story. After the movie, I would have been happy if this was not written by AR Murugadoss.

AR Murugadoss’ films have great screenplay, many interesting ideas as scene (Shootout of 12 terrorists, coin and pipe fight). Sadly, this film doesn’t have one such scene. He has handled the female characters a little better this time. Though Keerthy Suresh has same character as Kajal and Samantha in Thuppaki and Kaththi respectively. I loved Varalakshmi Sarathkumar’s character. I wished she played the lead antagonist. Another potential wasted. The dialogues are well written, I loved the dialogue "Rendu pulla petha engaluku vali thanga mudiyatha" (I gave birth to two kids and you think i won't bear pain)

The film which was about false voting suddenly becomes building better Tamil Nadu. And this diversion is explained by a subplot which details the recent happenings of Tamil Nadu, which is not emotional as it’s supposed to be as it was offset from the main plot. But I loved the reason why he takes voting seriously. The scene moves you emotionally. Vijay makes every scene refreshing by his mannerisms. He is in prime form. His dance moves gets more elegant as he grows old.

Vijay is oxymoron. He holds the films together, but his political ambitions rips apart this film. The way real life incidents are intervened into the story makes this a political campaign than a movie. And the dialogues spoke straight to the camera lens. The film had ‘I am waiting’ dialogue in intermission, but this film is less punchy. 

Verdict: Ruined present (film) for future (politics)


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