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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