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| Malaikottai
– Masala comedy, no strings attached |
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Malaikottai
Cast
: Vishal, Priyamani, Ashish Vidyarthi, Devaraj, Ajai,
Urvasi, Nirosha
Direction: Boopathy Pandian
Music: Mani Sharma
Production: T Ajay Kumar |
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| Vishal
flexes his muscles and defies all the rules of gravity in
the name of stunts, cracks one-liners most of the time and
romances Priya Mani the rest. If you are keen on watching
a movie that does not slip from the predictable rules of commercial
cinema, Malaikottai is just the kind you are looking for.
For it has six stunt scenes, five song sequences, a romantic
sidetrack and an acceptable mixture of wisecracks not necessarily
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Boopathy
Pandiyan seems to have a simple conviction for his
movies. An undemanding plot decked with a neat script
strewn with the necessary potboiler ingredients. Pandiyan
has been partially successful with this theory for
Malaikottai. Loaded with all the racy elements, the
first half of the movie travels at a supersonic jet’s
pace. However, the director seems to have just lost
track soon after that is evident from the sluggish
tempo of the movie in the second half.
Vishal is a youngster who lives in Pattukottai. One
of these days, he gets into an ugly scuffle with the
desperado of the town who tries to extort land from
his friend’s father. After being arrested by
the cops for this offense, Vishal is produced in the
court where the justice releases him with a condition
that he signs in the Police Station in Trichy (there
goes the title reference) everyday.
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This circumstance brings Vishal to Trichy where his love
blossoms with Priya Mani. The girl is, however, ignorant
of Vishal’s love and trying to get rid of him, lies
that she is in love with Ajay – who incidentally is
the brother of another baddie Devaraj. Soon enough, for
this deception, Priya Mani gets into trouble with Ajay who
tries to take advantage of her and the situation. And the
rest of the story, as you can garner, isn’t too unpredictable.
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Vishal
hasn’t squandered even a mere possibility to
show what he got. He plays football with a tender
coconut, performs unmistakably choreographed aerobics
to squash the baddies, and does his best to fit into
the romeo-act. Here is a slice of one of his stunt
sequences to better evaluate the director’s
creativity. Vishal pounces upon the villain and throws
him onto an electricity distribution transformer.
The transformer explodes with a heavy thud after the
collision and all the electric cables break free.
Vishal, complemented with a thundering background
score, picks one of the smoldering cables and lights
his cigarette.
If Priya Mani’s Paruthiveeran performance hasn’t
elapsed from your mind, you might be in for a rude
shock in Malaikottai.
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Apparently,
it isn’t quite unheard for a commercial movie to fritter
away the female lead’s full potential. Nevertheless,
Priya Mani hasn’t quite let down her fans; proof remix
version of the famous song ‘Aatha Aathorama Vaariya’.
The couple Ashish Vidyarthi and Urvasi tries their best
to tickle your funny bones and makes no bones about their
intention. Ajai, Devaraj, Kadhal Thandapani, and Ponnambalam
are the other villains whose villainy is belittled by the
director’s decision to show them in a lighter vein.
Mani Sharma’s music is just passable, however, the
Aatha Aathorama Vaariya remix is sure to stay in the charts
for quite some time. Vaithi’s camera speaks by itself
and Editor Sashi has rendered a crisp job in the first half
of the movie.
In all, we recommend Malaikottai if all you need is a mindless
laugh, however, don’t expect to laugh like a drain
though.
Verdict - An average masala-mix entertainer
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