He’s just another thug when he needed to be larger than life, a mythical monster, and his demise - no spoiler there if you’ve ever seen a masala movie - doesn’t carry the weight it should. But the way the sequence is cut and staged is so ineffective that all we’re left with is the sense of something that could have been great.Ī major problem is that the villain is so ill-defined. We should have risen from our seats in applause. It’s a brilliant twist, whether viewed from an emotional standpoint (given the characters and their trajectories) or, more clinically, from a critical point of view (it’s a startling subversion of the heroics that preceded it). Kazhugu - another Rajinikanth film named for a creature of the wild.Īll of which makes the end a total surprise. What we hear, in its entirety, is Ilayaraja’s glorious ‘Ponnoviyam’, from (That someone, no surprise, is the ailing wife of a drunk.)Īfter dressing up in jeans and a cool shirt - bought from a store where he is likened to Shah Rukh Khan - he asks his mother: “Jananga yethupaangala?” (Will the masses accept me like this?) And to make sure they do, I guess, is why they didn’t bother to compose a new song for the love duet between Kutti Puli and Bharathi (Lakshmi Menon). And in line with the rationalist stance of the politics in the state, he endorses vaguely heretical “good deeds,” like stealing from the temple donation box in order to save someone’s life. (“Oru pombala nenachathaan neeyum naanum aambala.”) He fights evil. He saves an elderly woman trapped in a burning building. Now, it appears, he’s happy trying to be a superhero. Subramaniyapuram, shone with the promise of turning into a superb filmmaker. in a film where a 13-year-old schoolboy is offed in broad daylight with a knife plunged into his throat. Asked why, he says it’s because his mother (Saranya Ponvannan) is outside the station, and if he cried out in pain, she’d end up in tears. When whipped mercilessly by the police, the small-time thug named Kutti Puli (M. Thaali -centered drama, drumstick-centered comedy, and - above all - unceasing amma sentiment. This film, itself, is something of a menagerie, a hodgepodge of “mass” elements. Kutti Puli - the multiplex has become a bloody menagerie. ) Today, every hero who wants to ascend to that superstar stratosphere is heading to the jungles for inspiration. (There was also, at some point, the dull roar of a
Murattu Kaalai, and followed it up with a When did Tamil cinema begin yoking its valorous heroes to wild animals? I suppose it all harks back to Rajinikanth, who first unleashed a
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