The narrative is lax and Chimbu Deven doesn’t build up to things so much as let them occur like an afterthought. I kept thinking it was a ruse, that he’d soon snarl and unleash his inner Rana Daggubati, but that’s really the end of the scene.īaahubali, a sustained commitment to storytelling, a belief that even fantasy needs some kind of internal logic – and that’s missing in After a lot of chasing, he ends up clinging to the enemy’s legs, grinning, asking for mercy. makkalukkaaga vaazha porandhavan ” – but consider his first fight sequence. He makes the usual noises that can be read as declarations of political intent – “Īala porandhavan illa. The film is tailored to fit its star’s comic-hero persona. The scale ofīaahubali to mind, but this isn’t as intense.
Storyline: A chosen one saves a kingdom from evil The film is certified ‘U.’) I wouldn’t be making too big a point about this in what’s essentially a fun fantasy, but the nation seems to have gone mad – lynch mobs seem to be sprouting everywhere, and I wonder how much of this is the result of our becoming desensitised to violence through cinema.Ĭast: Vijay, Sridevi, Hansika Motwani, Shruti Haasan More disturbingly, there’s a lot of sword-fighting, a lot of torsos being impaled – at one point, a little girl’s throat is slit.
Our cinema, clearly, is incomplete without wedding-night jokes. There’s a running gag about a man’s frustration at not consummating his marriage. Puli ultimately is may be up for debate in some quarters. Even the contact lenses the villain (Sudeep) wears are a piercing blue. The visual effects are nicely done, and cinematographer Natarajan Subramaniam opts for a keep-the-kids-happy palette - everywhere you turn, there’s rich colour.
There’s strength-giving magic potion, like in the Asterix comics. A frog that scratches its head while in deep thought. Or how about that man with a moustache? There’s no joke there - but imagine the moustache on his head. A touch like that shows you this isn’t a completely lazy movie. It’s that the little women wear peanut-shell blouses. It isn’t just that an interlude in this chosen-one-saves-the-world saga features little people. Through his career, the director has pitched his tent a couple of feet away from the mainstream – here too, his quirky inventiveness is charming. Puli, starring Vijay, must be counted as some sort of success. If Chimbu Deven’s brief was to create a colourful diversion for undemanding children, then
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