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| The poster of 'Alex Pandian', starring Karthi and Anushka. |
And then I saw ‘Alex Pandian’…
The story is something like this – the hero kidnaps the Chief Minister’s daughters because the villain had hired him to do it. Why the villains want him kidnaps the CM’s daughter (Anushka)? That’s because they want the CM to give clearance to bring in some very hazardous-to-health pharmaceutical drugs and market them in India and the honest Chief Minister (Visu) is not ready to let them do it. The heroine gives a short lecture to the hero about the ill effects of these drugs and by the time it takes for you to read “pharmaceutical drugs”, the hero is reformed.
The film’s comedy and what is so wrong with it deserves a special mention.
Santhanam enjoys a close bond with the audience. He is more like the grown-up prankster kid that each family has. Santhanam as the reproduction-facilitator of farm animals was fine and hilarious too, but casting him as the desperate elder brother who has to keep his 3 younger sisters away from the lecherous games that the hero plays with them was very distasteful. The nation is still recovering from the gruesome rape of the paramedical student in Delhi. It is hard to find anything funny about those ‘tikilona’ scenes.
There are those mandatory stunt sequences, songs and very annoying romance track. I thought those tribal dances were gone with T Rajendran films of the 1980s. Another set of fights happens and then, abruptly, the film ends.
Karthi looks handsome, but his street-smartness and the mannerisms are getting a tad repetitive and boring. Hopefully ‘Biryani’ is different.
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