Vijay Kaththi User Review
on Oct 22, 2014
Vijay Kaththi (Kathi) Movie Review: After Thuppakki, Vijay and AR Murugadoss have come together with sky high expectations from fans and critics. When A.R.M mentioned that Kaththi will be better than Thuppakki, many questioned it, and started to think what would be in store this time. But, the pair has delivered what they promised, and scaled a new peak. Let’s see how they did it in detail.
Story: Kaththi is all about, how Jeevanandham, a social activist fight against a monstrous MNC company to restore farming. The other Vijay, ‘Kathiresan’, a small time thief, but an ultra intelligent youngster, who swaps position with Jeevanandham because of destiny, and leads the war with the corporate heads by, Neil Nithin Mukesh, which tries to steal the fertile lands from villagers.
Artists Performance: Kaththi is the perfect follow-up to Thuppakki. Vijay has surpassed himself in Kaththi with the right amount of action, comedy, and emotions. Vijay has shown minimal differences between the two characters with minor mannerisms in eye movements for Jeevanandam.
Samantha doesn't have a huge role in terms of number of dialogues. But, she is in most of the frames and helps the hero in helping his cause. It is finally a good break for Samantha after "Naan Ee". Neil Nitin Mukesh has done a great job in critical scenes and throwing some challenges to the protagonist.
Murugadoss: It will be an understatement to say that, Murugadoss has mastered the skills of commercial film making. He has raised the bar once again, and mixed the colorful elements in the right proportion of a social drama, and penned an excellent screenplay. Though there are some logical loopholes; those have been brilliantly plastered by cinematic liberties. It will take another Murugadoss’ish effort to shadow ‘Kaththi’.
Anirudh has proven what he could do provided if he gets a big movie in his hand. The crowd erupts whenever ‘The Sword of Destiny’ starts to feature, and the youngsters go berserk when they see his name, on screen. This effort will put, Anirudh in a different league, and given his consistency, he is sure to go places.
FINAL WORD: You have everything in Kaththi that an audience desires to be entertained with 100 percent paisa vasool. And you will see the trademark stamp of ace director A R Murugadoss. Second half is brilliant and the story picks up and keeps you on razor’s edge throughout. While first half is dragging what with masala-stuffed entertainer.Vijay rocking in pre-interval fight are some of the scenes brilliantly shot by AR Murugadoss.
The movie deserves a lot of credit for taking a social cause and delivering it sincerely with just the right amount of commercial elements. Go, Watch Kaththi!