Pudhupettai

Pudhupettai - to me its NOT BAD.

Taking the theme into consideration, Pudhupettai has done the best to portray the intricacies in the life of a Gangster, who usually is involved in politics, at the back end. Its true that a gangster cannot establish himself for a long period. "the sword slips thro' hands and he gets slipped thro' the way" is the fact. Realism in political moves, facts in gang war revenges, inability in survival are all mannered and punctuated.

Is Dhanush the best one for the story? No! Skinny, weak and meager look doesn't catch up with the story. But you cannot also say the gangster should only be hulky. Characterization, apart from suitability is a credit to Dhanush, here. Has trained well to meet the local slang, practice and style. However, this shouldn't have been as painful as to Sneha or SoniaAgarwal - coz, he is just a chennaitte!

"unnecessarily SoniaAgarwal..." is the comment by most of the public. But the movie cannot really go good only with heroism, murders and blood stains. Also, second wifing, is most common with the character and is expected. May be Selvaraghavan could have introduced her in the first part of the film that it wouldn't have looked this odd. Sneha, appreciable for her change in role, has did her best - but could have been livelier than this. May be she had always had in mind about her to-be-in-laws blaming (as she had said), of which she is extra careful! She is found not-sticking to the chennai slang, through out her role - went unnoticed by many!

Azhagam Perumal, politician on screen, had strictly followed TN politics, according to the story. Highlighting himself at the sequence of nasty dialogues "pannaada, porambokku" followed immediately without missing the flow by "senthamizh kavinjan naan..." deserves clap for his performance! Moorthy and Anbu, the gang heads should also be noticed for sticking to their roles.

"Selvaraghavan could have done better" is my opinion, looking at him as a director who gave a flaw-less "Kaadhal Kondaen". May be he would have missed something on work, by trying to direct Sonia Agarwal personally towards him, as much as possible? Said that she was found unnecessarily in the spots could be a ....... ? The spirit raised till the break was lost somewhere in the second half and was found as "trying again" near the end, which had failed. Yet there are points to be pointed out that he tried to expressed... Dhanush expressing how would one feel soon after he overcomes his fear of first murder, the zing thing that overrides ones mind to attain the power, the lust towards which makes him feel that he is everything, to the last saying "uyiroda irukanum kannu... adhaan mukkiyam", "overa aadnaa ipdidhaan" are to be glanced. Climax bringing the reality into picture where "kokki Kumar" is taken away by the opponent party leader, brings the comic fact that one shouldn't deny.

last to say - "Survival of the fittest" could have been "Fit to survive!"