Adanga Maru

The movie that I saw today: Adangumaru (Tamil) -------------------------------------------------- Karthik's Adangumaru is a great thriller. A big salute to Karthik who wrote and directed himself for the first time . I thought it was a normal police story when the story was started. The main character of this film is Jayam Ravi's performance.At the very least it's a super film. That's the rating I give: 3.7 / 5

I swear the movie is sooo interesting.. good humour.. awesome acting by jayam ravi.. chance less! story is very good and a very different one

Jayam Ravi. Say what you will about his earlier film choices being remakes or below average ventures. The man has shown to persevere despite his lack of dumdaar vocals usually heard in most crime thrillers. After Ajith Kumar's cop act in YENNAI ARINTHAAL (2015), here's another cop thriller that entertains and keeps you glued in from start to finish.

Like all crime thrillers, there's a major arc that acts a common thread between the corrupt department and the messiah cop himself. Unlike what we've seen umpteen times starting with Atlee/Vijay starrer THERI & the recently released Rohit Shetty's SIMMBA is that the messiah's themselves fret and frolick around the first half with their love interests, bumbling comedy (if you call Yogi Babu, Rajendran comedians, no judgement) and all around the verbal diahrrea claiming police should be A,B,C, 1,2 3. This is followed by over-the-top heroism, dialogue-baazi, songs that act as speed breakers (especially in the latter-half of the film) and finally a punch-statement/moral to wrap up the film. Adanga Maru does away with this to an extent.

While the first half starts ordinarily, the film takes its leisure to setup the who's who of the story and carefully places one circumstance after another to get the viewer hooked instead of exhausting them with aforementioned antics that say a big star can get away with (or rather blind-sided by his loyal fans.) The intro and love songs while functional, could have been trimmed and limited to just promo songs for the film instead of be included for the feature film.

But once the pre-interval scenes come into the play, the film doesn't linger further and jet-speeds on from the start of the second half all the way into the finish line without throwing everything at once at the viewer. The cat and mouse scenes with Ravi and Sampath are the highlight and I shall not reveal anything more. The film rests on Ravi and only he can do such roles unlike the current crop of heroes in Tamil Cinema. This is also Sampath's best til date and it's refreshing to see him not going into usual villany histrionics as seen in the past.

Dear Atlee, Rohit Shetty/Team Simmba, THIS is how you make a taut police thriller without being flamboyant, preachy and over-the-top.

Interesting plot but very poorly executed. Specifically editing was the worst. Screenplay was overall Okay with few twists & turns. Music was not good enough. Characterisations was good enough. Overall: the plot was very much interesting and it could've been executed in a much better interesting way. 1st half was poor & the 2nd half kept somewhat engaged because of those revenge sequences.

Same old revenge seeking protagonist. But the screenplay is engaging even if it's predictable.

Ravi has done a decent job, justifying his character. We can feel quite feel his anger and his thirst seek revenge.

Director has done a good job on his first venture.

Worth while watching this flick, if u watch it without any comparisons/criticism to find loopholes & logical errors.