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Tamil cinema and its love for masala storytelling are a never-ending relationship that will go on for a long time. The telling of a story and mixing it with some commercial elements, and giving it some human-interest angles makes the film more appealing to mass audiences, who love to watch such stories. Commercial films are the game, and nothing could beat Tamil cinema in this field. “Kannai Nambathey” is the story of a man who unexpectedly gets involved in a criminal case that he wants to get out of, but things get complicated very quickly. Will Arun find a way out, or will he face any criminal charges?

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Arun’s Increasing Problems Are At Hand

The movie begins with a shot of two men carrying a bundle of cash in their hands and deciding to spend some of it in return for some hard-core narcotics. One of the...

ReviewStarring Udhayanidhi Stalin and directed by Mu Maran, this murder mystery manages to be acrobatically convoluted, but doesn’t offer a single plot-twist worth its term.Courtesy/SaregamaIf every conceivable coincidence happened in a story for two and a half hours, would it still merit being called a thriller film? That’s what I was left wondering while watching Udhayanidhi Stalin’s Kannai Nambathey directed by Mu Maran. This murder mystery manages to be acrobatically convoluted, but doesn’t offer a single plot-twist worth the term. After playing restrained characters in two of his latest movies, Nenjukku Needhi and Kalaga Thalaivan, Udhayanidhi attempts to bring back his boy-next-door affability and comic side from his earlier movies such as Oru Kal Oru Kannadi. But the actor-politician just looks lost in his own film, possibly confused, like we are, by the tortuous script. Arun (Udhayanidhi) finds himself framed for murders he has no part in,...