Ram Nandhan is an IAS officer newly appointed as District Collector and is transferred from UP. He used to be an IPS Officer before that which took a toll on his relationship as he once used to a student with severe anger management issues. His love interest Deepika had vowed to not talk to him if he took up IPS instead of IAS. The main story revolves around Abhyudayam party which is the ruling party and the chief minister/party leader is having health crisis leading to his two greedy sons to fight for the CM chair. How does Ram become the hurdle to the greedy sons and save the state from corruption, forms rest of the story. It's a Shankar film so a flashback exists as well.
Let me be honest, if this film had released 25 years ago, then it might have been something else and the songs would definitely been better with AR Rahman. 25 years later, Shankar is out of form, trying his old tricks yet the outcome isn't enough to make is comeback. Only consolation is that it is not as worse as Indian 2. Probably the first Shankar film where the flashback didn't work except for the telephone bit. The idea is decent and the film has it's high moments but none of it takes the film to another level. It was all too routine and I wish Shankar had put in more efforts into the screenplay than making it visually grand. The usual Shankar gimmicks ran out of steam and so did SJ Suryah's regular villain act, leaving Ram Charan to pull the film to the finish line. With heavy heart, I will say that Shankar must take a break and then make a worthy comeback. Cannot see him ruining his own legacy like this.
Let me be honest, if this film had released 25 years ago, then it might have been something else and the songs would definitely been better with AR Rahman. 25 years later, Shankar is out of form, trying his old tricks yet the outcome isn't enough to make is comeback. Only consolation is that it is not as worse as Indian 2. Probably the first Shankar film where the flashback didn't work except for the telephone bit. The idea is decent and the film has it's high moments but none of it takes the film to another level. It was all too routine and I wish Shankar had put in more efforts into the screenplay than making it visually grand. The usual Shankar gimmicks ran out of steam and so did SJ Suryah's regular villain act, leaving Ram Charan to pull the film to the finish line. With heavy heart, I will say that Shankar must take a break and then make a worthy comeback. Cannot see him ruining his own legacy like this.