Buffoon

The main problem with this Vaibhav starrer movie is it has wayward plot line that meanders between refuge escapism, who is Dhanapal, sudden act of fightback by Vaibhav. The change in narrative between these acts does not seem coherent and looks forced. It's like "It is a twist because the protagonist said so". The reveal is predictable, and the motive of protagonist changes again and again, which makes it difficult to follow and engage.

Had it been a unknown villain till the end, it would still have worked leaving the audience to judge - who is a villain. But the Director chose other ways and it did not work. Decent movie!

This movie will not be suitable for a masala audience, but okay for an average cinema viewer.

Personaly I liked the natural practical realities of life and it's flow shown in this movie. But I won't celebrate it too much. Because it lags on some points. But strictly not a bad movie. It lies between an average movie to a super dooper movie.

The casting is perfect except two characters: Actress: her lipsync is not that much good.

Police actor (Tamil): His acting is not that much like Jai bheem.

Vaibhav acted well, Infact I love his movies personally, and this one is very pleasing.

The friend chacter looks like comedy performer Amudhavanan, but he acted well.

All the other supporting characters are also okay.

Finally, If you have some time and a relaxing mood, you are ready to go.

If you like more masala movies. Please don't watch this movie, just stay where you are right now.

A very decent make, especially on the srilanka issues, the story and screenplay is all good, for cinema observer, not for cinema critics. Seems like the actor couldn't give life to his role, he could have done better. Very decent and strong dialogues on politicals matters, literally very bold dialogues. I liked the interval dialogue. I like the hype and the showtime of Joju Gorge. Director's very daring attempt on his debut with whatever provided to him he's done a decent job. Contents like this needs better freedom on the creative side and to my surprise the production seems chill,Production should have done more to this film.

RATED 7/10 Language: Tamil Source: Netflix

The movie is decent thriller with its own flaws. The best part of the movie is it is not boring at any moment and no speed breakers in the name of sentiment and romance.

The negative point is that the pain and situation of hero is not conveyed to the audience, may be because of lack of character development.

Another problem in the story is that the morality of each character is changing on each sequence. The romance and refugee backdrop is just used for logic in the screenplay.

With all these flaws it has some witty moments with Ilayaraja (Muthaiya).

Looking at the name of Karthik Subburaj, watched the movie and my God! What an incoherent narration! There was absolutely no effort to make any connection to the viewer. The scenes where haphazard. Loosely stitched and made very little sense!

Good actors like Naresh wasted. It is too much for Vaibhav to handle and the poor acting skills shows up too often!

The refugees living a tough life in India, immigrants trying to escape to another country going through incredible hardship, the plight of therukooththu artists.... all these provide immense opportunity to elicit an emotional connection between the movie and the viewer. But the utter lack of emotions, glazing over details makes the movie fall flat even in these scenes!

Waster couple of hours of my life watching this movie!