AnonymousbutDilpreet002

I am not a big fan of action movies. The reason is- they don't offer anything new and I always believe there's a limit to how much you can enjoy them. Beyond a certain point, they become monotonous.

Coming to Kaithi, it has got many things right which other action films usually don't. One is the fact that it does not lose the plot badly. The director is smart enough not to include any lousy action scenes, flashbacks, and pointless comedy. The action is limited and doesn't get repetitive. For an average Indian, it may look grim and goresome, but for fans of this genre, it may seem mild.

I didn't like any of the characters. They are not good enough to love but not bad enough to hate either, i.e, they lack depth. Action is not top-notch, it's just okayish. Plot-line is thin but it's not a bad thing at all. But for an action movie, 140 minutes is too much for my liking.

And now the big question is, is it worthy of 8.6/10? Well, just as much as Thadam and Ratchasan. It's high time we stop promoting mediocre films. Many Tamil/Telugu movies in the last 5 years have got ludicrously high ratings, this one is no exception. IMDB ratings have lost their relevance completely.

I am the kind of guy for whom a single moment of cliche makes a wonderful experience just a watchable flick. In the recent past, I have seen a few Tamil films which were impressive in parts but suffer from this syndrome namely Thadam, Ratchasan, and Kaithi.

When one says the word 'school' , there are dozens of things that come to my mind. But if you are writing a screenplay in India, you have to insert the 'love' part to a saturation point.

96 starts on a promising note. Ram and his school friends from 10th class 96 batch gather on a get-together. There are moments of nostalgia. You feel being in your own childhood. Then it moves to one sub-story of Ram and Jaanu (Girl). At some point, it totally becomes a could-have-been love story. I wonder- if Jaanu couldn't come to the meet for some reason, and we saw only a little flashback of her story, and we had seen a movie about Ram and his nostalgia. This movie could have explored many more things.

I wished to see some backstory of them through only narration and without seeing visual flashbacks. It allows the audience to use their brain plus the writers to get out of their comfort zones and push limits of their imagination and reduces healthy 15 minutes from the running time.

Watching characters recollect the same story again and again, and crying is boring.

That amazing first half deserved a better second.