Casting : Vijay Kumar, Monisha Mohan Menon, Kaarthikeyan Santhanam, Shankar Thas, Avinash Raghudevan, Saravanavel, Jeyaraj, Vadachennai Anbu
Directed By : Abbas A. Rahmath
Music By : Govind Vasantha
Produced By : Reel Good Films and G Squad – Aditya and Lokesh Kanagaraj
Karthikeyan Santhanam, a boxer, aspires to make the youth and boys of his area become sportsmen. Accordingly, hero Vijay Kumar and his friends travel the path of Karthikeyan Santhanam. But against that, Shankar Das, who is making children and youths addicted to drugs and using them to sell ganja, plans to destroy Karthikeyan Santhanam who is against his business. Meanwhile, Karthikeyan Santhanam’s younger brother Avinash, who is involved in the ganja business with Shankar Dash, murders Karthikeyan Santhanam along with Shankar Dash.
Avinash goes to jail, on the other hand Shankar Dash grows up as a local politician and brings the area under his control. After being cheated by Shankar Das, Avinash plans to take revenge on him after he gets out of jail. To use the hero Vijay Kumar as a dice piece for that, what happened after that?, did the life of the hero Vijay Kumar, who thought he was a sportsman, change direction?, or not? It is ‘Fight Club’ to say that in a moment-by-moment manner.
Vijay Kumar, who attracted attention as an aggressive young man with the film ‘Uriyadi’, has again entered the field with the same aggression in a character of the same style and has attracted the attention of the fans. The actor, who has worked hard on the stunts, is seen physically abusing himself for the character in several scenes.
Shankar Das as the villain, Karthikeyan Santhanam as the boxer, Avinash and others in the film are all unexperienced but fit the characters and command the attention scene after scene with perfect performances.
Beyond the main characters, the film has a large cast of actors, all of whom are newcomers, but it doesn’t show in the acting. All the performances have added great strength to the flow of the screenplay and have traveled well with the underlying background of the film.
Monisha Mohan, who plays the female lead, and her character is unnecessary, but her love scenes are enjoyable.
Cinematographer Brito’s cinematography has raised the quality of the film many folds. Bus fight scene, college fight scene, chasing each other and beating each other, he has shown many kinds of fight scenes from different angles with the camera and he has shown the beach areas of Palavekadu very beautifully.
Music composer Govind Vasantha’s background score and Beegeyam have created a unique identity for the film. A person who enjoys using old songs and their background music perfectly, keeps listening to the song “No one has seen…” over and over again.
Although the story is about how drug politics corrupts the youth, as usual, it is told with North Chennai as the field, which is boring. However, the lively screenplay and visual design make us one with the film.
Although the screenplay is based on the usual pattern of drugs, beatings and murder in North Chennai, it would have been a bit different if the story had moved towards the solution. But the director Abbas A. Rahmat, who did not think about such a thing, ended the film in such a way that times change, people change, otherwise nothing else changes, “This is why so much beating?” Makes you ask that.
Though the typical North Chennai story is told in the same conventional style, the way the film is made and the action sequences are presented in a different way makes the film enjoyable.