A R Murugadoss-directed Vijay-starrer ‘Kaththi’ presents a good combination- mass movie that discusses relevant social issues. The film is well made and exploits Vijay’s mass appeal to deliver some messages and not to provide mere time-pass stuff.
Kathiresan (Vijay), who escapes from a jail in Kolkata, gets ready to fly away from India itself. At the airport, he meets a beautiful girl Ankitha (Samantha) and that makes his tear the ticket to pieces and change plans.
Later, Kathiresan and his friend (Sathish) happen to witness a bunch of goons chasing a vehicle and shooting the person driving it, immediately after it comes to a sudden halt after a crash. Kathiresan rushes to the spot and finds that the guy who’s shot looks exactly like him. From here the story takes off...
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‘Kaththi’ begins like our usual Vijay movie and you begin to expect fights, drama, romance and humour packaged to appeal to any Vijay fan. But then you begin to expect it to be different, the director being A R Murugadoss. Yes, Murugadoss does manage to do this. He takes the film to a totally different track; he brings into the narrative the story of village of farmers fighting against a multinational company and portrays how Jeevanantham (Vijay), an activist, stays with them and fights it against the MNC company boss (Neil Nithin Mukesh). The film discusses farmers and their issues, water-related issues, some issues pertaining to the media etc, in a manner as suits a Vijay starrer.
The best thing about ‘Kaththi however is the fact that A R Murugadoss has made full use of the mass image of Vijay and he has also attempted a successful discussion of socially relevant issues. A good attempt in mainstream Tamil Cinema.
Vijay puts in a good performance, as Kathiresan, performing in his trademark style. As Jeevanantham too Vijay is good, but it’s as Kathiresan that he gets the chance to perform more. Samantha looks good, but performance-wise she doesn’t have much to do. Neil Nithin Mukesh is real good. Satheesh renders able support...
Cinematography, editing, art-direction etc suit the mood of the film; music and songs by Anirudh fit into the fabric of the movie excellently well. Yes, songs that are of the very same style as seen in most Vijay films happen to be there in ‘Kaththi’ as well.
‘Kaththi’ is indeed a good attempt, since it discusses social issues remaining within the parameters of a mass entertainer and the typical Vijay brand of masala movie...
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