For the event, several Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mandal Limited (PMPML) buses were hired so that the participants could reach the venue. The event, organised by Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) at Ganesh Kala Krida Manch auditorium, was packed with 2,500 young girls. Bharadwaj's songs pass muster (Great work by SPB in Satham illadha) but his background score borders dangerously close to cacophony at times.It was a show of strength by former deputy chief minister of the state Ajit Pawar when he addressed the NCP’s Yuwati Parishad (young women’s convention) in the city on Tuesday.Ĭousin sister and Lok Sabha MP from Baramati Supriya Sule also backed her brother by saying, “Ajit dada heard inner voice and resigned.” The former guardian minister of Pune resigned from the post of deputy CM last week after his alleged involvement in the irrigation scam. Most of the impressive supporting cast are not given much to do. Raghuvaran must start beleiving in the law of diminishing returns for his brand of acting. Petite Shalini is a delight to watch though and its a pity that we won't be seeing much of her. He is unable to pull off a Puthiya Padhai Parthiban like role-part of the blame resting with the director. The result is a film that doesn't live up to its ambition at all. The flashback of Ajith's childhood as well as the scenes fashioned for his change of heart are also extremely cliched and hinder the pace of the movie. However breathtaking the "Kaettaen" song might be, that alone does not provide a convincing reason for Shalini to start liking Ajith. The other key relationship between Ajith and Shalini has also been dealt with very casually.
There is also not enough intensity in his flashback to justify his quest for revenge. Raghuvaran's character should have been more edgy and dark but instead the director has opted to eat the cake while having it. Somehow I could not buy the relationship between Raghuvaran and Ajith. It unfortunately falls flat on this aspect. The key to the success of the movie would obviously be the potrayal of the relationships between the key players. The ensuing clash of emotions and muscles between the lead players is handled unimaginatively by the director- his efforts (or the lack of it) culminating in a damp-squib of a climax. There is a genuinely interesting twist in the movie which makes Raghuvaran opt out of his plan of deconstructing Nasser but by this time Ajith and Shalini are hopelessly in love with each other and hence immune to the machinations of the dada. The plan-Ajith would feign love for Shalini and withdraw at an oppurtune time to emotionally crush Nasser. The dada uses his stranglehold on Ajith to settle old scores with his ex-buddy Nasser.
Enter Raghuvaran- a mysterious ex-dada with high-connections and enough power in the flicker of his eyelides (in closeup that is!) to evoke awe even from Ajith. In the best of tamil movie tradition Shalini's father happens to be the police commissioner (Nasser) and surprise surprise, his brother ('Poovilangu' Mohan) is the assistant commissioner and his son is a police inspector! To the director's credit he fashions the Nasser character to be a level-headed and understanding father and delegates the traditional villanous hero bashing duties to the rest of the trio. One of his ruffian acts opens up the mandatory "I hate you" clash with Shalini when she receives a stab wound from him. Ajith is a local toughie who loans out his brawn power to the hightest bidder.
The end product plays out like a dull rehash of Puthiya pathai and numerous other gangster movies. The director's screenplay also loses steam midway resulting in a lukewarm payoff to a good premise. THALA MOVIEAMARKALAM There are no compelling performances to give sheen to the fairly complex plot cooked up by director Charan in Amarkalam.