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Vishal flexes his muscles and defies all the
rules of gravity in the name of stunts,
cracks one-liners most of the time and
romances Priya Mani the rest. If you are
keen on watching a movie that does not slip
from the predictable rules of commercial
cinema, Malaikottai is just the kind you are
looking for. For it has six stunt scenes,
five song sequences, a romantic sidetrack
and an acceptable mixture of wisecracks not
necessarily in that order.
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Boopathy Pandiyan seems to have a
simple conviction for his movies. An
undemanding plot decked with a neat
script strewn with the necessary
potboiler ingredients. Pandiyan has
been partially successful with this
theory for Malaikottai. Loaded with
all the racy elements, the first
half of the movie travels at a
supersonic jet’s pace. However, the
director seems to have just lost
track soon after that is evident
from the sluggish tempo of the movie
in the second half.
Vishal is a youngster who lives in
Pattukottai. One of these days, he
gets into an ugly scuffle with the
desperado of the town who tries to
extort land from his friend’s
father. After being arrested by the
cops for this offense, Vishal is
produced in the court where the
justice releases him with a
condition that he signs in the
Police Station in Trichy (there goes
the title reference) everyday.
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This circumstance brings Vishal to Trichy
where his love blossoms with Priya Mani. The
girl is, however, ignorant of Vishal’s love
and trying to get rid of him, lies that she
is in love with Ajay – who incidentally is
the brother of another baddie Devaraj. Soon
enough, for this deception, Priya Mani gets
into trouble with Ajay who tries to take
advantage of her and the situation. And the
rest of the story, as you can garner, isn’t
too unpredictable.
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Vishal hasn’t squandered even a mere
possibility to show what he got. He
plays football with a tender
coconut, performs unmistakably
choreographed aerobics to squash the
baddies, and does his best to fit
into the romeo-act. Here is a slice
of one of his stunt sequences to
better evaluate the director’s
creativity. Vishal pounces upon the
villain and throws him onto an
electricity distribution
transformer. The transformer
explodes with a heavy thud after the
collision and all the electric
cables break free. Vishal,
complemented with a thundering
background score, picks one of the
smoldering cables and lights his
cigarette.
If Priya Mani’s Paruthiveeran
performance hasn’t elapsed from your
mind, you might be in for a rude
shock in Malaikottai.
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Apparently, it isn’t quite unheard for a
commercial movie to fritter away the female
lead’s full potential. Nevertheless, Priya
Mani hasn’t quite let down her fans; proof
remix version of the famous song ‘Aatha
Aathorama Vaariya’.
The couple Ashish Vidyarthi and Urvasi tries
their best to tickle your funny bones and
makes no bones about their intention. Ajai,
Devaraj, Kadhal Thandapani, and Ponnambalam
are the other villains whose villainy is
belittled by the director’s decision to show
them in a lighter vein. Mani Sharma’s music
is just passable, however, the Aatha
Aathorama Vaariya remix is sure to stay in
the charts for quite some time. Vaithi’s
camera speaks by itself and Editor Sashi has
rendered a crisp job in the first half of
the movie.
In all, we recommend Malaikottai if all you
need is a mindless laugh, however, don’t
expect to laugh like a drain though.
Verdict - An average
masala-mix entertainer
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