Vetrimaran is known for his unique ability to mix the right mixture of mass masala and social-issues driven stories. The recent blockbuster of this sort was Dhanush’s Asuran. For all of Vetri’s movies, the best way to describe his filmography is this: He doesn’t make political movies, he makes human-stories and those humans are political. This intricate detailing of the social world around and the power dynamics makes it even more about humans than the politics of propaganda films.
Soori as Kumaresan joins the E-Company as a jeep driver of the hilly mountain region. The police troops themselves don’t follow human rights but on a mission to kill all the ones who violate human rights (Maosists, Naxalites). We get to see the power structure and hierarchies within the police system and understand how exploitative the working class are. In Part-2, Soori, a great humanist at heart, becomes the spectator- the one with whose eyes he did see the whole movie in the first part. Vijay Sethupathi as Vathiyar leads the Part-2 from his point of view and explores the histories of origins of leftwing extremism in TamilNadu.
The only aspect where the film seems to have taken the diversion route is the treatment of the story. There is too much of everything, the world expands, new characters come in. More than anything, the political philosophy of the left wing extremism is the most compelling aspect of the story. The story adapted into a two-part film from a short story written by Jeyamohan titled Thunaivan is one of the most humanistic stories ever told.
The music of Ilayaraja brings in the flavour of old-aged retro music and the background score hits the extreme high the moment in the intense action sequences.
TF Rating: 3.5/5
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