Lots of expectations mounted upon Kaththi much prior to the release and the reasons are many indeed. First it was on controversial grounds of ‘Lyca Productions’ being objected and then for good reasons like the outstanding spell by Anirudh, the eye-grabbing teaser and trailer. More than anything, its AR Murugadoss-Vijay combination that had created a sensational hype with ‘Thuppakki’.
The film opens with Kathiresan (Vijay) escaping from Kolkata prison and when he is surrounded by cops, the story is commuted back to 30 minutes and we find it is not an escape plan but an assistance to police officials on trapping another inmate, who has already escaped from the prison. Finally, the inmate is caught, the police department is about to thank Kaththi and that is when they realise, he has already got away with it. On his plans of escaping from Chennai to Bangkok, he seeks the favour of his close friend (Satish) and eventually before boarding falls in love at first sight with a beautiful girl Ankitha (Samantha). When things are going well, he spots a person with his same looks named Jeevanandham shot by some strangers. On rescuing him to hospital, he decides to change his identity and make a clean escape getting Jeevanandham into trouble. But to an unanticipated manner, Kaththi realises that Jeeva has been a man behind great mission and now it’s up to him to proceed further.
Performance by Vijay is good as before as he doesn’t strain much into challenging roles. The actor entertains his fans as usual with best dance, comedy and action sequences. But his role as Jeevanandham doesn’t get proper importance, which disappoints us all, whereas Kathiresan amuses us with his acts. Samantha has nothing to perform in this film other than shaking legs with the hero in dream songs. Ethir Neechal Satish could have yet more tried to evoke some laughter.
Although the songs by Anirudh have been composed with the exact essence appealing to Ilayathalapathy Vijay fans, the placement isn’t properly done. Say for instance, it looks likes ‘Aathi’ and ‘Selfie Pulla’ have been purposely included. Just take up ‘Google Google’ for reference in Thuppakki. It comes as a part of screenplay and there is continuity with almost all the songs throughout. But over here, we can easily figure out the songs are quite inappropriate. Out of all the songs in this album ‘Paalam’ seemed to be the perfect one suiting the role of Vijay, but it is deleted, which again is a disappointment. George C Williams tries to capture every frame as in advertisement, but there is a blend of artificiality in picturing at few places.
If the screenplay was made racier and some prominence was added to Vijay’s role as Jeevanandham, then Kaththi would have been ten times powerful than Thuppakki as Murugadoss had boasted about.
Kaththi has a serious theme in the backdrops and AR Murugadoss really the best of all appreciations than his previous movies. But again, when it is a feature fiction, audiences expect an engaging screenplay, which goes slightly missing here.
Verdict: Okay, but doesn’t outdo ‘Thuppakki’ nor on par to it.
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