Tamizhnaattu coppuda, dharniellam topuda
Osthe is an out and out STR movie. His fans will love to see their fav hero come back as the action start after performance oriented movies such as VTV and Vaanam. The girls and boys go mad when he flaunts his 6 pack. It is very evident that STR has worked hard for that, especially in the Vaadi Vaadi song, you can actually see a difference between the STR before that and after that in the movie.
Action sequences are out of the world in the literal sence, unbelieveable stunts, but then it is a masala movie, what else would suit. STR explodes in the action sequence, dance, no one has to say, he rocks. It is the emotional scenes that carry you away. STR has indeed matured as an actor and displays controlled emotions throughout the movie. The scene he talks to Nassar in the hospital is very well done. An earlier STR, and it would have been more dramatic.
Richa fits the role to a T. Not much emoting, not too much of glamor. Not too many scenes either.
Santhanam's comedy track goes along with the movie and does not stand out as a sore thumb.
VTV Ganesh, Jittan Ramesh (as Simbus brother) are all adequate.
Revathi afer a long time. As good as ever.
Mallika Sherawat disappoints in Kalasala. Munni Malaika was way better.
The movie stays true to the original, DAbaang and Dharani has tweaked it well to suit the TamilNadu locale. What boggles is why is the set for the climax set alone a near replica of the Dabaang set.? Weird. That is soon forgotten with STR flaunting his 6-pack.
For those who have not watched Dabaang. Osthe Velan(STR) is a supercop-thief who loots the corrupt and apparently distributes to the poor, though we never see him doing it or is there any mention of that. All he does is buy himself new Boleros to blow up. His brother from a different father is Jitthan Ramesh who is naive. Velan crosses the path of Boxer Daniel (Sonu Sood) and they clash with each other trying to outwit the other. Daniel uses the enemity between the brothers in the final stages to get rid of all of them. How Velan overcomes that is the climax. In between Velan romances Neduvali (Richa), thrashes up baddies, outsmarts Daniels attempts to get rid or humiliate him.
Sooriya's score - 3.5/5- Can watch once. For STR fans, must watch.
