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The title
“Padikkathavan”
(illiterate) sort of
fits the movie
especially when it is
meant to show the
difference between an
intellectual father,
played by Pratap Pothen,
and a nincompoop
offspring, portrayed by
Dhanush.
That is where the
justification of the
title and the film
itself ends. From then
on it is routine stuff.
Verbally bludgeoned
by his dad, the hero
decides to climb up the
social and financial
ladder by wooing a rich
aeronautical student
Gayathri (Tamannah).
Her rich Andhra
Pradesh-based landlord
father, caricatured by
Suman, already in the
bad books of local goons
sets them against
Gayathri.
The hero comes to the
rescue. The lass falls
for the hero like a ton
of bricks.
After a number of
tongue-in-cheek
one-liners, romancing,
wielding guns, sickles
and a lot of other
weapons all the way to
the climax, the hero
gets his girl.
On the bright side,
despite a virtually
absent script, Dhanush
and Tammannah have put
heart and soul in their
performances to keep the
audience moderately
interested.
Arumugham, Vivek and his
gang of cronies
entertain with their
ribald jokes that are
quite funny. The rest of
it, including director
Suraj and the cast
deserve no mention.
Mani Sharma has
recycled tunes from his
earlier
Telugu
movies
and added more noise to
what already was pure
cacophony.
Venkatesh’s
cinematography just
about passes muster. |
