On seeing this tweet, many shared their experience in the comment section. He took to Twitter and wrote, "#15YearsOfPudhupettai Where did you see the movie FDFS? How many times you totally saw the film in theaters? How many times you've seen the film on #Prime #OTT? Let's go down memory lane. Though the film didn’t receive much appreciation at the time of release, it is now celebrated by Selva's fans all over the internet.Īs the film completed 15 years today, one of the social media influencers, Kaushik LM, asked his Twitter followers about their first day first show experience of the film. Pudhupettai is considered a cult classic.
with so many gangster movies coming nowadays, Selvaraghavan had to do better than what he did in the second half. 'Punnagaikkatha Bommai', again, was Sonia. 'Punnagai Ilavarasi' is the 'Pattam' for Sneha. Sonia Agarwal has been tagged 'PVN's granddaughter'. War of the worlds' climax was among the worst sothappals I have ever seen. And, I heard of atleast 2 new movies of his. Aparna, his brother's name seems to have saved the movie. the box office is favorable to the movie so far. It starts of well, promising a lot, only to deceive. Overall, it is too gory and violent with lots of blood. Aravind has some interesting angles and his fast and less-intrusive camera capture the events quite well. Yuvan’s theme songs and background music fit well into the movie. Music and cinematography: Yuvan and Aravind Krishna (camera) are two strong pillars to the movie.
as though the director didn’t know how to fit it into the movie. On these accounts, Pudhupettai was inferior to ‘Kadhal Konden and ‘7G.’ The songs seem very forced and one song ‘Oru naaLil’ is not even there. As I said earlier, the second half had too many unnecessary scenes.
so, many of the fight scenes turn out to be unbelievable and over-the-top. In ‘Pudhupettai’, Dhanush looks too skinny to be such a fiery gangster. Even Ramgopal Varma couldn’t get away from its hangover in his subsequent films ‘Company’ and ‘Sarkar’. it gets irritatingly too loud.ĭirection: IMHO, ‘Sathya’ (Hindi) was the best Indian movie on Metro-gangsters. Most of the male actors keep shouting all the time. He overacts in a few scenes, and some other scenes remind of his previous movies like Kaadhal kondEn, SullAn and Adhu oru kanAkAlam. So, even though he delivers a strong performance, I got tired of seeing him. Performances: Dhanush is there on the screen 99% of the time.
On the plus side, Dhanush’s ‘training period’ has some interesting moments. Viewers’ patience is tested and one gets relieved that the movie ended at last. The movie seemed to be ending atleast twice before the actual climax arrived. Though it was acceptable and believable in today’s politics, the events leading to it are quite jarring. Once Sonia Agarwal enters, the director loses his plot and the events turn jerky. the journey of a nobody towards becoming a dreaded rowdy is well-portrayed. Screenplay: The first half is very engaging. In the topsy-turvy ride, he faces lust, treachery, politics and, love. He is wrongly framed by police in a ‘Ganja’ case and there begins his journey in the underworld of Chennai. He has to run for his life and resort to begging for his food. no interest in studies, fighting parents, rowdy dad and, in addition, his mother gets killed. Story: ‘Kokki’ Kumar’s (Dhanush) late-teen period is a recipe for disaster. Pudhupettai was one of the most eagerly-awaited movies of this year for a) its soundtrack, which was a hit as soon as it was released late last year b) the Yuvan-Selva-Dhanush combo which happened after a hugely successful and critically acclaimed ‘Kaadhal konden’ c) high expectations that Selva would have something special for his struggling bro Dhanush.