Pudukottayilirunthu Saravanan  Now Showing
Cast: Dhanush, Aparna, Karunas, Peter Heyn, V Gnanavel, L M M Swaminathan.
Director: S S Stanley

Dreaming of making enough lucre to get his family well-settled, Saravanan, a simple youth from Pudukottai, lands in Singapore with a job arranged through an agent, only to see his dreams crashing one by one.

At first it's the dingy bunker he has to share with quite a few unsavoury characters for company. Then it's the unruly Chinese immigrants he has some unpleasant encounters with, who destroy his passport and assault him.

In the tussle, one of them (Peter Heyn) gets killed, and Saravanan, chased by the cops, has to hot-foot out of the place. Also on the run is Shalini, a wealthy girl trying to ward off some unwanted male attention.

Saravanan is promised a hefty sum if he can get Shalini back safe to her family in India. The adventures of the duo as they shuttle across different countries, by road and water, forms the rest of the tale. The inevitable love happens as expected!

The script is insipid and the narration lacklustre. It's like the lead pair were asked to hop, jump and run all over the place without properly planned or convincing incidents for back-up. Added to that, we do not get to see any exotic locations or interesting spots, the director not taking advantage of his 'foreign trip'.

Dhanush carries over his innocent-vulnerable look to this film too, doing whatever was expected of him, and it's not much, even crooning a number. The actor comes out best in the fight scenes.

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Debutant Aparna may not be a conventional beauty, but she more than makes up for it by her extreme confidence before the camera, her spontaneous expressions and her uninhibited dress sense.

It's jarring comedy from Karunas in a dual role, the take-off on 'Vaali' falling flat.

With three hits to his credit, Dhanush's fourth film had naturally raised a lot of expectations. In fact, it was the most expensive of his films, and the first time a Dhanush film was shot abroad. The teasers aired on channels promised more exciting things to come. But the film is a major disappointment, proving yet again that it's a good script that ultimately works, the excitement confined only to its slick promos!

Malini Mannath
Published on 28^th Jan, 2004