Irumugan is Anand Shankar’s much awaited offering with Vikram after the successful “Arima Nambi”. The team took two years to complete and is it worth the wait?
The purported sci-fi story would not convince a high school student and the script serves as many holes as you would find in a tennis racquet. The screenplay is shockingly dumb and the characters are weakly etched. The science behind the movie is juvenile, the police absolutely clueless and the surprises are as predictable as a nursery rhyme.
Vikram as the grumpy RAW agent just about passes muster while as the much hyped villain ‘love” he fumbles in his weak make up and gross hairstyle. Nayanthara fronts as the glam doll, with her bare back compensating her geek look throughout the movie. Nithya Menon is the dumb doll who sacrifices her acting skills for a nothing role. Nazar as the RAW Chief is meek and Thambi Ramaiah as the stupidest police officer you can ever see is at his irritating best.
The dialogues are pathetic, the art direction department is plain lazy. The RAW office looks like a done up coffee shop whereas the complicated chemical lab belongs to the 18th century. Harris Jeyaraj rehashes his old tunes for the hundredth time and his background score is modest. The decent cinematography still does not save the blunders in the movie.
Anand Shankar sets out to do a Shankar with ‘Irumugan” and sadly comes out as Anand sans the Shankar. His inadequacies that were ignored in Arima Nambi come out large in this movie. Vikram seems to have lost his touch and it is time he went back to a veteran director to iron out his complacencies.
IRUMUGAN – ERRICHAL !!
1.5/5
B.U.Shreesha
