It’s hard to believe that there is still audiences for films like Thenavattu. Playing wildly to the gallery or what the trade calls B & C viewers, the film leaves you almost brain dead!
Like it or not, in terms of its story idea , scripting, direction and in virtually every aspect, V.V Kathir’s debut film has no logic or plot. He has pilfered the first half from recent mass masala films like Tirupachi and the climax from Sanda Kozhi!
Jeeva who has so far acted in meaningful films, now calls himself Ilaiyanayagan, and does a poor imitation of the original Ilayathalapathy Vijay. From the Aruvaal he uses, dialogue delivery, body language, comedy and fight scenes, including smearing holy ash on his forehead looks very similar to what Vijay has done in director Perarasu’s film.
Kottai (Jeeva), is an expert woodcutter from a village adjoining Madurai (the most popular town in Tamil Cinema, where all the guys are brave hearts, daring, dashing, caring and innocent!). On his mother’s (Saranya) advise, to see the world, he moves to Chennai, and finds work with the local don and Kattapanchayat specialist Kailasam (Ravi Kale).
He works as a guy who maintains his ‘Aruvaals’ as he thinks that his boss uses them to cut trees, till one day he realizes the guy needs them to chop off his enemies heads! (this is the dumbest aspect of the film)
Meanwhile he falls in love with Gayathri (Poonam Bajwa) a music teacher, who is kind, good hearted and helps the poor and needy. The educated Gayathri flips for Kottai who has only studied up to the fourth standard, due to his loving and caring nature.
Kailasam’s son Santosh (Shafi), a lecherous drug addict, mouthing punchlines is a bad guy whose job seems to be raping girls including a lecturer who teaches him in college! A cop and an ACP (Sai Kumar) wants to arrest him, (the guy has even raped his sister), but can do little about it as the Home Minister (Rajan.P.Dev) is protecting all the goons in the town!
One day Santosh tries to get fresh with Gayathri, and our hero goes berserk, and the rest of the story is as predictable as unofficial power cuts in Chennai!
Srikanth Deva’s music is pathetic (No wonder Sun TV is not promoting any songs from the film). As for the performances, well, absolutely no comments. In the climax Jeeva bashes up atleast 150 guys single-handedly, leaving some of them dead. Do you want to know more about this film?
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