Tamil Cinema is growing really fast and testimonial to that is ‘Irumbu Kottai Murattu Singam’ (IKMS) directed by ‘humour-in-blood director’ Chimbudeven.
Hollywood is a kingpin in the cowboy genre, with a lot of heroes in fact carving a niche for themselves including Gregory Peck, Clint Eastwood and a host of other cowboy heroes. ‘IKMS’ is an inspired movie of one such page from the big book of cowboy history. Firstly, credit and two thumbs up to director Chimbudeven to make such a movie that needs a lot of effort and specially attention to detail. He has brought out a wholesome entertainer.
This time, he’s up with a cowboy tale that has been an unusual genre in Tamil Cinema.
Let’s not drag it up singing more praises on this particular context for he deserves some more praises for his creative abilities to evoke laughter. But you’ve got to accept it – Too much is always too bad. The director has tried playing funny lines on each and every part, which could have been avoided.
But for the whole valuation, ‘Irumbu Kottai Murattu Singam’ has better chances of proving as a winner at box office for this summer. Keeping the film’s synopsis just as the narrative point in film may not be a good option.
This is about the tale of three camps – JAYASHANKARAPURAM, IRUMBU KOTTAI & Red Indian Village.
Baddie Kelaku Kattai (Nasser) reigns over the region of Jayashankarapuram soon after the disappearance of Singam. Soon as some of the people (Mouli, Ilavarasu and few others) in this region come across Singamuthu (Raghava Lawrence), a ready-to-be-hanged, they save him on the spur of moment. It’s all because of a costliest diamond he has lost. Later, it’s revealed that Singamuthu possesses the identical traits of Singam, who is not to found anywhere. Assuring that they would gift him a look-like precious diamond, Singamuthu is requested to protect their people from the one-eyed evil guy Kelaku Kattai.
What follows next are his encounters with various people in both the camps of Jaishankarapuram and Irumbu Kottai and last but not the least – Red Indians. The toughest clash between Kelaku Kattai and Singamuthu breaks open when they’re on the treasure hunt.
On the performance level, Lawrence has tried stepping out of his preexisting images of imitating Rajnikanth in his style and mannerisms. |
