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Singam (2010)
Duraisingam - a short-tempered super cop.
Duraisingam was introduced as a Sub-Inspector with anger issues who dislikes his Police job but doing it for his family. Singam wants to stay with his hometown people, so he got his posting on his village through recommendation (a year later some girl named Subha with one extra sense says that recommendation, reservation and corruption are the reasons why capable youths are leaving the country). Singam's ambition in life is to open a departmental store and develop his family business. He does not take cases from his caste people and he solves the problems through slapping or talking, the two things he's expert in. He tries his best to stay as a person who respects women but unfortunately whenever he is angry his misogyny shows up. Later he got a villain and got a promotion and transfer to the city, which he kept a secret from his family and decided decline his promotion so that he could be surrounded with his people and play soccer for his team. But his family found out about his transfer and promotion and emotionally manipulates him to take the job in the city. Singam goes to the city and struggles to do his usual slapping and talking at the beginning, then with the motivation from his girlfriend Singam got back in action. He goes to the villain's house and gave his long well rhymed speech, which he might have prepared and practiced while travelling to the villain's house. He talked about everyone has a backup called caste and which are the places you could see a Lion. Step by step he was stopping the villain's illegal acts and gets promoted as Assistant Commissioner, and the first thing he did was to show up before Mayil Vaahanam the villain to show his promotion order, and kicked and damaged Mayil Vaahanam's volleyball, He must have missed his soccer matches. In the next shot its shown that Mayil Vaahanam and his gang were sad looking at the damaged volleyball. Then he kills the villain's gang one by one and in the process he got his people get hurt and killed. Finally he decided to let the villain live and left him, but he was actually waiting for the villain to come to him, Singam might needed some time to practice his speech, then he kills the villain after giving his rhymed speech. In the end Singam publicly resigns his job and married his girlfriend Kavya. But in secret he took a undercover job as Deputy Commissioner and secretly spy the Thoothukudi harbor to find out weapons shipping. Duraisingam's adventures will be continued as a Undercover Cop.
Etharkkum Thunindhavan (2022)
Not sure about it, the seriousness got diluted with the placement of comedies and songs. This is definitely not a film on feminism...
Etharkkum Thunindhavan (2022) - The opening scene and the ending scene were the same which was nice. This film was based on the horrifying pollachi issue, and the theme and dialogues of the film was based on actor Surya's article for a newspaper. This film was needed and the things they spoke in a rural life mainstream commercial film are really important, it could change some peoples' mindset. The climax seems amazing, but actually not sure. The mixture of comedy, songs and seriousness back to back, didn't work at all, it diluted the issues. The film only gets serious after the lead characters are directly affected, the things they spoke after that scene and the things they spoke in climax were great. But this film was not a good one, it was just a hero worshipping film. The promotion and awareness about Kavalan SOS App was informative, but only ended as no use, because when the app was used no police came, only hero came to save the girl, so it's like saying don't expect the police to come save you, if you have a hero he might come, its poor writing. They didn't want the videos to get leaked, they been focused on that alone, they didn't directly question people's regressive mindsets. They didn't strongly spoke against victim blaming and suicide. This is definitely not a film on feminism, they only showed the victims crying and scared of the society and begging the hero to do something. From the beginning of the film they treated women only as a thing or an object, the patriarchy is in the language itself. They only keep on suggesting that marriage is the ultimate goal for a woman, even the stupid Bigil did better. The comedies were unfunny, the unnecessary fourth wall breaking was annoying, the relationship between the mother and son was weird, the way they spoke and the son didn't want any privacy and letting his mother hear his personal conversation with his girlfriend was gross. Not sure the messages were strong enough as Nerkonda Paarvai. They suggests mob justice, there were two dialogues that even a lawyer couldn't do anything, which only make the victims to stay silent, it will directly affects the victims from coming out. No strong dialogues or scenes in comforting the victims, they only focused on killing the bad guys. This is indirectly a regressive film.
The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989)
a really good intense film
This was a really good intense film, far better than The Incredible Hulk Returns. Felt more like a Daredevil film than a Hulk film. The crossover between the Hulk and Daredevil needs to happen again with the current graphics and technology.
Putham Pudhu Kaalai: Vidiyaadha: Nizhal Tharum Idham (2022)
a refreshing film
Nizhal Tharum Idham - a refreshing film, the best in this anthology. Cinematography was great, characters were well written. Few scenes could have been altered, the mime characters could have been avoided. But this was a good film.
Jail (2021)
The Director wanted to prove something... but failed
This film suppose to speak about displacement and how it affects the working class people, but this film is full of stereotypes just like the director's mentor's films. The first few minutes of the movie was somewhat good, the character of Kalai how he is struggling to get a decent job, his relationship with his friends Karna and Raaki, his relationship with his co-worker, other than these few scenes nothing works in this film. In certain emotional scenes the film seems like a dark comedy. They could have spoken so many things like how the people are been chased by the Government away from their own land, how bad the construction and facilities in the Slum Clearance Board (Urban Habitat Development Board in present) and Housing Corporation, there are few dialogues in this film about education is being denied to them but rather going deep into problem the director focuses on the problems in weed selling and smashing televisions from the rooftop. The final scene where the character Rosa Malar wanting to do abortion and the frame followed by the blood spilling on white tiles with the baby's cry on the background. It's not clear how this scene is relevant to the title Jail or the problems of displacement, is this some kind of metaphor or it's just the director's support to Pro-Life, and either way that scene was pointless. Overall this film is not just a failed attempt but a pull back from breaking the stereotypes.
No Time to Die (2021)
a perfect ending for Craig-Bond Era
This is not how James Bond movies used to be, but this seems like a perfect ending for Craig-Bond Era. Since the first film Casino Royale the Daniel Craig version of James Bond always wants to walk away from his World-Saving Missions and wants to have a normal life, thus he finally gets what he wants and has a family in the end of Spectre. Only this time the problems arrive in much complicated ways. No Time to Die serves as both the end of the era and also a complete arc for the character of James Bond.