Theeran Adhikaram Ondru Movie Review – A power Packed performance by Karthi
Theeran Adhikaram Ondru Movie Review – A power Packed
performance by Karthi
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In a seminal scene in
Theeran-Adhikaram Ondru, DSP Theeran (Actor Karthi plays an upright police
officer endowed equally with brains and rippling muscles) storms into a den of
outlaws in the badlands of Rajasthan. He advises his team to stay inside the
car as he walks on purposefully, the dusty hamlet is all eyes; it's the
territory of Omah Singh, a much-feared highway dacoit responsible for a
breakout of murders in rural Tamil Nadu. As the dust motes ripple upward in the
desert air, Theeran slams one after the other until Singh sits up and takes
notice, his hookah forgotten…
The faceoff defines
the movie. Can a district police chief trace murders all the way to the
North-West, surmount the crippling bureaucracy of multiple governments and
bring to book a dacoit gang wreaking havoc on the crime numbers in TN? An
emphatic Yes!
H Vinoth, who deftly
portrayed the lives and tricks of a gifted conman in Sathuranga Vettai, is
telling us a cop story this time. The usual clichés are in order: Theeran is transferred
magnet, courtesy his sky-high morals and commitment to policing. His
stay-at-home wife (Rakul Preet) is content with chiding him now and then about
not being home most days. He chooses to go after the criminals when a dilemma
presents itself after he gets to know his wife is dying. Even during training
days, Theeran shows signs of precocity – he knows how to handle a crime-scene
weapon (We are informed the usual handkerchief method of securing it will not
protect the prints! Theeran holds it between two fingers at points where the
criminal might not have touched the weapon).
Neatly parted hair
and a razor-sharp mush and almost-always wearing a dark shirt straining against
his chest, Karthi looks every inch the ideal police officer. Assisted by a team
of devoted cops, Theeran leads a national hunt for fingerprints that lead them
into the history of Indian outlaws with origins in the British era. These
huntsmen have no targets but gold unless you leave out savagery. How Theeran
bumps off each one of them form the crux of the story.
Negatives include a
bit of drag in the scenes describing the Rajasthan outlaws, or when the action
sequences get a little too long – Theeran beats the villain to the pulp in the
searing Rajasthan heat before dragging him through the desert sands on a horse!
Classic. A few songs are plugged here and there in the movie and they pass
without causing inconvenience. The background scores for the dacoits are
particularly effective in accentuating their bestiality. Overall, music
director Gibran is very good in many parts.
The story itself
rests on actual history. Dacoit at homes along the highways was a menace in
Tamil Nadu during the late 90s. Apparently, Tamil Nadu had ranked high in
taking it seriously and wiping such crimes off its map, although the policemen
behind the job had gotten little credit.
True to that, Theeran
spends the twilight of his career behind a desk, complaining about a rickety
chair not replaced for months. A young officer having known his deeds drops by
just to salute him and Theeran betrays that old glint of uprightness still
bright in his eyes.
After all these
years? If you are Theeran, You would say “Always.”
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