When Tamil film actor Vijay shuffles off his mortal coils, the coffin lowered, the last heap of soil flung on the decorated box and the tombstone erected, the epitaph will most likely read Punnaku Pandi – Failed Comedian.
With a zany knack for picking films whose only qualification is that they must be bizarrely nonsensical in every sense, Vijay has in recent years earned the wrath and scorn of all sentient, thinking beings in his relentless, shameless frenzy for pelf in the near term and political power in the longer term.
Be it Villu, Kuruvi or some of Vijay’s older films like Madurey, Sivakasi, suffice it to say that they plumb the dregs of the cinema world.
What starts off as pursuit of a heroic career in films will undoubtedly collapse for Vijay in a limp Vadivellian finale.
Take for instance Vijay’s 2005 movie Sivakasi.
Never has there been as asinine a spectacle on the screen. And unlikely there ever will be, unless, of course, Vijay has a hand role in it.
We consider it a Hail Mary miracle we survived the Sivakasi ordeal.
The movie starts off badly enough with cops hauling a bad guy called Pallaku Pandi into a police lockup and the incensed man stripping his clothes and displaying his crown jewels to the assembled newsmen and photographers, who recoil in revulsion at the sight.
Repulsive as the beginning might seem, the film gets exponentially worse by the frame. Continue reading »
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