Uthamaputhiran is not so much a movie as a total descent into depravity.
A dystopian nightmare for those sitting through this infernal nonsense.
Written by a jackass answering to the shout of Gopimohan, directed by a bozo named Mithran Jawahar and featuring Rajinikanth’s hideous cartoon of a son-in-law Dhanush in the lead role, Uthamaputhiran is the remake of the Telugu blockbuster Ready.
Armageddon Coming
That movies of this trashy ilk should even be made (Telugu), remade (Tamil) and currently being remade again (Ready, the Hindi version) is perhaps a divine signal that Armageddon is nigh upon us.
In any other country in the world such trash wouldn’t even make it to DVDs. But in an unmistakable sign that Indian audiences are more simian than human such garbage turn into blockbusters (the Telugu version).
Even by the horrendously bad standards of Tamil movies, Uthamaputhiran’s story is bizarre nonsense.
We have a young man Shiva (Dhanush), whose raison d’etre seems to be help people escape from inconvenient arranged marriages.
During one of his good Samaritan acts that involve kidnapping the bride, Shiva and his buddies accidentally land up in the wrong marriage hall and unwittingly kidnap the wrong bride. Although Shiva and his friends are aghast over their mistake, the bride (Genelia D’Souza) herself, once she wakes up from her drug-induced unconscious state, is elated.
Apparently, this bride too was most unhappy about the marriage she was being coerced into by scheming relatives aspiring to her riches.
Before long, she has managed to elude the pursuers hot on her heels and is firmly ensconced in Shiva’s house with the aid of a few lies. Soon, the girl has endeared herself to all at her new home. Meanwhile, Shiva himself is persona non grata at his house for helping his cousin flee from her marriage sometime earlier. Continue reading »
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