Machchi, kuppae da, kuppaeswamy padam idhu (hey buddy, this movie is trash).
A wretched melange of an asinine story, shoddy acting and mediocre music, Kanthaswamy is a mind-numbing piece of trash that left us shell-shocked and reeling in horror at the infernal nonsense unfolding on the screen.
Folks, at three hours this garbage is exactly three hours too long.
Susi Ganesan, the arch villain of Kanthaswamy, is a dilettante, a rank amateur and a danda-soru (wastrel) out to rip you off your money and time.
How this tyro (guilty of the crimes of non-story, non-screenplay and mis-direction) got to don the director’s crown is, to use a Churchillian expression, a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Is Kollywood so starved of talent that they’d stoop so low as to settle for dregs and schmucks like Susi Ganesan? Sad.
To think these clowns behind Kanthaswamy flew to Mexico and other parts of the world to film this embarrassment is an astonishing act of chutzpah.
Why Vikram, Why?
Whatever possessed Kollywood star Vikram of Anniyan fame to feature in this horrid movie is a mystery we’d like to unlock.
Alas, the Vikram in the bizzare Batmanesque costume we encounter on the screen is not the brilliant Ambi/Anniyan of Anniyan fame but the sick Vikram of the Bheema infamy.
There’s no fire in this Vikram fella anymore.
Whether he’s fighting the baddies, romancing the girl or delivering righteous spiels on helping the poor, Vikram impresses not one whit.
Not for a second do we get a convincing portrayal by Vikram.
Au contraire, he looks silly most of the time (kinda like Vijay in Villu or Ajith in Aegan).
Crapulent Story
Kanthaswamy (Vikram), the eponymous hero of the movie, is cast in the role of a Robin Hood cop who takes from crooks like PPP (Ashish Vidyarti) and renders to the needy and poor.
And how do you think the poor send out desperate pleas for help to Kanthaswamy – by affixing letters to a tree at a Murugan temple!
But the Robin Hood aspect of the movie is so crudely handled and so implausible that it beggars belief. Continue reading »
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