He has acted in about half a dozen films. They may not have been the greatest of scripts. But they were all unpretentious entertainers with a neatly etched screenplay, and fluidity in story telling. And now Sunder C plays 'Perumal'. A film which seems to have the most mediocre script the actor has got himself into, the pedestrian treatment not making it any better.
'Perumal' works for a car agency. The early scenes show him recovering cars from those who had defaulted in their payment. There are his frequent encounters with Namitha who plays a car thief. After the inevitable dream- songs with the buxom, sizzling, uninhibited car thief, the story shifts to Andhra. 'Perumal', on a trip there, gets entangled with the affairs of an influential bigwig of the place (Kota) and his son. 'Perumal' bashing up the son, results in the latter losing his sanity, earning Perumal the wrath of the father. There is Meenakshi who is also the target of the duo. A house surgeon, she had discovered that the spurious drugs that had caused the death of patients in the hospital, was supplied by the duo’s firm. The girl takes refuge with 'Perumal', and with the baddies at their heels, it’s back to Tamil Nadu again. After some more insipid sequences, Perumal manages to outwit the baddies and teach them a lesson.
Looking good in some tastefully designed clothes (courtesy wife Khushboo), Sunder C has done whatever the script required of him. Which is not much. Hogging equal or more footage is Vivek. But humour, a key element, in all Sunder C’s films falls flat here. Vivek who comes as a relief in many films, is plainly intolerable here as Reddy. With his nonsensical, juvenile comic antics, Reddy suffers from what seems like verbal diarrhea. And one wished someone would seal his lips and stop the flow!
Unlike the earlier Sunder C-flicks 'Perumal' has nothing much in it to entice a viewer.
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