The plot revolves round an ex-military man and a TV journalist who get together to take on a corrupt cop and a gangster. The problem with the film is its weak screenplay and inconsistency in both its mood and characters. While the protagonists are serious on wiping out criminal elements, the antagonists are cardboard villains making a futile attempt to be funny. The imbalance assures the film would fall apart soon enough. The disjointed narration doesn’t help.
It’s an energetic S A Chandrasekhar (aka SAC) we get to see in his earlier scene as Velu. He packs in punches, kicks and swings, to take on rowdies harassing a woman. Pa Vijay, as Vijay a TV reporter, gets a tamer introduction. He is shown rescuing his lady love (Chandini) from an unwanted marriage and fleeing the wedding hall.
With Velu’s fame spread far and wide, Vijay seeks him out to help solve his problem. Later, Vijay is shown telling Velu, ‘With your military brain and my media power we will eliminate the criminals from society’. But neither is Vijay shown using his media-clout, nor is Velu convincing in his later acts.
Incidentally, Pa Vijay with this film seems to have almost negated whatever positive work he has done as an actor. And SAC seems more like a Clint Eastwood gone off-track! Meanwhile, Baby Anaconda with his goons wreaks havoc on the innocents.
In nexus with him is Sathyamurthy, a cop (MS Bhaskar). Off colour are the moments where the thug and cop share a concubine. Rajendran is usually hilarious when given to play the supportive villain. But as the kingpin is Baby here, there is just too much of him around and most of it not funny. The heroes, at a point, manipulate situations to create suspicion in the thug’s mind about the cop’s loyalty to him. The whole episode, if handled well, could have made for some interesting viewing. But that’s botched up too.
In an ode to his son (actor Vijay), SAC borrows a torture-scene from Vijay’s Thuppakki (2012) to reprise the act on a goon. There is a line where SAC, in a reference to Vijay and actor Vijaykanth, quips, “Do you know how many Dalapthis and captains I have trained...in the army?” The best show is put up by Velu’s companion Pandi, the child actor, a natural.
During the closing credits, SAC is credited with its story-screenplay and M Jeevan (the film’s cinematographer) is mentioned as the director, while 19-year-old Vijay Kiran (Jeevan’s son), who was introduced to the media as the film’s director in its pre-release publicity (it’s even in the film’s poster-ads), is mentioned as ‘executive director’. Were the makers confused here as well?!