Kazhugu - another Rajinikanth film named for a creature of the wild.Īll of which makes the end a total surprise. It’s a brilliant twist, whether viewed from an emotional standpoint (given the characters and their trajectories) or, more clinically, from a critical point of view (it’s a startling subversion of the heroics that preceded it). We should have risen from our seats in applause. But the way the sequence is cut and staged is so ineffective that all we’re left with is the sense of something that could have been great.Ī major problem is that the villain is so ill-defined. He’s just another thug when he needed to be larger than life, a mythical monster, and his demise - no spoiler there if you’ve ever seen a masala movie - doesn’t carry the weight it should.
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