Sigaram Thodu

My review: Sigaram Thodu

Gaurav's "Sigaram Thodu" is an average routine commercial fare with the director using the theme of ATM robbery as just a icing which is too thin and too redundant. If you remove those scenes in which they have fairly well explained the modus operandi of the ATM robbery, the movie is a dud that has nothing new or interesting in it. 

The first half is almost a non-entity with a boring romantic portion in which the lead pair fall in love in a space of one week on a pilgrimage trip, yawn! Flickers here and there in the form of some terrific timing comedy from Satish are the only salvaging parts of the first half. Second half too fails to evoke any interest with each and every twists unfolding so conveniently that even those investigative movies of Jaisankar in the 60's and 70's look far more better than this one. 

After a successful "Arima Nambi", this is not a movie that Vikram Prabhu ought to have chosen. It is a poor selection of script and he fails to gain anything out of it. In fact in those scenes in which he comes in the cop uniform, one can only hear peels of laughter in the auditorium. His styling is totally clownish in this movie. Monal Gajjar has a pleasant face but acting talent is what she needs to hone a lot. It is sad to see Sathyaraj relegated to such cliched roles these days. Satish is good with his comic timing while Erode Mahesh has nothing much to do. 

It is one of those rare poor albums from D Iman in the recent times. He neither does anything of note in the background score as well. Vijay Ulaganth's cinematography is good and glossy. Movie is high on its production values with all the technical departments having done very good jobs. 

The Malayalam movie "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" dubbed into tamil as "ATM Thirudan" is a better movie that dealt with the theme of ATM robbery. When compared to it "Sigaram Thodu" is no where in the vicinity of it, either in the plausibility or the sensibility. 

Bottomline:  Way off the target 

2/5