My review: Irudhi Suttru
But the movie belongs to its lead pair, Madhavan as the temperamental coach Prabhu and Ritika Singh as the maverick prodigy, Madhi. Both have given equally powerful performances complimenting each other. It can be compared to Kamalhassan-Sridevi from "Moondaram Pirai" in terms of chemistry and complementary acting. Special mention about Ritika, she has effortlessly transformed into a North Chennai fisher girl in terms of body language, personality and attitude.Her's is one of the best acting debuts in the recent times by a female lead.
Santosh Narayan's terrific background score, and lilting songs, especially "Ye Sandakaara" and "Vaa machaney" are great value additions to the movie. After his mighty impressive work in "Vidiyum Mun"Sivakumar Vijayan has again done a stupendous work here. Both the background score and the cinematography aids in fostering the rustic feel to the movie.
Sudha could have avoided couple of "cinematic" scenes in the end like Madhi kicking the head coach after winning and her father undergoing a dramatic change in his character and apologizing to his wife (for what..??) which rears out like a sour thumb in an otherwise might impressive movie.
On the whole, "Irudhi Suttru" is the year's first mass masala commercial action entertainer that has a female lead who packs in all the punches, literally!
Bottomline: Paisa Vasool.
3.5/5
"Irudhi Suttru" is a decent feel good sports drama that has been seasoned with ample dose of mass masala elements. Hence, unlike may of the past sports movies that keep rooted in reality and plausibility, this one takes the diametrically opposite route that is certain to keep both the critics and commoners happy. Movie boasts of many well written mass masala scenes as well in it that could have been a part of any other mass star movie. Only difference is that here the protagonist is a female and she gets all those whistles and festoons.
Sudha Kongara has almost followed the well proven underdog template in the sports background which she brilliantly blends in the North Chennai milieu. Along with the screenplay which is razor sharp and interesting, what makes the movie work is the characters that she has written and the manner in which they are portrayed on screen by the actors concerned. Be it even the smaller characters like Saamikannu (portrayed brilliantly by Kaali Venkat) or the blink you miss role of Muralikrishnan (again Radharavi shows his mettle), each and every character have their moment in the movie. Nasser, as Pandian who is the assistant coach is again a scream with his casual demeanor and effortless delivery of Madras slang.
But the movie belongs to its lead pair, Madhavan as the temperamental coach Prabhu and Ritika Singh as the maverick prodigy, Madhi. Both have given equally powerful performances complimenting each other. It can be compared to Kamalhassan-Sridevi from "Moondaram Pirai" in terms of chemistry and complementary acting. Special mention about Ritika, she has effortlessly transformed into a North Chennai fisher girl in terms of body language, personality and attitude.Her's is one of the best acting debuts in the recent times by a female lead.
Santosh Narayan's terrific background score, and lilting songs, especially "Ye Sandakaara" and "Vaa machaney" are great value additions to the movie. After his mighty impressive work in "Vidiyum Mun"Sivakumar Vijayan has again done a stupendous work here. Both the background score and the cinematography aids in fostering the rustic feel to the movie.
Sudha could have avoided couple of "cinematic" scenes in the end like Madhi kicking the head coach after winning and her father undergoing a dramatic change in his character and apologizing to his wife (for what..??) which rears out like a sour thumb in an otherwise might impressive movie.
On the whole, "Irudhi Suttru" is the year's first mass masala commercial action entertainer that has a female lead who packs in all the punches, literally!
Bottomline: Paisa Vasool.
3.5/5
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