Rajini Murugan is a product from a team which precisely knows its strengths. The biggest strength is that the team knows its limitations and never goes fishing into bigger or untested waters. The result is an outing of harmless fun.

An intriguing love story for adults but with it’s fair share of contrivances to make it all end well. So back to the question in the first paragraph. Guess this would also be a love or hate film for the audience.

Despite all the noble intentions and message, Pasanga 2 appears kiddish.

Eeti could have been a little more sharper but it definitely is well on target. It gives the fillip to Atharvaa as an action hero. If that was the intention Eeti is a winner.

144 shows that it’s maker has a flair for comedy of the eccentric type. Some fine tuning and Manikandan can make heads turn.

Thoongavanam keeps you awake. But the intensity is on the wane as the night progresses.

Thani Oruvan marks the welcome of ‘version 2’ of director Raja. It is possibly the most rewarding experience you would have got from a mainstream Tamil actioner in the recent past.

The crux of NPNO has true potential. A stage like setting and a confused second half pull back NPNO from the heights it could have reached. The end result looks like an ordinary game played on a superb turf.

It is a welcome relief to see an edge-of-the-seat thriller in Tamil without resorting to hurried screenplay, unnatural dialogues, forced characterization, abrupt editing, loud background scores to list a few among many other commercial compromises. The director deserves credit for making a nail-biting crime drama with no action sequences or unwanted songs.

Kamal Haasan alternates between experimental risky movies and low-budget commercial remake movies. The question in audience mind is which category does “Uttama Villain” fall under? In Uttama Villain, The answer is Kamal has blended them both and achieved mixed results.