Sadly, the movie ceases to tread a focussed path — often wandering without purpose. It begins with Pugazh and his team winning a cricket match on the playground, and they travel to Puducherry (Pondicherry) to celebrate with a song and dance on the beach — which kind of transforms into a Baywatch locale with bikini-clad foreign women parading up and down.

A premise on political drama could have easily hit the right chord if it had been handled with a lot more care. Pugazh falters on this note and ends up being a mediocre product.

Pugazh plays out flatly for the most part. For a film that is supposed to be packed with a certain tension it lacks the fizz.