The film throws in the elements of one-sided love, the metamorphosis of Malligadu, a good-for-nothing bum whose only aim is to grace the cell of a Central Jail, but who ends up loving his childhood sweetheart (Priyamani as Muthyalu), the talk of 'jati', a flashback that has an outdated story to tell, and so on. All through the course of this more than two-and-a-half hours movie, your search for aestheticism/intelligence remains a chimera.įor the nth time, you have a film set in rural Tamil Nadu, a male lead who is an epitome of vulgarity and violence and a climax baptised in blood and pain. All in all, you have a film that seems to ask you to wait for the mind-numbing climax. Watching Malligadu, one feels that post Sethu (Seshu) and Pithamagan (Shiva Putrudu), some of the Tamil directors have been making tragedies for the sake of making tragedies! Being a Bala school kid, Ameer scripts a film that smacks of a not-so-inventive rustic realism for some and a story that is woven around a bizarre world for most others.
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