While Asuran was a runaway success at many box offices and a darling of film festivals dare I voice my disappointment with it?
This is a violent, gory tale of a cast war over agricultural land usage rights told in the present and an unnecessarily long flashback just so the lead can show his wooing of a lady love and origins of his angry young man days.
Wealthy landlord wants poor farmer’s land, offends his wife, farmer’s son gets mad, landlord’s son kills farmer’s son and the revenge story continues…how many times have you seen this plot? Out of nowhere the small-framed farmer starts fighting like Rajnikanth. Now he needs to explain to his flabbergasted son where he got his ninja moves from so he launches into a looong flashback telling his brewer to farmer tale.
Sivasaami, the farmer, is a no-nonsense hot blooded bone breaker on the one hand and on the other hand he is agreeing to bow in front of every villager on the landlord’s command and surrenders to go to jail to save his son. He parts with the words that his son should study and get a bureaucratic job.
I made the mistake of starting to watch this movie after dinner. Let me say this – if you don’t want to taste your dinner twice avoid doing what I did. The gore in this movie rivals Quentine Tarantino’s imagination.
I kept waiting for the big turnaround in the plot, to no avail. (5/10)
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