‘Fight Club’ Tamil movie review: This Vijay Kumar-starrer is all style and very little substance – The Hindu

Sadly, it’s time to interrupt the very first rule of Struggle Membership.

Vijay Kumar, the actor-filmmaker who wowed Tamil cinephiles with the Uriyadi movies, is again. Such a resurgence deserves a mass introduction scene, and in his newest movie, the aptly-titled Struggle Membership, he’s introduced alongside Thala and Thalapathy. No, Ajith and Vijay aren’t in any means related to this movie, however within the introduction shot, Selva (Vijay Kumar), carrying a ‘Thala’ Dhoni CSK tee, commandeers a gang to a run-down theatre that’s enjoying the Mani Ratnam-Rajinikanth movie Thalapathi. It’s a scene befitting a star within the stature of these talked about above, however Vijay Kumar, together with his intense eyes and chiselled abs, sells that scene. If the movie’s title isn’t a clue already, it’s the struggle sequences the place the movie is in its factor, but it surely additionally leaves you wishing the remainder of the narrative gave the identical really feel.

A gifted younger participant who seems as much as a brotherly determine loses his path and his sport when these round him kill that mentor, and it’s not till the very finish that the participant realises that he has been performed; manipulated to be part of a nasty sport of revenge. That’s Struggle Membership in a one-liner, and if this plot reminds you of Vada Chennai, you aren’t significantly incorrect both. It additionally occurs to be the rationale why the movie offers a been-there-seen-that vibe, which the makers attempt to overcome with their non-linear narrative.

Such a story fashion comes as each boon and bane to Struggle Membership. For starters, we’re bombarded with sub-plots and knowledge proper off the bat and it takes some time for us to cool down mentally and get a grasp of what’s occurring. The truth that the forged is predominantly full of new, unfamiliar faces initially makes it more durable to maintain monitor of the unfolding occasions. However as soon as the mud settles and we get a dangle of the characters and their motives, it will get higher… just for it to enter predictable territory.

The movie’s largest power is its technical prowess and proper after that, it’s the performances. Vijay Kumar embodies the offended younger man persona and he’s incredible within the motion sequences, however the movie doesn’t supply any lingering moments in the course of the emotional scenes for his character to be fleshed out; this ends in us not caring in regards to the setbacks he suffers. It’s truly the supporting forged, that includes actors like Avinash Raghudevan, Shankar Thas and Kaarthekeyen Santhanam, who steal the present with their performances.

Vijay Kumar turned heads together with his debut movie Uriyadi and the pre-interval struggle sequences will all the time discover a place in Tamil movie folklore. The motion in Struggle Membership seems like an extension of that sequence as not solely are they uncooked and gritty, but additionally life like and innate sufficient to win the hearts of style lovers. The ultimate showdown that includes a preposterous stage of gory violence feels just like the makers pushing the envelope with their movie’s grownup certification, however the earlier struggle sequences, that are painfully constructed to be distinctive, put together you for it.

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The true heroes of Struggle Membership are the technicians behind the digicam; cinematographer Leon Britto’s impeccable photographs, Kripakaran’s incredible enhancing and to spherical all of them up, Govind Vasantha’s rating make the movie one of many technically strongest outings we’ve seen in current occasions. Sadly, the wafer-thin plot and predictable ending develop into spoilsports. There’s a token feminine lead (Monisha Mohan Menon) whose character provides nothing to the story aside from leaving us to surprise why her parts, regardless of being set in North Chennai like the remainder of the movie, appear like Kerala. Most likely as a result of she performs a Malayali? However that’s the least of Struggle Membership’s worries.

The movie tries to chronicle the struggling lives of these with large desires however finally ends up enjoying to the North Madras stereotypes Tamil cinema has always fed us for some time now. Earlier than you end hoping that the movie finds its true potential, we get Selva with brass knuckles smashing the ultimate nail deep.

Struggle Membership doesn’t supply a lot when you’re on the lookout for an intriguing story of a easy man caught in a posh scenario, however the movie is certainly an crucial addition to the unique record of tasks that break the norms and guidelines of the motion style in Tamil cinema.

Struggle Membership is presently working in theatres

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