‘Lucky Man’ movie review: Yogi Babu pillars a mildly entertaining drama – The Hindu
Within the lately held pre-release occasion of Jawan, to a lot awe of all the celebrities together with Bollywood famous person Shah Rukh Khan, actor Yogi Babu received a rousing reception in an auditorium filled with younger school college students. And watching the actor in a movie like Fortunate Man, effortlessly bowling over the viewers — largely comprising the coveted ‘household viewers’ — says that calling him a ‘star’ wouldn’t be an exaggeration. Moreover being completely likeable, because of his off-screen persona and on-screen comedy, he additionally retains discovering methods to show himself as a succesful performer and that’s exactly what he does once more in Fortunate Man; the actor shoulders a modest movie purely along with his comedic timing and invested efficiency.
The truth is, it comes for a personality we’re all too aware of — the underdog who can’t shake the unhealthy luck off him — and it is available in a movie, which with out the assist of the actors, looks like an indie brief movie stretched to scale. The story is fairly straight-forward and humble: it follows the lifetime of Murugan (Yogi Babu), a person who grew up being termed ‘unfortunate’, whose job at an actual property company isn’t sufficient to offer a steady life for his spouse Deivanai (Raichal Rabecca) and son Tamizh.
For Murugan, who has no set plan to repair his monetary state of affairs and has to rely on mortgage sharks to get by, a automobile he will get as a present after successful a contest at a discount fund adjustments his life without end. The four-wheeler isn’t only a automobile to him however a God-sent reward that proves his luck and is an emblem of all the great luck he has earned in life. Simply when issues take a flip for the great, Murugan locks horns with an trustworthy however boastful cop, Assistant Commissioner Sivakumar (Veera). However all hell breaks free when the automobile will get nicked mysteriously. Along with his good luck now taken away, a heartbroken Murugan has to put aside his ego and search assist from Sivakumar.
Fortunate Man (Tamil)
If you’re anticipating a movie that takes on the automobile theft mafia or one which digs into the complexities of proudly owning a motorcar in India and the way ignorance or powerlessness can be utilized towards a automobile proprietor, you is likely to be disillusioned. Simply this yr, we had Aishwariya Rajesh’s Soppana Sundari, which revolved round a lower-middle-class household caught in a quagmire because of a automobile they received by a fortunate draw contest; that movie held its roots to the monetary turmoil of the household and what the automobile means to them and wove a thriller round them.
Right here, writer-director Balaji Venugopal opts for a a lot less complicated story that refrains from pointless crimson herrings or typical heroism, and but, the movie has lots of flab. Be it Sivakumar’s enmity with the Deputy Commissioner, his relationship along with his romantic curiosity, and even Sivakumar’s again story for that matter, lots will get handled in a backhanded method and also you perceive the character extra from the deja vu of different related on-screen police characters.
There’s additionally pointless meta-ness — characters breaking the fourth wall or an pointless call-back to Kolamaavu Kokila between Yogi Babu and R S Shivaji — that solely manages to place you off; bringing in Yogi Babu’s ardour for tennis-ball cricket seamlessly, nevertheless, is an efficient contact.
The most important challenge is that the story appears too lean and with out a lot substance to assist the size of a characteristic movie. But when it manages to realize any of its ambitions — like, the idea of luck or man’s attachment to issues round him — it’s solely due to the dialogues and the performances. From crackling one-liners by Murugan to actually the whole lot that Deivanai has to inform about her husband, the dialogues are apt and efficient. Actors like Raichal and Abdool Lee (because the second-fiddle comic) promote each comedy and drama with lots of conviction.
Simply this week, a cinemagoer may watch Yogi Babu in Karumegangal Kalaigindrana, in a heartfelt act as a father determine who will get humiliated in his makes an attempt to fulfill a toddler, or in Fortunate Man, as a cheery household man however one who additionally will get humiliated in entrance of his youngster in a scene. That he nonetheless manages to strike stark variations within the skins of those characters is proof of the treasure-trove of expertise this man is. And he wants higher movies that give him as a lot as he’s at all times prepared to provide them.
Fortunate Man is at the moment operating in theatres
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