‘Sivakumarin Sabadham’ movie review: Hiphop Tamizha’s latest is a fun-serious outing, with ordinary results

Hiphop Tamizha Aadhi has been a hero in Kollywood for a number of years now, however doesn’t have a prefix to his title but. He could possibly be known as ‘Stressed Star’. Most of his choices until date have a sure vitality and vibrancy to them, which might be the rationale he’s an enormous draw among the many faculty crowd. Whereas his debut providing Meesaya Murukku showcased a vibrant campus, his sports activities drama Natpe Thunai (2019) delivered to life edge-of-the-seat hockey matches to a substantial extent.

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With Sivakumarin Sabadham, the restlessness is restricted to the primary half: a number of faculty campus sequences right here, a fast-paced dance quantity there. A number of comical conditions are packed in too, however the movie itself is, on the finish of the day, making an attempt to bundle a social message in regards to the state of the handloom business via its varied characters.

That is Aadhi making an attempt to maneuver up the ladder as a hero. He isn’t content material with the faculty crowd that normally flocks to his movies. He needs household audiences as nicely. He needs sentiment as nicely (there’s oodles of appa, thatha and even chittapa sentiment!).

And he needs a problem to marketing campaign for, and thus comes into image Kanchipuram, the one-stop vacation spot for sarees. The massive AC showrooms and the middlemen make some huge cash, however what of the individuals who toil away within the looms, is the query Sivakumarin Sabadham poses.

This isn’t too totally different from the a number of pro-farming topics that Tamil cinema has been fascinated with in the previous couple of years. The business is totally different, however the emotion and the ache is nearly the identical.

And the outcomes are blended: it’s tough to take Sivakumarin Sabadham too significantly due to the various jokes that it’s full of. The songs work to a big extent, particularly the catchy ‘Thillalangadi Girl’ and ‘Sivakumar Pondatti’ numbers. However the tone of the movie turns critical means too all of a sudden, leaving the various college-going children within the cinema corridor questioning in the event that they’d walked in to the unsuitable display screen publish intermission.

The writing and transition might have been higher, however then, Aadhi was in all probability slowed down with the a number of tasks he has (he’s in command of manufacturing, course, dialogues, music, lyrics… and appearing). There’s not a single nice appearing second, although there are numerous vibrant characters, together with Prankster Rahul. There may be one dialogue-heavy sequence by which Aadhi talks in regards to the symbolism of the hundiyal that the movie opens with. It’s like these motivational movies that an uncle would possibly ship on the household WhatsApp group; it isn’t the best speech you’d watch, however it’s laborious to disregard.

Sivakumarin Sabadham is presently working in theatres