Takkar review: Siddharth’s film mistakes silliness for humour, pretentiousness for style – The Indian Express

One of many evergreen meet-cutes from Tamil cinema is from Vijay-Jyotika’s Khushi. The 2 are in a temple watching a physically-challenged lady gentle an oil lamp, which begins to flicker within the wind as soon as she leaves. Each Vijay and Jyotika rush to avoid wasting the dying gentle, and their eyes meet. In Takkar, the primary assembly of Gunashekar (Siddharth) and Mahalakshmi (Divyansha) additionally entails a symbolic fireplace. However right here the fireplace is from a cigarette lighter that the hero has. As he’s about to gentle his cigarette, Mahalakshmi, ‘Fortunate’ for brief as a result of she is cool that method, comes out of nowhere to gentle her smoke. Guna is spellbound, however Fortunate walks previous him with an ‘angle’. Director Karthick G Krishna’s Takkar is a type of outdated movies the place a lady smoking a cigarette is meant to be trendy. To make her look ‘even cooler’, the director makes her smoke a joint. Such a shallow depiction of modernity is omnipresent on this movie that errors pretentiousness for type.

Gunasekar leaves his village for Chennai within the hope of getting wealthy rapidly. He doesn’t need to die poor like his dad and grandfather. He can’t personal a luxurious automotive so he finally ends up changing into the motive force in a luxurious taxi service, which provide solely Mercedes Benz vehicles. Nevertheless, issues don’t go his method and he’s oft reminded about how he can’t change his monetary standing by strolling the straight and slim. Therefore, when a chance reveals up, he transforms into Jason Satham’s Transporter and even drives a automotive a la Statham to assist two human traffickers in lieu of cash. He’s not as intelligent because the Transporter and will get conned by the abductors and is left bruised. After plenty of contrivances and unhealthy writing, we discover the hero and heroine eloping in a automotive with gangsters on their tails. They strike a cope with one another to unravel their respective issues, however the inevitable Cupid strikes.

The overarching downside with Takkar is its wannabe nature; even the set design reeks of it. The mansion room of the struggling hero is adorned with a flowery bookshelf and decor. The sight of him preparing on this bachelor’s mansion and the luxurious automotive parked exterior of it isn’t simply incongruous however humorous. The depiction of the villains who’re presupposed to belong to a sketchy neighbourhood is equally facile and foolish. Because the hero drives by means of the road, we get to see ladies and children getting kidnapped within the background prefer it’s no person’s enterprise. The boys are all darkish in complexion with lengthy hair and beard… you get the drift. And again to Fortunate. On prime of being trendy, she can be Thara native as a result of she dances to Tamil kuthu songs. Be it the daddy of Fortunate, who’s forcing her daughter to marry a wealthy bridegroom or the Asian boss of Guna, who’s known as ‘Gurkha pasanga’ by trendy Fortunate, individuals inhabiting this universe are nowhere near being actual. They’re stereotypes, simply as cliched because the movie’s flimsy one-line story: A wealthy lady meets a poor boy and learns about life. The poor boy learns cash just isn’t every part due to the wealthy lady. And we be taught that Siddharth has made a mistake.

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