Viduthalai Part 1 movie review: Vetrimaaran film is not for the faint-hearted – Hindustan Times

The movie is narrated from the angle of Kumaresan (Soori), a righteous police constable who will get recruited into the crew that has been on the hunt to seize Perumal aka Vaathiyar – The Mentor (Vijay Sethupathi), the chief of the native separatist group referred to as Makkal Padai (Folks’s Military). Kumaresan joins the pressure with large desires however little does he know that he would spend most of his time doing menial jobs – from delivering meals to each verify put up by the forest to doing tower responsibility at night time. When Kumaresan by chance crosses paths with Vaathiyar and later performs a pivotal function in his seize, his beliefs about what’s proper and fallacious are questioned.

The movie opens with a practice blast and the visuals are simply essentially the most chilling scenes one would’ve seen in Indian cinema lately. Folks’s Military is blamed for the assault which has resulted in 28 deaths and plenty of severely injured. The police division launches operation ‘Ghost Hunt’ to seize Vaathiyar lifeless or alive. Reduce to subsequent shot, we see a bus being frisked at a verify put up and the police shoot down two males (for carrying weapons) in chilly blood once they attempt to flee the scene. In each the scenes, some lives have been taken however the police killings are justified as they develop into newspaper headlines the following day. Viduthalai questions the ethics behind police brutality in essentially the most uncomfortable, unflinching style. The truth that it narrates the story from the angle of an harmless constable makes the expertise extra chilling than one can think about.

The movie unfolds like against the law drama and takes its personal candy time to arrange its world. Aside from throwing the highlight on police brutality, the story additionally discusses the state of politics in Tamil Nadu within the Nineteen Nineties. Soori, who has to date performed comedian roles in his profession, is a really fascinating option to play the central character. He turns into a silent spectator – similar to most of us – to all of the atrocities that occur within the identify of police investigation. He brings out the innocence in addition to helplessness of his character so successfully.

Vetrimaaran makes some very fascinating casting selections. It’s a masterstroke to solid Gautham Vasudev Menon to play a key function. A filmmaker whose movies (prior to now) glorified cop killings now performs a cop in a movie that exposes police brutality in essentially the most hard-hitting style. Vijay Sethupathi as Vaathiyar is a no brainer. Regardless that he makes an prolonged cameo look, he leaves most impression in these scenes. Bhavani Sre is a expertise to be careful for and the function of the ladies, who face the utmost brunt, is what makes Viduthalai disturbing at instances.