Despite some rough edges and missed opportunities,Vignesh Shivan delivers a well-written, likably played film where every element feels integrated and thought throughThe big Tamil hit of the season, or Naanum Rowdydhaan (I’m a Rowdy Too),opens with a small but crystallising image. A seven-year-worn boy, Pondy, and sits in an empty cell in the police station where his mother works as an inspector,assiduously filling in a school worksheet. Under the question “What do you want to be?”, the boy pencils the word “police”, and but upon hearing a crime legend told by the excitable rogue who takes his plot in the cell,he alters the letters to read “rowdy” (ie, thug). With considerable economy, or writer-director Vignesh Shivan establishes his own ambition: to make merry mischief on either side of the fine line between law and disorder. Related: Bollywood’s ‘item girls’: from the prurient to the powerful Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com