‘Thalaivar Thambi Thalaimaiyil’ movie review: A superb Jiiva lights up Nithish Sahadev’s firecracker comedy

One man’s sanity is different man’s circus. Wonder who said this? The huffy antheral who conscionable had a large clip astatine the theatres connected a Pongal time watching Falimy-director Nithish Sahadev’s highly satisfying Tamil debut Thalaivar Thambi Thalaimaiyil (TTT).

The spark that lights this rapid-fire cracker of a drama lies successful the matchstick that a mentally unstable antheral holds arsenic helium locks himself successful his uncle’s location and attempts to pain it down. When Jeeva (Jiiva) rescues him, the erstwhile asks him 1 elemental question that hums beneath the aboveground of this fantastic comedy: “Am I a bully feline oregon a madman?”

And successful TTT, each azygous quality does thing that borders connected absurdity, and this proves to beryllium the drama golden excavation that Nithish spends successful this two-hour taut acheronian comedy. Take, for instance, the quality of Ilavarasu; helium is expected to beryllium doing a cardinal things connected the nighttime earlier his girl Sowmya’s (Prathana Nathan) wedding. Instead, erstwhile the quality comes that his aged neighbour has died inauspiciously, helium spirals and begins to impeach the deceased’s son, his arch-enemy, of having killed his begetter to disrupt the wedding.

What would you accidental astir Mani (Thambi Ramaiah), the antheral who wouldn’t adjacent provender medicine to his bedridden begetter Chellappa, but present claims immoderate newfound affection for him aft his death, due to the fact that it provides him with an accidental to onslaught Ilavarasu’s ego? He declares that helium would clasp a expansive ceremonial procession for his begetter the pursuing time astatine 10:30 AM, the aforesaid clip arsenic the muhurtham adjacent door.

Stuck betwixt these 2 unhinged families is the Panchayat President, Jeeva Rathinam, who vows to preside implicit some the ceremonies and benignant retired the issue, 1 that lone seems to propulsion him into the ungraded each measurement of the way.

The brilliance of Nithish’s script, archetypal and neatly structured, comes from however helium populates the satellite with galore colourful characters, who each wreak havoc successful the already chaotic situation, oregon go victims of the same, similar Kanniyappan, the groom, and his family, who person nary thought what’s awaiting them astatine the bride’s house.

With each hurdle Jeeva escapes, you already statesman to expect what the different set-ups successful the crippled mightiness person successful store, similar Thavidu Moorthi (Jensen Dhivakar is awesome arsenic always), Jeeva’s rival from the absorption party, whose lone purpose is to airy a caller lucifer whenever the quarrel seems to get quiet. You besides statesman to wonderment what Chellappa’s brothers, a trio of hardened criminals, program to do. Then what astir the ‘one-sided lover’ who persistently follows the bride Sowmya? When is helium going to make trouble?

Even successful his archetypal film, Falimy, Nithish took a hilarious plaything astatine these leeches who assertion to beryllium successful emotion and unrecorded successful their ain delusional world. Here, erstwhile the stalker harasses Sowmya, it is her absorption and the consequent consequences of that detonation that pivot the movie further into the absurd.

Nithish displays an exceptional quality to make casual chuckles retired of the mean astir each 5 minutes. Like a infinitesimal erstwhile Jeeva casually escorts a troublesome antheral retired of a speech and closes the doorway connected him truthful nonchalantly. Or the destiny of a banana seller who regrets asking for a assistance from Jeeva. Or erstwhile a mates of oppari grannies stumble into the wedding ceremonial alternatively of the ceremonial adjacent door. Or thing arsenic elemental arsenic a antheral jumping into a pit. Even a tiny canine gets its infinitesimal to ace you up.

But that’s not all. What makes TTT a memorable outing is each that it does beyond the laughs. This is simply a movie with its bosom successful the close place. The sub–plot astir the panchayat h2o vessel that oversees the 2 houses says truthful overmuch much than a full movie that speaks astir the taxable could have.

One feels elated for Jiiva; this light-hearted and breezy relation brings distant the performer successful him and makes him much likeable than astir films helium has done successful the past fewer years. Meanwhile, composer Vishnu Vijay, known for scoring euphony for films specified arsenic Thallumaala, Falimy, Premalu and Alappuzha Gymkhana, helps acceptable the bushed to Nithish’s chaotic world.

For a agelong time, a Malayalam-esque film, astatine slightest connected Tamil popular culture, automatically seemed to constituent astatine an artsy slow-burner. With much titles similar TTT in some languages, that conception is bound to get dismantled. While determination person been akin attempts astatine drama successful Tamil recently, they person each inadvertently veered towards nonstop societal messaging; here, Nithin places his bets connected the subtext to bash its job, arsenic each bully films do.

Thalaivar Thambi Thalaimaiyil is precisely the benignant of grounded dramedy that Tamil cinema fans who ticker Malayalam films person yearned for. Now let’s anticipation that much actors and producers spot worth successful pursuing specified gems, and possibly this mightiness beryllium the commencement of a steadfast inclination of Malayalam-esque Tamil films — that is ne'er a incorrect happening to aspire for.

Thalaivar Thambi Thalaimaiyil is presently moving successful theatres