Still there is something satisfying about watching evil men die in increasingly gory and gruesome ways. We really need to get more creative about hurling filthy epithets at rapists that don’t drag in their mommies.
It was there in the way they held the weapons (gingerly) as if they were scared they would actually hurt themselves with the bloody things, a certain sense of inhibition when it came to body language… It was all most unimpressive.Īnd I really wish the worst expletive directed at a man in all languages doesn’t involve impugning the virtue of his mother. Selvaraghavan was not bad but neither of them were convincing as people capable of inflicting great violence on others. Keerthi Suresh is earnest and strains a lot of facial muscles but she lacks depth and I got really bored with the same deathly stare she trots out at regular intervals throughout the film. The performances are nothing to write home about either. The writing is weak, characters are unidimensional and the killing is repetitive, utterly lacking in imagination and mostly bland. Saani Kaayidham is the Tamil version of I Spit on Your Grave, made with more honourable intentions and better craft. You can read the rest of the review here:
And the film is divided into chapters with quirky titles. There are scenes about time and wristwatches. There’s a brother-sister angle, a little girl angle. I said that the story and characters are generic, and the premise was just this: You killed someone from my family and now I’m going to take revenge. I said that after a point the violence becomes repetitive and it begins to look like action scenes or violence for the sake of action scenes and violence. I said that the film’s USP was the gorgeously designed and utterly unapologetic violence. When I saw Arun Matheswaran’s first film, Rocky, I said that the narrative was generic, but the film signalled the arrival of a genuine cinematic voice. Stripped of makeup, Keerthy Suresh dives into a difficult role. The main attraction of the film is the cast.