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Settai Review
- 4/6/2013 2:29:48 PM
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Cast: Arya, Santhanam, Premgi, Anjali, Hansika, NasserDirection: R KannanGenre: ComedyDuration: 2 hours 10 minutes
Synopsis: Three friends get embroiled with a mafia gang after Nakki's stool sample gets mixed up with the gang's diamonds package...
Movie Review: Going by last week's Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga and now, Settai, Tamil filmmakers seem to have resigned themselves to pandering to the gallery in the hope of getting more butts on the seats in the theatres. Both are comedies but what really unifies them is how unambitious and crowd-pleasing they are.
It all begins when Madhu ( Hansika) picks up a mysterious package and sweet-talks her lover JK into delivering it. But his roommate Cheenu wrongly delivers their friend Nakki's stool sample (his bowels have turned to water, thanks to a devilish Ileana Chicken) to the mafia boss (Nasser). Now, with the gang hot on their heels, the three friends, enlist the help of fellow journalist Shakthi and try to get out of this literally shitty business.
Settai, a remake of Delhi Belly, more or less manages to duplicate the glorious scatological humour of its source, though only this remains its chief success. Delhi Belly was a straightforward story based on the classic 'accidental switch' plot. For the Tamil version ("adaptation", as the makers prefer to term it), director Kannan has replaced the edginess of the original, characterized by its irreverence, presentation of modern-day relationships,
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