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Purampokku Engira Podhuvudamai Movie Review
- 5/18/2015 6:39:40 PM
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Cast: Arya, Shaam, Vijay Sethupathi, Karthika.Direction: SP Jhananathan.Genre: Thriller.Duration: 2 hours 40 minutes
Synopsis: A revolutionary is sentenced to death for his anti-national activities. And so begins a battle of wits between the prison officer and his comrades, who try to rescue him with the help of the reluctant hangman who has been selected to carry out the punishment.
Movie Review: Many a director would have chosen to make Purampokku Engira Podhuvudamai as a prison break movie that along its way touches upon debatable issues like communism, capitalism and death penalty. But SP Jhananathan has other ideas as he turns Purampokku into a call for discussion on these topics without making the film overtly preachy. That the director has managed to achieve this without making comprises for the sake of censors is quite a feat.
His protagonist is Balusamy (Arya), a young man with communist ideology, who, at the start of the film receives the death penalty for what the government considers anti-social activities. But for Balu, his crimes were a service to the society and a protest against rampant privatization and the country becoming a dumping ground for wastes from developed nations. Meanwhile, the prison officer, Macaulay (subtlety is not the film's strength), is someone who believes in the State and deems it his duty to uphold what the law and the constitution say.
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