Overall, Petta is a satisfying watch. The Director Karthik Subbaraj is overwhelmed with the response that the film has received.
But the movie is engaging as it has superstar Rajinikanth and this film is his most reasonable movie in recent past. Petta is way too long at 2 hours 52 minutes. N4ZpDLsbvqīesides Rajinikanth, Anirudh Ravichander’s music is the second hero of the film. Good going will be the first to touch 1 Million among all South Indian releases. #Petta Opens Big in #USA ? Pre-sales Of Premiere Shows crosses Fans are crazy about him, two of his fans even got married today at the woodland theatre, Chennai. Rajinikanth is no less than a God to his fans. In a tweet, trade analyst Shree Pillai has stated that the pre-sells of Petta premier shows in the United States have crossed $250,000. There is a solid supporting of Vijay Sethupati and Nawazuddin which adds attraction to film. Simran in the film plays as a decorative romantic counterpart of Rajini. It has both pluses and minuses.The First half of the movie is Light and breezy with Rajinikanth’s good comic one-liners and his energetic body language. ‘Petta’ is like revisiting much-loved ‘Baasha’. The dragging second half has killed the mood of fun setting in the first half. Director Karthik Subbaraju brings back Rajinikanth’s old tricks, entertainment. Editing should have been tighter.īottom-line: ‘Petta’ is mixed bag, with highly entertaining first half and some good moments in the second half but it mostly wobbles post-interval. On the 100th day celebration, we’re planning to. Background score has elevated the narration. The dust has settled, and Praveen and his team have now designed the miniature version of 3.0, the tiny robot from the recently-released 2.0. The film has good cinematography by Thiru. When everyone is thinking that the era of Rajinikanth has ended, he remarks: “Naa Pani Aipoindi Anukuntunnara? (You think that my game is over)”Īmong other actors, Nawazuddin and Sasikumar are okay. He seems to have had much fun while doing this film. Of the performances, it is Rajinikanth’s show. The female lead (Trisha and Simran) have no substance. Other issue is that the film is too long and the villain character played (Nawazuddin) is not that villainy, he looks too weak for Rajinikanth. But Vijay Sethupati’s role gets more space than required thus derailing the narration. Vijay Sethupati plays the role of a party karyakartha that does all these. The film also criticizes the ‘Bajrang Dal’ activities like forced ‘V-Day’ shaadis and BJP’s culture-policing in sly manner. But Rajinikanth later tells that smoking is not good for health. He makes Rajinikanth do some comedy, walk in stylish way, do some other old tricks, even makes him light a cigarette (of late he has been refraining from smoking on screen). Also he brings back the entertaining Rajinikanth. What Karthik Subbaraju has done is here: presenting Rajinikanth in most stylistic way and re-introducing Rajinisms. There are also other references of old Rajinikanth movies like the name of Kaali, his early old hit. Even some characters in the film Malik (Sasikumar) are straight out of ‘Baasha’. The Kaali here has the past to be revealed. This is Karthik Subbaraju’s way of leaving hints that this is new kind of ‘Baasha’. To this, Rajini says she must be having prophetic qualities. When Rajinikanth goes to meet Simran, she says that he must be seething to take revenge. To this, Rajinikanth laughs off and says he’s smart guy. In the very beginning when Kaali aka Rajinikanth joins the college hostel, a mess supplier tells him he must be hiding for a reason here. Karthik Subbaraju doesn’t hide the fact that he is reinventing ‘Baasha’. ‘Petta’ is nothing but remix of Rajinikanth’s iconic commercial hit ‘Baasha’ (1995), but it has new style, and has stamp of director Karthik Subbaraju’s brand of visual style and technical gloss. Kaali reveals his real identity, the Veera Petta of Vizag.įirst things first.
He is waiting for Simhachalam aka Singh (Nawazuddin Siddique) to attack on him. Behind his playful mask, there is a story hidden. And tries to woo a single mother Mangala (Simran). He plays cupid to a young couple and sets the bad boys right. The college hostel is situated in a hill-station in North India. Kaali (Rajinikanth) lands in a hostel as warden.