Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu (2009)


Come to think of it, expectations from a sports movie are not that high. It's usually about the village guy journey from obscurity and failure to being recognised, appreciated and feted. It all ends in a nailbiting climax.Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu follows the same premise but this time its about a team as a whole .

Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu is set in a village near Pazhani where the kabadi team which is ambitious and daring but they are far off from Victory always.Mari who is a farm servant also mingles with the team but doesn’t get the place in the team.Mari falls in love with a Girl who comes to watch Festival in the village.They love each other but get separated as the girl has to leave the village after the festival.Mari decides to wait for her.Meanwhile the Mari gets in to the Kabadi team and the team by luck participates in state level tournament due to help of Proffessional coach Kishore.How things turn up for the team and how the girl reaches Mari is the rest of the movie.

Its good to see a movie on the ethnic sport of Tamil Nadu,Kabadi is in the blood of the Village people of Tamil Nadu and the feel of the winning moments of Kabadi is well brought up by the director Sushidharan.Kabadi is regarded as a masculine art than a sport in this part of the world needs fresh faces and its well assembled in the movie.Movie works in a way for the fresh faces they had brought in. Void of heroism Tamil film is pleasant to watch .

Some times we get the boredom of the Madurai side story and the same typical love story .I don’t know how much love story does Madurai still have? Some parts of the movie looks normal due to normal scenes in the first part of the movie.It didn’t work I would say.The scenes shot in Pazhani should have even more sharper and funny than it is.Director had missed a super hit because of this.

Kishore had delivered a splendid display of maturity as the coach with rustic and stern coach .His dialogues blended with Tirunelveli slang is enjoyable.Vishnu as Marimuthu is good to watch.There are characters who can make fun with their typical village humour.

What works in this movie is the execution of the plot.It never wanted to go overboard and it didn’t want to cross the limits of the underdog.It underplays and it had given intensity to the movie,thrilling climax and the climax looks believable.But the climax is something which we wont expect in these kind of movie and it ends like a sad poetry.

Rating : ** 1/2

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