Review: Mappillai

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Actors: Dhanush, Hansika, Vivek & Manisha Koirala
Director: Suraaj

Pavithra Srinivasan reviews : If you think the worst of me, I'll turn out to be a good man. But if you think I'm a good man -- then I'll be the worst you'll see."

This is a sample of the kind of punch lines that Sun Pictures' Mappillai (Son-in-law) abounds in.

The film is a re-worked version of the 1989 Rajnikanth  blockbuster. This time, the masala-maker is Padikkadhavan's Suraaj, who has roped in his lucky charm Dhanush for some good old-fashioned spicy stuff to set the summer box office cash registers ringing.

So does it, in fact, work magic on the silver-screen? That remains to be seen.

This version of Mappillai has better production values than the older hit, and retains much of the original characters and their tussles. You have got the mandatory hero, Saravanan (Dhanush) a guy so good he's held as an example to all the 'youth' in the area, like Child Chinna (Vivek). Of course, he has a 'past' in Kumbakonam as well.

Then there's the pretty, chubby heroine Gayathri (debutante Hansika Motwani , with whom he falls in love in double-quick fashion after plenty of silly sequences. And finally, the last part of the triumvirate and the hero's nemesis: Rajeswari (Manisha Koirala , the mother-in-law who almost foils her son-in-law's plans to dominate her.

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