Pokkiri - Insipid Moviemaking at its best

Kushi and Gilli have been the only Vijay movies I have watched in the last 6-7 years (that should tell you how big a fan of his movies I have been) and reading about all the bad movies he has been casting himself in year in and year out, I wasn't really very much interested in going to this movie when I heard about its screening here. But finally had to go under my friends’ compulsion and I have to say that I did carry a very faint hope that may be Vijay has changed his ways. My first reaction mid-way through the movie - I have done myself a world of good by opting not to watch any Vijay movies all these years. This guy has not really changed much, as far as selection of story & scripts go. Man, the movie was just a big joke. If the only scene that you can recall from a movie after watching it, is a comedy scene involving Vadivelu, then there is something wrong with the movie. I can't believe that Prabhu Deva can come up with such a pathetic screenplay. The final 30 minutes were a torture to sit through. Prabhu Deva has made sure that every actor in the movie is wasted as much as possible. Watching Nasser and Prakash Raj doing the roles they did, was plain embarrassing. As we all know, Chandramukhi has this famous Enna kodumai Saravanan idhu moment. The reason I am mentioning it here is bcos this movie had so many such moments that it will be a futile attempt listing all of them.

Asin's role should have been the most confusing role she has ever done. The romantic portions were too idiotic to even write about it. The only thing I was looking forward to in the movie was to see how the Vijay - Prabhu Deva combo had done in the dance choreography department. Even there, it was a huge let-down. Except for the opening song, none of the songs were even close to being called impressive. Another thing I don’t understand is why in the world Vijay took close to a year to do a movie like this. Bcos the last time I read, he was supposedly looking for a good script. Though Vadivelu's comedy evoked a few laughs, couple of them were done in clearly bad taste and it only added to the discomfort of the movie-goer, who were already being fed with too much violence, straight out of a Telugu movie. The inspector role comes to my mind readily. There are so many ways that a director can make the audience dislike a particular character but Prabhu Deva chooses the most disgusting way of all.

There were 2 stand out comedy scenes from the movie:

1) Suttrum vizhi chudare sequence by Vadivelu – the entire audience went into uncontrollable laughter during this scene.
2) When Vijay is revealed as the undercover IPS officer (Oops…I have revealed the ‘unpredictable twist’ in the story). That was easily the biggest comedy scene (even better than the previous scene) in the movie which duly brought in a lot of catcalls from the audience.

One sincere request to Vijay - please do not try wearing the police officer dress. You look totally out of place like a clown (more like a watchman). On the whole, a completely forgettable & must-avoid movie and if you any of reading this haven’t seen the movie so far, please do not venture near the theater. You have been sufficiently warned. As for me, I have learnt my lesson. This will be the last Vijay film I would be seeing.