Filed under: Currently Watching | Tags: chicken curry, Currently Watching, Excuse Me Mr. Kanthaswamy, Kanthaswamy, kothu roti, Mexico, movie, Robin Hood, Shreya, song, Tamil, Tamil movie, theatre, Vadivelu, Vikram
Awesome movie. Really long, but I would have sat there all day watching if that’s how long it went just to stare into the bedazzlingly icy dark green contact lensed eyes of Vikram 
Or staring at the landscapes they shot in; by beautiful beaches, deserts, Mexico, especially Chichen Itza, oh my. So very breathtaking. The whole production was made of win.
SPOILERS FOLLOW
Really great easy-to-follow yet not boring plotline. Vikram plays Kanthaswamy, an income tax investigator for the CBI. He is of course awesome at his job. Shreya, who has outdone herself as leading lady, plays the confident minx as Suppalakshmi. The daughter of a billionaire raided and ruined, she sets out to make Kanthaswamy fall in love with her and then sorta…ruin his life. As revenge. Anyways, the banter between them is pretty amusing; I don’t think I’ll get “Excuse Me Mr. Kanthaswamy, oru coffee kudippoam, come with me” out of my head for a longggggg time.
The story deals of course with income tax officer Kanthaswamy’s alter-ego, who is a superhero of sorts. Think Robin Hood-esque in purpose, but with way, way better resources and a small organization rather than a one man show. The state’s (well, the government and a few evil billionaires, really; everyone else think it’s God’s doing) scramble to figure out who is behind the ‘Kanthaswamy’ phenomenon, forms the core of the plot. As serious as it sounds, it’s interspersed with lots of comedy, especially with Vadivelu’s work XD.
But yeah, all in all, excellent. And really comfortable experience since the theatre wasn’t crowded like crazy..it’s been over 2 weeks : D. Oh except for the crazy Tamil guys a few seats away who snuck in of all things to eat, Kothu Roti, still in its container, as well as some chicken curry to put on top XDDD. Hilarity. I almost died laughing.
