And the brain behind the whole thing is lurking close to home!Īs in last week’s release, Thani Oruvan, Paayum Puli, too, involves a cat-and-mouse game between the protagonist and the antagonist but the trouble with this film is that the actual plot is never allowed to move ahead in full steam as the action keeps making way for romance (a perfunctory, clichéd one where the heroine, Kajal Aggarwal, is reduced to a cutesy creature - a muyalkutty, as a song puts it) and comedy (a running gag on Soori getting beaten up by his wife), and the momentum breaks often, especially in the first half. He succeeds in his mission but the crimes continue. ACP Jayaseelan (Vishal) goes undercover to root out these gangsters. His heartbroken parents commit suicide and the other cops decide that they will avenge Albert’s death by exterminating Bhavani’s entire gang through unofficial encounters. Or, at least, he uses the incident as a jumping-off point for the film’s plot.Īlbert (Harish Uthaman), an idealistic, young cop is murdered for shooting dead the brother of Bhavani, whose gang is behind a series of extortion crimes. The film - despite Suseenthiran denials - seems to be loosely inspired from the real-life murder of sub-inspector T Alwin Sudhan in 2012. Cop films in Tamil cinema generally have no qualms about justifying encounters, turning a blind eye to human rights, and this one, too, is no exception (here, we have the hero saying one can get away with murdering anyone but not a cop!).

Paayum Puli lacks the tautness of Pandiya Naadu, but packs in enough thrills to keep us glued to our seats. Review: As he showed with Naan Mahaan Alla and Pandiya Naadu, Suseenthiran has a flair for giving us engaging action films that are well within the commercial format and still feel fresh in terms of presentation. What the cop doesn’t realise is that the brain behind the crimes is lurking close to home. ACP Jayaseelan exterminates the gang by way of unofficial encounters, but the murders continue. Synopsis: An extortion gang that murders businessmen kills a policeman working on the case.

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