When I read the review of this movie this morning, 3 things lured me to watch it on the same day:

1. Lot of blood and gore

2. A ton of offensive dialogues and explicit language

3. The neo-noir nature of the movie

Don’t get me wrong.... I view these as measures of how bold and blunt our directors can be when it comes to narrating a so called "realistic script" and I was also sceptical that a movie of such nature might be pulled off after a show or two.

Well, after watching the movie in a multiplex with just 2 guys (I am one among the 2 in the entire hall), I take a bow before the debut director Thiagarajan Kumararaja and producer SPB Charan for having some solid guts to shape this up into a classy and stylish masterpiece.

Gangster movies always have some reality with bad henchmen from North Chennai doing the honours... this movie is no different; the bad men in the movie are "super bad" and it’s like being caught in a fight between the devil and the demon.

What makes the story work to a large extent is the narration which is intertwined with some impulsive elements of surprise wherever needed.

I should say that the director has a passion for dark humour. He has handled it with panache to cover up the vulnerable parts of the story which might have been a little ordinary without it.

Again, here is a classic example of yet another story emerging as a winner where casting and characterization are the protagonists:

Jackie Shroff, though rusty, blends well with the story as the ageing gang leader.

Sampath has got yet another conducive pitch to reiterate the fact that he is an actor of substance

Yasmin Ponnappa, a surprise package, perfectly camouflaged in a role which might have spilt the beans earlier

Debutants Somasundaram and Master Vasanth, have lived their roles as father and son

Ravi Krishna, a brilliant comeback after a hiatus - well done

Another hero of the movie is the BGM - a novel aspect that caught my attention was the way in which the day-to-day phenomenon like the FM Radio songs were used for conveying the subtleness of various context in the movie. Also Yuvan has used a really classy music which I'm sure he would have lifted off from some world movie.

This movie is for connoisseurs who have a liking towards realistic genre of movies and who would love to trace the path less travelled.

Beware of the bad language, explicit blood and gore scenes used in the movie, even after getting 53 cuts and held up by the regional censor board for more than 2 years.

Verdict:  F***ing Good.