‘Hitler’ Movie Review: Vijay Antony’s revenge drama is old and generic

A still from ‘Hitler’ Photo credit: Special Arrangements

Vijay Antony is busy with his latest film. While his contemporaries hardly churn out a release or two every year, the music director-turned-actor starred in four films last year and his latest release Hitler 2024 marks his third outing. But the way almost all of them have turned out to be uncomfortable seems like he’s shooting for quantity over quality, and hitler, Unfortunately, the latest addition to that list.

Hitler It has a story as old as the titular dictator It opens with a shot of a group of working women (one of whom, of course, is heavily pregnant) exhausted after a long day’s work, on the bank of a river where a makeshift rope pulls them to one side. Thanks to another incessant rain, the water level is higher than normal and this recipe for disaster unsurprisingly ends in a… disaster.

The film moves quickly to Chennai where Selva (Vijay Antony) roomies with Karukavel (Radin Kinglasi) and like any Indian film hero, falls in love at first sight with a woman he bumps into, quite literally. Simultaneously, Deputy Commissioner Sakthi (Gautam Vasudev Menon) is working on a case involving a murder with identical MOs and they are all linked to politician Rajavelu (Charanraj), who is constantly losing his black money to the killer. As expected, two worlds collide and if you don’t understand how the rest of the film will pan out and who the killer is, you are probably new to the world of Indian cinema and Hitler Actually you might be curious.

HitlerHad it been released decades ago, it would have been a textbook example of a cautionary film. But now, it looks like a remake of multiple cult classics many of us grew up watching, and one of them is the gentlemanWhich, incidentally, also starred Charanraj. Sticking to a familiar template is the least Hitler’s Anxious because it struggles with a lack of skills. There are attempts to break the mold — like a red herring character played by Vivek Prasanna — but they all fall flat and add no value to the painfully predictable plot.

On the upside, the film does a good job of incorporating its female lead into the narrative. Rhea Suman as Sara, Selva’s love interest. After the routine romance-establishing shots, the character is nicely assimilated into the main plot and Rhea does a good job with it. Talking about the performance, Gautham is seen as an honest supercop and is forced to work for a politician. Selva, on the other hand, seems to be written as an enigmatic character, whose interaction style differs depending on who he’s talking to. But whether it comes across convincingly is a different question; Vijay Antony’s overselling of his overzealous nature around his roommates is not convincing.

A still from ‘Hitler’ Photo credit: Special Arrangements

Despite the political background, Hitler It never sinks its teeth into its original concept. While it’s great to see veteran actor Charanraj back in Tamil cinema after a long gap, he plays a one-dimensional politician who makes the most unintentionally funny decisions ever. When the poll predictions don’t go in his favor, he believes that bribing people can turn the tide and to escape the Election Commission’s strict measures, he sends black money through local trains that are cheated. If that’s not crazy enough, instead of realizing the idea of ​​a leaky boat, he does it again, twice (I was kidding), only to lose millions in catching the robber.

Randomly written Hitler Dana’s directorial debut lacks the social narrative Padaibiran Was or heart and passionate its pulse Vanam Kottattumoffered, though the story lends itself well to both qualities. Instead, what we get is a watered-down vigilante that neither surprises nor entertains. The tyrannical dictator Hitler may have made propaganda films to push his sinister agenda, but this Hitler It leaves us wishing we had some agenda to greet us.

Hitler is currently playing in theaters

has been published – Sep 27, 2024 05:44 pm IST