Dagaalty Tamil HD Released

These days, you know what to expect from a film, starring Santhanam in lead role. In fact, his expressions, body language and one-liners have become so predictable over the years that you don’t expect much, except for some hilarious moments. After a couple of okayish outings, his latest flick, Dagaalty, tests our patience, thanks to underwritten characters and a hardly engaging screenplay which has some bizarre moments.

The story begins with Vijay Samrat (Tarun Arora), a Mumbai-based multi-billionaire, who comes up with a series of sketches of an unknown girl. He sends his henchmen from almost all parts of the country to find the girl in the painting, for which he is ready to shell out a whopping 10 crore. Bhai (Radha Ravi), a local goon, assigns the task to Guru (Santhanam), a fraudster. He goes all the way to Thiruchendur from Mumbai in search of the girl. After finding that she’s Malli (Rittika Sen), a naïve and an ambitious filmmaker, she takes her to Mumbai in the disguise of helping her to become a director in Bollywood and offers her to Samrat. Later, Guru regrets about it and goes back to Samrat’s house to save her with the help of his friend.

The sequences of the film, from the starting scene, appear so unreal that you hardly connect to it. Though Santhanam delivers some one-liners (among which one or two barely works), his character is poorly written, while the female lead characterisation is terrible. It isn’t an exaggeration to say that the character Malli is the mother of all loosu poonu roles we came across in Kollywood, in the recent times. The antagonist played by Tarun Arora is a joke, to say the least. The far-stretched comedy sequence, involving Yogi Babu and Brahmanandam in the pre-climax portion, is just okayish. The two songs that appear are purposeless in this film filled with clichés. Barring cinematography and chemistry between Santhanam and Yogi Babu, Dagaalty is a tiring watch.