Surangani!

You can separate the Tam from the mokkai-land, but you will never.... maind it... never! take the mokkai out of the Tam! You will know a true Tam, by the way, from the incomparable enjoyment that comes out of taking the piss out of a soliad movie, and few movies have ever given me as much pleasure as Vijay's fiftieth venture, Sura.

Honestly, you've to give it to us, noone else could make a movie about fisherman displacement QUITE this funny. It's hard to get the image of Baywatch-type sequences of villagers running in slow-mo out your mind (and they do that about fourteen times in the movie, this is a very excitable crowd that runs towards Vijay to protect them from fire, rain; hell, the guy's practically Captain Planet). Suffice to say the comedy sequence involving Vadivelu (it was his fifty thousandth movie and he's no closer to being funny) was the most serious thing in the movie.

The Sindhi cow's put on weight, which also added to my viewing pleasure - I love nothing more than when thin women grow fat, it seems like karmic justice. Clearly the costume designer thinks like me because she put Tamanna in belly-baring outfits through the movie and put Vadivel's pregnant stomach in the exact same outfits a few scenes down. There's this sequence when vijay taps her ass (seriously, it's a dance move) that was particularly 'jolly, jolly.' Yes, those are actual lyrics from a song in the movie. The tunes are ripped off straight from sundry jolly Hindi padams, like De Taali, in case you were curious.

Even Tamil side-dancers draw a line somewhere, which maybe explains why so many Africans and Americans suddenly jump around in the movie's dance sequences... outsourcing, much? It's especially enjoyable when you have these forens dancing around in front of a temple at a village fair - no wonder the village went up in flames, if I was Aandal, I would've done the exact same thing too. The villain was probably subjected to a painful death because of his incomprehensible inability to lip-sync... he can't even yell 'ARRRRRGH' in time with the dubbing, and that was with everyone in the audience yelling it with him, for crying out loud. It was too bad Tamanna didn't die. That would have really made this movie the best thing I watched all year.

And may I just say, few movies' dialogues have made me wish I'd written them... but naan adicha adi, nee idicha idi... woah, baby. Also, naan pura illa da, sura. Give me my thaali, my life is jolly jolly. And... oh never mind, I can't even begin to do this movie justice... RUN! Watch it! Before it exits theaters, as I fear it soon will, because I doubt people enjoy bad cinema quite as much as I do.

PS: Question: How do you know a serious Tamil movie from a seriously funny one? Answer: From the summa adhirudhu illa effect of the camera in the seriously funny ones - this movie in particular nearly made me sea sick from all the camera shakes. Step aside Rambha honey, Tam cinematographers are out to give you competition.