Parthiban is a mild-mannered cafe owner in Kashmir, who fends off a gang of murderous thugs and gains attention from a drug cartel claiming he was once a part of them.Parthiban is a mild-mannered cafe owner in Kashmir, who fends off a gang of murderous thugs and gains attention from a drug cartel claiming he was once a part of them.Parthiban is a mild-mannered cafe owner in Kashmir, who fends off a gang of murderous thugs and gains attention from a drug cartel claiming he was once a part of them.
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- 4 nominations
Kamal Haasan
- Agent Vikram
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- TriviaThis film is heavily inspired by the classic graphic novel "A History of Violence".
- GoofsWhile Parthiban is dropping Siddhu to school, he gets the call from Joshy to tame the hyena, he makes Siddhu promise to not tell his mother he was late and then they both go to tame the hyena, but after taming the hyena Parthiban just goes home and Siddhu just magically teleports to school while also leaving the car behind.
- Alternate versionsThe UK release was cut, the distributor chose to make cuts to scenes of strong bloody violence in order to obtain a 15 classification. An uncut 18 classification was available.
- ConnectionsFeatures Polladhavan (1980)
- SoundtracksBloody Sweet
Music by Anirudh Ravichander
Lyrics by Heisenberg
Performed by Anirudh Ravichander, Siddharth Basrur
Featured review
I swear, I'm not on Molly.
This film is nuts. It opens with the owner of the largest coffee shop in Himachal Pradesh fighting a hyena (which he later tames), features more brutality than most Western action films, completely dispenses with logic and physics, and still finds time to include a musical routine with hundreds of dancers. In addition to the CGI hyena, we also get a hilariously bad CGI horse and a dreadful CGI eagle. Oh, and the hero is a murderous ex-drug-dealer who has been lying to his wife for twenty years.
Joseph Vijay plays Parthiban, whose life as husband, father and coffee shop proprietor is thrown into disarray when he shoots dead five vicious criminals who threaten his daughter's life. Hitting the news, Parthiban comes to the attention of crime-lord Antony Das (Sanjay Dutt), who is convinced that the man is his son Leo, who he had believed to be dead. Das tried to kill Leo as part of a sacrificial ritual to guarantee success, and now he wants to try again...
Don't go into this one expecting realism - that goes out the window with the hyena in the first scene; Leo is utterly ridiculous and requires suspension of disbelief from the outset. The plot is derivative (similar to graphic novel A History of Violence) and the script is laughable at times, but if over-the-top action with stereotypical characters and lashings of brutality is what you're after, then the film should satisfy. I certainly had a good time with all of the silliness (the motorcycle/car chase is just crazy) but feel like the film started to run out of steam a bit towards the end, stretching out the whole 'Is he Leo or isn't he?' thing a bit too long.
6/10. Worth seeing for Vijay's huge hair and the terrible songs on the soundtrack (I'm Scared had me creased up).
Joseph Vijay plays Parthiban, whose life as husband, father and coffee shop proprietor is thrown into disarray when he shoots dead five vicious criminals who threaten his daughter's life. Hitting the news, Parthiban comes to the attention of crime-lord Antony Das (Sanjay Dutt), who is convinced that the man is his son Leo, who he had believed to be dead. Das tried to kill Leo as part of a sacrificial ritual to guarantee success, and now he wants to try again...
Don't go into this one expecting realism - that goes out the window with the hyena in the first scene; Leo is utterly ridiculous and requires suspension of disbelief from the outset. The plot is derivative (similar to graphic novel A History of Violence) and the script is laughable at times, but if over-the-top action with stereotypical characters and lashings of brutality is what you're after, then the film should satisfy. I certainly had a good time with all of the silliness (the motorcycle/car chase is just crazy) but feel like the film started to run out of steam a bit towards the end, stretching out the whole 'Is he Leo or isn't he?' thing a bit too long.
6/10. Worth seeing for Vijay's huge hair and the terrible songs on the soundtrack (I'm Scared had me creased up).
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- Gross worldwide
- $6,978,436
- Runtime2 hours 44 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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