'Thodari' is a Tamil romantic thriller written and directed by Prabhu Solomon. Dhanush and Keerthy Suresh have done lead roles. The movie is highly anticipated as Dhanush's last release was a tragic failure. After some successful native oriented scripts like 'Mynaa' and 'Kumki', Prabhu Solomon has opted for Travel genre. The movie features Duronto Express that travels from Delhi to Chennai. Lead actor DHanush has done role of Poochiyappan who is pantry worker. He works along with comedy actor Karunakaran and Thambi Ramaiah who is TTR. Keerthi Suresh is make up woman for an actress who also travels in the same train. Radha Ravi is a central minister who is also inside the train. Train gets hijacked and how Dhanush saves all the passengers single handed forms the rest of the story.The movie heavily borrows from Hollywood venture 'Unstoppable'.
As usual Dhanush scores with his performance as Pantry man. The Next Door Boy looks help him a lot and he seems to be serving food in the train. As always and as per rule books, he meets Saroja (Keerthy Suresh) and falls in love at once. He shares his passionate feelings and they fall in love with each other. His counter one-liners are awesome and that pushes the movie a bit. Thambi Ramaiah and Radharavi have given their best performances yet again and that also lifts the movie to a whole new level. We also have supporting cast from Ganesh Venkatraman, Chinni Jayanth and many more. Harish Uttaman is totally annoying. Keerthy Suresh is pretty. But that's it. She is too artificial in romantic scenes. Why is she dressed in rags ? In second half of the movie, Dhanush jumps, fights, romances, runs over train... Uufff...! Please Dhanush kindly avoid such scenes in near future. There's a complete lack of humour, or suspense. The ending is entirely predictable. Rest of the cast don't even make an impact on us. They are just passers by.
Vetrivel Mahendran's Cinematography deserves special mention. His cinematography was exemplary. He catches all expression in point of interest and makes you have a feeling that you are a co-traveler in that train. Cinematography has been phenomenal. Imman composes same tunes and he just changes the vocals. You can do better Imman. Background score should create some goosebumps. Instead it doesn't. Pretty average music. LVK Doss has done a disastrous editing work. Running time of the movie is 167 minutes and most of them in theatre were snoring after a while. Songs were stuffed in unwanted spots. Production values are good. However they are wasted on a shallow story with sluggish screenplay. Art Durectir deserves special mention as he has crafted the interiors of train so beautifully. Nothing much to brag about the rest of the cast.
Cinematography is the only positive aspect and even that fails in second half. All we see is camera gymnastics when Dhanush fights and runs over the train. We don't ultimately care for any of the characters due to the poor script. The concept sound pretty cool, the only problem is that a train never deviates from its track. It makes for the most boring chase scene ever.Nevertheless the script and the dialogs are so poor that they can't rescue this film. The film contains a sequence of unrealistic actions and decisions that most of the times will just make you laugh instead of moving you to the edge of your seat.
