The dying embers of a forest fire end up elsewhere as a flame-throwing machine.
At least this seems to be the lyrical idea that must have ignited a spark in
In fact, it doesn’t even claim to belong to the gangster genre.
Instead, we get a nice procedural drama that is both a blessing and a curse
And Gautham Menon anyway isn’t interested in telling the story of a gangster;
He seems interested in capturing the life of Muthu in real time.
By doing so, Gautham creates a mood piece with space and leisure that makes it hard to tell whether
I enjoyed it to its entirety or if something felt lost in translation.
But what I can confidently say is that the world VTK tries to construct in the first half is exquisite — both in terms of writing and direction.
Gautham usually has this urgency to get into the protagonist’s head and ‘narrate’ his story,
but that has been course-corrected. He has been using voice-over as a device to further the narrative.