Talking to reporters at her office in the BMC headquarters, Pednekar suggested that citizens wear triple-layer masks while travelling in public buses and local trainsĭelhi adds 5,481 new COVID-19 cases, highest daily rise since 16 May positivity rate at 8.37% Lockdown likely in Mumbai if daily COVID-19 cases cross 20,000, says Mayor Kishori Pednekar Modi's rally in Punjab assumes significance as the state is headed for Assembly polls, and the BJP has joined hands with former CM Amarinder Singh and the Akali faction headed by Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa to take on Congress PM in Punjab tomorrow: Narendra Modi to inaugurate development projects worth over Rs 42,000 crore Technically the film is quite good Yuvan Shankar Raja’s music is in sync with the theme along with Sukumar’s cinematography.ĭharma Durai is a feel good family entertainer that works to a large extent due to Vijay Sethupathi, an actor of substance. Among the three heroines it is Aishwarya Rajesh ( Kaaka Muttai fame) who steals the show, while Tamannaah just does not fit the bill. Radhika as his mother is brilliant, she brings out the anguish and pain in the character in a touching manner. What works for the film is a riveting performance by Vijay Sethupathi, especially the early scenes at his home. The film moves at a leisurely pace and loses its fizz with an all is well that ends well, but abrupt climax. The plot twists are all commercial and at times too far-fetched. The story is wafer thin and there are too many coincidences in the narration.
Why Dharma become an alcoholic is told through a flashback, and how he meets his old friend’s forms the rest of the story. He goes back to his alma mater, Madurai Medical College in search of his close friends Stella (Srushti Dange) who was in love with him and her best friend Subashini (Tamannaah Bhatia) who had a crush on him. But his mother Pandiyamma (Radhika Sharatkumar) dotes on him and at a crucial moment helps him to escape from the clutches of his brothers who were planning to silence him.ĭharma runs away unknowingly with a bag full of money, which the family had kept to settle business deals. Dharma Durai (Vijay Sethupathi) is an alcoholic and an embarrassment to his three brothers who run the family chit fund business. The story is set in a village near Madurai. Ramasamy has made it work as the film is about the goodness in people and the mistakes they make, told as a commercial entertainer.
The director and actor have now come together for the third time with the 2016 Dharma Durai, which is a feel good family entertainer largely driven by the performance by Vijay Sethupathi. It was Seenu Ramasamy who introduced Sethupathi as hero in Thenmerku Paruvakaatru, the 2010 film that went on to win national awards for Saranya Ponvannan and Vairamuthu. However, by the time Dharmadurai retraces his steps trying to find Stella and Subhashini, much water has flowed under the bridge.The poster for Dharma Durai. Pushed to the wall, the brothers plot a murderous revenge, but Dharmadurai, tipped off by the mother, escapes into a flashback mode - where we learn about his life in a medical college in Madurai and his two girl friends, played by Tamaannaah (as Subhashini) and Srushti Dange (as Stella).
Read: Wagah review | A tottering script blanketed in hyperboleĭharmadurai has been scripted well and does away with melodrama which makes it appealing. He never loses an opportunity to shame his brothers in the village where they live, and where Dharmadurai had once practised medicine. But Dharmadurai is a restless drunk, is not at peace with the world, having been wronged by his family that demolishes his dream of marrying a simple village girl, Anbuselvi (a fine piece of acting by Aishwarya Rajesh of the Kaaka Muttai fame). But it is a film that has been scripted with subtlety and helmed without the melodramatic - which Tamil cinema is notoriously renowned for.Īnd helping the narrative have been some performances - with Radhika Sarathkumar as the protagonist, Dharmadurai’s (essayed by Vijay Sethupathi, a Ramasamy favourite) mother portraying a harried woman trying to keep together her large family of four sons, a couple of daughters-in-law and a little niece. Seenu Ramasamy’s Dharmadurai may appear too simplistic in today’s complex world of intrigue and perfidy, may even been lambasted for veering towards the coincidental.Even a trifle preachy in parts. Cast: Vijay Sethupathi, Tamannaah, Aishwarya Rajesh, Srushti Dange, Radhika Sarathkumar