Adanga Maru (2018)
5/10
Mid but Watchable
14 November 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Story is somewhat similar to the Hollywood movie 'law abiding citizen '. This movie even has a very similar dialogue to the - 'It's Not What You Know, It's What You Can Prove' from the Hollywood movie.

I found the first 20 minutes to be somewhat cliche and boring. Our hero is portrayed as a police officer who wants to help people but cannot do so as he is under pressure from superiors and has to obey them.

This turns to somewhat vigilante style when a minister's son doesn't respect traffic rules and disrespects the hero. Then our hero tracks down the minister's son and thrashes him without letting him seeing his face. Scene should have ended there But then he proceeds to beat up other people showing his face.

After the 20 min, the main plot starts and the movie is very engaging for almost an hour. Hero arrests sons of very powerful people but can't prove it as evidence video auto deletes from their phone. Then villains kills hero's family for revenge. The entire police department is shown to be supporting villains and hero resigns from the job to take revenge. Then one by one villains are taken care of.

Majority of movie his fellow police officers are shown as corrupt and having a lack of empathy. Even when hero's family dies, they don't show any empathy. But Towards the end of movie the police are suddenly shown as supportive .

After the initial engaging storyline, the movie again turns somewhat cliche. This coupled with some bad acting from villains makes it very boring to watch.

Movie ending shows him back as police but it is also revealed that he continues to kill criminals. Why did he even become police officer again if he just wants to kill people??

I find jayam ravi's character to be somewhat morally lacking. He takes law into his own hands ragularly and this should have been shown as wrong. Atleast in law abiding citizen, Gerard Butler's character dies in the end after he exceeded the moral line but here no repercussions for the hero . He becomes police and continues to kill and lives happily ever after.

I feel like this ending is very distasteful. They should have shown him as an honest cop and that the police department is not afraid of influential people.
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