CHEKKA CHIVANTHA VAANAM (Tamil) - An above average gangster movie with a cracker twist, that could have resulted in a great suspense family drama. (Review By Bobby Sing)

One of the pioneer directors making iconic movies on gangsters, Mani Ratnam returns to this overused genre with a multi-starrer film and yet again misses the bull’s eye despite a cracker, novel twist in the script.

A pro in handling many stars together giving them equal screen presence and importance, Ratnam appreciably finds a script doing justice with all and delivers a decent gangster movie that could have been an unusual family drama rising much above the rotten and familiar genre. As a commercial crime thriller featuring stars as Arvind Swami, Arun Vijay, STR playing the three young successors of an influential don Prakash Raj along with Vijay Sethupathi as a suspended police officer, CHEKKA CHIVANTHA VAANAM offers everything you expect from such star-studded venture in its opening 30 minutes. The energetic introductions, the spellbinding action and the stars’ scenes together strongly deliver the entertainment even if nothing novel or fresh is there in the concept or storytelling.