![]() In order to gaze upon his beloved Karthika ( Keerthy Suresh), Raj cobbles together a phoney tea-shop opposite her home – and, against all expectation, makes a success of this utterly impromptu, half-arsed venture. No, it’s not subtle, but for an apparently simple slacker comedy, it’s working hard to entertain us, sustained by the kind of clever structuring idea the Tamil cinema now specialises in. A funeral ceremony unravels when the deceased rises from the dais an aged bureaucrat gabbles so intently at a public meeting that his false teeth fly out. This style can try the patience over two hours at two-and-a-half, you might think Rajini doomed, but Ponram has a secret comic weapon: a hyper-frenetic approach that extends from the leading man’s machine-gun delivery to his agitated back-and-forths with best bud Thotathree (Soori) and beyond. ![]() Recounting our hero’s misadventures involves a measure of sketchiness: western viewers may be reminded of any number of showcases for Saturday Night Live comics, a similarity underlined by the script’s copious in-jokes and leftfield references.
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