Thiruda Thiruda (1993)
An Inspector is assigned to track down a large sum of stolen money. His investigations lead him to a couple of small time crooks, a village belle, a murder, an absconding suspect, and an international drug dealer.
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This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
This movie needs to be praised for its technical brilliance and camera work, which is way ahead of its time. Exotic locations and the music makes it a better experience. The light hearted humor and some thrilling elements makes it a good watch. This movie gradually achieved a cult status and is considered to be a pathbreaking road film, which explains why the movie did not do well at the box office. The whole movie runs on the basis of a very simple script. based on the classic, 'Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid', the director does a good job in moulding the film in a desi style which would be closely relted to the rural lifestyles. On the whole this movie is a good entertainer and can be watched to kill time.
This could easily go down as one of the early 90s Tamil movies that had a terrible story and would have easily bombed in the box-office, but was single-handedly rescued by the music director A.R.Rahman. I agree the movie was thrilling and had a lot of action packed in it, but all the key elements of a good Indian masala movie such as mystery, adventure, action and romance, though present in this movie, were not organized properly. In my opinion, the sole reason why people even came to the theaters to watch it was to listen to the music, as opposed to watching the movie itself. I would rate the soundtrack as one of Rahman's finest ever, in addition to Roja, Kadhalan and Rangeela.
Mani Ratnam's adroit transposition of the Butch and Sundance story into a quirky rural setting with a distinctively Indian sensibility is ceaselessly entertaining, if eventually a little too long. You can find in it the major elements of Indian commercial cinema -- set-piece action scenes and dance numbers--but the film distinguishes itself with stylish camera work, superb music and, above all, a deliciously maverick, fantastical tone embellished with sparkling humor, very reminiscent of Terry Gilliam (Monty Python, Time Bandits, Adventures of Baron Munchhausen) in his prime.The film borrows liberally from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", both in letter and spirit. The more-or-less irrelevant plot involves two small-time thieves who inadvertently end up in control of the vast loot resulting from a major heist. Hot on their heels are the original mastermind of the heist, and a frantic police force led by an overweight, deceptively slow detective (S.P. Balasubramanian in the role of his life). Predictable complications ensue, but the pleasure is in the perceptive, droll sense of humor and the Indiana Jones-esque sense of adventure with which the story is told.
This movie is visually good.Mani and Sriram has tried different filters to get the mood of a mis en scene.The song Putham puthu bhoomi.. is gorgeously pictured.But mani has completly forget the script, it travels as it wish with Sriram.If they have faithfully stick to the original I believe this movie might be saved.