Starring: Silambarasan T. R. , Radhika Sarathkumar , Siddhi Idnani
Director: Gautham Menon
Producer: Ishari K. Ganesh
Music Director : AR RAHMAN
Cinematography : Siddhartha Nuni
Editor : Anthony
Release Date : September 17, 2022
Noted director, Gautam Menon is back with his new film The Life of Muthu starring Simbu. The film hit the screens yesterday and read our review to find out if the film has any juice in it or not.
Plot
Muthu(Simbu) and his family face a financial situation and his mother asks him to go Mumbai and make a living. Muthu lands in Mumbai and gets a job in a hotel. There he meets gangsters and a small incident makes him enter the underworld. What is that incident and how did it change Muthu’s life is the story of the film.
Performances
The film gives full on scope for Simbu to showcase his acting skills and boy he was damn good. Simbu as Muthu lived in his role and carried the intense emotions throughout the film. Siddhi Idnnani got a good role after a long time and she was very good in her character. The supporting cast who play Mumbai gangster also did a good job.
What’s Good
Simbu’s Performance
A few gangster scenes
What’s bad
Slow Pace
Lack of novelty
Analysis
The Life of Muthu has traces of Satya as it showcases the story of a man who turns into a gangster. The manner in which the story is narrated by Gautam Menon is dead slow. Things take forever to showcase the actual issue in the film and this is where the audience gets bogged down.
The screenplay is dull and does not create any tense moments. There are so many scenes where you feel that something awesome will happen but that is not the case in the film. The scenes are dragged and things get derailed for no reason. In all this, the man who makes things watchable is Simbu and his performance.
Gautam Menon has done well in creating a good backdrop for the film. But he is only the main villain as he made the film boring in many areas. The best part of the film is the music by AR Rahman. He breathes life into the film with his music and BGM. The camerawork is superb but the editing is pathetic.
The cast apart from Simbu is also not that great. In a way, what could have been a gritty gangster drama ends up as an ordinary crime saga which you have seen many times in the past.
Bottom Line – Nothing new
