Kacheri Aarambam

Commercial Tamil cinema rule: ‘Any do-gooder hero who leaves home lands up in Chennai the next day’ – is applied here and so we have Jiiva in the metropolis. You might be able to guess the extension of this story, the kind that we have seen many times. ‘Hero comes across atrocities in the city and learns that a particular person (the villain) is at the helm of it all. He takes it upon himself to cleanse the city of this weed. By the end of the film, the villain is either no more or is a changed man.’ That is what you might expect, but Kacheri Aarambam is a bit different from mercilessly beaten down clichés that we have been accustomed to all these years.The good thing about Kacheri Aarambam is that the movie does not take itself too seriously. The director, perhaps sensing that the contemporary audiences have developed (or have been trained by films like Thamizh Padam) a taste to laugh at clichés when they see one, has mocked at many clichés himself. Though the basic plot still remains predictable and cliché ridden, the way it has been treated is definitely a relief for the audiences. The hero-villain (J.D. Chakravarthy) clash is brought about by the common interest they share in a girl (Poonam Bajwa). The way in which the villain tries to impress the girl of his dreams reminds one of Prakash Raj’s character in Ghilli. Obviously, it is the hero who succeeds in getting the girl’s affections and from then on it is a one-on-one between the hero and villain.