Banner: Raj Kamal Productions, UTV Motion Pictures

Production: Kamal Haasan, Ronnie Screwvala

Direction: Chakri

Star-casts: Mohan Lal, Kamal Haasan, Santhanabharathi, Anuja Iyer, Ganesh Venkatram and others

Music: Shruthi Haasan

In simple words, ‘Unnai Pol Oruvan’ can be regarded as ‘Better than the best’. It’s because, the remake version seems to be much stupendous than the original ‘A Wednesday’.

Of course, the biggest highlighting feature is that Kamal Haasan hasn’t let any changes to the script including the film’s duration (that exactly goes with 100mins).

Fine! Let’s not get ourselves dragged with the analysis and you can just take a glimpse over the story…

‘Unnai Pol Oruvan’ is a story that revolves around a calamitous day where the entire city is shook with a single call from that starts off the thriller drama. A stranger over the top of under-construction building’s terrace makes a call to city commissioner (Mohan Lal) stating that he has planted bombs at various parts of the city. Nothing seems to be a serious issue for commissioner as he presumes it to be a crank call. But things start rolling ahead topsy-turvily when the stranger reasserts about his powerfulness by ensuring that he has placed 3kgs of RDX bomb at a police station.

Now, it’s up to city commissioner for settling down the backbreaking task. Well, the stranger wants to release 4 most wanted terrorists held as prisoners by the government or else he would blast the entire city.

Since, it’s too difficult to go around the city and detonate the bombs, the police department has to go flexible over the stranger’s offer.

But when the terrorists are released, there’s something more shocking for the cops and as well the audiences.

Firstly, when it comes to analyzing the performance, everyone in the screens have excelled with top-notching performance. Hats off to Kamal Haasan! Unlike his previous films, where he delineates himself in prominent role overshadowing others, he has likely delivered an unparalleled endeavor. Mohan Lal is ‘wordlessly stupendous’ and he keeps you engrossing all throughout the show. As a matter of fact, he has got more importance than Kamal Haasan, who sweeps us off on our senses in climax portion.

Be it Anuja Iyer as a journalist or a frustrated cop Ganesh Venkatram: they’ve just lived under the skin of characterizations.

Personally, I would like to appreciate Mr. Kamal Haasan having made a mind-boggling statement in climax portions. As a media professional, I had just felt disappointed when most of the Tamil TV Channels failed to showcase the depth of 26/11 attack in Mumbai. Precisely, when he mentioned the same part, I could just reflect myself over the screens.

And that’s the victory of this film as everyone, each and every audiences seated before the screens would doubtlessly reflect themselves as well whose hearts are brimmed with millions of unanswered questions in the society.

Indeed, Kamal Haasan brings his real life experience of his name missing in ‘voting list’ as he claims him as an invisible man.

Shruthi Haasan fails to deliver better background score while the cinematography is best.

Dialogues are so touching as they keep winning applauses on each and every line. When it comes to Chakri, there’s nothing much to appreciate him as he has just copycatted the exact version. Excuse us Chakri! We would surely welcome you with best verdicts from your next film if it isn’t a remake.

Possibly, we have analyzed ‘Unnai Pol Oruvan’ in both technical and narrative aspects. But then, how about the film’s business at box office? It’s not at all a big issue. With a long Ramzan weekend for next 4 days, both Kamal Haasan and UTV Motion Pictures are sure to fill their sacs with the profit money more than they could’ve expected.

Verdict: Excellent and that’s it …
Richard Mahesh

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