Cast: Arya, Hansika, Ashutosh Rana, Sudhanshu Pandey
Direction: Magilzh Thirumeni
Rating: **1/2 Above Average
After giving a taut thriller Thadayara Thaakka as his last outing, Magilzh Thirumeni returns with an undercover gritty cop story Meagamann which revolves on drug war action premises.
Set in Goa Shiva aka Arul (Arya), an undercover cop who is on a mission to unearth the drug mafia of dreaded Jothibhai (Ashutosh Rana), who is invisible to anyone barring few of his henchmen.
Then there is this Karthik (Ramana) from the same IPS batch of Arul who is assigned to nab yet another drug dealer Sharma (Asish Vidyarthi) who operates out of Mumbai.
And you have this college going Usha (Hansika), the ravishing neighbor of Shiva who gives some visual relief to the audience in an otherwise grim setting.
Though the movie starts off well, the director uses the first half merely to establish too many characters most of them appear without any purpose including top cops Vas (OAK Sundar) and Bharathi (Anupama Kumar) which eventually slackens the pace of the film. Post interval, it is action packed with few twists and turns.
Arya in his stylish new avatar of a no-nonsense undercover cop who means only business, business of killing shines and he is a treat to watch in action sequences.
The shootout interval block has been well shot. Thanks to Anal Arasu’s high octane stunt compositions. As usual Hansika looks pretty but her role is very minimal and one wishes the director could have used her talents more.
Though the screenplay is intelligently woven, the problem with the plot is revealing the culprits even as the film opens (like though Jothibhai is portrayed as an invisible baddie, we get to see him in the second scene itself), the suspense factor is lost. And again the strength of the story lies in maintaining the true identity of the hero till the end which is not the case here.
While Thaman’s background score warrants mention which goes in tandem with the mood of the film, Satish’s camera captures the beauty of Goa as well has done a great job in action scenes.
