Story hovers around a bike

Story hovers around this bike

A phenomenon in which Bike is generally regarded as the first love, as it is preferably ‘possessed’ soon after a bicycle in the early stages of lifecycle by the youth. Should it be the own money vested, rather than by inheriting it, in buying the dream machine, the sentiments and love in possessing the bike are doubled. It is certainly an icon of pride to own pro-bikes. Thanks to the recent development in Automobile industries those accord part of their revenue in research and development of pro-bikes that can thwart the small segment cars for their power and performance. The power-fever started with Bajaj introducing Pulsar which was pulsated with the Hero-Honda’s Karizma. The charisma for power bikes with different hues and colours are further catapulted with the recent legal introduction of Power bike Yamaha ‘R1’ into the Indian markets, although at a higher side in terms of pricing, would promise to offer a rich experience for iron pumped tattooed biceps. Lately, Kollywood industry has taken its stride in trying to picture the events and consequences of possessing a ‘near power’ bike by a bourgeoisie, in one of the movies in the recent past.

I am no ardent fan of the school boy turned tamil actor, who has earned his niche after having associated with the Tamil Super Star, ‘Sivaji The Boss’ starred, Rajni. As you guessed it right, Danush, in his recent movie ‘Pollathavan’, had depicted the tactual feel of a true bike lover. The movie hovers around a one liner story on ‘how a person tries to recover (secure) his motorcycle from the hands of local hoodlums’.

The movie has indeed emerged at the Top list in the recent Kollywood movies released at its contemporary. The movie at its very scene would seem butcherly and violent, which I would say is a deceived entry for the movie. It would then go over narrating the story with spotlighting Bajaj’s, a rocker star 150cc motorcycle, Pulsar, a sensational biker’s choice among youth in India. Believe it or not, the story is all about this bike. The line-up is so casual that the modus operandi of stolen bike is clearly portrayed as ‘cinéma vérité’ with a special spotlight on Pudupet, an area for stolen automobile spare parts in Chennai. The travails of a bourgeoisie in his attempts to recover his bike by taking extra leap, calling on the ‘Local Don’, at least not to prove their fists, but get the answer to recover his bike is neatly pictured with no inconsequence in its way. Sprucing up to these facts is the sentiment scenes attached with the bike makes the hero run after only for the stolen bike thereby brushing aside police complaints, Insurance cover and the well choreographed sequence.

Most of the encounter scenes with the thugs overarch the real life portrayal in dealing with them. The ‘Hero Identity’ is not misused on instances where the hero encounters the Local Don clique by not taking them over fists, but by admitting that he too is a normal human trying to do away with enragement and fight back. There are no traces of the very fondly made-up ‘Rajni-Factor-illustrated’ like ‘Fly by Fight’, ‘stopping the speeding SUV by holding it on a hand’, which is a good sign for a pragmatic movie.

While this movie is surely a youth-buster, will the Son-in-law’s Pollathavan outwit the Father-in-law’s Pollathavan is time tested!!!