Dhanush’s ‘Idli Kadai’ has great ideas, but they don’t come together satisfactorily
- Trinity Auditorium
- Oct 1
- 1 min read
Dhanush plays a man who returns to his village after a stint abroad, and he wants to continue his father’s modest food business. He also wants to continue the tradition of goodness that his father instilled in him, and this becomes difficult when Arun Vijay begins to do bad things. The concept is solid, but the writing isn’t. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.
Idli Kadai is Dhanush’s fourth film as director, and the guiding spirit of the story is a good-hearted man named Sivanesan (Rajkiran). He owns a small eating joint whose specialty is the idli he makes. He wakes up early, bathes and prays and looks as though he is going to a temple rather than to prepare food. And he believes in doing things the old-fashioned way. After examining an electric grinder, he says that the quality of the batter is not as good as what he makes by hand. After examining an option to open franchises in nearby towns, he turns the option down because he cannot be physically present in every outlet. Dhanush plays Sivanesan’s son, Murugan. Like many youngsters, he wants a better life. But Sivanesan says that a better life isn’t just a car or a bungalow, but also the clean air and the clean streams of their village. Murugan is frustrated. He takes off to Bangkok.
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