Raju Murugan’s ‘Japan’ is a collection of interesting ideas that never come together interestingly

For his 25th film, Karthi gets himself a cool name: Japan. (The reason behind the name is a nice little motivational bit of a story.) He gets himself a cool get-up: gold teeth, curly hair, and a wardrobe of blingy, crazy-print shirts. He gets himself a cool new voice that sounds like his inner child is complaining all the time. He gets himself a cool condition: he is HIV Positive. (That’s not something you find many leading men line up for.) He gets himself no love interest. (Anu Immanuel plays an ex who remains an  ex.) He gets himself a cool profession: he’s a burglar with a cool MO involving an injection. He gets himself a respected director in Raju Murugan, a fantastic cinematographer in Ravi Varman, who shoots with very less light, which is refreshing in a big-hero movie. What he forgets to get himself is a cool and coherent script.

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