The Downside of TSK

"Knowledge without diligent effectuation is like a person visiting a woman of loose character's place and watching others being pleasured in their ecstasy"

Don't even bother to Google it to discover who had said such a golden nugget as it is even first time for one of the top valuable brands in the world to figure it out who has said this pearls of wisdom.

Still confused and puzzled who it is?

Who else. 

It's none other than the person who is typing out this blog.

So, what has knowledge got to with the phenomenal and peals of laughter-inducing TSK?

Especially when the title reads that it's about the negatives of a raving good film.

Where else would I go without saying it.

But, first.

Imagine you walk into a police station to give a complaint. The police officer is in tip-top shape, neat and trim. Being the rare bad egg who is corrupted and has itchy palms, you get fired up, slap him and go out to shake your leg for a song. 

Whether the police officer was right. Nope. 

Whether the person was right to slap the officer. Nada. 

Because you have the law to take care and upheld the justice of any ill events by the perpetrators in the society.

But, what is the real problem here is that you have punctured the man's ego and he is sure to exact his revenge unless he is the sort of person who realizes that what he has done is incorrect and rectifies himself.

None of the above two scenarios happened in TSK. In fact, the police officer was nowhere to be seen since the first scene after the thara local and peppy 'Sodakku' song. 

This is one of the major logical crevasses that wasn't seen in NRD.

And, certainly the blips and slips from Vignesh Shivn (VS) who had presented an almost perfect and logically intact movie in his previous outing.

As much as the story and narration is TSK's strength, it is its own downfall as well.

In NRD, you are shown how close the friends were before they embarked upon the cracking plan to bring down Parthipan.

In TSK, we are given only one single scene where Surya meets and briefs the talented ensemble cast of Ramya Krishnan, Senthil etc and they give their unanimous nod to pose as CBI agents in this con-action packed heist flick.

The worse is yet to come.

The SI - Nandha - who has a change of heart to lend his support to Surya's endeavor did not cite a sound reason to join the hero as one of his crew.

Agreed. It's a movie but still, his rationale did not hold water.

Keerthy Suresh (KS) was nowhere to be seen in the second half especially during the climax scenes. The most probable reason which VS could give it is that the hero was trying to shield the heroine from any possible danger as she was her lady love. Still, it's a movie and she could have been better utilized to spice things up with the last con.

Speaking of KS, the biggest logical abyss is where Surya details out a plan to KS's fiancee and her when all three of them (mainly Surya!) engage in a serious conversation discussing their wedding.

We are not shown what was the exact plan or how Surya wanted to sabotage the marriage so that KS and he could be united. 

Maybe, we will have TSK - Part 2? I don't know.

Also, we are being told that KS was living with the family when she was a kid. Things would have been more clearer and tied up if she had a good backdrop as to how KS managed to hook herself up with the family like how Nayanthara had a justifiable setting of how she lost her hearing or her dad.

Similarly, I couldn't comprehend the logic as to why Surya turned down the prestigious offer by Karthik to be enrolled as a formal official and continue the same work with actual power and authority than being a con artist particularly when it was Surya's passion to be a cop. 

If the passion factor wasn't to be seen, then Surya walking away and overruling the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to serve our nation was perfectly acceptable and credible. 

But, is that the case?

In NRD, the director preaches a social message that being a cop is better than a rowdy.

In TSK, he says or at least, he indirectly leaves it to the audience that it's better to be a con-artist than being a cop.

A complete volte-face from NRD.

For those who see movies as nothing but an entertainment platform, it doesn't matter whether it has an inherent social message or not. Having a social message is a fantastic value-add or an entirely new perspective that teases your senses

But, those who perceive movies as real and take it to heart, they can probably be in an unrealistic world that conning is way better to work just like how many films glorify and exalt stalking and some people implement them in actual life.

Had anyone else committed such inherent blunders in the script, it wouldn't have mattered.

But, VS has made a good name for himself through NRD and with pitching Surya in the lead role, the screenplay must have been plugged and devoid of basic logical failures as not showing how Surya goes about to marry KS.

Wrapping it up, TSK is nowhere near to perfect like its predecessor.

However, VS had hit all the right buttons - versatile actors and stalwarts, humor, songs, BGM -  to make it a lively, spirited, enjoyable and highly entertaining affair where you get the big bang for your bucks.

Just hope VS shows care to see that all things are attended to in his next different and fresh venture and make it a superlative hat-trick of success through his fun-filled ideations in his short and effective career.

Laughter was, is and will always be The. Best. Medicine.

PS:

Figured out why I began with the knowledge reference earlier?

No?

Shall I leave it unattended and incomplete so as to be in sync with the spirit of the movie? 

Okay??

It's not right, right?

Okay....

If knowledge had been properly incorporated in the script that important things should always be attended, I wouldn't have had the necessity to write down this blog in the first place.