The introduction scene of the hero in the movie Agilan has him smuggling three containers with fake currency into a cargo ship. And you know what was painted on those containers? “FA-KE” along with serial numbers. I do appreciate fewer complexities in over-the-top action films, for sure. But this almost felt like an insult. N Kalyanakrishnan’s Agilan invests so much in certain moments that you get a feeling that the director wants to convey something only he knows.

Agilan, a crane operator in a harbor in Chennai, and one of the close aid of this dock boss, Paranthaman, is our central character. He is a very ambitious guy, and his ambitions have only helped him create enemies on both sides of the smuggling business. The movie here shows us how Agilan completes a task given to him by Kapoor, a guy who runs all the dirty sea-route businesses, to get the title of “the King of the Indian Ocean.”

The whole Agilan worshipping and how they clubbed it .

 The first half is so focused on making Agilan some kind of an Anti-Hero that Kalyanakrishnan’s wild imagination goes on and on without limits. Seeing the interval block, I was like, “Okay. What’s the conflict?”

In the second half, everything goes old school, and Agilan explains his past. And it becomes your cliched Tamil action film where the hero gives you a speech about rising prices of essential materials, how mafias control it, etc. The back and forth in the second half is so much that you just lose track of what the movie was trying to say. You have Agilan’s father’s story, then you have Agilan dealing with some backstabbers. There is even a moment where Agilan gets shot by his enemies and is put in the ocean. But a few minutes later, he returned with an arm sling pouch on a boat. The way Kalyanakrishnan tosses logic in this film is very atrocious. I want to know how he convinced Jayam Ravi to go ahead with this concept, which practically looks like a 2-hour long setup to crack one mass-euphoric scene. It seems like every director nowadays is asking Sam CS to give something similar to Vikram Vedha, and it’s becoming repetitive. 

The overall the movie is on harbour site view movie in this movie we can see whole sea and harbour ships, the movie is overall good and fine for worthy watching a Agilan movie.