Review of Viduthala: Vetrimaaran is back with another heartbreaking film about police violence that might be difficult to watch if you like to stay in your comfort zone.

The fact that the typical person is more afraid of police than a robber at midnight is one of the absurdities of modern living. The powerful frequently employ a structure endowed with authority to safeguard their own institutions and hierarchies.The subject of Vetrimaaran's 2016 film Visaaranai is the misuse of police authority and the exploitation of the voiceless. The head of Viduthalai has broadened his scope beyond the police and is concentrating on the entire institutional power structure. Similar to Visaaranai, there is a lot of violence on screen, and it wouldn't be completely incorrect to call the movie torture porn.However, Vetri is one of the few directors who shows brutality as it should be in a field where it has come to be associated with heroism. Wails and screams instead of a raging techno background music and racy edits accompany the carnage and gunshots in this scene.
The 1980s are depicted in Viduthalai, a fictional community atop a hill covered in trees. Beginning with a bloody train crash, the lengthy video sweeps through the devasted accident scene where dead and body parts are dispersed.Women beat their chests and scream their hearts out. On a rug sack, hands, legs, and other pieces are stacked. Men with amputated hands and legs struggle to maintain their lives. All of this gore is intended to incite rage against the murderers who bombed the bridge and killed these defenceless civilians.A banner on the bridge alleges that Makkal Padai (People's Army), a militant group led by Perumal, also known as Vaathiyaar, was responsible. (teacher). As soon as the "terror outfit" is identified, the government quickly forms special battalions and launches an operation. Kumaresan (Soori) enlists in one of the camps as a jeep driver.The innocent and naive constable describes the horror that unfolded in the forest and his role in the power struggle in the letters he writes to his mother.We are led to assume that Kumaresan is a real person by Soori. We start rooting for Kumaresan because Soori told the media in the days before the movie's premiere that Vetrimaaran picked him because he perceived "innocence" in his face.He is not merely the picture of innocence, though. He also has a strong sense of what is right and wrong. Because the gullible policeman thinks he hasn't done anything wrong, he refuses to apologise to the camp's leader Ragavendar (Chethan). You are not at all fit for police service, a colleague officer informs Kumaresan after observing his disobedience. It is not righteousness that sustains this power structure, but unconditional submission.Kumaresan, a follower of Saint Vallalar's teachings, is unable to apologise for this reason. A costly error that continues to follow him throughout his life. Power abuse is the main topic of the movie, and Ragavendar is furious that a "simple" policeman is not submitting to him.Vetrimaaran prevails despite Soori's casting by casting Gautam Menon as Sunil Menon and Rajiv Menon as his senior officer. If someone claims that their true surname has nothing to do with the part they are cast in, I won't trust them.Additionally, the Menons frequently discuss their "superboss," to whom they both report. Nobody is aware of what the face at the summit of the power pyramid looks like as it continues to rise. Everyone is a cog in this massive institution's wheel, which revolves only around the exercise of power. Viduthalai is a multifaceted movie that accomplishes far more than Visaaranai because to all these subtleties.The violence that is depicted in Viduthalai repeatedly is its only annoying feature. Vetri depicts a lot of brutality even before the film's upsetting end, leaving us quickly numb. Perhaps it is the key idea. Viduthalai intentionally triggers because it should.

Cast of Viduthalai: Vijay Sethupathi, Soori, Gautham Menon, and Chethan
Director of the video: Vetrimaaran