You get introduced to backstories that turn out to be quite unproductive for the purposes of the plot. It’s just… bizarre.Ĭast: Vijay Antony, Sunaina, Anjali, Nasser, Jayaprakash, Madhusudhan RaoĪfter the first drawn-out flashback portion turns out to be a red herring, you begin to wake up to the scary possibility that the writer-director Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi may well be toying with you, and not in a good way at all. So, you have the very uncomfortable visual of seeing the character - playing his likely father - romancing his mother. It’s a bizarre choice, because in these flashback narratives, Kaali’s actually trying to unearth the truth about the identity of his parents. It isn’t every day you get a senior character artiste getting a chance to do something like this, but then again, the sprightly Yogi Babu, playing Kaali’s sidekick, throws a quick insult as the narrator, and that’s cue for Vijay Antony to replace him in the flashback. The thief, father, and village head are played by Nasser, Jayaprakash, and Madhusudhan Rao, respectively, and there’s even a small bit at the beginning of Madhusudhan’s flashback portion, when he’s shown to be a college-goer. I could have forgiven the conceit of having the lead actor play all these characters, if competent actors had not been cast in their places. He plays these characters in flashback stories so uninventive that you get all restless and itching to jog about for a bit, to avoid the feeling of being stuck. In Kaali, apart from playing the titular character - a doctor who returns to India to find his parents - Vijay Antony plays a thief, a church father, and a local village head. Dasavatharam, for instance, is perhaps best remembered for Kamal playing ten characters, including that of an old woman, George Bush, and a Japanese man. Oh, no, no, definitely not in terms of acting acumen, but insofar as playing a number of characters is concerned. I’m tempted to think of Kaali as the film in which Vijay Antony one-upped Kamal Haasan.
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