Chennai
Junga (Vijay Sethupathi) is the story of a bus conductor, who learns from his mother and grandmother that his father and grandfather, Ranga and Linga, respectively, were dons who spent money lavishly on success parties.
It takes half an hour for the director to explain this to the audience. But by that time, the film had already failed to take off. The hero worship and comedy tracks in the first half didn’t give a flow to the narrative.
The cliched build-up for dons makes the storyline predictable towards the end of the first half. The second half of the film doesn’t offer us anything new.
And Junga trying to rescue the heroine from Italian drug mafia and a song in the climax will leave the audience sobbing. Gokul’s screenplay fails to make the audience laugh and gives no scope for actors to perform. Even the lead cast has nothing to offer to the audience.
However, Saranya and don paati have pulled off their roles in a brilliant way. Yogi Babu’s comedy has also worked, but only in bits and pieces. Dudley’s cinematography and Siddharth’s Vipin music are the only plus points in the film.
Radha Ravi’s Marlon Brando-like scene in which he meets other dons brings a grin to our faces. Suresh Menon justifies the role of a multi-billionaire and in fact, brings relief to the audience despite the dragging screenplay. Sayyeshaa, who had a good part to play in Kadaikutty Singam, has been used as a glam doll by Gokul.
Madonna Sebastian plays an underwhelming cameo, which is an absolute waste of screen time. We are left to wonder if the film is a comedy or a spoof on gangster Tamil films like Baasha and Billa.
Nevertheless, the film falls flat despite having a power-packed performer like Vijay Sethupathi. Junga is not the kind of Sethupathi film you want to watch or a film that one would want to shell their money out for the weekend.
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