Movie Review: Thug Life
Rangaraya Sakthivel ( Kamal Haasan) seems to have a constant tryst with death, right from his early days. As life takes him on a violent path of a don, his encounters with near death only increase. A betrayal by another criminal lord leads to him fleeing for his life in a police shoot out, along with Manickam ( Nasser). The bullet ridden chaotic path brings him across Amaran, an orphan, whom he then brings up like a family member. Fate however has other things in store. When he grows up, Amaran (Silambarasan), the very person he had entrusted the care of his criminal empire and family with, becomes a force to reckon with, after Sakthivel's return from a prison sentence. What has caused this turn-around? Who is behind all this? Are the revenge-seeking schemers and Amaran able to succeed in their mission to dethrone Sakthivel? On the technical front, the film, an action, gangster drama, has some fantastic visuals, from the camerawork o...