Tamil film Kazhugu starts off well but the extreme predictability of the screenplay makes sure that tedium sets in, leading to a rather tame climax, writes Pavithra Srinivasan.One of the best things about Talking Times Movies' Tamil film Kazhugu is that it takes a very interesting premise as its plot-point: the lives of men who routinely climb down steep mountain slopes, 3000 or 4000 feet down, and scrounge around for dead bodies usually of those who have committed suicide from the summit.
A horrifying job, and a dangerous one given the sheer difficulty of trekking in virgin forest, looking through the undergrowth for decomposing bodies that are frequently wedged between rocks or have fallen into pits.
Director Sathyasiva has certainly chosen a novel story. As to whether it satisfies its very promising start, is something else altogether.
The beginning is interesting: Sera (Krishna), Shanmugam (Thambi Ramaiyya), Nandu (Karunaas) and a friend are all involved in the aforementioned job of retrieving corpses of those who have fallen or leapt to their deaths. A good deal of their time is spent drinking and trying to forget the horrors of what the see. They
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