LKG gets the paid help of Sarala Munusamy aka Sara M. However, LKG feels that he needs to create some media visibility to get into Bojappan's good books. Since Avudayappan is the MLA from Lalgudi, LKG decides to put all efforts to contest in the by-election on behalf of the ruling party, once Avudaiyappan dies. The incumbent CM and ruling party chief, Avudaiyappan Mudhaliar, falls ill and gets hospitalised, while Bojappan, the party general secretary, becomes the interim CM. LKG aspires to quickly achieve big in politics, unlike his father Azhagu Meiyappan, who neither achieved fame as a politician nor made money. The story moves back to six months ago where LKG is a mere councillor from Lalgudi ward in Trichy rural and belongs to the ruling party. But at least, we can laugh about it on screen.The film begins with newly elected Lalgudi Karupaiah Gandhi (LKG) swearing in as Chief Minister (CM) of Tamil Nadu, where he is shot in the chest by a sniper. Nothing, apparently, changes in real life. It’s the reason we keep watching these movies. In the last scene, he delivers a strong message and yet, makes us see that nothing’s going to change. Mercifully, RJ Balaji (who does well in this tailormade part) isn’t trying to be a Shankar hero. Composer Leon James also remixes the Malai Kallan track, ‘ Ethanai kaalamthaanemaatruvaar‘ … Stop laughing for a minute, and you’ll want to weep that a mid-1950s song about corruption sounds like it was written for today.
#LKG MOVIE DIRECTOR UPDATE#
Under the Facebook video of a school with overflowing drains, we get this comment: “Thalapathy 63 update please.” When real life keeps throwing up these gems, it’s just a question of picking the shiniest of the lot and stringing them together.Įvery time you think “so why isn’t this funnier?”, something uproarious lands up - like Justin Bieber’s endorsement of a very Tamilian protest, or a spoofy YouTube review of a politician who may be male or female (and who’s introduced in a killer Ramarajan tribute that channels the Ilaiyaraaja sound of the period). That could be said about the film, too, which doesn’t even have to try too hard. The reporters twist around his words with such absurd exaggeration, it’s hard not to smile. Beside him is Sarala/Sara (Priya Anand), a political strategist whose first move is to thrust an unsuspecting LKG into an impromptu media interaction.
(The party’s symbol? The jallikattu bull.) He finds he has to compete against a longtime political survivor named Ramraj Pandian (JK Rithesh).
It’s also about LKG’s journey from a ward councillor to the state’s CM. From Vijay Mallya to Sasikala’s oath-taking to the name of a newspaper (“ Thaai Oli”? In the land of Amma? Yikes!), no target is sacred.īut the film isn’t just a loose parade of jokes. (Here, RJ Balaji plays Lalgudi Karuppiah Gandhi, hence LKG.) And how about the exam called PEET? Only, this one’s for aspiring politicians: Political Eligibility and Entrance Test. And sure enough, nothing is spared, not even the upcoming Selvaraghavan-Suriya political drama, whose title (NGK) is the acronym of the tripartite name of its protagonist. I thought the film would do to Tamil Nadu politics what Tamizh Padam did to Tamil cinema. LKG, then, is more about the writing (credited to “RJ Balaji & friends”) - and like many films of this genre, it works when the gags work, and falls flat when they don’t. LKG has been “directed” by KR Prabhu, but “direction” is too loose a word for what he has done here - basically, ensure that the gags in the script survive their transfer to the big screen.
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