Gethu

Director: Thirumurugan 

Cast: Udhayanidhi Stalin, Amy Jackson, Sathyaraj. Vikranth

Music: Harris Jayaraj  

Genre: Crime Thriller

A thriller, Gethu is about a sniper assassin (Vikranth), and how his mission to eliminate Dr. Abdul Kamaal. Vikranth interferes with the lives of Sethu and his father, Thulasi Raman, who works as a P.E.T. instructor at a local school. 

The story seems to hold so much promise at around interval time, especially after that pulsating opening fight sequence. As with most great opening fight sequences, the hero is initially reluctant to engage, and just when it’s clear that he’s avoided conflict, he turns around (like in Run) to calculatedly destroy every single enemy.

Sethu (Udhayanidhi), a librarian (what an unusual profession for a Tamil protagonist), tries to help Nandini (Amy Jackson) become a news anchor, and a duet bafflingly follows. drastically worse proportions when you realise that there really is no place for a heroine in the story, but Nandini comes and goes anyway.

But Gethu is definitely a welcome relief for those of us who wondered how long Udhayanidhi would go on with comedies that relied not so much on him, but the comedian, usually played by Santhanam. Though Karunakaran plays that role here, he’s more a character artiste than a comedian