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Hansika’s character is much clearer though! She, as a part of a social campaign, sprays water from a tank on people relieving themselves in the open. And that’s certainly not in a curious way. Instead what you get here are inane jokes and ‘done-to-death’ caricatures in the form of Manobala playing the team lead (you get the picture, right?), Sibiraj playing the trying-too-hard-to-be-swag baddie, and Hansika Motwani playing a reloaded version of the Kollywood asylum heroine.Īnd Jiiva? Till the half way point (and on second thoughts, even till the end), we are unsure of what he is playing. The refreshing writing and the cliché twists, which guaranteed the fun and made us overlook the loopholes in the director’s previous film, are nowhere to be seen in Pokkiri Raja.

In fact, it’s boring almost for the entirety. Just that, this time around, the humour and therefore, the film as a whole, doesn’t work. So his latest fantasy film, in essence, is an attempt at a nutty comedy everything else being an excuse for unleashing the loony jokes. Ramprakash Rayappa, who got our attention with the refreshing comedy-masquerading-as-a-thriller ( Tamizhukku Enn Ondrai Azhuthavum), does the same in P okkiri Raja, by swapping ‘thriller’ with ‘fantasy’ as the pretense genre. A few more choose to play to their strengths once again, under a clever facade of genre-change. And knowing this, most debutante makers switch genres for their second film, probably anticipating the inevitable comparisons with their first celebrated outing. It’s, for many reasons, a test of their consistency – a real opportunity to squash the ‘one-film-wonder’ tag.

The second movie is always a tricky thing for young film-makers more so for directors who have, for some reason, come under the radar in their debut. Ramprakash Rayappa disappoints big time with ‘Pokkiri Raja’, a lazy fantasy-comedy that keeps testing your patience….