The Spy who barfed. Review on Ottran Movie

Perhaps it was fate, perhaps it was bad luck. Arrey yaar kya karoon mera bad luck kharaab hai naa. Ok, Co incidence. Tiny such co incidences actually. Coming to Bad luck, let me explain how it happened.

Bad luck # 1 - met this friend who I generally avoid.

Bad luck # 2 - I went for a movie which isn’t my first choice. Usually I get dragged to Tamil Movies and usually I do understand the happenings on the screen. But this time Perhaps I understood it too well to write a review.

Bad Luck # 3- I am Alive, Watching this movie throughout, with this friend; I also had to put up with his comments, plus hear him laugh at his own jokes.

Am I worried if this friend of mine may read this review and later feel bad about it, no problem, he can’t read English for nuts, screws, bolts, hammers and hacksaws.

There is Arjun and Simran. Can any one justify Simran’s Role here? I don’t think so. I agree that Simran has many talents, but she was wasted here. If I were the director, I would have given any newcomer a chance because I'd have lesser money to spend. But I am not the director, if I was; I would have thrown this story out the window at the first reading itself. In this story there are terrorists and there is our own Arjun, So, now you know Hero means good guy, terrorist means bad guys.

Karthik (Arjun) is an RAW sleuth. He is so good at his work, that his peers in Delhi, the sardars and other Delhiites have learnt speaking in Tamil. My dear Friend on Mouth shut MS ID :RJOIS would be clenching her fists and gritting her teeth at the very mention of this statement. Back to the story line, if there is any as such, he is hot on the heels of some terrorists from I don’t know which country.

Sudha (Simran) is all set to go to New Delhi to study Fashion Technology. Sudha's father (Sarat Babu) is a Commissioner of Chennai Police. Simran had to go to Delhi and her brother was supposed to drop her there. But terrorist kidnap Simran and some of them go back with Simran’s brother so that they can learn to break into some Central prison to get in touch with a prisoner who is actually a captured terrorist. So kidnapping Simran was the only way they could reach their comrade in prison. As much as I know from reliable sources, they don’t keep branded prisoners convicted by Indian Court as a terrorist in Chennai prison. Now how do I know this information, well I won’t tell you, it’s a highly guarded confidential secret, so let your imagination go zoo zoo.

Karthik is not just gun totting trigger happy cop, he can flip, double flip, triple flip and thanks to the modern photography and some inspiration from Matrix, He can suspend his flip in mid air, and remain there till the terrorist bullets go by and get back on his feet. Our Super Tamil hero in Delhi, rescues Sudha from the terrorist clutches and learns that her brother is silently being held hostage at her house and the Commissioner may not know about it yet. So, now its time for our Karthik Super hero to display his real talents, in doing what he does best. Being a SPY, or OTTRAN. Now for those who have attended my previous Tamil classes know another Tamil word. OTTRAN, meaning SPY. He lands here in Chennai as a cook and gets into the commissioners household to install surveillance equipments while he cooks chicken chettinad.

Thanks to some more flips, double flips and triple flips, and some more intelligent move analysis, Karthik manages to get those bad guys out of the commissioner’s house. There is this scene which really had me wishing that I would get on to the screen myself and do a flip while I throw up but somehow I knew I couldn’t do that. But I consoled myself saying, OK, someday MS is going to add this category so I shall wait till such day. Thank God for such Small Mercies. The scene goes like this. These terrorist create some havoc so that Hindu's and Muslims are out to kill each other in some locality. Then comes our Hero Karthik and puts on a public service message. The next thing you know, The Hindu's and Muslims embrace each other and realize their mistake. Perhaps Karthik could've been a politician and saved this country from chaos eons ago. But somehow he prefers to be a RAW sleuth is trigger happy.

My word.. No desserts this time

Please avoid this, unless you want to see how you can do a double flip and a triple flip and stay suspended in mid air upside down for a half second. (Yes I was timing that ) . The story goes down the drain. Cast performances were quiet ok. But avoid this at any cost, and don’t risk insanity.

Lessons for terrorist and bad guys and villains

1. Don't mess with Tamil cops who can cook.

   
   




2. Don't shoot at him because they can flip your bullets and kick you back.

   
   




3. Don't Kidnap a girl and get into her house, because When the super tamil cop rescues the girl, we have a movie as crap as this one and some unfortunate non-Tamil speaking guy is forced to watch this.

   
   

Comments most welcome.

Davie boy