But many gags do work. I’m always partial to jokes about cuckolded husbands. And the director has clever ideas. He positions the search for the new godfather as a reality game show: Ungalil Yaar Adutha Naina? (Yogi Babu, as the emcee, is a riot. Karunas and VTV Ganesh are also in good form.) And he punctures the pompousness of a big fight scene by labelling the factions “Kodambakkam Knight Riders” and “Vyasarpadi Challengers.” But this looniness comes and goes. And for a comedy targeted at today’s “youth,” there’s far too much nostalgia.
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