Rathnam 2024
Rathnam, a henchmen working for MLA Panneer Selvam in Vellore, protects Malliga, a medical student who bears a resemblance to Rathnam’s late mother, from the relentless pursuit of land grabbers Rayudu brothers and becomes her guardian angel.
cast
- Priya Bhavani Shankar in a dual role as
- Malliga, Rathnam’s love interest
- Loganayagi, Rathnam’s mother and Paneer Selvam’s younger sister
- Samuthirakani as MLA Panneer Selvam, Rathnam’s uncle
- Ganesh Venkatraman as Rathnam’s father
- Yogi Babu as Moorthy[3]
- Murali Sharma as Beema Rayudu (Dharmalingam)
- Hareesh Peradi as Subba Rayudu (Punniyakodi)
- Vettai Muthukumar as Raghava Rayudu (Keshavan)
- Vijayakumar as Malliga’s grandfather
- Jayaprakash as Vedha Nayagam, Malliga’s father
- Tulasi as Malliga’s mother
- Delhi Ganesh as Neelakandan, Home Minister of Tamil Nadu
Review.
Films by Hari usually have a standard template, but his core strength is narration. Even with routine stories he delivered entertaining films in the past. Also, they were fast-paced, which helped us overlook the routine nature of the scripts. But this is where Rathnam falters. The director’s magic is missing big time, as the narration doesn’t hook us. The movie has many boring moments, and things get slow at multiple times.
As the entertainment is missing one can’t help but find the issues. The second half is completely filled with action without much drama and this becomes tiresome after a certain point. The movie gets prolonged over the end and the editing team could have shortened the length.
The director tried a different emotion involving the main leads but it isn’t told convincingly. As the whole film runs on this particular emotion, it is difficult to connect. The humor worked in a couple of sequences but Yogi Babu isn’t utilised properly. Murali Sharma doesn’t have much to do.
