Everybody Makes Mistakes, Vijay Sethupati Just Made One News24 –

Vijay Sethupati is an actor everyone loves and respects. Sure,he has made mistakes  in the past. But none unforgivable. Ace comes  close to being a fatal error in the versatile actor’s career. The one  film in which he will cringe when his children watch it . What was  he thinking when he  agreed to be part of this brainless burlesque?

In our many conversations, Vijay has constantly stressed the need to blend entertainment with his cinema of social relevance.

But where in Ace is the  entertainment or the message? As  flat as a pancake, the film rides on its own high, prevaricating when the plot needs to move, or reversely, loitering when things need to move on, this is one of those films that mistakes nullity for swag and creative bankruptcy for improvisation.

To see Sethupathi  caught in this whirlwind of  witlessness is to be reminded of a cinematic truth:  even the  greatest of actors need to believe in what they are doing.  It would require a miracle for any actor to believe in what writer-director Arumuga Kumar serves  up in Ace.

A bunch of idiotic  characters  who belong in a menagerie, strutter  and stumble around trying to be  funny and  relevant. Or maybe not funny, though they  do seem laughable in  their selfimportance. The  location of the idiocy  is Malayasia. Once Kannan(Sethupathi) lands there he is thrown together with Arivu(Yogi Babu) who is  to the plot  the catalyst and comic relief.

Jokes  about the character  and  at the expense of  the character,  abound. Whoever wrote this  film , thinks making fun of  a not-handsome man is  a  lot of fun. Kannan , our hero,seems partly an accomplice  and  partly  a distant  observer of this  distasteful  film’s malfunctioning machinery.

Vijay Sethupathi has two uninteresting love interests in the film. Kalpana (Divya Pillai) runs a restaurant and Rukku(Rukini Vasanth) is a  salesgirl  in  a clothes store. They are both working women with fiercely independent  minds and they both need financial assistance to pay off debts.

Our hero Kannan  plays poker to pay of their deebts, and fails. He then robs a bank.

Yes, this is how low the writing stoops. To watch a thinking actor like Vijay Sethupathi fall for this immoral imbecilic  act of  transgression is to wonder why he needed to do this. One hopes the money was  good. Nothing else  is.

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