Yagavarayinum Naa Kaakka (2015)

timesofindia July 4, 2015

★ 5/10

There are films whose twists in the script make them unpredictable and interesting and there are films that have one twist too many and end up exasperating us. Yaagavarayinum Naa Kaakka (YNK) belongs in the latter category. The film begins in the past — January 1, 2015, to be specific — with a grieviously injured young woman and man being dragged across the floor by a mystery person. We do not see the faces of all three characters. Then, the film cuts to the present where Saga (Aadhi) lands up in Mumbai. His face shows wounds and in the voice-over, he tells us that he is on a dangerous mission. We see him buying a gun and going after Mudaliar (Mithun Chakraborty, acquiting himself well in his first appearance in Tamil films), a feared gangster. We think that this is going to be a Gajini-style revenge saga but then, Saga stars telling us how he ended up in this situation. We see hi…