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Tharai Thappattai (A) TAMIL ------- my Rating: ★★★ TYPICAL BALA FILM
yunusitboss23 January 2016
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Tharai Thappattai (A) TAMIL ------- my Rating: ★★★ TYPICAL BALA FILM

STRENGTHS:- * Casting and performances: varalaxmi has done a great job. * Music and background score by maestro * Concept and screenplay: was very gripping....

WEAKNESSES:- * Scary ending as always.... * Second half drags....

FINAL VERDICT:- * Overall... it is bala movie we can watch only once because of his scary ending and heart warming scenes. Songs gives nice touch to the film as the movie is about dance. Watch it for once

The film is about a man called Sannasi, who heads Thara Thappattai, a Karagattam troupe. Tharai Thappattai exposes how this art is slowly dying, and why we are all the worse for it.

Director: Bala Writer: Bala Stars: M. Sasikumar, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, G.M. Kumar | See full cast and crew »
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1/10
Dull & stereotype
pl_ganesh5 March 2016
It's a dull & stereotype movie framed within a standard Bala template.

Every turn in the movie is predictable, and pretty boring.

Dialogue doesn't infuse any life into the movie. Sprinkling of bad words doesn't always bring authenticity to the movie - most of the times it will drive away family audience.

Screenplay is very weak. There are many unexplained holes (like the one on how the protagonist know the place where Sooravali is kept). Story looks like an unfinished job.

Only consolation in this movie is acting by Varalakshmi, and music by Ilayaraja.
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4/10
This movie is just an award bait gross!!!
Sal199130 January 2016
Warning: Spoilers
This film is surely made for Awards but unfortunately it is faaaar from doing that in real... We know every Bala movie packaged with the single template. But this one screams the weakest he has ever produced. Apart from the main plot, the narration moved to brutal, routine, dull and cliché'd stereotype of his own nature.

The lives involving the art form 'Karagattam' and their background difficulties in competing with the modern world is the main theme of the film. But half of the story traveled in explaining the addon villain's behavior and his unpleasant female trafficking business deals which the film reveals after the forced marriage of Sooravali is tented to be a bad exciting factor. So, the film's final part ends up with the personal vengeance from Sannasi in reason for Sooravali death.

Positives:

1. Main plot ( real deal of the film but completely a wasted opportunity)

2. Ilayaraja's Bgm

3. Cast performances

Neutrals:

1. Awful screenplay

2. Incomplete storyline

3. Routine vengeance garbage

Poor movie on the whole. I would not recommend this movie to my friends who either experience a forced torture or irritating story connect.

Paradesi is the Bala's best movie ever.
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1/10
Tharai Thappattai (2016)
santhosh-1029022 March 2018
The movie was very bad. The movie has many vulgar scenes. The story also very vulgar and worst. Songs and BGM in the movie was also very bad. Boring Movie.
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8/10
Bala genre
ihm-madan22 January 2016
Tharai Thappatai is gross and shocking by any standard. People started walking out of the movie as though they had come in, expecting it to be a comedy movie. But the fact remains, you just can not keep Bala out of the league!!! I have seen folk dance/ karakattam and had always wondered on why it is so indecent/gross. The film not only manages to depict the life of the dancers as authentic as possible, it also gives as an idea on how these indecent content have come into the context of our Culture. Westernization is the main culprit, because when we manage to appreciate an 'Quentin Tarantino', we tend to ignore Bala. With Ilayaraja's beautiful and rousing music, movie is worth a watch #OnlyForBraveHearts#
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9/10
Cruel and raw. But real.
eeshwararaju8 May 2019
Typical Bala movie with a strong female lead and a stronger music.
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