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‘Gurkha’ movie review: The one where comedy dies twice

A movie, that can best be described as horrendous, does a grave injustice to our collective consciousness.

Updated - July 12, 2019 05:45 pm IST

Yogi Babu in ‘Gurkha’.

Okay, let’s address the elephant in the room: the Tamil comedy scene is almost on the verge of extinction and beyond redemption, unless some writer miraculously pops up to save the dying art of comedy. In Tamil cinema’s universe, it’s easy to gauge the success of a comedian. A couple of hilarious films and it gives him the licence to become a hero. There’s a dearth of comedy today — partly because half the comedians are heroes. We saw this happening to Vadivelu and Santhanam. Now, it’s Yogi Babu.

Gurkha pays a two-minute homage to the almost invisible lives of gurkhas, who, once, were seen as a defence against the dark. Bahadur Babu (Yogi Babu), a gurkha, has his lineage from Nepal and settles as a migrant in Chennai. His efforts to crack an entry into the police training academy goes in vain. And he ends up lamenting about his job, unlike his grandfather, also a gurkha, who genuinely cared for the people.

• Cast: Yogi Babu, Elyssa, Charlie and ‘Aadukalam’ Naren
• Director: Sam Anton
• Storyline: Bahadur Babu (Yogi Babu) claims to be a culmination of North Madras + North Indian gurkha. When the opportunity arises, he must save the day

Half hour into the movie, Babu meets a foreigner Margot (Elyssa), pronounced here as ‘market’, because: comedy. At best, Margot comes across like a clueless tourist visiting Chennai, who was forced to act at gunpoint. It is revealed that Margot is an American ambassador. In that sense, Gurkha is truly a fictional movie, for I’ve never heard/read about an American ambassador wanting to watch Baahubali 3 . Babu tries his luck to charm her and I was glad that there was no Kalyaana Vayasu song this time. Of course, logic is the least anybody would expect in this type of movie —Sam Anton takes this in his stride and adds a slide in the credits that says: Gurkha is a no brainer —which perhaps would have worked had it been an unapologetic spoof.

The comedic portions are extremely unpleasant, despite having today’s star comedian at the helm. Sample this: Babu calls a police officer ‘Harris Jayaraj’, who, in turn, calls his junior officer ‘Trisha Kumar’. Forget about humour for a moment, the lines are even difficult to process. Sam Anton’s idea of eliciting laughter is cringe-inducing that I began casting Harry Potter -themed spells — ‘stupefy’, ‘sectumsempra’, ‘redocto’ — dodging every dialogue thrown at us in the name of comedy.

Most of Gurkha takes place inside a mall, where a group of people, along with Margot, is held hostage by self-proclaimed terrorists. How appropriate, I wondered, for the actual hostages are the ones sitting inside the theatre.

Published - July 12, 2019 04:34 pm IST

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GURKHA MOVIE REVIEW

Sam Anton's Gurkha, starring Yogi Babu as the lead, deals with the story of how Babu (Yogi Babu) saves the hostages inside a mall captured by terrorists. Yogi Babu plays the lead as a Gurkha in the film, and it begins with a narration of how Gurkhas came to Tamil Nadu and the difficulties they face, such as racism. The film does more to make us sympathize with them than empathize, i.e., it makes you pity them, but you don't feel their pain.

Barring the narration at the start, the film keeps trolling every single character or profession that appears in the film. A Gurkha, a watchman, a media person, a politician, a police officer, even the US Ambassador is not spared. You have characters like Blue Sattai Maran, Nithyananda, H Raja, whose names are changed on purpose, but what is the purpose, when none of them add anything to the plot. These gags have become highly predictable to the extent that we can sense the joke coming.

The villain, played by Raj Bharath, hijacks a theatre in the mall and threatens to kill the hostages if the government doesn't meet his financial demands. He is a dangerous terrorist according to the police records, but all he does is just threatening the police officers outside the mall, in order to transfer money to a specific bank account. The motive behind that is also not clear, because of which we don't invest in the film. The rest of the story is whether Yogi Babu, who accidentally gets stuck inside the mall with Charlie and his dog, save the hostages or not.

While it is not logical (since the disclaimer asks us not to expect in the credits) to expect much logic in a mindless comedy entertainer, the film takes this for granted. Sample this: A person does not die when he's shot because he has a Nokia 6610 that takes the bullet for him. There are many more scenes like the above-mentioned one, that lacks any thought. Even Yogi Babu's jokes fall flat at various places because it's all about the appearances of a person and not anything funny.

Elyssa Erhardt is seen playing the role of a US Ambassador, who doesn't have security around her as and when the film wishes. For instance, Yogi Babu barges into her house while chasing a small kid, and there is no guard. As he watches her getting out of the swimming pool, the guards arrive. We are not able to buy the fact that she doesn't react when she sees a stranger inside her house, without a tinge of remorse.

A few dialogues make you cringe so much. A film that speaks about the people who protect us (includes Army, Watchmen, and Gurkhas) doesn't bother to care about them as it intends to do. For the sake of a gag, a fellow Gurkha tells Babu: "We are Gurkhas. We have to stay strong even if our wives run away with someone else." In another scene, an ex-army officer says "If I had died during service, people would have shared my photo on Facebook in the name of respect, which is better than getting treated like this in a police station." Which side is the director on? The sole saving grace is a meagre 10-15 minute portion in the second half where Yogi Babu runs riot.

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Gurkha Movie Review: A mindless entertainer that predominantly works

Rating: ( 3 / 5).

I cannot remember the last time a Tamil film protagonist had North Indian lineage. Sam Anton's fourth directorial, Gurkha , tells us that Bahadur Babu (Yogi Babu) is from the bloodline of the Gorkhas. In true Sam Anton style, his ancestry is explained in a sentence when a character calls Bahadur a " North Indiavum North Madrasum sernthu senja kalavaram ." Said to have been inspired from the director's own life, Bahadur's introduction scene as a Gorkha, dancing merrily to Ek Do Teen along with his cousins, is followed by him nabbing a few wrongdoers in his style. This style of humour, which Yogi Babu seems to have made his own, is undoubtedly the biggest asset of Gurkha . While his previous films, including his latest as the lead, Dharma Prabhu , relied predominantly on one-liners, Gurkha also relies on situational comedy. 

Director: Sam Anton

Cast: Yogi Babu, Raj Bharath, Charlee, Elyssa Erhardt, Ravi Mariya

Before failing a police selection test, Bahadur, who even quotes the director's own 100 as an inspiration, helps his grandmother atop a stool, so he can touch her legs and seek blessings. You see, he can't bend as he has just had a heavy meal. At the test, Bahadur, instead of jumping over the hurdles, picks them up and gives it to a baffled inspector, Haris Jayaraj (Ravi Mariya), because he believes it to be a genuine hazard for the runners. His concern also extends to gymnasts, as he is worried their intestines might fall out. When asked to do push-ups, he lies down and moves his hands up and down as he thinks it to be easier. Such efficient comedy by Yogi Babu is the result at the hands of a competent director.

Bahadur ends up getting a dog named Undertaker instead of an offer letter and joins a security service after its proprietor (Manobala) gets impressed with his 'skills', when he lifts a bubble-top water can. Shortly, he gets transferred to a mall, which gets taken over by a gang of terrorists. The director mentioned in an interview with us that this film is inspired by Paul Blart: Mall Cop , and Die Hard . While the happenings inside the mall bear similarity to the Bruce Willis-starrer, the iconic Segway from Paul Blart is given a homage of sorts when Bahadur uses a portable scooter in the climax.  The film has a lot of nifty touches that make us laugh. In the office of the Chief Minister, a photo of Bijili Ramesh is captioned as the former CM. The My Vellakaari song starts with the words, ' Indha paadalai padiyavar ungal GV Prakash Kumar '. References to other films are also very many — right from Mersal and Vivegam , to even Suryavamsam and Sagaptham . Much like how Sam Anton played with the ' ennama neenga ippadi panreengalema ' line in his first film, Darling , he uses many repetitive references to current affairs in Gurkha . There are the done-to-death Thermocol and god-man jokes too, but there's also a scene involving a politician knocking off a mobile phone. 

The film is full of funny lines, with able use of wordplay. In a scene where a cop tells Harris to abort a mission, he asks, " Yethuku saar mission-ah abortion panreenga? " Even the usual trope of an actor's inability to speak English is efficiently used here for humour: Bahadur calls his love interest, Margaret (Elyssa Erhardt), Market, and when he likes her a bit too much, he calls her Supermarket. The serious sequences involving the terrorist gang's actions are a dampener though, with the stakes never being too high. Actors like Mayilsamy and Charle are also underutilised. Racist slurs are passed off casually. When responsible filmmaking is the need of the hour, such scenes cannot be brushed under the carpet as mere jokes.  These flaws don't kill this film though, whose comedy largely works. This Gurkha and his bag of jokes, save the day.

குதிரை பேரம்தான் ஜனநாயகமா?

“என் காலம் வேறு; துருவ் காலம் வேறு!”

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“வெளிநாட்டுக் கலைஞர்கள் வேண்டாம்!”

“சென்னை தாண்டிச் சேர்வதுதான் முக்கியம்!”

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அன்பே தவம் - 38

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ஒற்றை ஆளாக ஊரைக் காத்த தாத்தா கூர்காவின் பேரன், யோகிபாபு. போலீஸ் செலக்‌ஷனில் எல்லாக் கோமாளித்தனங்களும் காட்டி, அதிகாரியால் துரத்தப்படுகிறார். அதன்பிறகு நகரின் முக்கியமான மால் ஒன்றில் இருக்கும் தியேட்டரில் மக்களைப் பணயக்கைதிகளாகப் பிடித்து வைத்திருக்கும் தீவிரவாதக் கும்பல் ஒன்றைப் பிடிக்க, அதே மாலில் செக்யூரிட்டியாக இருக்கும் யோகிபாபுவும் அவர் நண்பர் சார்லியும் உதவ, ‘அப்பாடா... படம் முடிஞ்சது’ என்று நமக்கும் பெருமூச்சு வருகிறது.

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Movies like Amaran , Kanguva , Good Bad Ugly and others in a similar vein had the same genre but quite different stories.

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Gurkha (U) 12/Jul/2019 Comedy, Thriller 2hrs 25mins

Critics Review

N interesting idea diluted by silly jokes.

Gurkha begins on an insipid note and the initial parts are anything but funny. Not sure how many find someone reading a book upside down or saying Gandhi is the father of VTV Ganeshan remotely funny. But these are exactly the kind of scenes that occupy the screen in the initial portions of Gurkha. And you have Ravi Maria hamming it up in these portions. You understand that he has a peculiar way of making you laugh and to be honest he is a distinct personality on screen. But directors either need to rein in his performance or judiciously use him on screen. (more)

Source: Bharath Vijayakumar, MovieCrow

The one where comedy dies twice

Gurkha takes place inside a mall, where a group of people, along with Margot, is held hostage by self-proclaimed terrorists. How appropriate, I wondered, for the actual hostages are the ones sitting inside the theatre. (more)

Source: Srivatsan , The Hindu

The film belongs to the leave-your-brain-at-home category, and may appeal to those who don't mind logical issues and predictability.

A hardly engaging first half followed by some hilarious scenes in the latter half is likely to work for the target audience. What doesn't work in favor of the film till the interval point is the time the script takes to reach the main conflict. The film belongs to the leave-your-brain-at-home category, and may appeal to those who don't mind logical issues and predictability. (more)

Source: Thinkal Menon, Times Of India

An illogical laugh riot, watch it for Yogi Babu

Though there are plenty of questions like how Yogi Babu roams in the mall without being noticed by the terrorists arises, we forget the logical flaws as the film provides several hilarious moments in the second half. It's good to see Charlie being well used these days. After Vellai Pookal, the actor once again got a meaty role. The conversation between Anandaraj and Yogi Babu is another enjoyable moment in the film. (more)

Source: Moviebuzz, Sify.com

A Just-About Bearable Comedy With A Lot Of Contradictions

It had a wonderful balance between comedy and seriousness and it used the supporting cast to really drive home those contradictory emotions to full effect and with honesty. (more)

Source: Vivek Shivakumar, Filmcompanion.in

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