Moviemakers are doing so much to entertain audience in the best possible way and exploring many to create new stories based on sports and lives around it. We have seen many films based on sports like Chak De India, Mary Kom, Lagaan, etc. Today a new film is releasing based on boxing with R Madhavan as lead. It is his comeback film as Protagonist titled “Saala Khadoos” a bilingual, directed by Sudha Kongara and presented by Raj Kumar Hirani under his RKF banner produced by Maddie himself.

Story

Adi Tomar aka Adi (R. Madhavan), who happens to be a coach of the girls boxing team by Profession. With the dirty politics, he gets transferred to Chennai. Adi looks for a girl who has the much required passion and fire to achieve. His search ends in the most unlikely person for the job Madhi (Ritika Singh), who, despite being a fisherwoman by profession, is a born talent in boxing who adores Mohammad Ali and Adi agrees to pay her money per day for training. On the other hand, Madhi’s elder sister Lakshmi aka Laks (Mumtaz Sorcar) also happens to be a boxer wanting to get into police department so that she can take care of the family. With having jealousy on her sister, she plays tricks and fails her sister in a match. Things twist up in an unexpected way and Madhi ends up in jail. What action of Madhi leads her to be jailed, who is the person who tries to take advantage of her, does Adi ever get to coach his once favourite student Madhi all over again, what ultimately happens to Adi and Madhi is what forms the rest of the story.

Cast and Performance

R Madhavan as Adi is excellent. His gigantic cutout is apt for the role and his powerful performance takes movie to a greater heights. His expressions speaks a lot in climax. Ritika Singh, who is a boxer by profession is a perfect selection for her role. She performed equally to R Madhavan. Her performance makes us to forget that it is her debut film. Her transformation from a naughty girl to responsible girl is superb. Another newcomer Mumtaz Sarcar did a nice job as Lakshmi aka Laks, sister of Madhi. Nassar, Radha Ravi, Zakir, Kaali Venkat did what is required for their small roles.

Writing Department

Story by Sudha Kongara is nice. Many movies had came in past on sports and athletes but this one certainly differs from them in every aspect. Sudha Kongara seems to have done extensive research. Screenplay is crispy and bounds us to screen, especially the last 30 minutes. Dialogues are situational and are good. Overall, writing of the movie is excellent.

Technical Departments

Songs by Santosh Narayan are good and are apt for the situations. Background score by Santosh Narayan is superb. He proved his knack once again in composing background score. Cinematography by Siva Kumar Vijayan is superb and his visuals present the movie in a superb way. Editing by Satish Suriya is perfect and there is no dull moment throughout the movie. Production Values are rich.

Highlights

R Madhavan as Adi Tomar
Ritika Singh as Madhi
Santosh Narayan’s background score

Minus

Not much

Verdict

Movie runtime is short and is a huge bonus for this movie. It is very crispy with its spell bounding screenplay and sharp dialogues. Finest filmmaking and superb writing with Santosh Narayan’s superb background music adds to this movie. Casting of the movie is so good that their performance talks more. Last 20-30 minutes of the movie is too excellent and we can’t even take our eyes off screen. To sum up, it’s a superb comeback for Madhavan aka Maddie.

Senior hero Venkatesh, who is relying only on remakes these days, is currently acting in a non-remake film in the direction of Maruthi.

Since he feels that there are not many stories in Tollywood that suits to his image and age, he is looking at films of all languages for possible remakes. It seems that he zeroed in on upcoming Hindi-Tamil sports drama ‘Saala Khadoos’. Venkatesh has reportedly watched the film and liked it. Sources further said that Venky is keen to remake it in Telugu.

The film deals with the relationship between a boxing coach played by Madhavan and his student, played by newcomer Ritika Singh.Director of the movie, Sudha Kongara Prasad, also confirmed that the Telugu remake is on the cards, and she would like to direct it.

Venkatesh has to undergo a huge physical transformation for this role.

R .Madhavan and Ritika Singh starring Saala Khadoos movie official theatrical trailer is out now. The movie directed by Sudha Kongara and produced by R Madhavan and Rak Kumar Hirani.

Adi Tomar had a dream to win the boxing gold for India. Instead he languished in a nightmare for a decade as his gloves were spiked during an all-important match, blinding him in the arena and handing the match to his undeserving opponent—a mediocre boxer but a political powerhouse. The culprit was his own coach, Dev Khatri. Shattered by his loss, and disillusioned by the state of Indian boxing, Adi turned to a life of cynical self-destruction of booze, brothels and bar-fights. Loyal friends somehow bring him back to boxing as the coach of the lowly rated Indian women’s boxing team. His outspoken honesty sends jitters through his old adversaries, and he is soon transferred to Chennai—the Siberia of Indian boxing. But Adi continues to dream but this time for a free-spirited, fiery young woman from the fishing community, Madhi. Adi spots in her a champion that could bring India the gold that he was robbed off. But first Adi must earn her trust, then tame her impetuosity and finally make her dream… all this in just nine months before the world championship. And so begins an uneasy partnership between a man who loves his sport and a girl who loves her freedom. Rigor and rebellion, structure and free spirit collide. It is the beginning of a beautiful friendship and a journey towards an impossible dream.

Saala Khadoos movie will hit the big screens worldwide on 29th of January.

Watch Saala Khadoos Trailer:

R.Madhavan, who is known for playing cool characters and settled acting, is rumored to fight Ram Charan in a Tamil remake movie.

Ram Charan completed “Bruce Lee the Fighter” and is waiting for its censor that will tomorrow. This movie is releasing on 16th of October. After this, Ram Charan has agreed to do the Telugu remake of Tamil Super Hit “Thani Oruvan.”

Surender Reddy will direct this film. For this remake, there were many names taken into consideration for the antagonist role as this role was well received, for its settle acting by Arvind Swamy in Tamil.

Nagarjuna, Rana were the priority by the director. But for some unknown reason they weren’t finalized to do this much talked about character.

The director even asked Arvind Swamy also to do the villain role n Telugu. Though Arvind Swamy was interested in doing so, his dates couldn’t be adjusted and so has to reject it.

Now the team has decided to try Madhavan and has approached him with this role. Madhavan is also a familiar actor here in Telugu. With no good offers in his hand and a negative role approaching him, Madhavan has not yet finalized anything.

R Madhavan’s return to movies after a lengthy break had been very publicized and followed by his fans everywhere, and now that day is finally upon us.

The actor’s upcoming Tamil flick, Irudhi Chutru, launched a couple of days back on July 14th, when the Pooja of the movie was held. The entire cast and crew of the movie attended the function including Madhavan.

The shooting is set to launch on July 21st in Chennai, if things go as planned and Madhavan’s parts in the flick will be among the first to be shot. The director of this film is Sudha K Prasad of Drohi fame, and Sashikanth of YNot Studios will be the man producing it. Santhosh Narayanan will score the tunes for this one.

Now about the story..

Apparently, the plot of the movie revolves around women’s boxing. Madhavan plays a boxing coach and the purpose of the movie, or at least one of its main intents, is to raise awareness about the female division of this sport in our nation.

This is exemplified in the movie as many real life female boxers will be tackling some onscreen roles for it.

Madhavan has gone through an intense physical transformation to get in to character for this film. Gone is the boy next door charming quality he carried through in many of his movies and here comes the new persona of the rough and tough, no nonsense weathered sportsman.

He will be seen sporting a long haired, thick bearded look and a much more buffed up, muscular physique in the movie.

So it definitely feels like Irudhi Chutru is one to look forward to..

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