A Kick-Ass Family Affair!

A Kick-Ass Family Affair! : My quick take on Tamil movie “Blast” (Theatrical release)

Thanks to my buddy @sarvanamuthu balsubramanian for recommending this kick-ass (literally!) movie, which I thoroughly enjoyed.

When Hollywood served us various versions of Karate Kid, lo and behold, our Kollywood came up with a befitting response: “Karate Family.” After all, we are a family-oriented audience. Why settle for one karate kid when you can have an entire family handing out flying kicks like Diwali sweets? 😜

In fact, Pixar must be frantically huddled around a storyboard right now, reconsidering their next The Incredibles venture in Chennai. Because this family is better than the Darrs. Yes, hamari choriya kya choron se kam hai?

This is a kick-a-minute, punch-a-minute, flip-a-minute kind of movie. At times, it felt as though the screenplay was written after the fight sequences were choreographed. Someone probably asked, “We’ve got 27 spectacular fights. Now can somebody please stitch a story around them?”

And what fights!

Watching a Kanjivaram-clad Amma kicking the s*** out of goons is worth the price of admission alone. It is not every day that maternal affection comes packaged with a spinning back kick.

Arjun Sarja, of course, is action royalty. We already know he can make punching people look like a respectable profession. But the real revelation for me were the two ladies, Abhirami and Preity Mukundhan, in their “black dupatta”… sorry, black belt avatars. They don’t merely participate in the action; they own it.

Logic occasionally takes a tea break, physics files for leave, and gravity wonders why it even showed up for work. But who cares? This movie isn’t applying for a Nobel Prize in Science. It is here to entertain, and entertain it does.

It’s a paisa vasool movie loaded with seeti-podu moments, provided you enjoy over-the-top action flicks where villains patiently wait their turn to be launched into the next postal code.

Overall,

If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if a traditional Tamil family decided that conflict resolution should involve martial arts certification, Blast has your answer.

A full-on family entertainer where the family itself is the weapon.

Sometimes cinema doesn’t need to make you think.

Sometimes it just needs to make villains fly.

And sometimes, it just needs to be a Blast. 💥