Neelam Production’s second venture Irandam Ulagaporin Kadaisi Gundu directed by debutatnt Athiyan Athirai is all about labour exploitation in scrapyard, long lasting effects of World War 2, discrimination, love, labour unions, betrayal and more.
The scenes highlighted in the movie will unnerve the audience about how we are sitting on a time bomb waiting to explode.
The movie starts off about the bombs which were dumped on oceans aftermath of World War 2 and how it ends up at in scrapyard and occasionally explodes when the workers try to dismantle the bomb thinking it as steel and aluminum. According to Athiyan Athirai, the movie has inspiration from true stories about the exploitation of labour during his days in scrapyards.
The scenes are beautifully executed and indulge the audience to think about the life of workers who work in hazardous situation without any safety measures. Attakathi Dinesh, a second generation lorry driver in a scrapyard demands higher wage and pleads his co-workers to raise the issue with the employer who exploits the laborers for peanuts and how the workers safety has been neglected even after an accident involving Ramesh Thilak.
The movie shows how lorry drivers’ problems are neglected and how they are often exposed to highway robbers while resting during the transportation.
When a bomb which was dumped on seas washed ashore near Mahabalipuram and ends up in scrapyard, it was transported from one place to another by Dinesh. In middle of the serious note comes Dinesh’s love interest Chittu (Anandhi) and how she was subjected to repeated black magic by her family members so that she could forget love of her life.
Rythvika, who plays as an activist and journalist wants to unearth an amateur defence company who got tender to dismantle the bombs found in an ocean but they recovered it and dumped in another side of the Indian peninsula.
Adhavan Deetchanya, a writer and activist who works for the rights of marginalised people plays a special cameo in the movie. He vehemently opposes the government’s decision to buy weapons worth crores of rupees when there are many issues to be dealt with were neglected.
Another notable character in the movie is Puncture played by Munishkanth. He travels throughout the movie with Dinesh and how his dream to become a driver comes to halt was laughable. The first timer Athiyan has written the screenplay like he comes from Pa Ranjith’s school of direction and we can find some resemblance from Ranjith’s movie about caste, discrimination and exploitation shown through capitalists point of view.
Music is by Tenma who gave brilliant background scores has synced with Dinesh’s natural acting. The remaining movie speaks about whether Dinesh would stop the bomb from exploding or not and how the culprits usually abscond after a major scandal without facing the legal system and how it is always the low level employees are the affected ones.