Sakthi Saravanan's cinematography is a major strength. Yuvan Shankar Raja's music is passable with a couple of racy tunes. Vaibhav and Jayaprakash leave their mark on screen. Trisha, Andrea, Anjali and Lakshmi Rai play minuscule roles. Arjun plays the Action King role to perfection. After a long gap, Ajith sheds the stereotype tag. The attention then shifts to Vinayak and the battlelines are redrawn – it is nowVinayak vs Prithvi. In the meantime, a shocked Arumuga Chettiyar begins his hunt for the treasure though every move of him is being closely followed by Prithvi. They even succeed in taking away the money and decide to wait for an appropriate time to share the fortune. He promises to help the team members and divide the wealth between them. When he comes to know of their plans, Vinayak steps in. He hatches a conspiracy to take away the money in the company of his friends – a police officer Ganesh (Ashwin), Mahanth (Mahanth), who runs a bar, and Prem (Premgi Amaran), an IIT graduate. Sumanth (Vaibhav) is Arumuga Chettiyar's protégé. 500 crore betting money for the finals of the IPL is coming to Mumbai, uses his underworld links to route it through his recreation centre. Meanwhile, Arumuga Chettiyar, who comes to know that Rs. Assistant Commissioner of Police Prithvi (Arjun) takes charge to free the sport from betting. A suicide by a police officer investigating the betting mafia involved in Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket hogs headlines. He has least respect for values in life, wants to become the richest. He falls in love with Sanjana (Trisha), daughter of an influential local goon Arumuga Chettiyar (Jayaprakash). Vinayak Mahadevan (Ajith) is a suspended cop in Maharashtra police. While the first half is more an extension of the director's earlier films like Chennai 28 and Saroja, the later half is dead serious, action-packed and racy. Ajith slips into the role of the baddie whom we love to hate with élan, hogging the limelight with his charismatic screen presence. The actor who failed to cheer his fans in his previous flick Aasal, has managed to satisfy the appetite of his fans in Mankatha. The spotlight here is not on the field but on betting, money and the men behind it. If cricket was the basic crux of Venkat Prabhu's Chennai 28 (his debut film as a director), Mankatha is also based on the willow game, albeit with a difference. Director Venkat Prabhu, known for doing light-hearted films, takes up an action-packed thriller in the company of the mass hero. Mankatha is Ajith's 50th film and the actor unleashed his charm doing a baddie in Vaali repeats the act. From Rajinikanth to Silambarasan, there are no exceptions to this craving. overall a superb film after a long time.The film has everything that Ajith fans would want and some more Every actor would love to do an anti-hero role at least once in their career. Awesome film.film s full of great action and twists.
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