Sivakasi

Even before Rajnikant was invented, movies had seen almost all kinds of chases, ranging from the routine ones in cars and bikes to those in bullock carts, motorboats, autos and even the occasional cycle-rickshaw. Rajnikant, of course, pushed the frontiers of self-belief, and moved to chasing sitting on tractors, camels, birds, bullets, and even wheelchairs. Basically, if it could be sat upon, he chased sitting on it.

The one thing that all movies, including Rajni movies, missed out on as a chasing option, however, Sivakasi seizes upon. The scene is standard – the driver ha....