Petta (Tamil)

Peta succeeds as long as it indulges in its unabashed worship of the onscreen persona of Rajinikanth. For much of its runtime, this reverential celebration of a film has nothing in mind except to pay tribute after tribute to this Thalaivar, the borderline superhuman that decades of Rajinikanth's career managed to create. You might feel at some point that this whole Rajinification is overwhelming, but isn't that precisely what has been missing from Rajinikanth films lately? If Pa Ranjith's dabbling in his ham-handed attempts at humanizing Rajinikanth and the fate of those movies are any indicat....