Adukalam(ஆடுகளம் )

First hats off to the Adukalam team, meticulous planning by director Vetrimaran is visible in each and every frame.

The backdrop of the story is very new in Tamil cinema - Rooster fight.The cameraman and the director brings alive the native rooster fighting before our eyes, the entire first half of the movie is about rooster fighting and rooster rearing which sets the story for the second half.Petaikaran,an old man is the numero uno in rooster fighting and rearing, he always wins the fights against the police officer Rathinasamy.Rathinasamy on the other hand wants to win atleast once before his mother dies.Petaikaran never sells his roosters to anyone but allows youngsters to rear in his place,Karuppu is one among them.Karuppu is living with his mother ,when his father was alive they were rich but now they pawned the house and living in a small house.Karuppu is an innocent guy who falls in love with Irene  an Anglo-Indian girl living in Railway colony with his family.Durai is also understudy of petaikaran who supports them financially.

Rathinasamy decided to fight one last fight with Petaikaran and to win for the sake of his dying mother, he also granted permission to Petaikaran to conduct the Rooster fight tournament.The contract between them is that whoever loses the fight will have to shave their head & moustache and quit roost fighting .After losing more than 10 fights ,Rathinasamy brings roosters from Banglore and uses 'english' drugs to enhance the performance,as Petaikaran is looking for roosters to fight against the bangalore roosters, Karuppu brings his rooster and participates in the fight against will of Petaikaran and he wins big money,here the story take a turn.

Pettaikaran is not happy and is upset with Karuppu's fame,he  plan for karuppu's downfall.He make karuppu and Durai fight each other by killing Durai's roosters and put the blame on Karuppu that leads to heartbreaking and riveting climax.

The romance scenes were crafted beautifully particularly the song "Yathae yathae".Background music by GV Prakash is another huge bonus for this movie,he did not overdone in any scene,everything is perfect.Another hero of the movie is cinemtographer Velraj,he captures the essence of Madurai wonderfully.

Dhanus as Karuppu has done a amazing job,his mannerism and dialogue delivery were excellent, one of his best effort.Jeyabalan as Pettaikaran,my gosh he is simply awesome,hope we will see him in more movies in future.Kishore as Durai,this is a kind of role made for him, done his best.Taapsee as Ierene has done her job well.All the credit should go to Vetrimaran for his wonderful story and the way he handled all these characters,its pleasing to watch these director's work.Vetrimaran and Dhanush combination has done it again.Keep going guys.