Political pot boilers are always exciting provided it has a few factors like gripping performances, unpredictable twists and turns, nepotism, intelligent moves, unapologetic treachery, hunger for power, and so on. With Yaman, Jeeva Shankar has tried to tick all the boxes. The erratic political happenings being the flavour of the season, the film has some scenes and unadulterated dialogues which the audience can relate to.
Tamilarasan (Vijay Antony), who lost his parents soon after his birth, is living with his grandfather (Sangili Murugan). The latter has been diagnosed with a disease, for which Tamilarasan is in need of money. He agrees to turn approver for an accident case which he has no connection with, and approaches an unknown person (Swaminathan) for the same. He goes to jail and encounters a local goon who has a fallout with another gangster in town. The two gangsters come to terms under a discussion organised by Karunakaran (Thiagarajan), a shrewd politician and an ex-minister. They decide to finish off Tamilarasan in the latter’s presence, but in an interesting turn of events, Tamil becomes Karunakaran’s trusted man in no time.
( 3 / 5 )