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Karthik's Kali is a software employee living in a North Madras locality who is as passionate about football as he is about the wall, the right over which, he hopes, will someday come to the political party he identifies with.

It is really not clear why anyone would want to swing sickles, bad mouth one another other and get into physical fights over a mere wall. Friendships are crushed and lives wasted. It is only past the first half that Madras gets down to pushing what it actually wants to show, which is a rivalry over the ownership of a huge wall that two different political clans fight for, shedding blood and brotherhood. It is time worn, beaten to death and absolutely clichГ©d stretching for well over 150 minutes - much of it wasted in inanity. However, the thin plot by itself does not throw up surprises. If Ranjit dared to make a movie, Madras, in the city's northern fringes, - perhaps the first time ever for a film to have been shot there - he also deftly captures the area's smells and sounds, its dialect and crudity, which can, though, encompass a certain unique camaraderie, fast vanishing elsewhere. For the film is set there, in its lower middleclass tenements, where women wear jasmine flowers and queue up at the break of dawn by the street corner water tap with colourful containers, and men brawl over brew. An apt title for director P Ranjith's work could have been North Madras.

Paruthiveeran cast