Foamy laundry water (because Lingesan is feeling dirty?)ĥ. A sprout (because Lingesan wants to eat her up)Ĥ. A Royal Enfield bike (because Lingesan wants to, erm, ride her)ģ. A Nokia cellphone (because Lingesan presses her buttons)Ģ. There's also the catchy AR Rahman composision "Mersalaayitten", in which Amy Jackson transforms into the following:ġ. If there is a god, someone will show this scene to a band of gorillas and video their reaction. Suddenly, the big screen is filled with juddering male breasts. How do they attempt to intimidate him? By twitching their pectorals. There's a Vijay Mallya lookalike, Upen Patel does a fantastic impression of a roaring Chewbacca and in one song, Vikram, for no reason, appears as a creature that's part ram (the horns), part bear (the fur), part cat (the whiskers) and all weird.Įarly on in the film, Lingesan is surrounded by an army of well-oiled body builders in their Speedos. This is not to suggest I is without moments of entertainment. Meanwhile, we're supposed to look past Lingesan's prosthetics and murders to see his good-as-gold heart. Never mind the irony that she's ridiculed largely because of the way she looks and her "immoral" behaviour of hitting on Lingesan. The way it demonises and makes a mockery of queer people through the transgender stylist is downright offensive. For a film that repeatedly stresses one should not judge a person by their appearance, I is entirely superficial. The moment Lingesan loses his looks, he appears to acquire superpowers like being able to concoct new face creams in a salad bowl, enter homes without being detected, replace someone's cosmetics without them realising.Īlso, it seems Shankar believes losing your looks is reason enough for committing multiple murders. Logic is always a casualty in Shankar's films and this one is no different. Unfortunately, that's about the end of the smarts as far as I is concerned. Since Vikram's beastly avatar has been revealed in trailers and posters already, Shankar smartly shows us the beast in the very first scene of I and we know it's Lingesan under all the boils and baldness. The bad guys' prayers appear to be answered when a mysterious illness strikes Lingesan and transforms him into a hunchback. In no time, Lee's gone from being an oily bod to a slick dude who's got the girl.Įven though Lingesan/Lee is still the humble, good man that he was, his success doesn't go down well with some.
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More offers pour in and Shankar helpfully makes advertisements for a series of products (including Fair and Lovely) that are endorsed by Diya and Lee, in case anyone in advertising needed some inspiration. With a haircut, a shave and a new wardrobe, Lingesan becomes Lee and of course, he's super successful. When she rejects him, John has her dropped from a shoot.ĭiya decides to retaliate by introducing Lingesan to the world of modelling and taking the newcomer on as her co-star for a series of ads to be shot in China. She's very successful, but she's being harassed by male model John (Upen Patel) who thinks that he's god's gift to women and therefore Diya must jump into bed with him. While her ads are making Lingesan's heart go pitter patter, Diya's life is in crisis. He's also a diehard fan of the model Diya (Amy Jackson). Lingesan is a boy from a humble family who dreams of becoming Mr India. I is precisely as regressive as you expect a wannabe Tamil blockbuster to be and worse yet, it's nowhere near as fun as Shankar's previous films. The 10-odd seconds of faint hope that I offers are fool's gold. Could it be that Tamil cinema, famous for showcasing jaw-dropping misogyny and conservatism, had turned a new leaf in 2015? Sure, Lingesan looked embarrassed each time the stylist lavished attention upon him, but he was also willingly spending time with her and let's face it, his exaggerated expressions made Lingesan's behaviour a textbook example of the gentleman protesting too much (with apologies to William Shakespeare). As Lingesan (Vikram) walked arm in arm with a transgender stylist (right after having his heart broken by the heroine), it looked like I could be India's first commercial film with a bisexual hero. Halfway into the first half of I, it looked like director Shankar was about to make history.
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