Daddy tale

Sivakarthikeyan starrer Don is a formula commercial entertainer but shrewdly packed with a message by director Cibi Chakravarthy. If the first half is all about campus things and aspirations of engineering student, the latter is an emotional drama throwing light on conflict between a dad and his son.

Produced by Sivakarthikeyan himself in association with Lyca Productions, Don speaks in a nutshell aspiration of children and sacrifices of a father in the family. 

Besides Sivakarthikeyan, the movie features Priyanka Mohan, SJ Suryah, Soori, Samuthirakani, Bala Saravanan, Shivangi, RJ Vijay and Munishkanth among others. Music is by Anirudh Ravichander and cinematography by Bhaskaran.

Don is all about Chakravarthi (Sivakarthikeyan), who hails from an economically backward family. His father (Samuthirakani) forces him to take up engineering. When he joins an engineering college, he just wants to have fun. In the college, he meets professor Boominathan (SJ Suryah), head of the Discipline Committee. Chakaravarthi is up in arms against Bhoominathan, who is dictatorial inside the campus. He comes up with a plan to teach Boominathan a lesson. What happens then forms the crux.

Sivakarthikeyan walks away with applause. He is spontaneous. Priyanka and Shivangi chip in well. SJ Suryah is more a caricature while Bala Saravanan and RJ Vijay evoke laughter. Samuthirakani is no doubt the scene-stealer.

Kudos to Cibi for elevating a simple story by adding right commercial elements. Though oft-seen in films like Santhosh Subramaniam and Thavamai Thavamirundhu, the ‘appa-magan’ emotion works out well.