Yes, the Tamil movie is almost 176 minutes, which is a full hour and three minutes longer than the French work.Īlso, Thozha - where Nagarjuna as Vikram, essays paraplegic Cluzet’s part - is overly sentimental and goes overboard with its emotional quotient. Songs and dramatic familial squabbles - involving Seenu (played by Karthi who reprises Sy’s role), his foster mother, sister and brother - not just distract us from the core narrative but also seem like a drag. Vamsi retains all these in Thozha, but builds up a screenplay that loses sight of the fact that this is, above all, a film about two men and how they bond over wheels. Read: Thozha in Tamil is that fascinating French film, The Intouchables Director Vamsi should have stayed with the buddy narrative in Thozha, as the original, with no love story woven in.
Driss’ devil-may-care attitude ultimately helps him win over the staid Philippe and push the wheelchair-bound and paralysed from the neck man back into a life of laughter and fun that he enjoyed before a paragliding accident turned him into an invalid.
Quite similar in plot, Thozha with Telugu superstar Nagarjuna and Karthi is a Tamil version (there is also a Telugu edition) of the 2011 French work by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, called The Intouchables.Įssentially a buddy movie with Omar Sy playing, Driss, a poor black caregiver with a criminal record, for a white millionaire paraplegic, Philippe (Francois Cluzet), The Intouchables is, at 113 minutes, extremely focussed in conveying underlying class barriers and how they are bridged. Cast: Nagarjuna, Karthi, Tamannaah, Prakash RajĬomparisons may be odious, but they are inevitable, more so in cinema when a film is inspired by or remade from another - as is the case with Vamsi’s Thozha.
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