‘Double Tuckerr’ (2024) Movie Review - A Comedy With Two Good Jokes

A kid loses his parents in a car accident. He gets burn marks on his face and a cruel nickname, "The Satan Face." Growing up without parental support, one can only imagine the emotional challenges he must have faced. That kid is Aravind. Come to think of it, I don't remember who raised him in Meera Mahadhi's Double Tuckerr. As an adult (Dheeraj), he resides in a grand mansion without servants. Does he clean the entire house by himself? Within his solitary existence, Aravind finds solace in the companionship of two significant individuals—Karthick, a child battling cancer, and Paaru (Smruthi Venkat), who...well, she is a woman. Do any of them help Aravind maintain his mansion? Don't laugh; it's a serious question. The house has many rooms, and everything looks as clean as an artificially generated desktop wallpaper. Does Aravind run a cleaning service? Can you hire him to take care of your own apartment?

Maybe not. You see, Aravind finds himself entangled in a web of obstacles and characters. But before all that, he musters the courage to confess his love to Paaru, only to face rejection. The reason she gives makes you think that Paaru is one of those strong, independent women who don't follow traditional notions. Ha, jokes on you because she indeed harbors feelings for Aravind. However, it takes a dramatic turn of events involving a suicide threat to lay bare her true emotions. Aravind hangs himself, though he soon starts regretting taking such a fatal action when Paaru calls him back. Too late. The rope breaks and the body falls on the bed; Aravind runs towards his phone and realizes he is dead. It's here the angels, Left (Munishkanth) and Right (Kaali Venkat), make an appearance. They are animated figures. A text informs us that the Left takes note of the good deeds, while the Right concentrates on bad behavior. A few minutes later, we receive the same information through a dialogue, which makes you wonder why the movie even bothered showing us those texts. This doubt soon seems trivial compared to other questions.

For instance, who put the garland on Aravind's image? How does Karthick know about the angels? Are there other angels like Left and Right who take souls to heaven (or hell or whatever)? Rocket (Sunil Reddy) and Murder Mani (Sha Ra) go to a police station to file a complaint that the jewelry they stole turned out to be fake. In other words, they confess to a crime and are locked up in the jail. But the fact that the police release them (why, though?), leading to the execution of their "sell Aravind's home" plan, tells you that the police officers in Double Tuckerr are sorely incompetent. No wonder they don't find Mani's mobile when they visit Aravind's home to investigate. It's established that the angels can pull out Aravind's soul. Then why don't they do this again at a police station when they are ordered to bring his soul to the spiritual realm? Velvet Vennila (Yashika Aannand), an actress, is given a chance to escape from a gangster's clutches. Why doesn't she flee the country, as this was the original plan? What leads her to take that weird step? It makes for a deliciously ridiculous twist, but the comic insanity doesn't land because of the clumsiness of Double Tuckerr.

The non-linear structure tests your patience. Mahadhi uses it to introduce twists and suspense, but the style leaves you begging for the movie to end. Double Tuckerr mocks the Tamil cinema tradition by saying that instead of searching for his body, the hero will now sing a song for the delusional heroine. This Deadpool-type jab is meaningless. It would have been better if Mahadhi had refrained from hitting us with a song and dance sequence or even that Subway Surfers-type animated stretch. Filmmakers cannot do anything fresh with their material if they remain slaves to the audience. Anyway, two scenes in the film are hilarious. The first shows a news report of an unmarried couple on their honeymoon, and the second involves fake calls to a police inspector. The latter had me laughing like a drain. Because of these two jokes, I will give two points to Double Tuckerr.

Final Score- [2/10]
Reviewed by - Vikas Yadav
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Publisher at Midgard Times