The film shows us a couple of examples of how amazing this team (the "Puli Team") is, and before you can savour some genuinely impressive and touching moments of Gandhigiri, it quickly moves on to the actual story. Alright, we admit we're exaggerating - he stopped at either "colony" or "city", we forget - but we're sure he did mean to zoom all the way up.
He tells the government that if he's given a team and enough resources, he'll ensure that he will resolve every single police complaint made by citizens in every single lane in every single colony in every single city in every single state in every single country on every single planet. So Komaram Puli (Pawan Kalyan) is this incredible award-winning super cop. However, Pawan Kalyan's fans know that it's him in the womb, and start cheering.
This is when an uneasy curiosity about what else this movie will bring to you sneaks up menacingly onto you. The hero is introduced to us in the form of his hapless and pregnant mom's puke. Unsubtle plus stupid - now that is shaky ground for a star to throw himself onto, 2 years after his last project. It doesn't have an extraordinary story in the first place, and the makers aren't very subtle while narrating it. The rest is a frivolous set of disjointed attempts to build substance around one man's intention to repeatedly make a heated Independence Day speech.įor a film being advertised as a hi-tech action thriller, Puli is over-the-top in spirit. More than anything else, Puli is about Pawan Kalyan wanting to get feverishly worked up and mouth deafeningly loud lines about what irks him about the world.