


Mumbai Xpress is another movie in the same vein. Classics like Michael, Madan, Kama Raj, Pammal K Sambandham, Tenali and Pushpak come to mind. He is the only actor to have starred in comedies that people actually find hilarious. Senthil throwing a sack of flour at Goundamani's visage and laughing at the sight is about as good as it gets. After having watched how a faithful, frame-by-frame reconstruction of a classic Malayalam movie can still turn out to be terrible, I was hoping for a movie that would be a cut above Chandramukhi.Īnd glory be, Mumbai Xpress put on display Kamal Haasan at his very best - and better still, it was an original story! Mumbai Xpress is not just a cut, but a whole ladder above the rest!Ĭomedy in Tamil movies is usually slapstick. I walked into a theatre screening the Tamil version of Mumbai Xpress after a three-hour encounter with the superstar, Rajnikanth.
