The day the trailer of Tamil movie ‘Tik Tik Tik’ was released, people couldn’t hold on to their excitement for reasons people thought were obvious.
First, it’s being touted as India’s first space film.
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Second, amazing cinematography and visuals that can give any Hollywood movie a run for its money…
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And third, which we feel shouldn’t go unnoticed, its plot that makes no sense whatsoever, no matter how hard we try to put our brains to it.
Within 5 days of its release, the trailer already has nearly 3.6 million views and we guess it’s partly because people like us are watching it again and again trying to find logic that was probably lying hidden somewhere.
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The trailer started on a really high note and there were many who found the plot strikingly similar to ‘Armageddon’. The trailer begins with an asteroid hitting the Earth, particularly Chennai that spreads panic, fear and hysteria among the people.
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We too thought that the movie will be similar to the 1988 film until the protagonist Jayam Ravi was introduced. Ravi is sent to space to destroy those asteroids that will soon hit the ground and save the world.
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So what made the Indian Department of Defence pick Ravi? Is he one of the greatest scientists? No. Is he the best astronaut from the lot? No. He is given this pivotal job because he is a magician who can escape from any given situation. Wait, what?
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Okay, I don’t want to sound like someone who looks for logic everywhere, but on one hand when people are discussing about millions of lives at stake since an asteroid is going to hit India within a week, the best solution that the Defense team could come up with was to get a trained magician to hack into a vault to steal a missile that can destroy the asteroids.
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Why is he asked to steal it? Because it is a 200 kilotons nuclear missile that is kept in a secure vault that actually belongs to a space station owned by some other country. And because of diplomatic reasons, they can’t come to a mutual understanding with them. *Slow claps* anyone?
Here’s the much talked about trailer.
In fact, our hero is so talented that in a micro-gravity environment, he plays chess as if it’s child’s play.
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However, we also have Tamil songs like ‘Inky Pinky Ponky’, which will make you feel that a weird plot like this is completely normal. To refresh your memories and make your ears bleed, here’s the iconic song.
Too much in the name of creative freedom! But, we also have our counterparts in the west that made a whole franchise with a bunch of ‘intelligent’ apes ruling the planet. At least, Director Shakti Soundar Rajan is still using humans here.
The makers also managed to rope in Aaron Aziz, a Singaporean actor who is largely popular in Malaysia and Singapore.
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The makers seem to have spent gigantic amounts of money on special effects and the film’s sets; and we are extremely impressed with the end result. After ‘Baahubali’, if there’s anything that has won our hearts, it is the VFX of this movie.
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The film also features Nivetha Pethuraj who is trained in Jiu Jitsu and kickboxing. The movie is slated for a December 22 release and we honestly can’t wait for it to hit the theatres just to see how the makers manage to justify a magician goes up in space to save lives of millions of people.