Kuzhanthaigal Munnetra Kazhagam

The film also dedicates much screen time to show how Pallavan arm-twists his school principal (Chitra Lakshmanan) to gain an unfair advantage in school politics or unethically cement a leadership position within his mates. Even when he makes a major decision about his candidacy in student pupil leader election, he does it with an eye on exploiting his rival by forming a warm relationship with her. In contrast, Alexander does not do any of the above. He is the more straightforward and honest child of the two. When the film uses a bizarre jump cut and shows where each of them eventually reaches in the nation’s political scene as adults, presumably the message of Shankar Dayal is about what between ethics and the lack of it works best in the field. The idea is reasonably interesting, but the execution is extremely underdeveloped and underwhelming.