‘Joshua: Imai Pol Kaakha’ movie review: Gautham Menon loses the plot — hook, line and sinker — in this chaotic mess

Suriya, son of Krishnan. And yet, the ‘GVM hero’ — however worn out the image of a shirt-tucked-in, bracelet-clad man has become — still finds a special place among audiences, as the recent re-releases of several Gautham Menon films have proved. Even with a film like Vendhu Thanindhathu Kaadu, Gautham Menon wrote a protagonist in Silambarasan’s Muthu who didn’t quite belong to his usual template but still stood tall in the director’s filmography. Joshua: Imai Pol Kaakha Director: Gautham Vasudev Menon Cast: Varun, Raahei, Dhivyadarshini, Krishna Runtime: 130 minutes Storyline: A contract killer-turned-bodyguard has to protect the woman he loves from the men who are after the bounty on her head This is the biggest letdown from Gautham in the film; there seems to be no motivation to use strong, novel emotional beats to support the progression of events, something his films are known for. There are several other spoiler-y questions Joshua frustrates you with and, in the end, you only wish you had hired a contract killer to shoot down such ideas in Gautham Menon’s mind.