Before Jagame Thandhiram, Dhanush’s crime movies ranked, from Kaadhal Kondein to Maari 2

Dhanush returns to the gangster style along with his upcoming movie Jagame Thandhiram. In a profession spanning 20 years, he has executed a big variety of roles through which he was in battle with the legislation. In some movies, he performed a personality who unwittingly commits against the law and bears the brunt, whereas in others, he performs a ruthless gangster who thrives within the underworld. We have discounted movies through which Dhanush’s character commits against the law of ardour or in self-defence (Adhu Oru Kana Kaalam, Asuran, Karnan). This listing solely focuses on the movies the place he performed a bonafide prison.

5) Parattai Engira Azhagu Sundaram
Director Suresh Krissna remade Kannada hit Jogi with Dhanush within the lead. The unique, starring Shivarajkumar, was a runaway hit and Rajinikanth had approached its director Prem to remake it in Tamil with him. However, Prem was afraid that he can be pressured to undermine the factor of realism within the movie to match the larger-than-life stature of the celebrity. And he was proper. Suresh Krissna failed to understand the core emotion and the sturdy sense of realism that made Jogi an all-time favorite gangster movie in Kannada. Despite Dhanush’s finest efforts, the movie depressingly didn’t seize the spirit of the unique.

4) Maari and Maari 2
Director Balaji Mohan wished to create a black comedy universe that was quirky and wacky. And he succeeded in doing so to an extent. The unique Mari, which got here out in 2015, was a trendsetter of types. The swag with which Dhanush performed the native thug, particularly his trend sense, was a giant hit. However, Balaji Mohan’s screenplay didn’t capitalize on Dhanush’s power. It was a traditional case of an actor being failed by the script. Balaji Mohan repeated the identical mistake with the sequel, which got here out in 2018. The movie labored in components, because of the scorching chemistry between Dhanush and Sai Pallavi, and the joy the Rowdy Baby track created earlier than the discharge. But, Balaji didn’t deliver collectively these parts and construct it right into a cohesive entire.

3) Vada Chennai
Director Vetrimaaran’s epic manufacturing is envisioned as a trilogy. The majority of the run time is devoted to a key character referred to as Rajan, who’s performed by Ameer. So the movie hardly scratches the floor with regards to Dhanush’s Anbu. We simply get a broad stroke of Anbu being sucked into the prison world and the way he’s used as a pawn in a sequence of sinister plots. The narrative construction of the movie is analogous with City of God. Like the 2002 Mexican traditional, Vada Chennai additionally chronicles the challenges of individuals aspiring to stay an honest life in a neighbourhood overrun by criminals. Vetrimaaran managed to ship an engrossing gangster drama.

2) Pudhupettai
Director Selvaraghavan ended the Tamil movie trade’s romanticisation of gangsters with Pudhupettai. Dhanush offers a masterful bodily efficiency as Kokki Kumar, who turns into pals with gangsters for 3 sq. meals a day and shortly rises within the ranks. Pudhupettai is without doubt one of the finest gangster Tamil movies of all time.

1) Kaadhal Kondein
This movie is an exception on this listing. It isn’t a gangster movie like the remaining, as a substitute Dhanush performs a cold-blooded serial killer on this darkish romantic thriller. Kaadhal Kondein is a couple of nerdy, bespectacled, lovelorn orphan. He grew up in a horrifying surroundings, the place kids had been robbed of their treasured innocence. Dhanush’s Vinod has turned a nook in life along with his  tutorial excellence. And he turns into pals with a lady, performed by Sonia Agarwal, who offers him unconditional affection, whereas others really feel revolted by him. His future appears to be like pleased with Divya in it. So what occurs when one other man threatens to take her away from him? It wakes up the sleeping animal in Vinod. Kaadhal Kondein was additionally the movie that turned Dhanush’s calling card within the early days of his profession. And the remaining, as they are saying, is historical past.