Sagaa Review: A promising revenge saga diluted by commercial compromises

Read the full review on Cinema Express, here:

https://www.cinemaexpress.com/reviews/tamil/2019/feb/01/sagaa-review-9902.html

In some ways, the first hour of Sagaa might remind you of Vetri Maaran’s Vada Chennai. And it is not only because Saran, who played Aishwarya Rajesh’s brother in that film, plays the protagonist Sathya here. Set in a jail for juvenile children, director Murugesh actually shows us glimpses of what happens in such prisons, much like the Dhanush-starrer.

You have the children fighting each other in a fight-club-like arrangement in the prison to stand out from the rest. You have gangs, gang leaders, and the well-oiled nexus between the top dogs of the prison and the officials. And to one-up Vada Chennai, the boys in the juvenile jail in Sagaa are shown improving their life skills by indulging in carpentry, automobile mechanic work, cooking, reading, etc… skills that will actually serve them well once they are released from the prison. But, due to certain twists in the tale, there comes the necessity for a jailbreak, and unfortunately, once the film shifts its focus and moves to happenings outside the jail, Sagaa becomes an incoherent mess.

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