Amazon Prime Video released the highly anticipated film, ‘Udanpirappe‘ yesterday and the less said about the film, the better. The movie is Jyotika’s 50th film, a major milestone in the actress’s career – which is also pretty much the only good thing about the film. Udanpirappe is filled with ridiculous moral preaching and general cringiness, but what takes the cake are its blatant plot holes. While it is true that almost every film out there has some plot hole or the other, this film flaunts its plot holes to blind people from the film’s other faults, like its non-existent plot. So for this article, we are going to talk about 4 glaring plot holes that you can’t miss while watching Amazon Prime’s Udanpirappe:
An Aunt’s Love
Maathangi loves Vivek, her nephew, like her own son, and Vivek, in turn, treats Maathangi like his own mother. Their love for each other was hyped up to legendary status in the first half of the film – but by the feature film’s end, both characters barely exchange more than a few words to each other on-screen (which is us being generous). We don’t think there was even a hug either between both characters. This makes no sense.
The Incident
Maathangi’s son and nephew both fall into a well. Maathangi sees this from afar and jumps in after them. Now, ignoring the bad CGI and acting from everyone involved, Maathangi eventually reaches both boys. After being unable to swim back up with two boys (which she attempts for barely 10 seconds), Maathangi decides to sacrifice her son so that her nephew can live. Again, ignoring other issues there, the fact that she can swim back up with one boy, but not two makes little sense. Underwater, both boys will not weigh that much, and if Maathangi had managed to get one of the boys to cling to her, she could have reached them both – since three people mean three sets of lungs with air. Also, if she was able to go back up from that depth with one boy, then she should have been able to do it with two boys as well.
The Assassination Quotation
Vairavan wants to find out the assassin who nearly stabbed his niece to death, so he goes to the only people he knows who works with assassins – the people who tried to murder him at the very beginning of the film. Ignoring a few blatant plot holes along the way, what really doesn’t make sense is the quotation guy’s “freak out” session when the assassin reveals that the man they have been assigned to assassinate is Vivek, Vairavan’s son. Since they didn’t order the stabbing of the niece, this shouldn’t have caused any more problems between the quotation guys and Vairavan. We feel that this scene was added for the scriptwriter or the director, who likely wanted some kind of sub-plot to create another fight scene.
A Mother’s Strength
Maathangi finds herself going up against her daughter’s rapist towards the end of the film. While trying to stop him from attacking her as well, she did some kind of martial move which ended up with the man’s neck being wrapped around her hair. And with some ridiculous strength, the nearly 50-year-old woman strangled a 30-something man to death. Not impossible, but highly improbable.