Review in pics: Osthi

Cast: Silambarasan (Simbu), Richa Gangopadhyay and Sonu Sood

Credits: Director - Dharani, Music Director - Thaman S

Director Dharani is turning out to be a master of remakes. After the success of Ghilli - which was inspired by the Telugu film Okkadu , Dharani remakes the superhit Hindi movie Dabangg as Osthi in Tamil.

Like Salman Khan in Dabangg, Simbu carries the movie on his shoulders and delivers his best.

Adding to Simbu's performance is Gopinath's colourful cinematography and S Thaman's foot-tapping music.

Coming to the story, Osthi Velan (Simbu) is a daring police officer, who likes to be referred to as Robin Hood. He has a step brother Balan (Jithan Ramesh), with whom he doesn't share a good relationship.

Neduvali (Richa Gangopadhyay) is the love interest of Velan in the movie.

Everything works fine till Boxer Daniel (Sonu Sood) enters the scene.

In this movie Simbu emerges to be a one-man army.

Richa Gangopadhyay is beautiful and performs well in her first Tamil film.

Sonu Sood is also good in the Tamil version. He was applauded in Dabangg too.

The stunts are the biggest highlight of the film, especially the climax fight between Simbu and Sonu Sood.

On the whole, Osthi is a commercial entertainer which is worth the money you spend in watching the film.