In its eagerness to reveal how influenced people are through social media and viral trends (meme creators, for instance, attend the CM's swearing in, instead of the press), LKG barely scratches the surface of any real issue that affects people's lives. Ramkumar Ganesan is perhaps the most assured actor in the cast, playing the Deputy CM who gets an opportunity to become the CM (no marks for guessing how and why). The comedy often feels forced and he resorts to shouting whenever he needs to emote. RJ Balaji has tried his best, but the problem is that you can see him trying. Sure, the scene itself is funny, but it once again establishes LKG as a spoof along the lines of CS Amudhan's film which released a few months ago, rather than an original product. When she decides to help LKG win the election, she barges into his home like Kajal Aggarwal in the Colgate Active Salt ad (by the way, why didn't that awesome 'I challenge Kajal Aggarwal' line from the trailer make it to the final cut? I'm upset), and takes over his life. But just as her name is bogus, so is her characterisation, which is limited to uttering stock phrases about "corporate". She plays Sarah M Swamy (real name Sarala Munuswamy), who manages a team at VR Analytica, a Cambridge Analytica-type of company that helps politicians win elections. The problem is that Prabhu seems to have been undecided on whether he's making Tamizh Padam 3 or a realistic film that bites because it touches a raw nerve. The film makes liberal use of recent political events and while this is pretty entertaining for those who catch the references, it stops well short of being an intelligent satire. But then, LKG has no hero - its purpose is to reflect a certain reality, and in that sense it is unabashedly a "message padam".
Anyone familiar with Tamil cinema territory would know that this marks him out as the villain rather than the hero. His heroes, the ones to whom he does daily puja, are Sathyaraj's character from Amaidhi Padai and Raghuvaran's from Mudhalvan. LKG is about an ambitious ward councillor, Lalgudi Karuppiah Gandhi, who is at the kindergarten level of power, but wants a bigger share of the pie.
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