Superstar Rajinikanth is back in the avatar of a top cop in AR Murugadoss`s latest offering Darbar. Right in the opening scenes, the director establishes that his protagonist Aaditya Arunasalam played by Rajinikanth, a top cop who has been deputed to Mumbai to tackle the drug menace in the city, isn`t someone who goes by the rule book. In the films of AR Murugadoss, justice doesn`t always isn`t done by upholding the law of the land and that is what happens in Darbar, where Aaditya goes on a murderous rampage to take down a most-wanted criminal. The main antagonist of the film, Hari Chopra is essayed by Suniel Shetty. A dreaded gangster who turned the police force into a laughing stock 27 years earlier, returns to the country to get his revenge by targeting Aaditya and his daughter Valli played by Nivetha Thomas. Murugadoss exploits the charisma and superstardom of Rajinikanth and gives us a genre film that is an engaging commercial cocktail of action and drama. The father-daughter scenes are the film`s strongest selling point, with the camaraderie between Rajinikanth and Nivetha Thomas making this relationship endearing.