The film opens with a typical unavoidable intro of our ghost
habitat that was to be disturbed by villain or hero. Here the caretaker of the
palace and his men do the job, setting free the disturbed spirit.
And the following sequence see Kadhal Dhandapani, one of the
servants, get killed in an attention-grasping way that keeps audience keen.
Then goes the introduction of the lead characters and all the connective stuffs
that bring the family to the crease (of course the same palace) and is there
to sell the place for money.
Andrea (Madhavi) as wife of Vinay (Murali) was apt for the role and
so do Raai Laxmi aka Lakshmi Rai. The Kanchana girl do justice to her cast and
provides the oomph factor as usual. Kovai Sarala and Manobala – they continue to
entertain us once again. Nithin Sathya is just one among the support cast and nothing else. Saravanan and Chithra Lakshmanan were the other
notable actors.
There seems to a default pattern for ghost stories in
Kollywood and undoubtedly Ragava Lawrence has set the new trend (Horror-comedy).
It is to some extent disappointing to discover that Sundar.C has only given a
new color to the Muni series screenplay.
It is nevertheless engaging from the opening sequence and
will win the family audience for sure with the current market trend. Still, the
creator in Sundar.C should haven’t simply adapted the usual thrill first half of
introducing the ghost in several scary ways and a typical expected flashback
in the second.
Sundar.C enters the plot well into the first half and hears
of the blink and miss stories after a small action block, sigh! One cannot
refrain themselves from referring to Sherlock Holmes and Vishwaroopam for the same.
He soon tries to unravel the mysteries behind the strange happenings, something on the lines
of Chandramukhi Rajinikanth.
It is definitely not easy to make a movie without references
and something might stick to the script unnoticed and without the writer’s
intention, may be owing to inspiration or liking. But it shoudn’t be more open
in every scene and it was deeply saddening to one of the best screenplay writer
with this.
The scenes showing the little girl and the surveillance
camera part were laudable indeed. When things heat up as the lead discovers in who the spirit lies, the break sends us out after a reasonably well made first part.
Enter Hansika Motwani. The screenplay takes enters a very
slow loop after the break and to make it worse the Tamil film transforms into a
‘dubbed’ one. The conversations (in Telugu may be) between the lead
pair once the bubbly village diva enters the story is frustrating to some
extent. And I’m damn sure that Hansika’s song won’t be surviving the opening day.
The predictable flashback ends mid-way and we get to hear the rest of them from
spirit itself (again!)
Whether the hero is able to save the lives at stake from the
beautiful ghost on the rare solar eclipse day (not again) is the rest of the
plot.
Bharathwaj‘s songs were pretty average and background score
was just enough to carry the film. Camera is by Senthil Kumar and one half of Aaranya
Kaandam’s National Award winning editor pair, N.B.Srikanth does the cutting works. Nothing
on the ‘extraordinary’ lines from the technical team and VFX was good to
Kollywood standards.
Vinay has nothing much to do with the director himself
taking the center stage in later parts. Hansika is one good-looking ghost you will come across in a horror movie, sadly ineffective on the scarier side.
On the fresh items list, we get to see beautiful ghosts for
a change and you are definitely not getting any scary moments with the beautiful
ladies! Santhanam not even spares the ghost with his teasing one-liners and we
get to see some tingling moments when he encounters it. And most remarkably, we
can enjoy the climax where the lead actor almost enters a wrestling bout with
Andrea (the devil)!
At the end, an engaging first half and an expected second
half collaborates for a watchable experience. Hence, the Sundar.C touch to the
horror movie did not turn out to be a failure despite all these clichés.
Marks: 6/10
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