Vadacurry - Dedicated to iPhone users for the rest a separate romantic track!

Vadacurry - Dedicated to iPhone users for the rest a separate romantic track!

Cast:- Jai as Satish, Swati Reddy as Naveena, RJBalaji as Karikalan aka Vadacurry, Misha Ghoshal, Aruldoss as the father, Kasthuri as the mother, Sunny Leone/VenkatPrabhu/Premji (Sp App)

& Crew:- S.SP/Dir:- Saravana Rajan, D.D.P.:- Venkatesh P, Music:- Vivek Shiva/Mervin Solomon,Edit:- Praveel K L/N.B.Srikanth

Producer:- Dayanidhi Azhagiri

Direction, story & Screenplay: - This film is a double narrative (i.e.) The entire premise is narrated in a single person boring monologue just before the interval and again visually shown for 2hrs and 10mins that at the end of it all the viewer is left in the doldrums utterly confused and frustrated. Let me start with the premise:- "P" a pharmaceutical company is disposing off expired drugs through "S" a sales rep who in turn funnels it through "B" a broker who in turn palms it off to a "DC" drug cartel headed by "X" an unknown entity. Confused? Look! I am trying to simplify the film's confused double narrative and at the same trying to create some sort of intrigue as an added initiative (which of course is missing in the film) so that you will somehow end up watching this film! Coming to the next part of the directors premise. Where and how does Jai the hero fit into the premise. Jai the protagonist a medical representative is probably the alter ego of the director of this film earning 14K but can only afford a "dubbah" cell phone owing to his abject poverty though he rides a swanky bike! The real hero of the first half is Jai's "dubbah" phone and his friend RJ Balaji aka Vadacurry! The entire first half revolves around instances which mocks the use of mobile phones more particularly the cheap Korean/Chinese phones which have loud ring tones and even louder speaker modules. The director uses RJ Balaji effectively to move the first half but beyond a point the film drags and the weak premise fails to sustain. The rare novelty in this film is a separate romantic visual track with the heroine Swati Reddy (Naveena) instead of the usual separate comedy track in Tamil cinema. Though the romantic track simply fails to entertain or move the story along but the comedy track does to a certain extent . In fact the romance is an absolutely absurd insert by the director which is so ineffective and purposeless to this story. Let me move on! Finally the hero Jai after much deliberation steals the elusive i phone and ends up getting caught in some sort of mistaken identity scenario and ludicrous crossfire between "A","B","DC" & "X" which simply fails to move the premise nor effectively entertain. The director even tries to pep up proceedings by using the late M.G.R's pictures even going to desperate lengths of equating "Puratchi Thalaivar" to god almighty. In fact even trying to compare M.G.R's originality with todays pseudo heroes like Simbudevan etc.The first half starts well but fizzles out with a series of ring tones and insipid romance.

The second half is even more bizarre as Jai the hero is put in a spot by the director and has to singlehandedly combat multifarious issues at the same time like kidnapping,suicide attempts, motor cycle chases, more ring tones, false complaints, boss's wrath and finally to my relief the film ended with the usual Jing,bang and bash sending bodies flying all over the place! The romantic track also comes to its logical end. Thank god there were no end credit footage to prolong the agony any further!

Track list:- 5 Songs. Total duration of songs: - 23.21 mins.

Acting: - Jai as Sathish, It somehow felt that he was trying too hard and ends up imitating Vijay!

Sweta Reddy as Naveena, Was she asleep while the director narrated the script or was she really desperate to bag any role in Kollywood!

RJ Balaji as Vadacurry, Saves the film from collapsing under the weak premise. Somehow i see in RJ Balaji the rise of another Santhanam .

Kasturi as the mother, Somehow fails to fit the part though her performance was adequate. 

Aruldoss as the father, I am sure he has hit 25 in these kind of stereo typed roles. 

The rest:- Too many that i simply lost count after a while!

Camera:- What can a D.O.P really do in films like this! Very little indeed!

Music: - B.G.rather noisy and out of place most of the time.

Choreo:- Nothing much to write home about!

Stunts:- The usual!

Edit: - Adequate.
The one’s that worked: - RJ Balaji's humor quotient and quips!

The one’s that bombed:-  The weak premise and a badly conceived romantic track.

Finally to sum it all up, a quote: "NEVER STEAL AN IPHONE" - My wife.

Left right & Centre: - 5 walk outs well before the climax! A lot of squirming on my right. A lot of groans and moans heard to my left!

Bottom Line: - “When everything gets answered, it's fake.” ― Sean Penn - This director is yet to come out of his mentor's shadow!

My Rating:- 2.25/5

Until next time,

Director Haricharan 

Chennai

19/06/2014