VIRATTU

Virattu – This film does not deserve a review!

Cast : Erika Fernandez, Sujiv ,Pragya Jaiswal
& Crew:- Producers’- C.Kalyan/ Teja Cinemas, Direction/Story/Screen Play- Kumar.T
Music - C Dharan Kumar ,Editing-Karthik 

Track list:- Total duration of songs: - 1) Mouname Mouname-Singers:-Andrea Jeremiah, Haricharan-Lyrics: Na. Muthukumar 2) En Life In Angel-Singers:-Dharan Kumar,Lyrics:- Vignesh Shiva 3) Meeta Paanu -Singers:- M.M. Manasi, Santosh Hariharan,Lyrics:- Lally 4) Podhum Podhum - Singers:-Andrea Jeremiah, Naresh Iyer, Lyrics: Karky. Bi-lingual:- Tamil/Telugu – “DEGA”.

The story, backdrop and setting (Screen play):- Backdrop of the story - Thailand and Malaysia. The hero and heroine are two con artistes who resort to blackmail, extortion and thievery to make a fast buck. The two decide to ditch their unsavory profession and turn a new leaf. They take a train ride in Malaysia in their quest to return to India. At about the same time an orphan living in a Buddhist monastery in Malaysia also decides to get back to his roots in India by boarding the same train. The head priest of the monastery relieves the boy and pays him a substantial amount of money being the hard earned wages of this boy during his stay at the monastery as an immigrant worker. Four others passengers supposedly arch criminals also board the same train in search of something mysterious which somehow finds its way into the train. A Malaysian police inspector (in disguise) and his crack team in an effort to nab the criminals are the other passengers in this train. What takes place in the train forms the rest of the premise. The director of the story is either foolhardy, plain stupid or a dare devil to have even attempted to conceive such a premise leave alone shoot such an insipid and nonsensical film which can only be termed as TOTAL CRAP!

Acting: - There is not even a semblance of acting or performance in this film which is worthy of a mention. Every actor in this film is like a headless chicken running all over the screen valiantly attempting to do something but ends up doing nothing! The screenplay and the conceiving of scenes are so pathetic that I have simply no words to describe it. However hard I try to make something out of this premise I end up with null!

Delivery of dialogues: - The hero delivers dialogues with a lisp! On the whole it gives you the feeling of watching a badly dubbed flick!

Camera: - The D.O.P of this film is on his own trip! He has his own (camera) screen play as I would like to term it. He has a few scenes inside the train, a few on the platform, a few song and dance scenes, a few fight and stunt scenes, a few outdoor shots and few more picture post card scenes showcasing Malaysia and Thailand. All this strung together visually form the disjointed visual finale!

Music: - Dharan Kumar is another technician on his own trying very hard to establish himself as a music director through this film. His songs and B.G have very little relevance to what is happening on screen.

Art: -  I don’t think this department had any part to play in this film.

Choreo:- The hero and heroines are such horrendous dancers that I felt sorry for the choreographer!

Stunts: - 3 stunt masters pulling in different directions. One inside the train, one on top of the train and one on the ground! The fight scenes are an embarrassment to the viewers!

Edit:- What could this poor technician do but just to stare in disbelief while watching the rushes!

Finally to sum it all up, a quote: “Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?” Samuel Goldwyn

Left right & Centre: - You look at this film from any direction – it’s a total DISASTER!

Bottom Line: - So short of substance, so lacking in vigour and so forgettable that it's just not possible to work up a good hatred!

Until next time,    

Director Haricharan

Chennai-21/ 03 /2014