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Sabari: Danger-Do not trespass! |
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Sabari
Movie Review
Cast: Vijayakanth, Jyothirmayi, Malavika
Direction: Suresh
Music: Mani Sharma
Production: Salem A.Chandrasekhar |
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‘Every
cloud has a silver lining’, that is an old adage;
some of the clouds nowadays are dark enough to hide
any silver lining that might be present. Vijayakanth
has had a long dignified innings in the Tamil film
industry, he is respected, called Captain by all people
in the industry and yet he chooses so regularly to
appear in such mediocre fare that is of use only to
mimicry artistes and other stand up comedians who
make a living by ridiculing the absurdities that are
played out on screen in the name of action, sentiment,
righteousness and patriotism. |
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the time this review is read by more than a
handful of Behinwoods users, Sabari’s
postmortem would have begun in Chennai. The
first thing that strikes you about Sabari is
that the story seems far too familiar. Listening
to the same story over and again is fine if
the story is interpreted in a different way
(there are so many versions of the Ramayana)
or if the story is an all time classic (like
Godfather). But when it is neither you find
it difficult to stifle yawns. The only element
that gives the movie an identity is the description
of the atrocities faced by Lankan migrants at
the hands of the border police. That is the
only part that has been sensitively picturized;
the rest is plain pedestrian in standards. |
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For the first time in his career Vijayakanth appears
as a doctor (heart specialist). But the attire apart
the rest of the character remains the same. He is
eternal do-gooder opposing all forms of corruption
in the medical field. Not that there is anything wrong
with this but one wonders whether there is no better
way than strong dialogues and fights to do this. The
scenes of the movie just play themselves out on screen,
most of them are disjointed; don’t even think
of flow and tempo. |
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When Malavika appears in the two songs and the
one or two scenes one tries to reason out her
presence in the movie. The script is like a
weak engine burdened by an extra carriage (Malavika’s
character); the movie already moving at a sluggish
pace crawls slower; then there is Jyothirmayi’s
character: lesser said the better, this character
is more extraneous than Malavika’s. The
villain is a juke box of a variety of sounds;
high pitched, hoarse……. One wonders
what he is trying to do, catching hold of someone
then letting him go only to chase him down and
kill him; all very confusing. The songs in the
movie are an absolute relief, people take the
opportunity to walk out and stretch their legs.
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All
in all, disappointing is too kind a word to use for
this kind of a movie. It is hard to imagine what the
director, actor and producer had in mind when the
movie was made. It’s now a trilogy of flops
for Captain. MLA or not, the movie has to be good
to become a hit. Salem Chandrasekhar could have chosen
a better script to produce after the success of Ghajini.
Sabari: an absolute dud. |
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