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Inba Movie Review |
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Starring:
Shaam, Sneha, Arun Pandian, Ganja Karuppu, Aravind Akash
Direction: S T Vendhan
Music: P.B Balaji
Production: K S Vasantha Rani |
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At
a time when Tamil cinema is experiencing an awakening of sorts,
there is no dearth of movies that make the movie-making strategies
of the eighties look far superior. Inba is one of them. The
Sneha – Shyam starrer (we agree that they are a cute
couple, however, their chemistry doesn’t seem to be
working at the box office) directed by S.T. Vendan is simply
old juice in a not-so-new bottle. The sappy and behind the
times storyline and an equally irksome script provide neither
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Shyam
plays a wrongly-led young man employed by a gangster
(Arun Pandian) as his sister’s (Sneha) bodyguard.
He used to be a bright kid at school who was misled
by a deceptive love that ended in an unintentional
murder. Shyam, blamed for the death, is sent to a
juvenile home and spends the golden years of his adolescence
in confinement. Upon release, as is an unwritten rule
in the Tamil cinema bible, he joins the local criminal
gang led by Arunpandiyan. As pronounced by the subsequent
golden rules of the same bible, the inevitable love
blooms between him and the beautiful Sneha.
The
love story, predictably, derails when Sneha is wooed
by the Police Commissioner’s brother. The Commissioner
strikes a lucrative deal with Arunpandiyan and promises
to write off the cases against him if his brother
gets Sneha’s hand in marriage. Inba thus treads
the beaten path and ends up in a rather banal climax.
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There’s
little to rejoice about in this painfully tiresome
ordeal, except Sneha’s endearing charm in the
song sequences. But then, there are myriad ways to
watch these songs other than sitting through a two
and a half hour tribulation. Sneha’s paid to
look good and does just that. However, Shyam is deprived
even of this. His bearded look does not alter his
personality, and he looks out of place in the role
that requires him to be rugged.
The
director’s own perplexity with the film’s
progress is glaringly evident, as the actors appear
trapped in an unpromising venture. And the movie does
not score technically either.
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Verdict: You wouldn’t regret not watching this!
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