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Kattuviriyan Movie Review |
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Starring:
Ram, Malavika, Alex
Direction: Kalaipuli Sekaran
Music: G.Sekhar
Production: Mathu.K |
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Horror
is not often explored in Kollywood, but of late there have
been a few who have shown courage to venture into the genre
of fear. Such attempts certainly draw some attention but ultimately
it is to the quality of the movie itself that brings in the
crowds. Kaattuviriyan is the latest Kollywood horror/thriller
experiment and deserves mention for being one among the rare
attempts at exploiting the ‘fear factor’ in Tamil
cinema. Sivi was the last successful one to do so. |
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Kaattuviriyan
is full of mystery and drama surrounding a bungalow
and the spirits that supposedly haunt the place. The
story revolves around a man (played by Dr. Raj) who
grows up believing that women cannot be trusted, all
due to his experiences of a troubled childhood after
his parents’ failed marriage and his father’s
suicide. The incident creates a deep wound in his mind
and he suspects every woman he comes across to have
a questionable character. This leads to him walking
out of his marriage that was fixed with Malavika, who
plays a double role for the first time in her career
in this movie. Years later, they happen to meet each
other and share their experiences in life. Malavika
is now a Deputy Commissioner in the police force, and
has a daughter (Malavika again) while Raj has become
the Chief Secretary. Malavika wants to get to know Raj’s
family well and during her visit along with her daughter
to Raj’s house happens to see certain very disturbing
and then highly confusing sights. She smells a rat and
says so to Raj who |
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blames
all the bad occurrences on a ghost that supposedly haunts
a bungalow that they lived in and how that ghost still continued
to haunt that place terrifying people in its vicinity at very
particular times every day. Being a police officer, Malavika
is not fully convinced and wants to get to the bottom of the
matter. She just about begins to get her teeth into the matter
when the evil powers at work bring about her death after a
rather fearsome encounter with ghostly creatures.
Now, it is left to Malavika, the daughter to find out the
truth. Now enters another character claiming to be the lover
of Raj’s daughter. His revelations make matters far
more complicated and confusing. The matter is thrown wide
open and the jigsaw becomes harder to piece together. They
discover the death of far more people than they had even thought
of and trace it all down to the haunted bungalow. How they
get to the bottom of what or who haunts the big house forms
an interesting climax. |
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Well,
a movie like this rides entirely on the tightness
of the script and the director’s abilities to
keep us on a knife’s edge. The script and the
story are sadly a let down. For a plot that looks
interesting from the outset, the script ought to have
been better. However, the movie has some positives,
the main element being the director’s handling
of certain scenes that were aimed at raising our heart
rates. The director has been successful in evoking
fear wherever he has intended to and the element of
suspense too has been maintained. The graphics and
special effects must come in for special mention here,
especially in the scenes where Raj narrates the haunting
in the house, the faces and figures shown during these
episodes send chills down the spine.
That almost sums up a movie that could have been much
better. All factors except the horror element are
pretty mediocre. Director T.Shekaran and King Kong
try their hand at some comedy but do not pull it off
effectively. Art by Sundarajan and sound effects,
very important in horror films, have been well taken
care of.
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Music
doesn’t hold a place of prominence and the score provided
by director T. Shekharan again has nothing special. T. Shekharan
seems to be another T. Rajendar, handling story, screenplay,
dialogues, direction, music and lyrics himself. Hats off to
his versatility but one feels he would have been better off
leaving the music and lyrics to specialists and paying more
attention to the script, which is where the movie suffers.
On the business front, the movie might draw crowds in the
B and C centers owing to its pretty strong horror content.
However, the basic story is pretty unsuitable for family viewing.
Kaattuviriyan does evoke memories of some yesteryear Tamil
thrillers- we leave you to do guess which ones. Also, the
title (which refers to the mythical snake with photographic
memory and an unfailing thirst for revenge) is a bit misleading.
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Verdict: Kaattuviriyan- strong horror, weak script
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