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| VENNILA
KABADI KUZHU - MOVIE REVIEW |
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Review
by : Behindwoods Movie Review
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Starring:
Saranya Mohan, Vishnu, Kishore.
Direction:
Susindhran
Music:
V. Selvaganesh
Production:
K. Anand Chakravarthy. |
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The
success of sports based films
like Lagaan, Chak De in Hindi
and Chennai 28 in Tamil must
have prompted the debutant director
Susindran to embark upon a similar
subject in Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu.
However this time around, the
crew has taken Kabadi as the
central theme with a poetically
titled team with many fresh
faces on and off screen. |
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The
setting of the story is a village near Pazhani.
A small boy in the village is deeply interested
in Kabadi and will not step into school
before playing at least a single game. His
interest in the game is such that sometimes
he misses even his meals. As luck would
have it, his father dies in a freak accident
and he is forced to work in the farmlands
dropping his studies.
As a youngster also he (hero Vishnu) is
not able to pursue his interest of playing
Kabadi but is resigned to looking after
the clothes of the boy’s team when
they play the game. This team from village
has an infamous reputation of never having
won a single game in any tournament.
In an unexpected event, in a Kabbadi match
in a village thiruvizha, Vishnu is given
a chance to play as a substitute for a boy
and his potential comes to the fore which
coach Kishore does not fail to recognize.
An unsure decision on whether he is out
of the game or not triggers a big brawl
and the teenagers are reprimanded by their
parents. Meanwhile love blossoms between
Vishnu and Saranya Mohan who comes to visit
the village carnival.
Later
on, the team goes to Madurai to participate
in a Kabadi match but is not allowed to
do so as there are professional teams vying
for the title. In an unexpected turn of
events, Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu is made to
par take in the match and the ensuing fast
paced forty five minutes compensate for
the sagging slow moving film in the first
half.
Debutant Vishnu (son of IG of Police- North
Zone Ramesh Kudawla) has done his part satisfactorily.
Saranya Mohan reveals that she is an experienced
star after all compared to her fellow artists.
Some of the sequences in the village carnival
like the uriyadi, cycle racing and parotta
devouring are lively. Climax is deliberately
shot differently. Debutant music composer
Selva Ganesh, son of Ghatam maestro Vikku
Vinayakram sparkles in a few numbers. Camera
work by J Laxman Kumar meets the requirements.
All in all, a different attempt but they
should have taken adequate care to narrate
it more interestingly.
Go for it, for it’s second half.
Verdict: Bronze medal!
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