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| AAYIRATHIL
ORUVAN - A GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT FROM SELVA
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Behindwoods Visitor Sarvan |
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I
am an ardent movie buff and
I enjoy all types of good
films, irrespective of the
language, genre, etc. I always
view the director has the
brain and the actors only
the façade. I 'held'
director Selvaraghavan highly,
but after watching Aayirathil
Oruvan, I had to let out my
disappointment through one
source or other. I haven’t
written any movie reviews
and this is my first one.
However, I am not feeling
that much enthusiastic because
in my first review I was forced
to criticize a movie. I always
say positive things about
movies, but I had to say Aayirathil
Oruvan is one of the idiotic,
psychotic, worst and logic-less
movie, I have seen in the
recent past. That too coming
from Selva is hard to fathom.
The film fails even at the
basic plot. It is about a
search for a lost kingdom
in SE Asia. I can buy that
because of the Chola history.
But why they have to travel
in such dangerous terrain,
when they could have just
scanned few satellite photos,
or even the Google earth to
find kingdom's ruins, and
then land there directly in
helicopters. If the ruins
are shown underground, it
could have sounded logical,
but it could have been clearly
visible from the sky. Second,
in these times, where the
media is omnipresent, is it
possible to send India’s
military force to fight for
‘private people’
that too in a foreign land,
even if they have a central
minister.
Start of the film was enticing,
with top angled shots of ship
and all. The moment Reema
Sen, who was introduced as
a CBI officer or something
starts to dance like a bar
dancer, I thought something
is amiss here. Then, when
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they kill the Red Tribals mercilessly, doubts
crept into my mind whether it was possible
to gain an entry into a tribal territory
like Andaman where it is being strictly
regulated by the government. Then, what
is that fluorescent creature? I haven't
heard anything like that in the biological
kingdom, and not even in an ancient kingdom
or literature. Graphics at that point was
very amateurish.
Then, every person's activities bordered
on rudeness. In one scene, Azhagam Perumal's
character yells at Andrea for not informing
them about the Red Tribals, then in the
immediate scene, when she informs about
snake threat, he again yells for telling
that. And the moment when I totally lost
interest was when Reema Sen a la Tomb Raider,
shoots snakes, a slender and fastest species,
with guns. After that, it is irritating
experience (except for few minutes when
they escape using the shadow).
How the people who had mystic powers cannot
use them when they are attacked and chained.
Likewise, how could the entire ruins collapse
just with the roll of a wheel? How could
tiger appear on Reema's back and then disappear?
When Karthi's character had the power to
dodge a huge iron-ball, he does not have
one when he fights the army?
The flaws and logic-less scenes are too
many to list all. I lost interest and was
just going through the motions in the theater.
Some are appreciating and comparable to
English films. I think they haven't watched
good English adventure or fantasy films,
they might have watched just B grade movies.
No good English film will come up with such
large amount of flaws in the screenplay.
The visuals are also not that much great,
one can easily say which are graphics and
which are not.
Only thing that is appreciable is Karthi's
acting and comedy (especially when he is
acting like a reporter in front of the handycam).
I don't know how Selva could have kept such
a flawed script as it is for two long years.
That is, in these 2 years, he could have
read it many times or even could have asked
knowledgeable people in his circles to read
it. I don't know whether he was adamant
to listen to others' feedback (Selva earlier
attacked the critics who found fault in
Pudhupettai - a good film, but had faults)
or that he did not have a bound script and
just shot the film with a half baked screenplay.
But all the actors have talked about storyboard
and all, I don't know...However, if Selva
had spent the time on his script instead
of the research, the outcome would have
been better. I had lots of expectations
from Selva and thought he would be the next
Mani Ratnam, but with this mess, he has
fallen into a deep hole. I have to wait
and see how he comes out of that in his
next movie with Vikram. Let's wait and see....
P.S.: Just before going to the film, I 'browsed'
Behindwoods Review about the film and saw
the Stars, at that time itself, I had some
doubts. (I did not read the full review,
as I felt it would give out some plot details
and remove the surprise element). But, went
ahead, "burned my brain" and back at Behindwoods
to vent out the disappointment out of my
system.
Regards
Sarvan
pm.sarvan@gmail.com
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