| Every
once in a while, a director
makes a debut film with rave
reviews. The lingering question
will then be, now what? You
have surprised us, so what’s
next? The natural response to
that would then be to carry
on surprising you. Yes? Hell
yes...
The director in question is
none other than Venkat Prabhu.
Chennai 28 was directed to an
epitome of creativity considering
the simplicity of the plot.
Then came Saroja, and Venkat
seemed to have carved his name
as a contemporary director marrying
classic thriller movie making
with ingenious cinematography
with a clever number of movie
sequences, keeping his audience
wanting for more.
And now we have Goa... To the
astonishment of a lethargic
few, movie goers have definitely
implanted Venkat’s name
in their “must watch”
list of directors. It does not
come as a surprise that the
lethargic few feels Goa was
not as good enough to be accredited
to Venkat. I somehow find myself
imagining individuals with no
want of wanting to imagine more,
to differentiate, and I leave
this vivid imagination in my
head with a golf club in one
hand, awaiting a nice swoosh,
you know just to rattle the
mind of these certain creatures.
Directors, like actors, have
to take the bull by the horns
when it comes to being stereotyped
by the media (the lethargic
few included). Once an expectation
is aroused, the passionate Indian
cinema audience always come
back asking more, more of the
same thing.
The film Goa is a fun film,
and no I don’t mean the
supporting comedian who has
to take a slap twice every |
