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Review - Thottal poo malarum |
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Movie Guru |
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Thottal
poo malarum
Cast: Shakthi, Gowri Munjal, Rajkiran, Suganya, Vadivelu,
Nazer
Direction: P. Vaasu
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Production: Sapphire Media & Infrastructure |
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Just
a simple question before we delve into the review. What
would be the most important criteria to become a star in
Tamil cinema? Good looks, acting skills, neat at action
sequences, receptive to emotional scenes and emote well,
and hail from a star family. If these could just be termed
as the criteria, P.Vasu’s son Shakthi has made sure
that he passes all these with finesse.
Apparently, P.Vasu, for his son’s debut film, is in
no mood to take any risk and takes the same beaten to death
route of a ‘poor boy meets a rich girl and love blossoms’
formula. And, predictably, the heroine’s mother comes
in between the lovebirds and how the two join hands forms
the rest of the story.
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one enters the movie halls wanting to see a sensible movie or one
with logic, chances are more likely that the result would be sheer
disappointment. This is a movie made especially to showcase the
talents of the debutant Shakthi and he doesn’t disappoint
thankfully. The movie does have some interesting scenes, as all
the love sequences with the heroine and the hero are very well thought
of. The female lead in the movie Gowri Munjal, devises many codes
for the hero to break, and especially the scene where the hero cracks
the heroine’s code to find out her telephone number is intuitive.
And added to that, the director has also come up with a series of
scenes where the usage of codes is sure to be lauded by the audience.
P. Vasu’s innovative communication methods are sure to be
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Performance of all the stars are noteworthy. Rajkiran appears
as Vandaiyar Varadharajan, a Mumbai dada and as always he
doesn’t disappoint. Sukanya as the rich widow does
a neat job too. Gowri Munjal is just passable and one couldn’t
stop but think that she could have done the love scenes
with a bit more enthusiasm. Vadivel does tickle our funny
bone doing the same act once again. Santhanam plays his
part perfectly and his one liner to tease Nasser is sure
to bring down the house. Nasser as Shakthi’s father
has done a good job.
One has little choice but to agree that except one or two
songs, the music scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja - the man
with a Midas touch, is a big let down. Vaali has penned
all the songs leaving nothing special on that front to rave
about.
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Aagash
Ashok kumar handles the camera, and he does an exquisite job.
Four choreographers namely Raju sundaram, DKS Babu, Noble and
Bhasker have brought out the best from the hero. Fight sequences
are also worth a mention. If Shakthi gleans his potential in this
arena, an action hero would soon be in the making.
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Shakthi
has a good future though he tends to go overboard sometimes.
Besides, P.Vasu takes the audience for granted, perhaps
snowed under the success of his previous movies that resulted
in overconfidence. If the director has concentrated a fraction
of attention to the story and screenplay rather than just
Shakthi, this movie could have been better.
Verdict - If you have time to kill
Rating - 
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