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Ellam Avan Seyal– Movie Review |
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Starring:
SRK, Bhama, Vadivelu, Raghuvaran, Nasser, Manivannan,
Visu, Vijayakumar, Roja, Suganya, Manoj K Jayan, Vadivelu,
Ashish Vidyarthy
Direction: Shaji Kailash
Music:
Vidyasagar
Production: Karumari Kandasamy, J. Dhurai |
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Tamil cinema has not had an investigative thriller for quite
some time now. For a while, there was talk of Pulan Visaaranai
2 providing one, but that is nowhere to be seen or heard of.
Ellam Avan Seyal is a brave attempt to cater to a suspense
loving audience. It is a remake of the hit Shaji Kailas directed
Malayalam movie Chinthamani Kola Case, that had Suresh Gopi
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The
premise is interesting and it might be quite a while
before you are able to tell the protagonist from the
antagonist. Let’s say that even the protagonist
has got shades of villainy, which he puts to good use.
The movie opens with a criminal lawyer, so cunning with
words and evidence that he manipulates the court and
justice and in the process releasing many heinous criminals
from the clutches of law, even as the real victims look
upon helplessly. The prosecution is desperate to stop
this seemingly undefeatable defender of criminals. Of
course, the lawyer also charges huge amounts for the
expertise that he brings to court. But someone seems
to have other plans. Within days of walking free by
the expert lawyer’s skills, the criminals are
found dead in mysterious circumstances. Incidents keep
repeating and bodies are found every time the lawyer
wins a case. The police are nonplussed; they have no
clue as to what is happening.
Cut, to a medical college and the entry of a hapless
first year student from a village. Her first few apprehensive
footsteps in college are viewed with wily eyes by a
group of 9 senior girls who call themselves the Mirchis.
Ragging takes on a serious form
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and the girl is found dead a few days later, her body in pieces.
All eyes are on the Mirchis and there enters the lawyer to
once again play the savior. He wins this time too, but what
follows is something that few would expect. Solving the murder
mystery forms the rest of the story.
Good material for a thriller. The script (credited to Shaji
Kailas) is taut, but also demands unwavering attention, barring
which you might feel that the person is being murdered twice
by different people. The movie does not keep you on tenterhooks
throughout, which must ideally be the case for a thriller,
but it does not bore you too.
The debutante hero has done fairly well, given the rather
uncharted nature of the role. Manoj. K Jayan and Ashish Vidhyarthi
are as always good and the 9 Mirchi girls have done well.
Vadivelu does another punching bag role and evokes a few laughs,
nothing special.
At the box office, it is not expected to work wonders. But
given the unquestionable suspense content and the unpredictable
plot, the kind that has not been seen before in Tamil cinema,
it should not do too badly, given its obviously limited budget.
Those who love the thought of suspense might take a liking
to this flick.
Ellam
Avan Seyal – Fairly suspenseful
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