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| PALAIVANA
CHOLAI MOVIE REVIEW |
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| Review
by : Behindwoods review board |
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Starring:
Nithin Sathya, Karthika, Sanjeev,
Chams, Sathyan, Abhinay.
Direction:
S Thayalan
Music:
EK. Bobby
Production:
Maruthi Films |
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There
are classics and there are sloppy
remakes of classics. Paalaivana
Cholai borrows its name from
the seventies cult classic and
is also an adaptation of the
Chandrasekar – Suhasini
starrer. Although it largely
sticks to the plot of its predecessor
and remains loyal to the original,
the movie falters to adapt itself
to the current state of affairs.
After all, in today’s
world of speed dating, a dying
heroine who hooks up the hero
with another girl hardly makes
for good viewing.
Nithin Sathya, Abhinay, Sanjeev,
Sathyan and Chams are a bunch
of friends of which Abhinay
nurtures the dream of an actor.
The rest of them are happy go
lucky with jobs and other pastime
avocations to suit their interests.
Enter Karthika, a cheerful young
girl with a dark secret, who
befriends the group of friends;
the friends fall over each other
to get her attention, secretly
yearning for her love.
Karthika, owing to the gloomy
secret, refrains herself from
the friends, carefully falling
only for Nithin Sathya. But
the inevitable must happen and
it does. The seemingly blithe
lives of the friends shatter
leaving with them an indelible
mark to be reminisced for the
rest of their lives.
The success of the older version
comes from capturing the |
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subtle emotions and presenting the raw humor
of a bunch of waywardly, jobless young men
with no specific ambition in life. But since
joblessness itself is no longer relevant
these days, the director has tweaked the
storyline a bit. Had he done the same to
the character of the heroine with-a-hole-in-the-heart
and managed to place a lesser melodramatic
cause for the tragedy, the movie could have
been a bearable experience.
Abhinay, Karthika and Nithin Sathya score
reasonably in the acting department, and
strictly in that order. The rest of the
cast is largely passé.
Paalaivana Cholai heaves at a snail’s
pace with cinematographer S Murthy’s
fixation for fixed-frames and jarring close
up shots. The effect is more of that of
a sitcom rather than a feature film. Add
to it E K Bobby’s music that refurbished
the famous ‘Megame’ song that
comes across as strictly unremarkable, you
get a recipe for siesta-inducing Paalaivana
Cholai.
Verdict:
Deserted Dreams
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