Vanmam Review - A tale of friendship, hatred and sentiments |
 |
Vijay Sethupathy is back after a 9 month
hiatus along with Kreshna in an all village centric flick. Two friends
who stick to life no matter what cross roads across when an unexpected
disaster hits them, what happens next? Directed by Jai Krishna who
happens to be the former assistant of Ulaganayagan Kamal Hassan, the
film dwells in the rural milieu quite comfortably. What can
circumstances do to our lives? Jai Krishna takes this one liner as the
theme, a small mistake, an incident that you did not want to happen but
just happens, how will it change things? Adding pinches of commercial
elements as romance, friendship, sentiment and some boiling anger sums
up Vanmam.
The Story:
Vijay Sethupathy and Kreshna are two
best chums who appear friends for life, and of course as one might have
guessed they are jobless, carefree but the happiest. Sunaina plays the
love interest of Kreshna who repeatedly pleads him to have some
seriousness in life. Enter brother of Sunaina who is straight forward,
all time angry with a sense of extreme self-respect. The director keeps
shuttling between various storylines; the friendship between Vijay
Sethupathy-Kreshna, the romance cum advice sessions between
Kreshna-Sunaina, and a fitting duel between Sunaina’s brother
Madhusudhan Rao and his business rival.
The screenplay drags to establish the
lead actors their role-play, just when you start thinking that this is
an average story of friendship and romance, a sudden turn out of events
put the friends in jeopardy. In a fight between Sunaina’s brother and
Kreshna/Vijay the former gets killed accidently, a situation that comes
out of nowhere and starts to roll out the predicament between Vijay
Sethupathy and Kreshna. With the cold war starting to break out, the
first half revives an urge to see what happens between the friends. Does
the tension escalate or do the friends patch up, what happens to their
love? The guilt covered Vijay Sethupathy on one side, a seething
Kreshna on the other side and the family of the deceased all sum up for a
fitting finish in the second half.
Whats good?:
To start with, Kudos to the director
for capturing the rural essence as it is, the language dialect is
refreshing to hear and appears the team has made enough research to
implement the dialogues for each actor. The cinematography is clean with
some neat visuals capturing the rural setting at ease. Jai Krishna has
rather taken a “done and dusted” storyline oozed it with some
predicaments to make it little interesting, thanks to the lead actors
Kreshna, Vijay Sethupathy and Sunaina the movie has its moments. Vijay
Sethupathy’s rugged looks are a treat, his daring attitude is something
to appreciate whereas Kreshna’s occasional comic sense prevail at time.
Why, What and How?:
1. The friendship between Kreshna and Vijay Sethupathy has no strong dialogues nor does give the punch to show their bond.
2. The length is arguable and stalls the movie’s intention; the slow build up of characters adds fuel to the fire. 3. The story itself is runoffthemill kind; the director could have induced some comic elements to spice up the dull screenplay. 4. Music as a whole is a letdown, none of the songs or the BGM are apt to the story. 5. The second half is roughed up with sentiments galore and appears to be induced rather forcefully than just to tug along with the storyline.
Verdict : In all Vanmam is a story of anger, love, friendship and how one should take life just by circumstances but how to move on.
Star : 2.25/5
|
- Blogger Comment
- Facebook Comment
Subscribe to:
Post Comments
(
Atom
)
0 comments:
Post a Comment