EPPADI MANASUKKUL VANTHAI MOVIE REVIEW

'Eppadi Manasukkul Vanthai' is a film long in the process which marks the next directorial venture of the "Naaka Mukka" director P.V Prasath. 'Kadhalil Vizhunthen' attained great media coverage for its chartbuster songs and also for the dark thriller aspect. With a totally fresh cast and crew, P.V Prasath treads the same path with another dark thriller this time, as well.

As mentioned earlier, the acting cast is entirely fresh and new. Vishwa makes his debut as a hero through this film. With good height and decent physique, he should have capitalized on his plus points. His dancing is okay and dialogue delivery is not too bad but his expressions and emoting skills need to be improved vastly, if he intends to pursue a career in this acting field. His character loses the depth and emotional connectivity it needed, due to his lack of emoting talent. Tanvi Vyas, a former Miss India Earth, makes her debut too. A pretty face was required and she pretty much fits the bill. With standard expressions and scope of performance in this film, she has to work with better directors if she wants to improve her acting capability. Irfan, the television personality, Ravi Kale, Mahendran, Satish and others makes up for the rest of the cast.

Technical wise, this film carries some good and decent work. 'Supreme' Sundar's stunt sequences are well choreographed, especially, the one shot in a half-built building, at night. Veteran V.T Vijayan's editing is flawless, compact and concise. Paulraj, the art director has done a decent job with the art department, especially with the interiors of the heroine's posh apartment, keeping in mind with the fashion designing background of the heroine's character. S.D Vijay Milton has done a very well in the cinematography department. His long shot, camera movement, angles and color tone used for scenes were very apt. Especially in the songs and night sequences, he captures the moment and intensity very well with his camera. A.J Daniel, the music director is also a newcomer. A former assistant to Harris Jeyaraj, he has delivered good songs in this film. Funnily, the film director has structured the format and song pattern, resembling the same situation and mood as his previous film ! "Oorakaali" is a typical loud and abrasive dance song, with quirky movements from Sridhar and some interesting camera movements and lighting from Vijay Milton, shot in warehouse, streets and dhobi ghat areas. The pick of the album is certainly the "Oru Paarvaiyile" number. A melody rendered by Harish Raghavendra, it was shot in montage sequences with some dance movements in between, set in Bangalore. "Eppadi Manasukkul Vanthai" song comes in a bit-song format. "Yen Kadhal" is another hummable song, sung by Karthik. Again, Vijay Milton uses fine camera movements and breezy color tone throughout the song, with minimal and subtle artwork by Paulraj, with couple of montage sequences. "Kannakuzhi Azhagi" is another dance routine number, picturized on open-top bus and the college areas, featuring the hero dancing in unique dance movements. "Uyire" is another bit-song, picturized with the heroine against the heroine and finally "Muthangal" song is shot in the apartment set with very romantic mood and lighting created by S.D Vijay Milton and Paulraj's art work enhances the feel-good look of the song.

As mentioned earlier, P.V Prasath has gone for a similar dark theme as with his debut venture. This time it has couple of interesting twists and knots. The problem with the script is that, it has gaping holes in the plot and a unnecessarily long drawn-out climax. Questionable circumstances are aplenty in the film and the performance of the lead artistes are not engaging or powerful enough, but it is watchable to certain extent, due to the interesting twists, here and there. Surprisingly, S.D Vijay Milton handles the dialogues as well and he has done a good job with it, as the dialogues are sharp and crisp. Also, the songs are eerily similar in structure with his previous film, with same situations and mood. His casting is not so strong as well, because with a better cast, especially for the lead pair roles, the performance would have lessened the damage of the weak script.

P.V Prasath, came up with a interesting idea but his loophole-filled scripting work and weak performances of lead artistes brought down the film, which has good technical values.


Ratings: 2/5 STARS

BY:TAMIL

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