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Sattam Oru Iruttarai
- 12/24/2012 11:44:32 AM
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Cast: Thaman, Bindu Madhavi, Piaa Bajpai, Reemma, Radha Ravi, SureshDirection: Sneha BrittoGenre: CrimeDuration: 2 hours 17 minutes
Synopsis: Vijay ( Thaman) murders two gangsters but manages to confound the police on how he could have carried it out with watertight alibis. And he is planning to commit one more murder, despite his sister ACP Kousalya ( Reemma), who is handling the case, doggedly trying to get him convicted.
Movie Review: Debutant director Sneha Britto tries to adapt the premise of S A Chandrasekhar's 1981 hit for the present day and fails miserably with this appalling film that feels like a hotchpotch job. The main reason for this failure is the slapdash manner in which the characters are sketched, topped by slipshod performances from the entire cast. That the premise is a juicy tale of revenge makes the disappointment all the more glaring.
Given that the plot inherently offers enough drama (and melodrama), all that Sneha needed to have done is to flesh out the major characters, making us care about the protagonists and loathe the villains and shoot the scenes in a competent fashion. But the scenes here are actually badly written, ineptly shot and shoddily edited with the movie lacking coherence, both logically and visually. Consider the scene where Kousalya tries to outwit Vijay by secretly recording his confession. We are shown a camera recording their whole conversation from a particular angle, but when the recording gets played,
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