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Poppins
- 12/17/2012 10:17:05 AM
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Cast: Indrajith, Kunchako Boban, Nithya Menon, PadmapriyaDirection: V K PrakashGenre: FamilyDuration: 2 hours 1 minute.
Story: The film features different couples and shows how they are held together by the strength of their relationship.
Review: One among the seemingly distinct tales that make up Poppins revolves around a poor boy and a rich girl. In one scene, the girl holds the boy's hands close to her nose and excitedly tells him that he has eaten biryani. The boy smiles, nods gently, the girl leaves. "I didn't want to hurt her since I didn't eat the biryani. The fragrance belongs to a person who shook my hands earlier," he says later. It would have been one of the most touching scenes in the film, but what translates on screen is a cold disconnect, a total indifference to what looks like a badly contrived tenderness.
The next tale features a couple who haven't come across mirrors in their life. When they get a mirror, the husband takes the face on the mirror for his dead father and kisses it. His wife sees herself on the mirror but is crushed because she feels it is her husband's lover. Together they unleash a ludicrous display of tension, confusion and reconciliation.
The entire episode may be forgiven for its queer fantasy or for its sheer innocence. But Poppins, an adaptation of Jayaprakash Kuloor's play, miserably fails. The tales, though likable, are short, incomplete and sometimes incoherent and they fall apart on screen.
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